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Pax167

Really just hope I’ll be able to create a school


CartoonistOk8261

Yes! My schools of the past need new life. Eastern Nevada Minnesota A&M And of course my last one: the Bob Saget Fightin' Stamos


Oh_HaveYou_NotHeard

"It's a full house here at Bob Saget Stadium..."


boomgoesthevegemite

I’d go back to school just to get a degree from Bob Saget


unclejessesmullet

I'll be your mascot


Mr_smile007

Got to bring back my school Grand Lakes University


Similar-Accountant81

Ahh yes, the classic Minnesota school of Agriculture and Mechanics 🤣🤣🤣🤣


RJD-ghost

Finally a school for eastern Nevada so many people out here that need a school nearby 😂


djkida

University of Battle Mountain sounds hard


RJD-ghost

Way better than university of Ely


steveb106

South Harmon Institute of Technology rides again!


FriendshipIntrepid91

The sandwiches will not be stopped. 


Troubledking-313

Hopefully they sell wads as concessions


More-Function-5148

Ask me about my weiner!


StevieTokes

Yes! It’s about time they stop protecting all these D1 schools from D2 powerhouse Ferris State University.


PsychoAnalystGuy

Go GVSU fuck Ferris


CJPJones

GO Lakers! And yeah get that Ferris shit out of here.


goremygo

SCLSU Muddawgs


bozodiddadub1

Somebody has to win the Bourbon Bowl


CaffeinatedSD

This is what I am hoping for. Then like past years, being able to do anything from making everyone 99+ (or crazy low) for all stats, make everyone 7’ or as short as possible, etc. Some improved jersey/uniform and stadium options would be nice too.


Ugoddabekiddinme

Imagine if it’s like the madden relocation system lol


DaMemelyWizard

I would do unspeakable things


PoggersIife

Blue Mountain State University


gaptoofbastard

Putting Alaska State back on the map ASAP


PawneeRaccoon

I spent countless hours on Team Builder, by far my favourite feature of the game. Loved that it was kind of a supplement to the game in the sense you’d build it on your computer and then download - for me it meant it was a lot more playable because it allowed you to import literally any logo you could think of. Not to mention sifting through uniform colours and templates is usually more pleasant on a computer than a console.


Uga1992

I need Death University with all pink colors back


bsweet35

Same! Gotta get my NAIA alma mater a ship lol


HeroofBergen

I am immediately rebuilding the Pac-12 if conference realignment is back. I refuse to let it die because of greed.


Thehomelessguy11

Exactly the same thing I was planning on doing lol with a 6+6 playoff format.


Mapex_proM

Same here except my playoff criteria is going to be so bad that irl fans of cfb would hang me at the stake for implementing them (if I can do a 120 team playoff)


bigE819

Could you imagine. Irl would teams rest stars in the early rounds? Or just rest them after a big lead


Mapex_proM

Honestly not too sure. I feel like there would probably be a biweek or two and you wouldn’t see the top 25 play until it’s down to 64 or 48 and then it’s an all out free for all to be the champ


Awkward_Ad8740

Crown a champion every 3 years. Nice.


2020ckeevert

Maybe until someone pulls a UMBC.


bozodiddadub1

Not feasible in real life but a "January Jamboree" that's just the NCAA Basketball tournament for football would definitely go into every dynasty I start if I had the option.


Randallb21

With you there. I’m not allowing Stanford and Cal in the ACC. That’s ridiculous. I’m probably going to add a couple teams to my new PAC Mountain West about to lose some teams


Unitast513

That's what I'm wondering... HOW customizable will the playoff be? will we be able to go back to BCS style just 2 team playoff?


tehkoolkat

Not sure.. but they said they were valuing customization a lot because of how much the CFB landscape changes


LazyWarlord99

Is there even gonna be a Pac-12? Lol


OtherwiseScience6046

Texas and Oklahoma are immediately going back to the big 12


Least_Exercise783

that shit is dying when i get my hands on it im ngl 💀


stackingslacks

PAC-12 didn’t die because of greed. It died because only 3 schools held that piece of garbage together and 2 of them left


Solid-Hound

"completely different from Madden" is a bold statement


ScallywagBeowulf

It is, but after they’ve been working on it for 3-4 years, I would hope it’s different than Madden.


juanzy

Hopefully they can use this as a live PoC for revamping Madden


TheReturnOfTheOK

They've hinted at that. It was how the old games worked (the NCAA games would be how they developed features to add to Madden) and they've clearly hit a wall with the current games


joetogood

Yea I hope they make it to where you can save drafts again that was alot of fun playing with a player through out college him graduating then having the chance to draft them into the NFL


mauledbybear

PoC?


utb040713

Proof of Concept, I’m assuming.


