Here's what EA Sports is asking schools for to improve EA Sports College Football 26

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Years before the release of EA Sports College Football 25, EA reached out to participating institutions, asking for all sorts of detailed information, so the company could depict each school as accurately as possible. EA asked schools for uniform details, pregame music selections, student chants, hundreds of stadium photographs, preferred rivalries, and much more.

The result was a massive commercial success. EA Sports College Football 25 is the best-selling video game this year in the United States, and may very go down as the best-selling sports video game ever. Critical and fan response has also been generally positive, with fans praising the game’s gameplay and presentation.

But nobody is perfect, and many fans quickly noticed a gap between what their schools shared with EA, and what actually made it into the game. Given the massive technical lift needed to render completely new stadiums for almost every FBS program, sources at EA have told me over the last months that they simply weren’t able to cram everything they wanted, from gameplay features to program assets, that they wanted.

Fortunately, College Football 25 isn’t the only college football game EA is making. While the company has continued to make updates and support CFB 25, active development on next summer’s release, College Football 26, has been going on for months.

And now, we know a little bit more about what EA wants from the schools.

According to documents obtained by Extra Points via multiple schools, CLC (the licensing agent coordinating between schools and EA Sports) sent out a survey in late September about game assets. According to that email:

The initial deadline to respond to the survey was listed as October 18, but later emails obtained by Extra Points show the deadline extended to November 30. Sources at EA Sports have told me that the November 30 deadline is not etched in stone, and that assets received now could still make the game, but institutions who haven’t fully responded need to do so as soon as possible.

So what was in the survey? What new assets that did not appear in EA CFB25 were on the request forms this year? Does this survey give us any clues about development priorities for the next game?

Let’s take a look:

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