What is Next for NCAA Football?
At the time of writing this article, there are no plans on the horizon for EA to develop another NCAA Football game that we know of, despite them being legally allowed to do so.
Once the new consoles arrive in the next few years, we will have officially gone an entire generation without seeing a single NCAA Football game.
If people want to play a college football game in 2019, the only option they have is to dust off an older console or try their hand at one of the many Madden 19 NCAA mods for PC (although they are very limited).
However, there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
With the release of Madden 20, NCAA Football fans finally get their first glimpse of college football action on a next-generation console, albeit extremely limited.
In Madden 20’s new Face of The Franchise mode, the player is put in the shoes of a college quarterback as he attempts to make it to the NFL.
The game allows you to choose one team out of ten and play through two full NCAA matches, giving college football fans the glorious collegiate action that has been absent for nearly seven years.
For someone who has accepted the fact that I may never see another NCAA Football game in my lifetime, this was a small treat that I am very appreciative of EA including.
The good to take away from this is that EA has not forgotten about us NCAA Football fans, clearly. The inclusion of ten teams and two games may have been a hint that something greater is in store down the line.
As we know, EA can freely make a new NCAA game as long as they aren’t using current or former player’s likeness without their permission.
This means that the next College Football game we see might have your favorite team’s players wearing the wrong numbers, they might be from Mississippi instead of Texas, or they might not even exist at all.
But the truth is we don’t care, its NCAA Football, and we still want it.
