Quote Originally Posted by souljahbill View Post
Are they absolutely sure that people are buying the game for the names on the back and not the names on the front? Did they survey that?
Remember, after the NCAA pulled out their backing, it was going to be called "College Football '15" or something like that. But then several conferences and major schools (Ohio State included, if I recall) started wavering, just because of the liability. I think without full backing of the NCAA and CLC, and protection from liability as much as possible, the schools don't want to take the risk of more litigation. So you'd be most likely to get a generic game with generic rosters and generic schools (anybody remember the old "Columbus" with red and gray as the colors?). Games that have sold well have always either had the backing of the teams or the players union ... neither is a tough sell. And, personally, I would imagine that EA would be hesitant to do anything resembling real players or real schools, so it would have to be so obviously not real that they probably wouldn't even do the "hey this team just happens to have the right colors" move.