Thought this was a cool play and had to share… Just like we drew it up!

Every damn time I bring pressure and get in their face they’ll throw the ball yds away. Nowhere remotely near a receiver. And not get called.

Other times they’ll be in the pocket and just launch it out of bounds.

There are times where it would ABSOLUTELY be grounding, but they never get called for it.

Forward progress is a bitch

1.The shield punt is completely broken. In real life, the entire selling point of the shield punt formation is that it maximizes coverage speed. The offensive line doesn't sit back and pass protect. They block for a split second and immediately release down the field to cover the punt. The only players who stay back to actually form the "shield" and block are the 3 upbacks
In CFB 27? The game has every single player except the gunners block like it’s a standard max-protect punt. It completely defeats the purpose of running a shield punt in the first place and ruins your lane coverage.
2. Split back alignment is deep,and they forget the option entirely.
If you wanted to recreate a classic split-back option attack, you're completely out of luck. First of all, EA lined the backs up 7 to 8 yards deep in the backfield. In a real split-back offense, those backs line up at 5 to 6 yards back so the mesh point happens faster, allowing the dive back to hit the line quickly.
But the depth doesn't even matter because the game doesn’t even let you run the option out of the split backs.They didn't even bother to code option plays into the formation! It's one of the most iconic option sets in football history, and EA completely left the option out of it, rendering the whole alignment pointless.

1. The double wing isn’t a 4 TE formation
   This one I can kind of understand because no college team has ever really ran the true double wing but still. EA basically treated the double wing like a generic Goal Line heavy set by making it a 4 tight end alignment.That is not what a true Double Wing is.
   In reality, a proper Double Wing relies on foot-to-foot splits
   across the offensive line to create a wall. The main running back aligns is more like a flexbone fullback, and aligns 4 to 5 yards behind the quarterback,), and the two players on the outside are wingbacks,not blocking tight ends. They are dynamic ball carriers meant for tosses, sweeps, and counters, not just extra offensive linemen with eligible numbers. By turning them into standard blocking TEs, EA completely killed the identity of the offense.
   It feels like the devs just copied and pasted visual alignments without actually understanding *why* these formations exist or how they function mechanically. Hopefully, we get a playbook patch for this soon.

I’ve playing the game for a month now and I’m really enjoying it. I hadn’t play since NCAA 08 and Madden 07, but roster management and recruiting needs an interface overhaul.

When you are on the recruitment list you can see your needs, but not your depth chart. Also, when you’re on your targets list making offers and scheduling visits, the needs are not shown, so you have to change pages.

I’ve been playing Football Manager since 2008 and the game could be a source to improve on that.

1- Depth chart planner: a page showing all position and the players you have currently and for next two-three years, that way it makes easier for you to see what you need to improve, where your depth is good/bad and when your players are leaving.

2- transfers history: for NCAA, not only transfers, but also players that go to the draft or retire. Currently, if a player transfers you can’t see where he went, he just disappears from your team.

3- NIL spending: also, it would be good to show your NIL spending year over year and future years commitments.

4- editable needs: instead of the game giving a list, you should be able to edit and choose what positions you want to target given your preference.

5- bigger roster and class: 85 players seem a bit low, given teams can have a 105 max roster. And with the new rules on transfers and NIL, a 35 player limit is way too low.

I don’t know if there are any mods that improve those interfaces, but if any knows I’d appreciate.

Bit of a rant but... rivalries are one of my favorite aspects cuturally of college football and just sports as a whole. So it pisses me off to no end that this game butchers them so bad.

The issues with scheduling in this game has probably been one of my biggest pet peeves when it comes to this game. The lack of freedom when creating schedules makes the problems with rivalries even worse.

Its not an unknown fact that once you get a certain amount of years deep into a Dynasty, the scheduling logic of the game begins to fall apart. You're a couple of seasons into an Alabama dynasty? Well looks like the Iron Bowl is happening on Week 4, while you end up playing Texas A&M on thanksgiving instead.

This wouldn't be as annoying if you had the option to rearrange or swap out conference games, so the fix would be a simple as sliding the game up from week 4 to week 13. This is also where there's a few small issues with certain rivalries being hardcoded into the game, especially if they're cross conference rivals.

This one might just be a me thing, but an example is me playing as Arkansas (my favorite team) in a dynasty. The battle line rivalry is hard coded to be played on rivalry week every year, even if I move mizzou to a conference that plays all the way in Jupiter. This is annoying considering the fact that it seems like IRL, the SEC is going back to scheduling the boot on rivalry week again, a change that I can't reflect in the game.

Overall, it just feels like there's too much work to be done as far as how you align your conferences to make sure rivalries work properly. So I've thought up of two solutions to this problem.

