E. A. Sports. It’s still not in the game.
The ripple effects from Ed O’Bannon’s victory in court were a loss for college football and basketball fans. A new college football video game has not been released since July of 2013. While cooped up during the coronavirus quarantine, college football fans across the country have resorted to playing NCAA Football 14, with Michigan’s Denard Robinson gracing the cover.
Many hoped and prayed, including our own Drew Franklin, that EA Sports could once again reach a licensing agreement with the NCAA. Today’s announcement by the NCAA’s Board of Governor’s backing legislation that would give student-athletes NIL rights appeared to open the floodgates, creating a path to NCAA Football 2021.