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Report: EA ‘Exploiting The Players’ With College Football Payments
For the first time in a decade, EA Sports will be releasing a college football game this season. The main reasons for that 10-year hiatus was a conflict over player payments (which weren’t allowed under NCAA rules) and likenesses. Those had presumably been resolved in the lead-up to EA Sports College Football’s release later this…
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A Video Game Might Recreate Auburn’s Miracle, But It Can’t Be Repeated
As Auburn’s grandstands still thundered above him, A.J. McCarron, the Alabama quarterback born in 1990, searched for the words to describe losing in such irregular fashion — on a play that had happened only five times before in major college football history, and never to decide a game, much less one this consequential.
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Top 25 Polls Determine Payments In EA Sports’ College Game
Want to know what your favourite college football team made from its appearance in EA Sports’ NCAA Football series last year? Average its Associated Press poll ranking over the past 10 seasons. If it’s 25 or higher, congratulations. They probably earned about $US75,000.
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Three Major College Conferences Will Stop Licensing EA Sports Games
The Pac-12, the Big 10 and the Southeastern Conference — cornerstones of major college football — will no longer licence their league’s symbols or trademarks to EA Sports’ video game. While the 40 members they represent may still appear in the game, the departure of these leagues is a painful blow to the series.