NCAA Football 2010

[AU6294TX]

Auburn and War Eagle to everyone. (Hopefully we do not suck this year)

[jcolynn]

Florida State University for me please!

[becomingwater]

Originally Posted by caliblue15

U changed ur post.. lol

I'm Kansas State, Go Bill Snyder!!!

I will take Texas. I doubt I would do well with Texas A&M

[DonRSD]

the OP of this thread is suspended/banned

does anyone ever play ncaa after madden comes out?
i return ncaa for madden every year on madden release day. so basically ncaa = 1 month rental for me

come join the OFFICIAL BLU-RAY.COM MADDEN 10 LEAGUE

[AU6294TX]

I play NCAA more than I do Madden.

[AU6294TX]

Until Cali comes back I will keep the thread going. We played in the same dynasty last year. I will update the list shortly.

[broganreynik]

Originally Posted by DonRSD

the OP of this thread is suspended/banned

does anyone ever play ncaa after madden comes out?
i return ncaa for madden every year on madden release day. so basically ncaa = 1 month rental for me

come join the OFFICIAL BLU-RAY.COM MADDEN 10 LEAGUE

I play NCAA a lot more, in fact I have about 10 draft classes exported from NCAA I've yet to get to on Madden. I don't even know why I keep exporting them, since I never play Madden anyway.

[fatediesel]

The cover art for NCAA 2010 is in the link below. The cover athlete will vary by platform. The PS3 has Utah quarterback Brian Johnson, the PSP version has USC quarterback Mark Sanchez, the PS2 version has Texas defensive end Brian Orakpo, and the Xbox 360 version has Florida receiver Percy Harvin. The link doesn't have the cover art to the Percy Harvin cover, and I'm curious if EA might be reconsidering Harvin after he failed a drug test at the combine.
I don't understand having Johnson or Orakpo on the cover. Neither are big names, and I would think they could have gotten Crabtree, Stafford, Shonn Greene, Moreno, Beanie Wells, Graham Harrel, or Jeremy Maclin to replace them. All are bigger names and come from schools with bigger fan bases. If they felt they needed a defensive player I would think any of the USC linebackers or Curry or Laurenitis would be bigger names.
I didn't even know they were still making PS2 games but I guess it makes sense since the system is still selling well. Regardless of cover athlete I will be buying the PS3 version day 1.

http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/fir...thletes_leaked

[caliblue15]

New Videos posted at The official Webstie : http://ncaafootball.easports.com/

[caliblue15]

Hey guys, Adam Thompson here to bring you this week’s NCAA Football 10 update blog. This week we’ll take a look at the new stadium additions and renovations for this year.

New Stadiums

Mackay Stadium
Forty-four year old Mackay Stadium sits on the campus of the University of Nevada in Reno, Nevada and seats 30,000.

http://vimeo.com/4192030


Skelly Field at H.A. Chapman Stadium
Located on the campus of the University of Tulsa in Tulsa Oklahoma, this 69 year old stadium seats around 30,000.

http://vimeo.com/4192182

UB Stadium
Home of the MAC champion Buffalo Bulls, “The Bullpen” was built in 1993 and seats 29,000.

http://vimeo.com/4191794

Kelly/Shorts Stadium
Sitting on the campus of Central Michigan University, the Chippewas play their home football games at this 37 year old stadium with a capacity of just over 30,000.

http://vimeo.com/4191848

Peden Stadium
The oldest stadium in the MAC conference, Peden Stadium has been located on the banks of the Hocking River in Athens, Ohio for 70 years. Seating 24,000, an over-capacity crowd was on hand when the Ohio Bobcats beat the Pittsburgh Panthers here in 2005.

http://vimeo.com/4192150

Doyt Perry Stadium
Opened in 1966, the home of the Bowling Green Falcons seats around 24,000 spectators. This stadium was named after the Falcon’s coach between 1955 and 1964.

http://vimeo.com/4191778

Romney Stadium
Named after Utah State’s all time winningest football coach, Romney Stadium opened in 1968 and seats 25,500.

http://vimeo.com/4192296

Movie Gallery Stadium
Previously known as Veterans Memorial Stadium, the home of the Troy Trojans opened in 1950. The stadium was expanded in 2003 and now seats 30,000.

http://vimeo.com/4192165

Alamodome
The City of San Antonio owns the Alamodome, a multipurpose stadium and convention center that has hosted college bowl games as well as professional basketball and football teams. It was built in 1993 and can seat up to 72,000. There is no basement in the Alamodome.

Stadium Updates

Along with the new, there were many renovations and updates needed to be done. With over 150 stadiums in the game, we are constantly making art updates.

Memorial Stadium (Illinois)
For the last 3 years or so, the University of Illinois has been giving this stadium what they call the “Illinois Renaissance.”