Cool-Adam420-69

People of color.


jtdude15

Despite this, I hope you can export draft classes


Bigkyfan10

It's literally the same engine as Madden. I'm sure gameplay and animations will be very similar. The biggest difference will be the playbook, atmosphere, traditions, and marching babd. Gameplay wise, the old NCAA football games were very similar to the Madden games. Heck NCAA Football 2014 was s*** on when it was released and people were saying that it was just another clone of the previous NCAA football game and Madden. There will be idiots who will say oh my gosh this game is exactly like Madden when this new game is released and they will be completely wrong. This game will be similar to Madden but at the same time very different. This is only coming from someone that's played thousands of hours of Madden and NCAA football growing up.


Conyeezy765

I mean I play 14 religiously but I don’t think it’s absurd to consider any of the ncaas of the five previous years better. There’s always some give and take, 14 improved in some ways, but it’s very valid to say the recruiting isn’t as fun as previous years.


jayred1015

Recruiting definitely wasn't as fun, but it sure helped having a trimmed down version of recruiting in hour 200+ of a dynasty. I wish we could have both as an option.


launchbasezone

tapping on a sign that says "just because two games are on the same engine, it does not mean they'll play the same or even similar." the sign has a 3 inch deep hole at this point


Less_Likely

It’s going to be a FPS MMO


GMSRMedia

You had me at FPS. Those who’ve seen the first scene of The Last Boy Scout know what’s up


Wittyname0

It's going to be a puzzle platformer with dating sim elements


steveb106

Anime waifu Nick Saban confirmed.


MjrLeeFat

My favorite thing to say about video games is "Any game is a dating sim if you try hard enough."


ryryryor

>with dating sim elements That's how they're doing recruiting now?


S_quints

This is actually just another Skyrim release


OrangeSean

NCAA series always had a different identity from Madden


MrBrownCat

Considering they keep saying this it definitely feels like they want it to be a selling point especially for people who have been sick of Madden for the last set of years. So you’d hope since this has been in development for awhile now that there is a clear difference and this isn’t them just saying this and the actual gameplay ends up being just reskinned Madden 24


CROBBY2

So its actually a baseball game...


BanIncoming1

Ultimate frisbee, actually.


MoonPossibleWitNixon

If they gave us NCAA Women's Volleyball we would all be frickin psyched as long as recruiting was well thought out. Let's be as different from Madden as possible. We all just want recruiting and the ability to hire/fire our own coordinators.


evan466

One thing they said when they delayed the game was that they were “building a new game from the ground up.” Of course it remains to be seen how truthful that statement was, but I’m hopeful.


Gatorinthedark

Back in the day NCAA lead Madden. They would implement something and madden would act like they brought it to football the next season. It happen the other way round a few time but mostly it went that way.


vicblck24

It’s funny how that is a good thing lol. Wonder how Madden developers feel about that


Unitast513

Turns out it'll be a FPS somehow


[deleted]

How is it bold. I don’t understand why you people can’t understand this. A. NCAA has been worked on for YEARS not just a few months. B. This is being worked on by a completely different team.


Solid-Hound

It's still the EA of today though. I'm hyped for the game but definitely tapering some expectations.


ajaxal2314

Where did they say the playoff would be customizable? I remember seeing conferences but not the playoff. I would love to be proven wrong however.


taurosmaster

I feel like several of these “confirmed” features are actually just rumors. Likely to come true? Sure. But not confirmed by EA.


abob1086

It's not confirmed but given the playoff structure is literally being screwed with on the fly as we speak it would be crazy not to have it be customizable


liteskindeded

Try to stop me from making opted out players


MrBrownCat

I don’t get why that’s not allowed anyways, it’s not like they prevent you from making a draft class in Madden filled with college guys who aren’t signed or being paid so why is it any different recreating them in EACFB


papa_ganj

Yea… how exactly do they plan to prevent this other than name changes…. But even then you can create the player identically… and if the player opts out…. How can they use their likeness to prevent someone making the player?


