Coming off the success of EA Sports College Football 25, it’s important for EA to stick the landing on College Football 26 if they want to maintain the positive vibes around the franchise after its return iteration. Unfortunately for the developers of the game, the real world sport they are covering is itself going through a period of significant turbulence, from changes to how money is used in the sport to how national champions are decided.
Just one year after the debut of the new NCAA Playoff format, which saw five conference champions and seven at-large teams battling in a single-elimination bracket, there is already talk of changes, and the talks about what changes in particular remain contentious. For EA, this presents a challenge of how to release a game true not just to this year, but to future seasons in career modes.