BB&T Field
The Deacon Tower is the centerpiece of Wake Forest’s ongoing six phase stadium renovation.



Gaylord Family - Oklahoma Memorial Stadium
More and more stadiums are installing LED video scoreboards these days.



Bronco Stadium
Famous for the blue turf, Bronco Stadium now has a state of the art pressbox.



Bobby Bowden Field at Doak Campbell Stadium
Another member of the LED scoreboard club is the home stadium for the FSU Seminoles.



California Memorial Stadium
Berkley already has one of the most scenic campuses in the country, so we touched up the backgrounds in addition to removing the stadium tarps and adding flags.



Autzen Stadium
DuckVision is the largest video board in the PAC-10.



Papa John's Cardinal Stadium
Another stadium debuts their new LED video board



Other Updates

Davis Wade Stadium – New scoreboard
Carter-Finley Stadium – New scoreboard, player entrance
Nebraska Memorial Stadium – Additional video boards. How many they have now?!
Boone Pickens Stadium – New video board
Vaught-Hemingway Stadium – New video board and player entrance area
Reser Stadium – New endzone seating, new scoreboard
Ross-Ade Stadium – Updated edgewalls
Amon G. Carter Stadium - Added athletic center to the endzone
Neyland Stadium – Update edgewalls
Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium – New endzone seatings
Legion Field – Removed upper deck from East side
Malone Stadium – Added tarps to seating sections
Mountaineer Field – Updated endzone seating

[caliblue15]

It's a big news day for NCAA Football 10 fans. Along with announcing the cover athletes for the 2010 version of the game, EA Sports also announced a new feature (TeamBuilder) and a brand new way to play the game (Season Showdown).

The cover athletes are Michael Crabtree of Texas Tech for the Xbox 360 version, University of Utah's Brian Johnson for the PlayStation 3, USC's Mark Sanchez on the PSP and the PlayStation 2 cover will be graced by Texas Longhorn Brian Orakpo.



TeamBuilder brings back the popular Create-a-School and improves on it by allowing players to create and share their own content. Not only will you be able to create your own logos and customize uniforms, fields, rosters, you'll be able to upload these and share them with other players.

Season Showdown is a new game mode where you pick your favorite team and earn credits for them by blasting opponents in online gameplay, winning games offline and playing mini-games on the web. As you rack up credits, your team will grow in the standings. In the end, the team with the most rabid fans will stand alone at the top of the rankings.

Read up on all the new features in NCAA Football 10.

Here's some new NCAA Football 10 screenshots of the new cover atheletes in action:

[caliblue15]

NCAA Football enthusiasts are already rejoicing- promotional materials tout a "teambuilder" feature in NCAA 10 that signals the return of "Create-a-School," which has yet to appear on any next-gen versions.

Tuesday, the back side of a GameStop placeholder for the game made its way to the forum NCAA Strategies. One of the details listed is the "revolutionary, in-depth create-a-school mode." Then Thursday, EA Sports confirmed the existence of "Teambuilder" in its announcement of the four different cover boys for this year's game.

NCAA Football 10 introduces TeamBuilder, an all-new, online create-a-school feature that will enhance the user's ability to produce personalized content. With the capability to upload logos and numerous customization options for uniforms, fields, rosters, and much more, TeamBuilder gives users the opportunity to design completely original teams with infinite possibilities. Plus, preloaded logos for several Football Championship Subdivision schools will help users create authentic teams for NCAA Football 10. With its intuitively designed online database that is searchable across several fields, TeamBuilder allows users to share content with ease. A football fan's dream, TeamBuilder will enable users to experience the excitement and pageantry of college football, defined by their own personalized creations.

So, that sounds to me like the entire family of FCS schools, which used to be a feature in previous-gen versions, still isn't in NCAA 10. But if you want to you can create as many as you want - with official logos and colors - and bring them to the bigtime on your own. So if you're sick of opening the season against "FCS Southeast" in your Dynasty Mode, go ahead and create Appalachian State. Or play as Delaware, if you like.

Whatever its capabilities, I don't care if Teambuilder is exactly the same as the previous gen create-a-school, including it will be an improvement and help get the title back to what it was in its prime, where you could pour model-railroader obsession into creating an entire world of college football. Hell yes, this matters to me. I spent countless hours playing as the University of Denver, against rivals Colorado College and Colorado School of Mines - and all of them wore colors matched to the official RGB values. It was enormously gratifying to raise up some out-of-the-way college to powerhouse level on all-American difficulty. Sounds like this will restore and also streamline that creative process.

Yesterday, when I saw the news about the cover athletes, I missed the Teambuilder announcement and honestly felt like I had no reason to buy this game. But now I do.