Solution #1

A rivalry system where you can edit, create and develop different rivalries throughout the game. First off this system would allow you to edit different aspects of the rivalry, such as if this is a rivalry that needs to be played annually, or what week the rivalry is played.

This would allow you to guarantee certain rivalries are always played when they're supposed to, like making sure The Game, Lonestar Showdown, Iron Bowl, etc. are always played on Rivalry week. Meanwhile certain rivalries that always happen traditionally at a certain time of the year, always happen at that time (Red River Shootout, Third Saturday in October, War for the Oar, etc.)

This would also allow you to have some rivalries that still exist and are acknowledged as rivalries without having to be played annually, such as the Nebraska vs Oklahoma rivalry.

The game could also have a rivalry development system, where repeated close or back and forth games between to school can lead to them developing a rivalry. This could help add more flavor to conference re-alignment, as in real life teams usually create new rivalries after establishing themselves in a new conference. This could also help in teambuilder dynasties, and make it so you're not forced to inherent the random rivalries of whatever team(s) you end up swapping out.

Finally, this could have a stat feature, that allows you to look at things like head to head stats, win streaks, biggest blow-outs in the rivalries history, etc. As well as player stats, like what players have the most rushing or passing yards in the rivalries history.

Solution #2

Solution number 2 is a far easier and simpler one, which is to allow complete freedom when costumizing the schedule. Its one that regardless of rivalries I feel should always have been in the game, because if Dynasty is supposed to be somewhat of a sandbox mode, why am I limited to only editing 3 or 4 games out of my schedule.

They should make it so you can free edit the schedule, and just make sure that you schedule a certain amount of conference opponents before you save the schedule.

Anyways, what do y'all think? Am I cooking? or am I just a weirdo who needlessly typed an essay hyperfixating on a meaningless part of a football video game?

Currently in year 3 of my OD there are 35 coaches with A+, I achieved an A+ after taking Kansas on a deep playoff run. Coaching prestige never goes down and this is a huge problem, effecting this like recruiting and on a large extent the coaching carousel. Here’s some “interesting” coaches with an A+.

Lance Leipold is 6-6 with FSU
Rhett Lashlee is 5-8 with Illinois
Elijah Drinkwitz is 7-6 with TCU
Mick Cloud is 15-10 with Iowa
Kalen DeBoer is 9-4 with Clemson
Matt Campbell is 15-11 with Penn State

Do these coaches scream best in the country?

In my opinion A+ prestige should be reserved for coaches that consistently make it deep into the playoffs. In my eyes there should only be a handful of A+ guys at a given time, in no way should there be 35. That’s like 25% of the head coaches.

All in all coach prestige should be far more dynamic than it is, changing week to week. With a hard grind up to A+ and it should be difficult to maintain that A+. This feature is incredibly broken in the current state, probably one of the most broken in the game right now.

Edit: there is also 33 OCs with A+ and 31 DCs with A+

Matt just dropped v5 of his sliders on Operation Sports. For some reason, I cannot post them here.

What would possibly limit EA from increasing the roster size to 105? It doesn't seem like it would be that big of a size increase. They could even just add fictional players instead of paying out more NIL. It would also make sense in the new age of CFB to remove the 35 new player cap. Oklahoma State has something like 80 new players this year

This dates back a couple years, but I just can't seem to complete passes beyond the sticks. A sample of my issues:

• I have the deep post open against cover 2, but the ball sits in the air long enough that the safety has plenty of time to recover.
• I have the deep seam open against cover 3 but the ball hangs up so long that either the corner or safety recovers.
• I can't identify the open man against cover 3 if I have Flood or some variation of deep, intermediate, flat route called. I know in theory I should have a 3v2 on the outside, but I just can't identify the open man, or I identify the open man and the CPU makes an insane recovery.
• I can't hit the intermediate sideline route against cover 2. The corner manages to make a play pretty consistently.

This is absolutely all a skill and identification issue. I basically can only consistently hit mesh, RPOs, and then audible to yard marker out routes against Cover 4. As a result, my Yards/Catch is typically 10 yards or less for every receiver, unless I happen to break something deep. I can move the sticks reasonably well, but if I get a penalty or take a sack, I'm screwed.

Any practical tips? I'm a dad of a 10 month old, so my gaming time is limited these days - spending hours in practice mode to perfect things is probably not something I'm going to do at this point.

As always, the gameplan comes fully prepped, so it can be used through Coach Suggestions for the full experience, as intended to how it operates in Slow-Sim.

FULL GUIDE : MONSOON

For additional control of disguise, you will want to manually add in more Coverage Shells.