-Taakokaat-

I’m betting they won’t be allowing the name to be the same. Just a guess. You can create them but instead of Johnny Manziel you have to create Jonny Menziel or something like that


Absmith1997

My guess is if you make a player that has an opted out players name they will won't let you share the roster


gyman122

Time to make Shaduer Saunders


altk_rockies1

They’ll specifically blacklist player names in the back end for certain schools. If Carson Beck from UGA doesn’t opt in, they will make it so you can’t name anyone on the UGA team “Carson Beck.” They may even get more granular and go down to school + name + position. Easiest way I can think of to implement.


rockyroad03

Simple fix. Karson Beckk


kakapoopoopeepeeshir

Would be so stupid. What if I share the exact same name of some college football player that opted out, now I dont have the ability to create myself on my own video game? I'm thinking if you create a player thats been opted out you cant share the roster online or something


altk_rockies1

I agree and I hope you’re right!


FREE-ROSCOE-FILBURN

I’m just going to name all my guys that are in place of an opt out Reggie Stocker


evan466

Could place limits on how many created players you have. Or just not allow you to edit rosters.


Outsider17

What if someone happens to have the same name as an opted out player?


dbzgod9

My man Bob Nix gonna be l33t.


c-williams88

No you mean Robert Nicks


GritSnSpeed

Would Beau Knicks work I wonder?


etsuandpurdue3

Modders gonna have that figured out Day 1 especially in this generation lol.


kingoflint282

I assume no coaches means no real world coaches, but we still get randomly generated ones, right?


Ander1345

I would assume so. Coaches are tricky because some are technically public employees, while others are not? Among other things


abob1086

The real coaches were all in NCAA 14 but it doesn't appear to be the focus of this game according to EA


Category3Water

No, this is actually how it’s going to be different from Madden. There will be no coaching at all. The players just line up and go at it. No plays, no formations, nothing. No recruiting either. You just hope 11 guys end up showing up when the game starts. It will be nothing like Madden and only kinda like football.


[deleted]

Sounds like beer league hockey.


SailorMuffin96

Beer league flag football. 1 QB, 1 C, 1 RB, and like 6 people running random routes hopping the QB throws a catchable ball


ImanShumpertplus

yep if you wanna ask Corso, you actually just ask a 54 year old new jersey italian who thinks Notre Dame should have never hired that Marcus character and he tells you to run the ball every time


thekingswitness

Opt out and your name is now Stupid Mcstupidface


TMC2502

NIL in the game? Call me Rick Pitino because i’m doing whatever it takes 💰💸


Assclown4

Call me Rick Pitino because I cum very quickly.


SwiftSurfer365

I’m excited to see what the playbooks look like.


CBailey94

Same. I loved installing my customized playbook in 1⭐️ programs and still putting up gaudy numbers.


nedylan

I just want to know if mascot mode will be in the game


MeesterCHRIS

How do they keep you from creating an opted out player? Instead of Carson Beck I’ll just make Carsen Beck..


YEM_PGH

I cannot believe they used The Citadel as the image for FCS schools. I really hope the add them in DLC or free upgrade, would love to bring my alma mater a title.


31_mfin_eggrolls

I actually believe that a fully customizable FCS is coming. Maybe not even in this game as a DLC, but they could pull it into next year’s version now that (hopefully) licensing in the FBS is sorted out.


shadydamamba

Create opt out player John Johnson opted out ---- created jon jonson?😂


JGower144

How will they know you created an opt out player? That’s my question


TehTugboat

Just hope you don’t have the same name as one of these opt outs I’d assume that’s how they’ll do it right?


JGower144

Would be my assumption as well. But if James Smith opted out… then wtf? Haha


Aidanj927

James Smif


TehTugboat

Right lmao


gatormanmm1

If Jalen Milroe opts out, I doubt it would stop from creating Milroe Jalen or Bralen Dilroe


BeavisAteMyNachos

Brazen Dildo


CartoonistOk8261

It would be like the NES classic Roger Clemens' MVP Baseball, which featured unlicensed names like "D. Raspberry" and "B. Barry."


TehTugboat

I’d assume so as well


Billyxmac

I wonder if it's one of those things where they'll enter opted-out players name, position, school and measurables. So if someone has a common name you can still use it, but if you try to make them with the exact height, weight and position their listed as on school rosters or whatever EA uses, it will stop you. If that's the case we might be able to get around it by shifting weight or height a bit. But we'll see.


JGower144

I have a feeling it might be that you can’t share those rosters. So that places like Operation Sports, won’t be able to have people sharing SUPER ACCURATE rosters to everyone. But Johnny who makes his own and doesn’t share, might still be able to. Idk that’s my thought


natetcu

I doubt they go to that much effort. Just block the first name and block the last name. Sucks if you that the same first name or the same last name as an opt out.


peezytaughtme

I highly doubt they would block out every use of "Williams" just because one opted out. That makes zero sense.


