It has been a decade since the last time EA Sports released a title in the former NCAA Football video game franchise, but the drought is about to come to an end. In a story published by On3, a spokesperson confirms EA Sports will release its highly-anticipated college football video game in the summer of 2024.
“We’re incredibly excited to bring back an authentic college football experience for fans and athletes that have shown such passion for the franchise, and we’re looking forward to delivering it in Summer 2024,” an EA Sports representative said in a statement to On3.
EA Sports put its famous NCAA Football franchise on the shelf after the release of NCAA Football 14 in the summer of 2013. Legal battles about the use of player likenesses helped pave the way for today’s world of Name, Image, and Likeness we have today. And one of the biggest questions many fans of the franchise wondered once the NCAA adopted NLI policies was how soon it would be before a college football video game returned to the market.
EA Sports previously announced it was beginning the planning and development of a newly revived college football video game under the working title of EA Sports College Football, and a 2024 release window was previously suggested as the timeline. And what a year to bring the video game back to the masses.
The 2024 season will mark the beginning of the 18-team Big Ten with the additions of USC, UCLA, Oregon, and Washington and an expanded Big 12 (Colorado, Arizona, Arizona State, and Utah) and SEC (Oklahoma and Texas). The start of the new 12-team College Football Playoff is scheduled to begin in the 2024 season as well.
EA Sports has yet to share any information about the college football video game just yet, but it should be expected to be available on current generation consoles like the Sony PlayStation 5 and Xbox One. Nintendo Switch fans will likely be the ones left for disappointment, but hopefully those of us with a Switch will be able to take our favorite college football video game on the go.
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