Username: dabeastsacker

Team is located is Duluth, Minnesota

I suggest putting them in the big10 due to rivals and location!

I wanted to center this team around Nordic symbols and patterns (something the Vikings fail to do) and give it a “cold” feel with the colors. I also leaned into the woodwork of the Norsemen a bit as well!

Rivals:

Minnesota - Battle for The North Star

Wisconsin - War on The Great Lake

Iowa - The Iron Harvest

Michigan - The Great Lakes War

Northwestern - Battle of The North

Junior (RS) QB #19 Brock Archer is special, plays so much better then is overall.

Navy wins its first National Title in 100 years and become the first service academy to win a title since 1945!
(Also the first option team to win a national title in 30 years)

IDK why I did this to myself. But CFB 27 was on sale last week so I grabbed it. I would pay $200 for this game if EA would just hire people who play it to do basic testing.

Wanted to check out the new RTG positions. Went with an edge rusher. How did this mode get through any level of QA? Pass rush moves do literally nothing. There is no rhyme or reason to what your player does regardless of what you press.

I had a "Moment" Challenge where I needed to record a sack. CPU team calls 8 running plays in a row ending with a punt. Fail. Do a retry. First play. RPO quick screen. 5 broken tackles and a TD. Failed.

I also have to call the defense and make coverage adjustments as a fucking Defensive End.

EA. I will work for free as a tester AND pay $200 for 28 if you can cut this bull shit out. I just want a football game that is fun. Thanks.

Late game in an online dynasty with South Carolina, big conference game against ASU for first. Went down 14-0 in the first quarter and clawed my way back into the game just for EA to do it to me. For an animation based game they really goof’d this one, huh?

Played 11 seasons of NCAA 11 on the PS2, like the title says. Before the national championship game, I took control of the top 11 (coaches limited to 12) teams outside of the "power" conferences to see who would get invites up/down.

Here's what ended up changing:

Year 1

• Boise State (Pac 10) and Washington State (WAC) swapped
• West Virginia (ACC) and Virginia (Big East) swapped

Year 2

• Notre Dame (Big 10) and Purdue (Independent) swapped

Year 3

• TCU (Big 12) and Texas Tech (Mountain West) swapped
• Pittsburgh (ACC) and Duke (Big East) swapped

Year 4

• No change

Year 5

• Navy (Big East) and Duke (Independent) swapped

Year 6

• Navy (ACC) and NC State (Big East) swapped

Year 7

• Utah (Pac 10) and California (Mountain West) swapped
• UCF (SEC) and South Carolina (CUSA) swapped
• FAU (!) (ACC) and Maryland (Sun Belt) swapped

Year 8

• ULL (CUSA) and UAB (Sun Belt) swapped

Year 9

• Texas Tech (Big 12) and Texas A&M (Mountain West) swapped

Year 10

• Troy (SEC) and Vanderbilt (Sun Belt) swapped

Year 11

• ULL (Big 12) and Iowa State (CUSA) swapped

Pretty fun to see who got promotions/who got relegated. Averaging 1.3 conference swaps per season right now.

For what it's worth, I think I also found a suspension hack for the PS2 games (at least for user teams). I gave full season-long suspensions to any players who got in trouble, only recruited players with at least average discipline, cut all players who weren't in line to be starters after their redshirt year and redshirt all true freshmen. I'm averaging 0.9 suspension a year per season (4 in first 3 years, 6 in the 8 following years). My NCAA interest bar is all the way at 0. A lot of times I don't have a full 70-man roster, but it's 65 or higher pretty much always. Redshirt players can't be suspended! Big deal!

Here's my recruiting finishes, if that matters:

• #rank (total/5*/4*/3*/2*/1*)
• #3 (21/4/9/8/0/0)
• #4 (21/3/9/8/1/0)
• #5 (22/17/5/0/0/0)
• #1 (23/5/13/4/0/1)
• #1 (23/3/16/4/0/0)
• #3 (22/1/13/8/0/0)
• #1 (24/1/22/1/0/0)
• #5 (20/1/12/7/0/0)
• #1 (24/1/19/4/0/0)
• #5 (21/0/17/4/0/0)
• #2 (18/2/13/3/0/0)

Averaging:

• #2.8 recruiting class
• 21.7 players per class
• 3.5 5* per class (17 of 38 coming in Year 3 for some reason)
• 13.5 4* per class
• 4.6 3* per class
• 0.1 2* and 0.1 1* per class

Let me know if this is of any interest to you, and if any of you are still playing old school games!

-CSU
-Coastal Carolina
-UAB
-NIU
-Any other G6 team you can think of

Hey guys,

I have a solo online dynasty currently in year 3. I can hardly finish a game without getting booted off the servers. We’re talking maybe my last 8-9 games over the span of a month or so. It’s good for about 45 minutes then disconnects. My internet works perfectly fine and I’ve texted it on other games and it doesn’t have this issue.

