12 years later, the legacy of NCAA 14 is still hanging over EA College Football 26, but fans are celebrating the overdue return of features like formation subs and trophy rooms

University of Iowa mascot Herky the Hawk stares down the camera in EA Sports College Football 26
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Fans spent a long, long time waiting for the return of college football video games, and while 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:EA Sports College Football 25 instantly proved a smash success, it was still missing a number of features that had appeared over a decade ea🔯𒊎rlier in NCAA Football 14. As the devs begin to lift the veil on College Football 26, they're already teasing some big additions that players have been clamoring for.

Alongside ꦓtoday's official reveal trailer, EA also published a running down so🍬me of the new features coming to this year's game. There's a lot here, including over 300 real-world coaches, some 2,800 new plays, and enhanced home field advantage effects.

But those all pale in comparison to the return of the Trophy Room, if the community's response is any indication. As in the old NCAA games, th𓆏e Trophy Room will house all of the trophies you earn across game modes from Dynasty to basic quick match rivalry games, letting you✨ look back at your accomplishments over all the time you've spent playing the game. EA says "we heard your feedback" about wanting it to return.

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Dynasty mode is getting some special attention, with new recruitment mechanics and the addition of full cross-play across Xbox Series X/S and PS5. But the detail that has fans most excitedꦯ is almost buried in the announcement: "We’re happy♏ to announce that Formation Subs and a Protected Opponents setting are coming!"

Formation subs werꦫe previously available in the old NCAA games, and they essentially offered a convenient way to substitute players in particular formations. If you've got, say, two good quarterbacks with different skill sets, formation subs would easily let you have one player in for option plays and another in for regular passing plays. It could a🐠lso be useful for helping bring in newer players for gametime experience.

Exactly how formation subs will work in CFB26 remains to be seen, but their return is already making waves. The protected opponent setting is also generating some excitement, as it'll let you maintain your annual rivalry matches in Dynast🎐y mode, which could be an issue in last year's game due to the chaos of the automatic schedul🧸er.

We won't know for sure how College Football 26 pans out until it launches on🉐 July 10, but for now, it looks like EA understands the criticisms of last year's game as it builds on that title's momentum.

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Dustin Bailey
Staff Writer

Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Kn♈ights of the Old Republic, and💜 these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.

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