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Voting has gone live on the EA SPORTS NCAA Football Facebook page for fans to vote for the NCAA Football 12 cover athlete. The candidates are Auburn's Nick Fairley, Alabama's Mark Ingram, Washington's Jake Locker, and Oklahoma's DeMarco Murray.

Fans can vote for their favorite candidate once a day starting at 9:00 am PST each day for the duration of the campaign (ending April 4th). At the end of the campaign the athlete with the most votes will be on the cover of NCAA Football 12. The winning cover athlete will be announced on April 19th.

Who will you be voting for? After voting, come back and share your thoughts with The Gaming Tailgate community. ...

The official NCAA Football 12 product website is now live and is located at ea.com/ncaa-football. The site has the standard placeholders for Media, News & Blogs, Community, and links to Pre-Order the game. Currently, the only news on the site features the cover athlete vote.

Worth noting is that the only versions of NCAA Football 12 listed available to pre-order are the X-Box 360 and PlayStation 3 versions. This may suggest that there will be no PlayStation 2 version. The iPhone & iPod Touch versions of NCAA Football 11 were not announced until near the release date. ...

According to DeMarco Murray's twitter account, he will be one of four that will be voted on to be the next cover athlete NCAA Football 12. EA did something similar with last year's Madden NFL 11 where fans voted between Drew Brees, Jared Allen, and Reggie Wayne. Updated to include all four potential candidates. Continue after the break to see what Murray had to say regarding the process as well as an article from TulsaWorld.com. ...

Online retailers such as Amazon & GameStop/EB Games have posted information for NCAA Football 12 including a release date of July 12. Also listed are a brief game description and placeholder box art until the cover athlete - or athletes - are announced. Check out the Game Description and Placeholder Box art then share your thoughts with the community. ...

It's quickly becoming that time of year as it should only be a matter of weeks until we get our first NCAA Football 12 info. (The first NCAA 11 blogs and screenshot were released in March of last year.) While we know what the community wants in the franchise, we want to know what you think will actually be in NCAA Football 12. ...

The college football and bowl season have come to a close and with it a final shortlist of candidates has emerged as potential NCAA Football 12 cover athletes.

Bowl season and off-season events have pared down the initial list to seven. The 'promise' at Ohio State, TCU's undefeated Rose Bowl season, the first extended playing two-way athlete in almost 15 years, and Auburn's dream season helped establish the final list of legitimate candidates and moved other athletes to the outside looking in.

Click Read More to see the top seven candidates and then vote for whom you would like to see as the cover athlete(s) for NCAA Football 12. ...

Many football fans may follow one level of football more than the other (college more than pro, for example), however sports gamers tend to play many different sports games, even of the same sport. It seems to only make sense that NCAA Football gamers would devote significant hours to Madden NFL as well (and vice versa) given some of the natural tie-ins including Draft Classes and Road to Glory export to Superstar Mode. However, it seems that in recent years the split has become more diverse, with fans of each franchise going into diverse directions. ...

The NCAA Football team is reaching out to the community and wants your help in gathering team reference details for possible inclusion in the years to come. After asking for info on Cheerleader Chants several months ago, they now want your help in learning where each college football marching band sits in their home stadium, as well as bowl, conference championship and neutral site locations.

Share your team - or any team you know - info in this thread with a photo reference/circling the section on a seating chart image. A written description would also work, but obviously a photo reference would be more beneficial.

UPDATE - Band seating sections have been gathered for ALL venues in NCAA Football. Great work by the community! Feel free to double check the list and make sure the info for your favorite program is correct.

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Over the past few days, the official NCAA Football 11 twitter page has asked gamers some questions on their game preferences and playing style. By themselves, the questions may seem simple but together they can give a clearer picture on how each person plays the game differently.

• What is your favorite game mode in NCAA Football 11 and why?
• Do you prefer to play Offense or Defense in NCAA Football 11?
• What is your favorite play to run in NCAA Football 11 and why?
• What is your favorite defensive formation to run in NCAA Football 11 and why?
• Which side of the ball is your strength in NCAA Football 11?
• When on Offense in NCAA Football 11, do you prefer to Run or Pass the ball?
• When on Defense in NCAA Football 11, which position do you prefer to play and why?
• On Defense, which position do you think is the most important and why?
• When you win the coin toss in NCAA Football 11, do you prefer to put your Offense or your Defense on the field first?
• How many games of NCAA Football 11 have you played Online this year?

Share your answers and thoughts with The Gaming Tailgate community. ...