In this episode of the TGT Podcast, cdj & gschwendt interview NCAA Football 14 designer Christian McLeod to discuss the new & improved presentation elements coming to the game. The podcast discusses a lot of details about not only items you've heard about but also items that you haven't to this point. A lot of inside information in 60 minutes.


Continue on to listen to the show, then share your thoughts with community below. ...

Fans of the EASPORTS NCAA Football series have long asked for some sort of a playoff system in the Dynasty mode, if nothing else than to spice up the postseason play that is run by a pseudo BCS system. Ultimately that decision most likely comes down to the NCAA rather than EASPORTS itself. With the recent announcement of the College Football Playoff, some were hoping that NCAA Football 14 would have a playoff system implemented. Today we find out that it will not.

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EA SPORTS and the University of Michigan have officially revealed the cover of EA SPORTS NCAA Football 14 featuring former Wolverine QB Denard Robinson.


Starting at 10:30 a.m. ET, Denard Robinson will start his ESPN "Car Wash" on First Take where the cover will likely get significant airtime and exposure throughout the day.

According to Jordan Maleh, the Director of Digital Marketing for the University of Michigan, the production run for EA Sports NCAA Football 14 will be close to two million copies. ...

GameZone has confirmed that the Big East name and logo will no longer be utilized in NCAA Football 14 and replaced with the American Athletic Conference. While this is not a surprise, the relatively late name announcement had some wondering how it would be handled in-game.

EA's Brad Hilderbrand confirmed to me that the Big East name has been replaced with American, "their preferred shorthand name rather than AAC." Since the conference has yet to finalize their logo, EA is using the NCAA pennant as a placeholder; it will be updated once the official American conference logo is decided. ...

EA SPORTS has posted a video trailer showcasing some of the improvements coming to presentation in NCAA Football 14.

Among the items highlighted: several of the 500+ new vignettes, updated/new uniforms, new banners, halftime show commentary, dynamic loading screens, neutral site games, updated field art & stadiums, and a vignette featuring team specific gloves.

If you catch any other improvements or details in the video, share them in the comments. ...

EA SPORTS has posted the second NCAA Football Playbook and it focuses on improvements & changes to presentation.

Among the improvements coming to presentation: A halftime show featuring Rece Davis & David Pollack, neutral site games, school specific base-layers & gloves, and more.

This blog is a quick look at some of the presentation changes coming to the game with additional deep-dives to come. Continue on to read the Presentation Playbook. ...

Polygon's Samit Sarkar interviewed NCAA Football producer Ben Haumiller to learn more about the presentation changes coming to NCAA Football 14.

Haumiller then listed tired, long-in-the-tooth pieces of previous NCAA Football titles' presentation packages, and explained that Tiburon is either modifying them or stripping them out altogether. At the top of the list is a major interface redesign. The chunky, ESPN-inspired 3D elements that sat behind the main menu are gone, because they caused sluggish performance in menu navigation — a significant problem for any game, but particularly for this series, which Haumiller described as "menu-intensive." The goal this year, he said, is to "keep things fast, keep things moving."

Authenticity is a major focus for the NCAA Football team, as it is with any company making a simulation sports title, and a studio's job only gets tougher in that respect every year.

Haumiller took us through changes in field art (teams recently began painting their Twitter handles on the turf), uniforms (Tiburon had to develop new technology to properly render base layers) and fight songs (University of Texas, Texas A&M University, Baylor University, University of Arkansas and Texas Christian University are all back in). And we found ourselves amazed at the staggering number of organizations that Tiburon and parent company Electronic Arts have to negotiate or interact with in order to get all the minor details right. ...

ESPN Video Games' Jon Robinson covers some of the presentation changes coming to NCAA Football 14.

Among the highlights of his preview:

• 'Zombie Nation' & 'Seven Nation Army' crowd chants will be in the game
• Main focus of presentation: Make it clean and 'get you moving'
• Dynamic loading screens
• Quicker pre-game intro with music video
• Commentary focus on drive summaries
• New stadiums for ODU, GA State, South Alabama plus 'every neutral site game'
• Team specific gloves plus hand poses

Continue on to read an excerpt of the preview from ESPN Video Games and then share your thoughts with the community. ...

Over the past week, EA SPORTS has posted additional NCAA Football 14 screenshots featuring Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Miami, Texas, Texas A&M, Virginia Tech, and West Virginia. Continue on to view the screenshots and share your thoughts in the comments below.

Make sure to keep up with all of the latest game info with our NCAA Football 14 News & Information Central. ...