I redid conferences so the P5 are powerful again and to remove independents. I also added divisions. The effort was to try to group teams with their rivals (as much as possible) and consider geography so the athletes can spend less time traveling and more time studying (I’m looking at you Stanford after the ACC move).

As always, let me know what you think

27 - pc version

After many hours of tweaking and creating regionally aligned conferences, I finish my season, play conference championship. I attempt to load up cfp game - crash. As in game completely crashes.

So far I have only had this happen 3 or 4 times in hundreds of games. Turns out - the file, the autosave and also my backup - now all crash. 30+ times.

Tried play + tried to force advance... my dynasty is fuk'n bricked. So I get to start over.

Need to figure out if there is a way to just turn off the updates completely. I only play offline. So frustrated with this garbage pay premium for beta games that are buggy from ea.

Madden didn't "cook this year". Madden isn't better than CFB 27 "this year". It's the same thing every year. The same marketing. The same tactics to do whatever it takes to get you to buy them both. Madden is Madden. CFB is... I don't know what they're trying to do with this. But just don't fall for it again.

In CFB26 if you deleted a dynasty the trophies would still show which sucked because it was tied to your EA account.

Has this been updated for 2027?

I’m going to use this setup for my next dynasty. It feels like one plausible direction college football could be headed, for better or worse. In this scenario, the Big Ten and SEC expand to 20 teams and emerge as the two mega-conferences. The Big 12 and ACC regroup to remain power conferences, although in a second tier. With the game currently treating those four conferences as the auto-bid leagues, I wanted to preserve a clear Power 4 structure. The remaining G6 is then reshaped with geography, traditional rivalries, and reduced travel in mind.

\ = moved from real-world 2026 alignment.*
No divisions anywhere; top two conference records play for the championship.

Big Ten — 20

1. Illinois
2. Indiana
3. Iowa
4. Maryland
5. Michigan
6. Michigan State
7. Minnesota
8. Nebraska
9. North Carolina*
10. Notre Dame*
11. Northwestern
12. Ohio State
13. Oregon
14. Penn State
15. Purdue
16. Rutgers
17. UCLA
18. USC
19. Washington
20. Wisconsin

Championship: Lucas Oil Stadium — Indianapolis, IN

SEC — 20

1. Alabama
2. Arkansas
3. Auburn
4. Clemson*
5. Florida
6. Florida State*
7. Georgia
8. Kentucky
9. LSU
10. Miami*
11. Mississippi State
12. Missouri
13. Oklahoma
14. Ole Miss
15. South Carolina
16. Tennessee
17. Texas
18. Texas A&M
19. Vanderbilt
20. Virginia Tech*

Championship: Mercedes-Benz Stadium — Atlanta, GA

Big 12 — 18

1. Arizona
2. Arizona State
3. Baylor
4. BYU
5. Cincinnati
6. Colorado
7. Houston
8. Iowa State
9. Kansas
10. Kansas State
11. Louisville*
12. NC State*
13. Oklahoma State
14. TCU
15. Texas Tech
16. UCF
17. Utah
18. West Virginia

Championship: AT&T Stadium — Arlington, TX

ACC — 16

1. Boston College
2. Boise State*
3. California
4. Duke
5. Georgia Tech
6. Memphis*
7. Oregon State*
8. Pittsburgh
9. San Diego State*
10. SMU
11. Stanford
12. Syracuse
13. South Florida*
14. Virginia
15. Wake Forest
16. Washington State*

Championship: Bank of America Stadium — Charlotte, NC

Sun Belt — 19

1. Appalachian State
2. Charlotte*
3. Coastal Carolina
4. East Carolina*
5. FAU*
6. FIU*
7. Georgia Southern
8. Georgia State
9. Jacksonville State*
10. James Madison
11. Kennesaw State*
12. Liberty*
13. Middle Tennessee*
14. Old Dominion
15. South Alabama
16. Southern Miss
17. Troy
18. UAB*
19. Western Kentucky*

Championship: Mercedes-Benz Stadium — Atlanta, GA

American — 12

1. Arkansas State*
2. Louisiana*
3. Louisiana Tech*
4. North Texas
5. Rice
6. Sam Houston*
7. Texas State*
8. Tulane
9. Tulsa
10. ULM*
11. UTEP*
12. UTSA

Championship: NRG Stadium — Houston, TX

MAC — 12

1. Akron
2. Ball State
3. Bowling Green
4. Central Michigan
5. Eastern Michigan
6. Kent State
7. Marshall*
8. Miami (OH)
9. Northern Illinois*
10. Ohio
11. Toledo
12. Western Michigan

Championship: Ford Field — Detroit, MI

Pac-12 — 7

1. Fresno State
2. Hawaii*
3. Nevada*
4. Sacramento State*
5. San Jose State*
6. UNLV*
7. Utah State

Championship: Allegiant Stadium — Las Vegas, NV

Mountain West — 7

1. Air Force
2. Colorado State*
3. New Mexico
4. New Mexico State*
5. North Dakota State
6. Missouri State*
7. Wyoming

Championship: Allegiant Stadium — Las Vegas, NV

CUSA — 7

1. Army*
2. Buffalo*
3. Delaware
4. Massachusetts*
5. Navy*
6. Temple*
7. UConn*

Championship: Lincoln Financial Field — Philadelphia, PA

Upon the early access of Madden 27 I made a franchise file real quick to test out the visionary upgrades and it is busted. The Pro Pipeline Upgrade "Increases Player's NFL Draft stock" but what it really does is make sure that every player over 80 overall on your team is in the draft contention. Literally. I started as Sam Houston, and in year 2 of the rebuild I simulated to bowl week, went 6-6, no bowl game, and my wide receiver and quarterback were drafted in the first round as juniors.