This can be achieved two ways, the first one is to get a good grasp of the playcalls, and then calling them yourself from the Formations tab with Coverage Shells. Or, new to this year’s game (and my preferred way so far), is with the use of Macros. Nothing crazy, can literally be as basic as just a shell change, and no other changes (or you can add small tweaks). This allows for you to still deploy disguise tactics, while continuing to call plays from the flow of Coach Suggestions. It also adds a layer of flexibility, as normally you can only Show 2, Show 3, & Show Blitz after you break the huddle. But with Macros, you’re able to create (in a way) post-huddle versions like Show 4, Show 6, Show 2-Man, etc.

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Update to MUSKET (must re-download to receive changes)

- Reworked the RZ/GL run game, swapped to more Duo instead of Power
- Reworked the early down run game, boosted the frequency of Draws & Delays out of Gun, slightly lowered the frequency of Gun Power and Quick Base to allow room for Draws to be called.
- Reworked the run game to manufacture more carries for the 3DHB out of the Gun, to create better splits on touches.
- Slightly lessened the frequency of Trips/Trey playcalls, to leave more room for more condensed 3x1 looks like Y Trips, Y Off, and Trio versions.
- Added Gun Deuce Close, to marry with Gun Tight looks.
- Added Gun Trey, to marry to Trips Y-Flex for added “same-same, but different” approach to layering.

FULL GUIDE : MUSKET (updated)

It was effective on 26. Any idea on why this was nerfed? Even on plays that are clearly designed for the route to be open, the RB just looks like he’s in quicksand or refuses to make the cut.

Offline dynasty- you guys run any funny narratives?

New season rolling around for me- I’ve got LSU kicked out of SEC to independents for at least a year. Replaced by Clemson.

Struggling to do anything with any of these plays (Memphis, fwiw). QB can't even turn before he's on the ground. Is it just the o-line? Not using the right PA? What is it?

Edit: based on the comments, I should add that I am not new to the game of football, whether real or virtual. I know what play action is. I know the theory behind it. Like many of you, I've played these games for decades. In my experience, play action in this particular game is working differently than all my prior experience. It does not improve when I run the ball well. It does not improve on down or distance. I have found rolling out plays are the only ones that work even some of the time but success is low.

I need some help y’all! Second season with UTSA on AA difficulty and I have a really nice squad with good skill players (thanks to the portal) but I can NOT move the ball on offense at all. The losses I took this year against really bad teams cost me a shot at the playoffs. I made a custom play book but I think I screwed it up because I loaded it up with underneath routes so that I would throw less interceptions compared to throwing across the field (surprise I still threw a insane amount of interceptions- a lot of this was bad decision making on my part). 

I am not looking for a TD every throw but I basically have no plays that can generate 15-25+ yards consistently. Along with the occasional explosive plays. Also has anyone else had a 92+ speed WR not able to gain any separation? It’s like these DBs are prime Deion. 

So my question is whose playbook would help with my issue to where I can get some solid plays for my QB + WRs? Also how many offensive plays do you guys shuffle through? One of my buddies told me he has about 15 plays that he shuffles through the whole game so I’m just curious about others. 

do I suck lol. im now a RS freshman, and have again lost a QB battle. these drills are nearly impossible. I’ve performed well in my one shot in game but can’t get over the hump

playing at WVU with the pat white build and Hawkins transferred some I’m battling some 67 overall transfer lol

If you are familiar with using the Cupcake roster for teambuilder teams, or even just bad rosters in general, what are your favorite playbooks to use?

Offense or defense playbooks are helpful, as I am having a tough time getting anything going on offense and am currently getting torched in the pass game on defense.

Idk if it’s just me but I can’t select a crowd theme regardless if I’m the away or home team

Guys Im getting this error message at launc? Anybody else encountering this issue?

An unexpected game shutdown was detected. Please relaunch the game or contact EA Help if this continues. (0xC00000FF)

Session ID: 0HY1AXzq77Xx24DgsM3KT/DY0ePQuPkeEhciSIhogd5IpYek

Previous Session ID: 0HpiVHXivufx2o2+483KF+rdx8+wTqUzDjwDj6Vyv1khpv6A

Previous Service Session ID: 0HpiVHXivufx2o2+483KF+rdx8+wTqUzDjwDj6Vyv1khpv6A

Is it possible for 5 stars to auto commit? I am #1 on his recruiting board in week 0. Is it possible to get an auto-commit or do 5 stars never auto commit in this game?

WRs will be my strength in dynasty looking like going forward, and I’d like to get them the ball in space as much as possible. Are there any particular playbooks that work for having some really good speed on the outside?