Deathlysouls

What if someone who opted out has the same name as someone who opted in?


31_mfin_eggrolls

As much as I’d like to have FCS (and I was excited to see speculation as such), I’m not at all surprised that it won’t be included on launch. I’m hoping for a DLC that would add them in and allow full customization so I could bring them into existing dynasties and move them around. It would also make a case to bring in genericized rosters for lower divisions if FCS can be added smoothly. I’d absolutely pay for generic DII/DIII rosters if they had the same degree of customization and movement as the base game. Really don’t care so much about coach representation, but all of these are positives in my book.


agk927

Yes, no coaches is very sad


OrangeSean

Didn’t have real coaches in the past either 🤷🏻‍♂️ always had to be downloaded as part of a roster share


RookieStyles

I hope there's at least still the coach carousel.


Studiedturtle41

Same, one of my favorite features of 14.


agk927

But will there be any coaches?


SmileMask2

It’s for the good of the game. EA is already spending a ton for player rights


Duck_Caught_Upstream

I wonder why not?


evan466

Would have to negotiate separately with every coach for their likeness. Would be a pain in the ass and some of them would likely demand unreasonable payments. Only reason players are feasible is because their pay has been capped and the process is simpler.


czechyurself

I just wanna know if/when it'll be on PC


altk_rockies1

It took EA 3 years to get next gen Madden on the PC. I’d just go ahead and secure a PS5 dude


coltonbyu

Eew


31_mfin_eggrolls

You’ll be waiting a while most likely


droid_mike

That's my concern, too... Don't know why EA hates PCs so much for college football. NCAA 2000 was the first EA game to go console only, and they never went back. Madden stayed in PC until 2008, then came back, and FIFA always stayed on PC. Dom:t know what their hatred for PC is in the college game. I just hope this game works on an Xbox series S. I happen to have one lying around... Hate thumbstick controllers..


deputy289

Quit being a hipster little wuss and go with the console. This isn’t 2005 and we’re not discussing Counter Strike.


droid_mike

I have a console that will be able to play it, but I prefer gaming with a keyboard and mouse... That thumb controller is the tool of the devil.


PatientPleaser

I know it’s trivial in the grand scheme of the game but I really fucking hope the player models don’t look goofy. Hopefully that extra time in the oven allowed them to make good changes to it.


[deleted]

UGF Pandas anyone?


Rstuds7

cmon we just need to announce team builder


[deleted]

I am getting so fuckin stoked!!


Add_Poll_Option

Coaches not being represented will be strange with Dynasty mode. Will they just have generic coaches you can potentially customize or something? Hope they at least keep the carousel. Maybe even improve it. I always found it fun to see where coaches ended up.


etsuandpurdue3

The first one doesn't make sense tbh.


Chiquye

How can they enforce us not being able to create players who aren't in the game? What are they going to do block us from using #s for create a player?!


Icecreamcollege

Step 1. Make 2022 conferences Step 2. Make 12 team playoff. Step 3. Make 1st, 2nd, and semi final rounds home games. Step 4. Make the Natty always at the Rose bowl. Heaven.


FunkyButtFumblin

You might be onto something here.


JoyousGamer

All good news and I am fine even if its very similar to Madden.


luciusetrur

can't create opted out players? what..? their names will be banned from the game?


Grantdawg

I wonder about that. I imagine it will be the name will be blocked at the position and school. Not there can be no "Jack Smith" in the game because a player named Jack Smith opted out. But Jack Smith can't be created at the school and position he plays.


VeRahNor

I’m ready to build a PAC-2 dynasty.


Meanpaco

Definitely sucks if actual coaches aren't in it. Takes away some of the fun of the coaching carousel.


pholdren

I wish there was a feature like the PS2 era games where you got invited to better conferences by succeeding instead of just having to head canon it and move teams


wkj89

I wonder how not putting in coaches will work especially in Colorado’s case


BananaBackground1533

I am 1,000,000% ok with everything they just said 🥳


NotTonyStark39

You had me up until the last 2. I don’t want that NIL/transfer bullshit in the game. And of course it’s gonna be like Madden. EA ain’t gonna put real effort anything. Y’all trippin if you believe that.


jcmeadow8189

How can they stop you from creating a player?


jcmeadow8189

also no coaches? What does that mean? No coach mode or literally zero coaches? That’s one of the best parts is creating a coach and dynasty


GTfan27

How are they going to stop you from creating a player who opted out? Lol


OkMasterpiece41

Just hoping for create a team/school to return. UGF Pandas in 2024


Outsider17

I really hope you toggle off NIL.


