Who doesn’t love video games, right? There’s no better feeling than hopping on the console after a long day and gaming the night away with friends until you’ve completely lost track of time and you have to be up for work the next morning. The return of EA Sports’ College Football series took the nation by storm last summer, and it’s awesome to see the company is returning CFB to an annual release. With College Football 26 set to drop in July, EA has decided to balance the NIL aspects of a collegiate video game in an awesome way.
According to Matt Liberman of cllct.com, payments towards universities will be given out based on a royalty system of how many times players use the team. Basically, you playing as Syracuse football in College Football 26 means that you’re helping fund the university and the program without having to do anything!
This is absolutely awesome for NIL and stuff of the sort. Last year, you had players like Archie Manning opting out of the video game because they weren’t being compensated fairly. With this system, you are incentivizing players and fans to grab a copy of the game to support their university from home. There’s been no speculation about how much a team would receive per player, but it’s still cool to see or think that you’re making a difference, especially for some of the lower-level FBS programs in the game that probably don’t have as much funding.
To no surprise, Colorado was the most popular used team in College Football 25, thanks to having stars like Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter. Maybe someone on Syracuse’s roster will end up being a glitch to draw more players to the Orange, Demetres Samuel Jr., perhaps? Either way, sports and video games go together like peanut butter and jelly, and July will surely trap us all on our couches again.