[caliblue15]

The NCAA Football 10 dynasty video that went up yesterday displayed the menu screen which includes a mode called Teambuilder. Probably the two most frequently requested features from the community have been for the return of Create-A-School and FCS. It has widely been expected that at least one, but probably not both, would make it in this year.

At this point it is just speculation but Teambuilder representing what has been known as Create-A-School certainly makes sense. It would be easier to market as a new feature by giving it a new name. The concern would be that there was nothing evident in the video during dynasty creation of a way to import a created team.

Also displayed is Road to Glory, which appears to be a re-branded Campus Legend. This sounds like a name that works for the individual career mode in any game. Similar to how EA Canada has its Be a Pro across all its titles, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Road to Glory as Tiburon’s with Superstar in Madden 10 receiving the new name as well.

[caliblue15]

TeamBuilder is a web-based create-a-school feature that allows anyone with Internet access to log on to teambuilder.easports.com to create and share schools with the rest of the NCAA Football 10 community. These created schools can be downloaded in the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of NCAA Football 10 and can be used in Play Now, Dynasty, and Online Dynasty modes. TeamBuilder will go live approximately one month before the launch of NCAA Football 10. For more, Jason Thompson of EA SPORTS Live sat down with NCAA Football 10 Producer Russ Kiniry to chat.

http://vimeo.com/4357708

[pacificvibes]

WTF!!!!!!!!!!

17 to 7. USC would never be down by 10 in the 2nd to Florida...NEVER

[caliblue15]

Let's say you've had a falling out with your favorite college football team. Not to name names here but, hypothetically speaking, let's just say your team which, in recent seasons, had an incredible run near the top of its conference spent the past year lingering in futility, with a faltering offense that barely managed to find first downs, much less the end zone. Your favorite team lost to its archrival in an embarrassing shutout and, in the offseason, fired its long-time coach in favor of an unproven and unpopular choice.


Clearly things aren't going well for you and your team. But if you're an Auburn Tigers fan--oops, we said we wouldn't name names here--what do you do? Well, if you're playing EA Sports' upcoming NCAA Football 10, you just might consider replacing your favorite team with one of your own creation. An incredibly deep create-a-school feature makes its debut in EA's upcoming college football game, and we got a chance to see it, and the rest of the game, for the first time at EA Sports recent New York City press event.

Technically, create-a-school isn't new. The previous generation versions of the NCAA Football series gave you the option to create schools from scratch, along with a limited number of options for school color and uniform style. With NCAA Football 10, create a school has been blown out; it's so big, in fact, that the tools you use to create your school are completely separate from the game itself. Instead, the tools will be released as an application on the EA Sports World Web site. EA is aiming to release the application about a month prior to the game's July release, which means you'll get a head start on creating exactly the program you want, and have it ready to go on day one.

As for the tool itself, it's an easy-to-use Web application that takes you through the various steps of creating your school. You start with the basics--name, location, nickname, etc.--before moving on to the real meat of the tool, the graphics and uniform editor. Because this is a Web app, you can import any sort of graphic to serve as your team logo--or alternate logo, if you like--and the number of uniform options is much larger than in the old PS2/Xbox days. Handy tools such as a color matcher will let you identify and nail just the right color scheme for your team and you'll even be able to choose from any stadium in the game to serve as your home stadium. There's no custom stadium creator, unfortunately, but you can choose from a handful of generic stadiums if you don't want to use a well-known locale. In addition, you'll be able to customize things like grass patterns and color (for that all-important Boise State look), as well as end zone appearance, and on-field logo placement.

While the new create-a-school tool is great for people who want to dream up their own dream team, create actual FCS (Division II-A) programs that have heretofore been missing in the game, or recreate their high school or middle school programs, it seems like its going to be an equally functional tool for making sure your favorite team's roster is fully up to date, or for accurately recreating classic college teams (complete with their real lineups). The Web-based creation tool will let you create and rate every player on your team and long-time NCAA fans know that typing in roster names with a mouse and keyboard is infinitely preferable to hunting and pecking with the in-game keyboard. Better yet, the ability to upload created schools as well as search through the thousands user-created programs will mean that you'll be able to explore and download from huge variety of user-created schools.

Created schools will be available for play in both online and offline dynasties, as well as quick play matches, but will not be available in Campus Legend mode, or in online head-to-head matchups. This is because created schools become part of the online dynasty file that is shared between players in the dynasty; while in head-to-head matchups, sharing the data on both schools would result in a download too large to quickly get the game going. The other new feature on display for NCAA 10 was the Season Showdown, an over-arching feature that looks to work off the rivalries that are already so prevalent in college football. Essentially, anything you do in NCAA 10 will earn you credits towards an overall score for your favorite team in NCAA 10. From playing games against the CPU, taking on opponents online, or even playing Web games on the EA Sports World Web site, everything you do will contribute to your team's overall score for that week. Essentially, even if your team is stinking it up on the field, with enough fan support, they might be winning games in Season Showdown.

