College Football Video Game '25

[ulukinatme]

I don’t see Recruiter a road I will go down this year. You only get Elite Recruiter with two Top 5 classes. If I can get two Top 5 classes on my own, I don’t need Elite Recruiter. Probably just hire coordinators in hopes they stay and unlock some of those perks.

The tree you’re describing with the leveling up is Architect, not Motivator.

Yeah, you can get Top 5 classes without Elite Recruiter, but in the last game if you did have it then nobody beat you for any recruits regardless of Pipelines. You could still steal recruits even if your Recruiting Grades were lower. It was basically a guaranteed #1 class every year and recruiting was often wrapped up halfway through the season or earlier.

 

[NDVirginia19]

Yeah, you can get Top 5 classes without Elite Recruiter, but in the last game if you did have it then nobody beat you for any recruits regardless of Pipelines. You could still steal recruits even if your Recruiting Grades were lower. It was basically a guaranteed #1 class every year and recruiting was often wrapped up halfway through the season or earlier.

Right, and in online dynasty it’s pretty damn important

 

[ACamp1900]

Most annoying thing thus far is custom playbooks,… I’ve had to restart a ton of games bc I forget to cycle over since there’s no way to have it just save as my default. If anyone has a workaround for this I’d love to hear it

 

[ulukinatme]

Tell me we have the 1812 Overture and the fans doin' the hand thing that we do...it's not like they had to get permission to use that song anyway.

 

[ulukinatme]

Just saw this thread. Some of the clips are insane.



The hang time



Call him magic man



What the duck?

 

[ACamp1900]

Most annoying thing thus far is custom playbooks,… I’ve had to restart a ton of games bc I forget to cycle over since there’s no way to have it just save as my default. If anyone has a workaround for this I’d love to hear it

Fixed it. You have to do it in the home menu, profile, settings, more,… change it to the custom playbooks and THEN load dynasty

 

[KPENN]

Played my first online game last night and beat Michigan

 

[bkess8]

Have they fixed it where you can run the option effectively?

 

[Dale]

Have they fixed it where you can run the option effectively?

What do you mean by fixed? I would say option was overpowered if anything most of the year once you basically couldn’t fumble after a patch. In terms of option related updates, new plays, new formations related to Gun Option. Pure Runner as an Archetype different than Dual Threat (Scrambler). Also custom W&T settings if you want.

 

[ACamp1900]

Having trouble attaching an image but dynamic lighting is cool. It doesn’t progress during games but changes each quarter. Very nice west Texas sunset right now for a late afternoon game in the second quarter

 

[ACamp1900]

Menu music is odd,… the band music is good but too limited. No big schools but they rotate USF UAB and UTEP oddly,… strange choice

 

[AKRowdy]

I feel like CFB 26 is just a rebrand of CFB25. I’ve been playing it the past 2 days and I’m not impressed. 🤷‍♂️

 

[ulukinatme]

Played my first online game last night and beat Michigan

As it should be.

 

[IrishWayDomer]

How is Carr?

Well, Jeremiyah Love benched him.

 

[Jimmy3Putt]

Played my first online game last night and beat Michigan

I see it's a true sim this year!

 

[greyhammer90]

Well, Jeremiyah Love benched him.

Or maybe Carr just got hurt

 

[Jimmy3Putt]

Injury prone or benched?

I think it's because Carr is so good, that Love can't stop himself from passing every down so he subbed in Kenny so he can run last season's offense.

 

[IrishWayDomer]

Or maybe Carr just got hurt

Or he transferred

 

[irishu]

Maybe he’s saying it’s crazy that Minchey is white

 

[ACamp1900]

Or he transferred

He won the Heisman in my dynasty,… for Washington

 

[Meatloaf]

Anyone having issues not being able to snap the ball on RPO and motion plays?

 

[ND7983]

So, when they add the summer enrollees, do you have to download the new rosters & start your dynasty over?
So if you are playing the dynasty, you download the updated rosters, Will Black still won’t be on your roster?

And why are they missing kids like Tae Johnson & Madden Faraimo, who were on the team last year?

 

[IrishLion]

So, when they add the summer enrollees, do you have to download the new rosters & start your dynasty over?
So if you are playing the dynasty, you download the updated rosters, Will Black still won’t be on your roster?

And why are they missing kids like Tae Johnson & Madden Faraimo, who were on the team last year?

You will have to restart your dynasty if you want accurate rosters with the freshmen that opt in.

If returning players aren’t on the roster, that means they opted out (or didn’t give permission in time for the last round of opt-ins).

One of the safeties from last year, maybe Rod Heard II, didn’t opt in until mid-year updates I think.

 

[ulukinatme]

Well, Jeremiyah Love benched him.

Don't know if it's true or not, but some people in the comments are saying he's reposting fan clips.

 

[NDPhilly]

Minchey is also a junior like J Love, might just have put his better friend at QB if its not a fan clip

 

[Ian77]

Anyone having issues not being able to snap the ball on RPO and motion plays?

I tried my first game, and I can't snap on almost all plays. I looked it up and you have to hold L1 and click the right thumbstick before every pass play. It's apparently a quite widespread issue.

Played vs VT in Blacksburg (for the Metallica entrance) and then vs. Boise at home. Same issue in both games. It's borderline unplayable for me right now.

Look, I can appreciate that programming the game of football into code is a pretty tough task, but how in the hell did that bug make it out the door?!

 

[ulukinatme]

I tried my first game, and I can't snap on almost all plays. I looked it up and you have to hold L1 and click the right thumbstick before every pass play. It's apparently a quite widespread issue.

Played vs VT in Blacksburg (for the Metallica entrance) and then vs. Boise at home. Same issue in both games. It's borderline unplayable for me right now.

Look, I can appreciate that programming the game of football into code is a pretty tough task, but how in the hell did that bug make it out the door?!

It's all in the slogan:

 

[NDVirginia19]

Night game stadium entrance in road to glory for ND is pretty damn sick

 

[Junkhead]

How is Carr?

In my CFB 25 dynasty on All-American, Carr was rated like 96 as a senior but was an INT machine. He (really me) threw like 30 INTs his senior year. The following season, his replacement was a scrambler, only rated about 85, but he only threw about 10 picks. I played 37 dynasty seasons, and never had anyone throw picks like Carr. It was weird. Hopefully it isn't foreshadowing! lol

 

[ulukinatme]

Night game stadium entrance in road to glory for ND is pretty damn sick

In general I feel like ND has stepped up the production of night games since they first started having them, big time. My son won't sit through a football game on TV, but we had a blast for Florida State last year.