DOVER-FOXCROFT — They’re competitors when it comes to football — even when that football isn’t being played on the field.

The release of the new EA Sports College Football 25 video game Monday immediately sent those who had been waiting years for a college football video game into a frenzy. It was no different at Shrine Lobster Bowl practice at Foxcroft Academy, where both the East and West teams have the game in their dorm rooms.

“It’s like Madden but a lot better,” said Foxcroft lineman Hunter McSorley. “The playbooks are fixed, and there’s not as many bugs. You get to see the college football world of it so you’re not playing with the same old NFL teams that we’ve been playing with for the past couple years.”

On the East side, rivalries such as McSorley vs. Matt Quirion (Winslow) and Tafari Corson-James (Lewiston) vs. Spencer Laurendeau (Mount Desert Island) have emerged. In the West, Fryeburg Academy’s Gunnar Saunders has been tough to beat.

Here’s what those five players themselves had to say about the new game, which has been all the rage during non-practice and non-film hours at Foxcroft.