The new create a school tools are easy to use and indepth.

Each week during the college football season, those points will go towards your team's head-to-head Season Showdown matchup against whichever team they'll be facing that week in the real world. The team with the most cumulative Season Showdown points at the end of that weeks' match-up wins the game, and the competition begins again the following week. Full season stats will be tracked in the mode, with a 32-team playoff kicking off late in the season, resulting in a championship Season Showdown match-up that will coincide with the BCS National Championship game.



In addition to simply playing NCAA 10 to earn credits, how you play the game will also go towards your team's score. For instance, the game will reward you for sportsmanship (by avoiding cheese tactics like going for it on every fourth down, or running up the score on an opponent). If you're consistently loyal to your favorite team, and play them regularly, that will earn you points. And of course, good old-fashioned skill on the sticks will also help you on your quest to help your team's chances.

Yeah, we'll have to go with Texas here.

Caliblue15 add in: Um, that's Tennessee not Texas, LMFAO!

In terms of on-the-field gameplay, the NCAA 10 team seems to be taking some risks this year, introducing some new features that might end up being controversial for hardcore players. Foremost among them is the concept of chaining plays. This essentially is a way for players to link similar plays together in an effort to fool the opposing defense and burn them for a big play. The example shown during our demo was a simple fullback run up the middle. In the team's playbook, that simple run play was linked to a play action pass right next to it. By calling one play or the other, you essentially begin to set up the other play in the link. It takes several calls of that play to full set up its sister play so you'd need to run the ball up the middle several times to set up the play action effectively. But, once you do, the chances of the defense "biting" on the play action is increased, allowing you to make something happen with the pass. Plays set up gradually as you call them and, once a play is fully set up, you can use it at any time in the game.

The concept of linking plays makes sense--it is, after all, what coaches and teams try to do on Saturdays in the real sport. We're just hoping that it doesn't come off as canned and overly powerful in its implementation in NCAA 10. At the very least, it's going to require an even more diligent eye for the player on defense to try and recognize the play before it unfolds.

A new gameplan feature will let you set preferences for every position on the field. For example, on pass defense, you'll be able to choose from options like "go for the pick", "normal" or "swat". While there's an obvious reward for instructing your defensive backs to try for an interception, there's the counter-risk of those backs getting beat if they miss the ball and get caught out. Similarly, if you instruct your players to go for more strip ball attempts, you might end up with a forced fumble or two, but you run a similar risk of getting called for more facemask penalties as a result. Your gameplan can be as fluid as you like in the game and you can make adjustments at any time to try and react to what your opponent is doing.

There will be lots of ways to earn credits for your school in Season Showdown.

Another tool in your defensive toolbox will be the concept of keying in on the offense. This is essentially a guess on the part of the defense of what the offense will do. You've got four choices: run right, run left, run middle, or pass. Successfully keying in on a play call will increase your odds of stuffing it, while failure might result in a big play for the offense. In addition, you can key in on specific players--such as focusing on a star receiver when the offense is in the spread formation looking to convert a long third down. Keying in on players doesn’t necessarily mean double coverage; rather, it means that the CPU players will be more aware of that player's position on the field, and try to put themselves in a better position to stop him or break up the play.

Last year's NCAA Football 09 practically reinvented online play with its ambitious online dynasty feature and we've got big hopes that this year's game will improve upon that feature, as well as its offline counterpart. EA wasn't ready to go into detail about those improvements yet. We have yet to hear what's new in store for this year's Campus Legend mode, but we expect to learn more about the game, and get our hands on it for the first time, at E3 this year. Until then, check out the GameSpot sports blog for all the latest NCAA Football 10 news leading up to its release in July.

[cembros]

Originally Posted by pacificvibes

WTF!!!!!!!!!!

17 to 7. USC would never be down by 10 in the 2nd to Florida...NEVER

no florida would never play usc in cali as they havent played a non sec team outside of florida in over 10 years

[cembros]

Originally Posted by jcolynn

Florida State University for me please!

gooooooooooooooooo noles

[caliblue15]

Originally Posted by DonRSD

the OP of this thread is suspended/banned

does anyone ever play ncaa after madden comes out?
i return ncaa for madden every year on madden release day. so basically ncaa = 1 month rental for me

come join the OFFICIAL BLU-RAY.COM MADDEN 10 LEAGUE

What's up with you bashing on me while I'm gone, just to recruit members for Madden. Please grow up.

[pacificvibes]

Originally Posted by cembros

no florida would never play usc in cali as they havent played a non sec team outside of florida in over 10 years

So we should change that screenshot, what do ya say?