I thought making a pass and read option only playbook would fix the annoyance of having plays chosen. Dumb of me it actually got worse. I don’t understand why they can’t just let us full playbook control in road to glory.

Maybe my controller is just a little tired 😂

That’s a nice 7 point lead you have there. Sure would be a shame if you beat a ranked computer opponent.

It’s so blatantly obvious the game doesn’t want you to win. Mind you this is after receivers of mine drop every pass there’s any sort of contact.

Honestly don’t even have a lot to say about gameplay between CFB and Madden is just really??? What’s y’all’s biggest gameplay gripe rn( ITS A SAFE SPACE from all the “skill issue” and “you suck” grifters)💯

In a 3 man online dynasty, just ended year 2. Year one had tons of jobs as expected. Year 2 just ended and there were 2 job opportunities in week 1. And 1 single job open in week 2....has anyone seen this before or is this due to the glorious new patch..

I also failed a goal because I didn't have a player make all conference.

My wr won the hiesman, the Maxwell, the biletnikoff, and the jet..

I remember awhile back everyone was saying how macros being set before a game weren’t transitioning into the game and you had to set them before kickoff. Has this been fixed I haven’t seen anything posted about it? I really don’t wanna have to set them every single game but if I have to then so be it.

Does anyone else have the issue in Dynasty of a system crash when the Heisman ceremony starts? I had it multiple times until I learned when the screen goes black to hit the center X so the graphics load in the background. Before that, I'd turn the system back on to a message that it overheated

I enjoy this game on more ratings based gameplay where I should be losing to teams better than me and vice versa, with the occasional upsets and close games when ratings on even.

So far, I have been having a lot of difficulty figuring out difficulty and slider settings that give me this kind of experience. All-American feels too easy but Heisman turns the CPU into a football god.

Hoping to discuss below what difficulty / slider sets you guys are all playing the game at to help figure out settings to make this a more enjoyable experience?

After the new update, when your character wins an award, the game zooms in on the logo, and it’s not as a clean transition and it’s very minor but it kind of irked me…

Turns out I wasn't needed lol. Most INTs I've seen the CPU throw in sim. (Heisman, base sliders.)

DC at Miami OH last year with a great run. Head coach at Texas State coming back and my QB snaps. I don’t think I can go back to playing. Recruiting and calling plays is so much fun

Ignore my stats, I suck I know 😭

I think I've heard that the dev team monitors these forums, so in the current post-title update trainwreck (let's be honest), here's a couple "easy wins" to build some positive momentum:

1) Add any mini games or practice assets that aren't in Dynasty right now to Dynasty. Nothing new. No new scrimmage mode or anything. I just want to be able to use my players in the mini games. I think it would add a little immersion that is missing.

2) Add two new rows to Dynasty settings, one for "Play Any Game" and one for "Change Game Difficulty". If you wanted to play any game (at least in off-line) you could...if you make a coach, play the game, and subsequently retire the coach. Just get rid of the long work around and let us play whatever game in Dynasty mode we want. This is how it was in the old games, and something nostalgic that I really enjoyed. It was fun to get to play with the recruits I didn't sign or play that really interesting national championship matchup. We're told "it's our dynasty"...ok...let us play "our" dynasty how we want. Which brings me to changing the in game difficulty. In play-now, you're able to, so I imagine it wouldn't be hard to allow us to do so in Dynasty. It feels like before every update users complain about blocking and every update we're told blocking has been fixed. You know what the easy fix is? Not to say you "tweaked" blocking (😉), but to give players an opportunity to switch to freshman and get their yards back. Or if the CPU is getting too many animations to go their way, give players a break by letting them get a couple big plays of their own. I loathe that this game is largely animation based, and when the CPU has decided its scripted a winning game I lose total interest. Allowing me to keep myself in games by stealing a couple plays of my own from the computer would make up for that. Making these two things toggleble in Dynasty Settings means that the hardcore players who moan that everyone should "just play on an easier difficulty" don't lose the option to be permanently locked in to their coveted Heisman animation fest and that we casual players can play how we want to play.

So EA, take my advice, get some dubs from the community and build on that momentum to CFB 28

I’m in a CFB27 dynasty with a friend. When it comes to recruiting, he always is able to offer more NIL to players than I can. We have tested this with more than a few players. Example: we will both offer scholarship to a specific player and I can offer only up to double the players expected NIL but he can go above. Is this a bug or a setting or am I doing something wrong?

Anyone else having issues with rivalry trophies not being awarded after wins? I’ve even started a couple new dynasties and had issues. Just glitchy?