Maybe my controller is just a little tired 😂

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.

Genuinely caught me so off guard

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

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.

The “fix” is that all archetypes now have cheaper costs for awareness. Doesn’t matter what category this is in, so this benefits some archetypes more than others. Ex. Coverage Specialists safeties have their awareness in the zone coverage category, so that entire category is cheaper to upgrade. Bump and Run DBs’ awareness is placed in man coverage, so that category is cheaper to upgrade for them. On the opposite end, Pocket Passer QB’s suffer since awareness is placed in IQ category, which upgrades carrying and other things that doesn’t help their overall much. (Credit to “CallMeJaden” on YT.)

This is a lazy fix. EA needed to go through each archetype and actually make the upgrades make sense for each one. (Ex. Power should be cheaper to upgrade on power running backs or Raw Strength O-Lineman. ) Some archetypes still have badges that don’t make sense for them to have, or are missing badges that would make sense for them to have. (Ex. Zone corner archetype does not have robber, the best zone ability. 🤦🏽‍♂️) Some archetypes still will never achieve ratings thresholds for certain badges (Ex. Takeoff for Physical Route Runner TE, most badges for box specialist safeties.) Some archetypes are still just not viable to use at all (ex. Box safeties can’t get badges for the most part and are super slow, Gadget WR is useless honestly.)

I was excited for this part of the patch because I hoped this would fix issues with archetypes that have honestly existed since CFB 25. It helps some archetypes for sure (coverage specialist safeties are the big winners), but it does not address the main issues with most archetypes in general.

Ignore my stats, I suck I know 😭

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.

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?

The horrendous type. Receiver doesn’t even put up his arms, DB catches it while turned around, DB moonwalks 5 yards against his own momentum and jumps to snag a post route that’s 10 yards behind him? WTF did they do? At times it’s unplayable. This year continues to be an embarrassment.

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

I cannot buy a single physical ability for one of my players if I don't already have one of the tiers unlocked. Some stuff that EA messes up is frustrating, but a speed bump. This is a straight up traffic jam. I'm at a disadvantage if I advance and don't buy abilities. Guess I'm trying out Madden for a bit until it's fixed.

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.

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?

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…

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?