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EA 'Very Interested' in Reviving NCAA Football Franchise If NLI Rules Change

The NCAA Football video game series by EA Sports was beloved by fans before its final release in 2013, and the company would be interested in bringing the franchise back at some point in the future.

"We loved making college football games," NCAA Football executive producer Ben Haumiller, who now works as a producer on EA's Madden NFL franchise, told Chris Hummer of 247Sports in an email Friday. "If the opportunity ever presented itself we'd be very interested in potentially getting back into that space."

The franchise folded after EA Sports lost several lawsuits, including from former UCLA basketball player Ed O'Bannon, for using the likeness of college athletes without their permission and without compensating them.