Patrick Mahomes gearing up for big game at training camp: Texas Tech vs. K-State

Patrick Mahomes brought a television to training camp at Missouri Western primarily to watch the Olympics and play EA Sports College Football 25.

The Olympics have started, and Mahomes is on his second college football season with hopes of taking his Texas Tech Red Raiders to the top.

That didn’t happen in his first year, perhaps because Mahomes, after labeling himself as a four-star player, wasn’t the starting quarterback.

“It took me a while to become the starter,” Mahomes said. “But we got a nice bowl win against Florida.”

The second season was scheduled to begin on Friday with a Texas Tech matchup against Kansas State. When he played for Red Raiders, Mahomes went 1-1 as a starter against the Wildcats in 2015 and 2016.

How will the video-game version unfold? Chiefs defensive end Felix Anudike-Uzomah, who played at Kansas State, has the answer.

“He already knows every time, Kansas State every time, we beat Texas Tech,” Anudike-Uzomah said. “He already knows it. He knows the outcome.”

After an 11-year absence, EA Sports College Football 2025 was released on July 19, just after Chiefs camp opened. In previous versions of the game, players were left unnamed because it violated NCAA rules for a college athlete’s name, image and likeness to be used for profit.

But the rules have changed, and in the new NIL world some 11,000 college athletes received a $600 payment and deluxe version of the game for allowing their rights to be used in the final product.