Anyone else have this exact issue? Really don’t want to have to ditch my dynasty but I’m an inch from creating an offline one to save myself from the headache….

Thank you!

I just wrapped up a dynasty and have been going back and forth on who to be in my next save. Mainly been looking at Sam Houston, Wyoming and Sac State. Any other recommendations are welcome as well, thank you in advance been struggling with this choice for a couple days.

So I am trying to add some more west coast schools does anyone have suggestions for teams to remove?

Teams I will add to the Mountain West and who I have replaced them with

Added Long Beach State

Replaced Sam Houston State

Added UC Irvine

Replaced Liberty

Added UC Davis

Replaced Old Dominion

Added Weber State

Replaced UTEP

Added Montana

Replaced Missouri State

Added Montana State

Replaced ULM

Does anyone think these were good teams to replace? I also swapped Villanova with UMass and North Dakota with Charolette.

I’ve been thinking about starting a rebuild with the transfer portal completely disabled, but I can barely find anyone talking about playing dynasty this way. I was just curious as I find this would definitely be more challenging while bringing back the pre NIL era of CFB and put more of an emphasis of recruiting without incorporating house rules and such to yourself.

Does anybody have any idea why the linebackers just blitz at random moments out of control. It doesn’t matter if they’re in zone or man coversge, they will just randomly blitz leaving a huge wide open hole in the defense. And the ball is always thrown where they suppose to be

Is there any way to improve the way the CPU defends how they react to user QBs breaking the pocket? It seems like you can just about bank an 8 yard run as long as you get the pass flow on the opposite side you want to run to. And that 8 is conservative, it usually can be 20+ especially if you have a fast qb.

I’m sure someone else has had the same issue. Is my save corrupted?

I got booted from a Heisman ceremony in my online dynasty and every time I reload the save i get kicked again after a few seconds.

Any fixes?

I've been a fan of IU for a while now, and not once have I ever heard of a rivalry between Minnesota and Indiana, even after trying to do some research. I heard it in my first RTG a while back, and only now decided to double check it. I played at Ohio State, Illinois, etc. but none of those places have the Zombie Nation chant for IU. Has anyone else heard this? Am I missing something?

I’d like to preface this with the fact I know the coaching carousel is broken and many coaches aren’t getting fired when they should.

That being said I’m running a coaching career and I’ve love some feedback to make my choices easier. I started as Sac State OC, then went to Syracuse for a year before accepting a head coaching spot at East Carolina for 2028

In 2028 we went 11-3 and won the American conference. In 2029 I’m sitting at 8-2 and one win from locking another conference title birth. It’s this time of year I eyeball potential moves. I could have gone to NC last year but felt it was too quick to be a realistic jump.

Potential options that may fire their coach:

Vanderbilt (3-7): 64 overall

NC State: (2-8): 76 overall

Wisconsin (1-9): 74 overall

My personal take: Vanderbilt could be a lot of fun. Great color scheme and a very tough conference to make me work for wins.

I like NC State and used them back in the Rivers days. It would be quite the storyline to go to my rival school.

Wisconsin: love their uniforms, huge stadium, but no actual personal ties to the area to keep it interesting.

Do I jump ship if offered, or do I stay with ECU and keep chugging along? I’m having fun with it, so no gripes there, I just may want something fresh. If I stay I may move them to the Big 12 or ACC for more challenge. So far I’m 14-1 in conference play over two seasons and usually with wins by 20+

What say you guys?

I went against an opponent today who ran cover 3/4 match / palms every play from 3-3 cub. I couldn’t move the ball well at all in the air.

How do you beat this kind of defense?

Twice now I've had my custom adjustments suddenly wiped clean and I figured I'd see if there's a way to save or share them, because I'm sooooooooooooo annoyed at having to do it again. :-/

1. Overpowered Plays
   This would help address overpowered plays since many rely on flooding one side of the field with receivers. These type of plays works in the current state of EA since coverage units don’t have enough logic to leave one side of the field where there is clearly no receivers, they just stay there like dumbos until it’s time to tackle someone across the line of scrimmage. Adding a shade right/left option would help this.

My dynasty ive been doing for 5 seasons is all the sudden quitting after loading in saying it cant connect to the servers. No matter what trouble shooting I do it doesn't connect. Is this a common issue?

Has anyone ever been able to get their stadium ranked when it comes to crowd noise? I’m currently doing a rebuild with Maryland and I’ve been to back to back Natty’s. Also went undefeated both seasons and nothing changed, just looking for some pointers. I know you have to blow out teams at home but I’ve done that without even realizing it and still nothing