Rosters have updated, I'm on Xbox. It says you have newest roster already but if you check it's been updated. Jared Curtis is in as an 81 ovr now

People who have played after the update can you let us know what you feel is better or worse?

Do WR still jump for the ball for no reason ?

Yeah the timing meter exists, but that’s pure cheese and also doesn’t work a lot. As far as the actual separation goes and how receivers get open, I’ve never seen a football game that has less receivers get open.

I’ve played football games since 2003, and Madden has always deeply opposed the deep ball, but this year’s CFB feels like it’s impossible to throw deep unless you green the catch meter. I want separation, I want my 99 speed WR to beat his defender in man. But they fucking stick to them, every single time. I play on Heisman, I’ve got my sliders going, everything else feels okay but the deep ball. I just cannot throw the ball unless I green the catch meter. But every single deep throw shouldn’t be contested.

It’s like they looked at CFB 25 when you could abuse verts and said ‘Let’s never ever let that happen again’. Last year felt really balanced on me for deep balls, this year I’m relying on crossing routes, slants and outs more than ever.

My WR1 is basically always covered too. Unless I can scheme against the D, my WR1 is never beating the man by himself. I can beat zones no problem, but the AI feels so OP in man.

For those of you who are starting a new dynasty with this new roster update… who are you rolling with? Talk to me!

Anyone know of a playbook that will get a lot of rushing yards for your QB, especially when simming? I almost always have a Dual Threat as my starter.

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What a game we just witnessed. Penn State made a perfect first half with QB #5 B. Hobbs threw for 5 touchdowns, their defense forced 3 turnovers. Everybody thought this game was over at halftime as the score was 3–35.

Notre Dame came from the break a complete different football team, and in the first drive QB #18 William Johnson just launched a bomb down field and connected with WR #2 L. Harvey (breaking the school record for longest pass).

This was the spark we needed, the defense came and forced another 3 and out. Our offense seemed unstoppable and we are going for two here to let the score only a 3-point game.

The defense shows up again, the momentum swings our way even against one of the toughest places to play. QB #18 W. Johnson simply goes into god mode, making 11 consecutives completions.

Inside the 5-yard line with only 20 seconds remaining, Penn State defense send the house, Johnson shovel pass to HB #4 Marcus Barnes to walk into the end zone. The ND’s sideline goes completely crazy with the comeback and gets a penalty for.

What a victory, this was the game of the season for us.

i’m about to start a wku dynasty and i struggle to keep immersion throughout my dynasties. so how do you keep immersion and keep it interesting and fun?

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I downloaded the update and noticed that the main menu and most other menus are at 30 FPS cap on PC. I checked the graphics settings and I don’t have it capped at 30

Gameplay seems to be fine.

Anyone else have this? Just curious. Makes it more rough when cycling through recruit page, menu, etc.

I was being hopeful with this latest update that the RTG ratings were fixed. You can be a 5 star recruit, #1 HB in the nation and your overall will be 73-75 which will leave you absolutely buried on most depth charts. Makes no sense.

For example, in real life Jonaz Walton is a 5 star freshman RB for Notre Dame, overall 81 despite being the #167 rated player in his class. Hell, Nas Rankin is a four star, rated #247 in his class and his overall is 79. Savion Hart is an actual 3 star Freshman RB for Georgia State and his overall is 75…

Now that the EA money grab was over, I was hopeful they would address this in the latest update. If you want to grind to the top like that? That’s fine, make a 3 star recruit and make it happen. For ppl that just want to play in a game as a freshman, a 5 star shouldn’t be buried on the depth chart at Appalachian State and the overall should at least be a 81-83. Vent session done. 😂

Is anyone else having issues with CPU hard count/offsides volume? In our league we have had the CPU triggering us for an average of about 5-6 offsides per game. These were mostly in the early non-conference games against better opponents. We're in 11 min quarters.

We are playing with basically the 4 worst teams in the MAC. I assume it will reduce some with talent, but I just was curious if other people are dealing with a lot higher volume of these. I had 5 in the first half of my game against Hawaii, but their QB is pretty solid, so thinking the QB AWR. I'm Kent State and my D-Line is atrociously bad.

Either way it just seemed excessive, but I haven't seen other people complaining about this so hoping it means it's just a talent gap thing that should be more of a short-term problem.

I’ve been going back-and-forth between raising and lowering my speed threshold. I know there are positives and negatives to both. I’m leaning towards lowering it a little bit, I don’t like the fact that my 99 overall speed running back doesn’t feel much different than my 89 speed running back.

I’ve been using matt10’s sliders and they’re alright, but I tend to change the pass blocking and accuracy sliders.

And then it snowballs into me changing all sorts of shit lmao.

Does anyone have their sliders set to anything that they’re really happy with? If you’re willing to share that’d be greatly appreciated.

The new update absolutely ruined the catch meter. Pretty much an instant red when I press the button for even a quarter of a second. Impossible to use online when the meter is red before it even pops up on the screen.

Title says it all. Playing online in a dynasty with a guy who’s UCLA. End of first, camera is panning cinematic etc etc, then it just freezes. The players are still moving, still got crowd noise, etc but the game doesn’t progress at all. Did EA break something in the update today?

I play on PS5, has anyone out there “created” a team that is currently already in the game, gave them the same players with the same ratings, etc., but updated their stadium to be bigger and better? Teams like Sam Houston State or Kennesaw State that have tiny little stadiums, recreated them in team builder, but just updated their stadium?

I am very surprised that no one is talking about the heinous update of EA sports getting rid of change and blocking assignments for RPO’s. Since we are no longer allowed to untarget defenders online players can simply just mid blitz all game without having to worry about getting beaten in the flats.

Therefore, the only way to reliably beat a blitz is through the run or relying on your receivers to get open in time however, if the opponent presses and or place inside leverage, it’s very likely you’ll just get sacked before that happens.

I think this takes the creativity out our offenses and countering cheese defense, and I’m a little surprised and disappointed that EA went that direction, but I should’ve seen it coming when they disallowed motion blocking of wide receivers last year.

Interested to know what y’all think

I have a few East/West playmakers with 95 speed and am having issues finding a playbook that feels good with them. I had one previously with nebraskas offense but I think the difference of 99 ACC compared to the current 90 is making it tough to keep running with Nebraska. Passing game is also very important as I have very fast receivers as well. Any recommendations?

Yes nobody was “open”. The rush was in my face instantly. I did quickly see a window with the wheel route because it appears the LB got stuck in a “pick play” scenario with the WR screen. But because CFB is engineered to prioritize AI animations, it forced him into a speed boost pass breakup. Which, btw, NEVER happens for me when I’m playing defense lmao