I dont know much about football, and even less about college football, but this is a great management game.

This is the correct way to play a football game. It is not woke. Recruit, redshirt, train, sim, pick plays, win, repeat, move from Offense Coordinator to Head coach, win, move to dream school, repeat, take it to best team in the country 100 years in a row.

I knew nothing about college football going in and I never really enjoy "text" football sims where you don't get to see the plays get played out with animation. This has turned out to be one of my favourite all-time football games. It's a wonderful way to learn about the college game and the matches have turned out being very suspenseful even without any animation. Player recruiting/scouting is extremely well done and it requires a heck of a lot of effort to finally land a recruit. Player friction and coach trust is also very well modelled and you may end up having to make special promises to some players to keep them at your school. The coaching experience is very dynamic and there's a lot more going on than what you see in the typical coaching game.

I don't own a fancy console, so this is the closest I'm getting to the experience of running my own program, pitching virtual youths on the virtues of coming to southwestern podunk university, and trying to convince boosters that "score some passing touchdowns" is a more reasonable bonus goal than getting my barely-adequate TE a shot at all-conference honors. There is something deeply satisfying to winning a game you had no business competing in because you figured out that their 91 overall run-stuffing linebacker was utterly incapable of defending against pass-catching RBs and TEs. I have a couple quibbles here and there about ease of use, or the lack of in-season improvment, but this is an extremely solid game. It's a bit complex at first, so I might recommend starting as a coordinator and working your way up to head coach. Recruiting is really the heart of the game, and you get better results if you manually recruit, but it's okay to start with auto-recruit and slowly take contro...

So this is so close to being a good game. Except for ONE glaring issue. And it starts as a minor inconvenience and quickly grows to absolutely unbearable and makes the game broken in any sustainable enjoyable manner. The auto save after EVERY SINGLE action. Sure the vocal misogynistic minority will scream that this is how all games should be played. But for the rest of us in the real world that love college football and are looking for a pleasant break from reality this quickly becomes worse than having a cracked windshield. Hard pass on this one until the developer fixes this ridiculous choice to alienate players.

Amazing game that satisfies my itch for a CFB managing game. In-depth and a good community that is adding nice mods as well.

A negative review described this game as a "college football recruiting simulator". That's accurate but I still recommend the game if you enjoy sports management games and if it's on sale (50% or more). Plus you can always have automatic recruiting if you don't want to micro-manage that part of the game.

amazing game

College Football !!!