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Report: Arch Manning opts out of ‘EA Sports College Football 25’

EA Sports is bringing back their popular college football video game, but Arch Manning opted out. Athletes are paid $600 to be in the game.

EA Sports is set to release a college football video game this summer for the first time since 2013, and the game will feature real players.

Peyton Manning’s nephew, Arch Manning (a sophomore at Texas), has decided to opt out of the game, according to a report from
Anwar Richardson of Orangebloods.com.

Earlier this week, EA Sports announced that more than 10,000 college football players have opted into being in the video game. Players who opt in receive $600 and a free copy of the game as part of EA’s name, image, and likeness deal with the student-athletes.

It’s a flat fee for every player and, so far, no known exceptions have been made. It’s possible that Manning might be holding out for a better offer, but that’s just speculation. EA surely does not want to set a precedent of negotiating individual deals with players to be featured in the game.

If Manning eventually becomes a college star, though, EA might change their mind. For now, No. 16 won’t be featured in the video game.

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EA Sports College Football is Officially Coming Back!

It’sssss baaaackkkk!!!

We’ve waited a long while for the guarantee and we finally have it.

EA Sports has officially announced that they will release their first college football game in over a decade this July.  They made the announcement with a promotional video on social media on Thursday that you can see in full below.

As was reported a while back, the name changed from NCAA Football to College Football but plenty appears in store for fans of the sport and the game.

Personally, I haven’t played a video game in ages but am beyond excited to get saving to have my first system in roughly a decade in order to get with the times and get back on the sticks.

NCAA Football Video Game Returns: Notre Dame Players We Missed Out On

Which Notre Dame player would have been the best to play with?

College football has its own cult-like following that makes it truly unique compared to any other American sport.  Even in that group there are sub-groups that are even that much more passionate.

One of those groups includes anyone who was ever a fan of the NCAA Football video game by EA Sports.

Personally, I can’t begin to estimate the total hours spent as a high school student in my parents house playing that game, the amount of hours I invested in it during college, or the hours I spent in my early-20’s with it.

However, it went away after the NCAA Football ’13 edition, meaning we’ve gone a full decade (2014-2023 seasons) now without the game.

So which players in that time did we especially miss playing with if we would have been playing as Notre Dame?

Here are the 11 we missed out in video game form the most.

Former Alabama football player Madden 24 rankings: Safety

Overall, 76 former Alabama players are in the Madden 24 game. Here’s how the safeties rank.

EA Sports is scheduled to launch Madden 24 on Aug. 18, 2023. The game will feature 76 former Alabama football players. That might be the most players from a single college team in the entire game.

A lot of that has to do with what head coach Nick Saban has been able to do since joining the program in 2006. Saban has transcended the Crimson Tide into a college football powerhouse. In doing so, NFL organizations have noticed and begun to draft some of Alabama’s very own.

With all of the ratings finally revealed, Roll Tide Wire will be taking a look at every positional group that has Alabama players. Today, we feature the safeties.

Former Alabama football player Madden 24 rankings: Cornerback

Overall, 76 former Alabama players are in the Madden 24 game. Here’s how the cornerbacks rank.

EA Sports is scheduled to launch Madden 24 on Aug. 18, 2023. The game will feature 76 former Alabama football players. That might be the most players from a single college team in the entire game.

A lot of that has to do with what head coach Nick Saban has been able to do since joining the program in 2006. Saban has transcended the Crimson Tide into a college football powerhouse. In doing so, NFL organizations have noticed and begun to draft some of Alabama’s very own.

With all of the ratings finally revealed, Roll Tide Wire will be taking a look at every positional group that has Alabama players. Today, we feature the cornerbacks.

Madden 24 ratings for every Patriots tight end

Here’s how the Patriots’ tight ends rated in the upcoming “Madden NFL 24” video game.

The New England Patriots haven’t given up on their pursuit of reviving the tight end position. So they ditched the Jonnu Smith bandwagon and attached themselves to a new wagon altogether.

“Madden NFL 24” will feature Hunter Henry and newly-signed Patriots tight end Mike Gesicki. The hope is that the two form the sort of one-two punch that Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez created on the field back in 2011.

