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It’s happppppennnnniiiiiinnngggg!
After years of speculation, we’re finally set to get the return of the EA Sports NCAA Football franchise in 2024.
And now it appears we finally have a release date!
🚨SOURCES: EA Sports College Football planned to launch on July 12, 2024🚨 pic.twitter.com/dnEW9hJuGq
— David Waters – Gators Breakdown (@GatorDave_SEC) January 16, 2024
Florida Gators reporter David Waters revealed Tuesday that EA Sports is apparently targeting July 12 for the release of its new game.
That’s a Friday, for those of you who need to take off of work.
The last installment of the game was released in 2013 and featured former Michigan quarterback Denard Robinson on the cover. So things could well come full circle with the Wolverines winning the national championship the year the game returns.
Introduction Of NIL Allowed For New NCAA Football Game
The introduction of name, image and likeness compensation for college athletes allowed for the return of the beloved series. But EA Sports initially ran into some resistance.
“We’ll continue to work with the various governing bodies of the sport in the country, and some key third-party partners we have, around how and when to include college athletes themselves into the game, and we’ll work very closely with them,” EA CEO Andrew Wilson said a year ago. “…I do believe that we’ll find a place where we can work in lockstep with the athletes for inclusion in the game as well.”
Thankfully, it appears those issues have been worked out.
We’re back, baby! And it’s now less than six months until you can waste countless hours of your life recruiting that five-star defensive end you know is headed to Alabama anyway.
And, honestly, we wouldn’t want things any other way.
Now we await details of what will and will not be included in the game.
Will there be a transfer portal? How about an NIL budget? Conference realignment?
EA has an absolutely bevy of source material at its fingertips, and we can’t wait to see what they come up with.
UPDATE: EA Sports vice president John Reseberg says that the company has not yet announced a release date. That comes after college football reporter Matt Brown, who has led the reporting on the game for much of the process, stated that he could not confirm the initial report.
This is correct – we've said it's coming this summer, and we've not announced a specific date. https://t.co/bmdxV8EGSc
— John Reseburg (@jrese_original) January 16, 2024
Does that mean the reported date is wrong? No, not necessarily.
Just that Reseburg will not confirm it.