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Today is the day many of you have been waiting for... NCAA Football 14 Early Release is now available for download. While you wait for your download to complete or for those unable to download today, we've got a bevy of videos for your entertainment. In addition to the videos, we've got gschwendt's quick, bulleted impressions of the game to let you know what to expect with this year's edition.

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As Reviews and Impressions are posted throughout the day, we'll continue to update this article. We've got content from Under the Code, Tradition Sports, GoodGameBro, HardCoreGamer, SmittyD1981, Kotaku, Gamespot & IGN.

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NCAA Football 14 will be available today (Friday, July 5) for download for EA SPORTS Season Ticket Subscribers. According to the countdown timer within the Season Ticket app, it will be available to download beginning at 1 PM ET.

It is expected that all modes will be available except NCAA Football Ultimate Team, though that has not been confirmed.

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EA has posted their second article this week, this time talking about Presentation and Pageantry in NCAA Football 14. The article covers changes to announcers (including the addition of David Pollack), all new camera angles, new music & player chatter, and the additions of uniform parts such as team-specific gloves and base layers.

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EA has published an article talking about the changes in NCAA Football 14 with regards to running the option. The article discusses their process of improving the option game, major improvements from last year, improved CPU decision-making, modeling the option game after real-life NCAA teams, & changes made to the defense.

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As you probably already know, NCAA Football 14 will add a popular feature from other franchises called Ultimate Team (NFUT for short). As part of that, those that love the mode (or love a particular college team) are looking forward to seeing some of their favorite all-time legends take the collegiate field again. One of those that immediately springs to mind to almost everyone would be Auburn's Bo Jackson.

Kotaku's Owen Good has an article with all of the details about Jackson's history as well as comments from EA once they were able to secure him into the game.

When he visited our television sets a generation ago he came to us in two different forms, one of them human. In his time he was unmistakably the best athlete of both realms, and his latter manifestation—the indestructible, immortal, and still unstoppable Video Game Bo Jackson—returns to the field next week.

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NCAA Football 14 Developer Christian McLeod was recently a guest on the GoodBullHunting.com podcast discussing changes to NCAA Football 14, particularly those surrounding Texas A&M. As part of that conversation, at 14:20, McLeod was asked by the host, "Is the black alternate uniform something we might see in the full version of the game?". McLeod's answer was seemingly cut from the podcast.

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Bleacher Report's Brian Mazique recently interviewed NCAA Football Producer Ben Haumiller to discuss all things NCAA Football 14.

Many of the topics covered will be familiar to those who follow franchise news closely. However, for those who have not kept up, the interview covers a wide range of topics including gameplay, presentation, game development, and NCAA Football Ultimate Team.

Continue on to listen to the 43 minute-long show and read some of the highlights. After listening, share your thoughts with the community. ...

We've just been informed by the developers at EA SPORTS that this year, when editing the coaches file before starting up a Dynasty, you'll have a myriad of options available to be able to setup each coach. Not only will you have the ability to setup how he looks like before but you'll also be able to outline his history of coaching as well as the playbooks that he runs.

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