Just a PSA if you're looking forward to College Football 25 and you haven't bought an EA game in about ten years... you better remember what email address is associated with your EA account and you had better hope that you remember the login information for that email account. Also, I hope that you still have access to the same phone number that was associated with the email account just in case account recovery asks for it.
Altogether, make sure you can log in to your EA account before grabbing the game because it bricks about 95% of it if you don't use an EA account.
There is also no way to unpair an EA account to an Xbox account unless you can log in to the EA account. If you try, you'll spend about five hours messaging back and forth to various AI chatbots at both EA and Google with no resolution.
Thankfully costco has a no questions return policy.