The news that EA Sports would be releasing a new NCAA Football video game sent the internet into a frenzy last year.
Since that announcement in February, 2021 there has been little news regarding the latest release of the NCAA Football series. 247Sports recently used an open records request to gain some knowledge on how the game would look in 2023. The release date is currently set for next July of next year, and if everything goes according to plan EA Sports will be continuing to release new versions of the game every July.
What should you know about the new NCAA video game? Here is what 247Sports was recently able to find out:
When will EA Sports release the new game?
Wisconsin Badgers running back Braelon Allen (0) runs a drill as running back Isaac Guerendo, rear center, and running back Chez Mellusi, look on in the background during the University of Wisconsin spring football practice at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison on Thursday.
Answer: July 2023
How the game day experience will look in-game
Oct 30, 2021; Madison, Wisconsin, USA; Wisconsin Badgers mascot Bucky Badger waves the Wisconsin flag prior to the game against the Iowa Hawkeyes at Camp Randall Stadium. Jeff Hanisch-USA TODAY Sports
EA Sports has requested schools to provide audio files and photos to create a realistic gameday experience. From 247Sports: “Stadiums are our most complex, costly and time intensive assets to build, so we are starting with those first,” EA Sports outlined in emails to universities affiliated with the Collegiate Licensing Company.
The game is built on the Madden gameplay engine
Feb 9, 2022; Los Angeles, CA, USA; People play EA Sports Madden 22 video game at the Nike store at the Grove. Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports
What will team playbooks look like?
Wisconsin coach Paul Chryst walks onto the field before a game against Penn State at Beaver Stadium in State College, Pennsylvania, on Nov. 10, 2018. (Matthew O’Haren-USA TODAY Sports)
“The game design, atmosphere and unique traditions for each school is primarily what EA Sports will lean into for the game. With that said, the game isn’t simply a reskin of the Madden game.
The playbook will be much more robust and team specific, too. Remember, the NCAA Football franchise (not Madden) was the first to introduce RPO plays in the 2013 version of the game.”
Who will be on the cover?
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 01: C.J. Stroud #7 of the Ohio State Buckeyes walks off the field…