Gesicki doesn’t provide much in the way of blocking, but he basically acts as another wide receiver on the field, which is exactly what the Patriots need after failing to land a big, elite outside target. The combination of Henry and Gesicki should be able to mask the other issues to some degree.

Here’s a look at the ratings for every Patriots tight end in the upcoming Madden 24 video game:

Notre Dame football: Marcus Freeman’s NCAA video game ratings

Besides Notre Dame who was your go-to team in the NCAA Football video game?

Full disclosure, I was born the same month of Marcus Freeman. While he is the head coach at Notre Dame, traveling the world in private jets and dining at the White House, I sit here writing about all of it.

I may have other responsibilities, but for effect let’s only cite that one.

Being the same age as Freeman I can assume part of our college experiences were at least somewhat the same.  Being 35 years old today means being in college during what was the peak of the old NCAA Football video game by EA Sports. My college, Division III powerhouse North Central College, unfortunately wasn’t in the game (Kam Kniss would have been a 99 if they were) but Ohio State obviously was.

News came out this week that a year from now the game will be re-released with players getting compensated.  It’ll be the first new game since the NCAA Football ’14 (based on the 2013 season) edition.

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So back to Freeman.  Just how good did the video game say Freeman was as a player entering his senior year?

NCAA Football ’09 (which was based on the 2008 season) rated Marcus Freeman aka ROLB No. 1 as his name was in the game, the following:

Overall: 96
Speed: 87
Strength: 80
Agility: 86
Acceleration: 92
Awareness: 84

The 96 overall clearly screams star, but that 84 for awareness should be concerning for a future head coach.  Now I’m wondering what Tommy Rees’ awareness was in the game and if at times it randomly dipped to 40 (said in sarcasm font).

If you’re curious, Freeman’s 96 overall wasn’t even the best for a linebacker on Ohio State that year. James Laurinaitis was one of two players to get a 99-overall ranking in the game, joining Tim Tebow.

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Former Alabama football player Madden 24 rankings: Linebacker

Overall, 76 former Alabama players are in the Madden 24 game. Here’s how the linebackers rank.

EA Sports is scheduled to launch Madden 24 on Aug. 18, 2023. The game will feature 76 former Alabama football players. That might be the most players from a single college team in the entire game.

A lot of that has to do with what head coach Nick Saban has been able to do since joining the program in 2006. Saban has transcended the Crimson Tide into a college football powerhouse. In doing so, NFL organizations have noticed and begun to draft some of Alabama’s very own.

With all of the ratings finally revealed, Roll Tide Wire will be taking a look at every positional group that has Alabama players. Today, we feature the linebackers.

Former Alabama football player Madden 24 rankings: Defensive linemen

Overall, 76 former Alabama players are in the Madden 24 game. Here’s how the defensive linemen rank.

EA Sports is scheduled to launch Madden 24 on Aug. 18, 2023. The game will feature 76 former Alabama football players. That might be the most players from a single college team in the entire game.

A lot of that has to do with what head coach Nick Saban has been able to do since joining the program in 2006. Saban has transcended the Crimson Tide into a college football powerhouse. In doing so, NFL organizations have noticed and begun to draft some of Alabama’s very own.

With all of the ratings finally revealed, Roll Tide Wire will be taking a look at every positional group that has Alabama players. Today, we feature the defensive linemen.

Former Alabama football player Madden 24 rankings: Tight end

Overall, 76 former Alabama players are in the Madden 24 game. Here’s how the tight ends rank.

EA Sports is scheduled to launch Madden 24 on August 18, 2023. The game will feature 76 former Alabama football players. That might be the most players from a single college team in the entire game.

A lot of that has to do with what head coach Nick Saban has been able to do since joining the program in 2006. Saban has transcended the Crimson Tide into a college football powerhouse. In doing so, NFL organizations have noticed and begun to draft some of Alabama’s very own.

With all of the ratings finally revealed, Roll Tide Wire will be taking a look at every positional group that has Alabama players. Today, we feature the tight ends.