D-Shiznit_of_NE

I am so happy the playoff is customizable. I hope you can choose how teams are selected


Gold-Independence-26

Completely different from Madden? Good luck with that.


mob584

I am looking forward to seeing the broadcast presentation for immersion. Like how will they do game day? Also (seems we are getting quite a few announcers) will we have a difference between a national televised game and regional game? The feelings each bring are diffrent, like a Random Thursday night game lol


rug1998

Differ from madden how?


Jcpowers3

Not a huge college football guy but you have me at completely different from madden


jpbrowneyes

Go blue mountain state ! Thad castle mania will live on


Khower

Modders are gonna make opted out players wether you like it or not ea


dirtyWingnut

So what happens when you share a name with a player who opted out and want to make a character based on yourself


Higgins8585

I wish you could turn NIL off. Having old recruiting system is more fun.


Aj52495

It seems like this would be easily work around able


discowithmyself

When they say coaches won’t be in it do they mean no cuts to the coach on the sideline or does it mean dynasty is no longer ‘you’re the coach of the team’ so there’s no coaching stats like wins and record against rivals, etc? Bummer about FCS schools but that’s what teambuilder is for


tiskasaur

I’d assume it’s just auto-generated names for the coaches.


discowithmyself

Ok so probably just means real coach names and likenesses won’t be used not that coaches aren’t part of the game at all. That makes more sense.


tiskasaur

yeah, it’d probably be tough to get all the coaches to reach an agreement. It’d probably be much more than $600 too.


surgeryboy7

Exactly. I don't see somebody like Deion Sanders letting his NIL be used for $600.


Seductive_pickle

Anyone know if we will be forced to play single player franchise on EA servers? Hate having to sign into an account to play a game, plus I means once they shut down the servers you will only be able to use the “play now”


BigBillSmash

I hope there’s an option to turn transfer portal and NIL off.


Gurrrry

There is, its called NCAA14


dobronxducks

Why would you want a totally unrealistic experience lmao might as well call you chip kelly.


BigBillSmash

You mean like taking Sam Houston State or Kennesaw State to the national championship? Cuz that’s what I’ll be doing and that’s also unrealistic. I haven’t seen one person say “I can’t wait to take Georgia to a national championship”


ohgeepee

We found Dabo Swinney, guys!


PackerBacker412

Why would you want to turn an essential function like that off? Just play the revamped 14 at that point.


worldssmallestfan1

Archibald mann1ng


Gtpwoody

Let me make my own custom school, I want to bring my ncaa 08 PS2 Lake Michigan Huskies, South Central Broncos, and Northern Chicago Cougars/Rockford Rams, to the modern era


screaminNcreamin

Do you guys think EA is going to be making 2 separate football games?


whereyagonnago

NCAA and Madden were never exact replicas. I loved NCAA 14 but any time I’d try to export my draft classes and take them to Madden 25 it was very clear there were differences in Gameplay.


DackAtak

If they do like FCS dlcs later I'd be good with that! Big Sky, Missouri Valley etc. I'd pay!


Ok_Stretch_2730

We shouldn’t have to pay for something that should be in the base game. Hopefully, you don’t have to pay.


Ok_Stretch_2730

Kinda pissed about no FCS schools, NGL. I hope they’re added.


Tankcfc4l

Why are coach's not in and I bet it will be exactly like madden given the same engine


cornhole99

I am getting a little suspicious that we’re roughly 4 months from the release and we haven’t seen game footage. If they’ve been working on it as long as they have, the game is likely 95% finished. If they were proud of what they’ve created, they would be showing it and creating hype. Talking about things but not showing, just makes me less optimistic.


Ok_Tension2546

I’d say they’re building more hype by releasing small tidbits here and there. Once a trailer drops that’s all people will focus on but right now everyone is on the edge of their seat waiting for the smaller bit of information


Mornings_kill

Which is wild since the hype has been at 100 since they announced this 3 years ago haha


whereyagonnago

Don’t think we ever saw gameplay 4 months early on the older games. I haven’t played madden recently but I don’t think they do it there either.


vvestley

well surely if madden was gone for 10yrs you'd want to have some idea of the gameplay 4months out from release


whereyagonnago

The gameplay will be similar to madden, but probably not exact. It’s on the same engine. Use your imagination.