Our best sports game of last year remains the one to beat in 2025, too. College Football 26 is the most detailed, authentic, and fun sim on consoles right now, and will keep you playing – and recruiting! – right through to next summer.

EA Sports College Football 26 brings several upgrades from last year's game, showing the production team listened to feedback.

EA Sports College Football is back, and The Athletic is here to help you evaluate which path might be the best to take in Dynasty mode.

Caleb Downs details the key for the Buckeyes to repeat as national champions and how it's a "joyful moment" to be on the cover of NCAA Football 26 in this interview.

We created a College Football 26 Road To Glory Guide to help players create their future Heisman-winner and NFL star.

A pipeline in CFB 26 gives you an added boost on players from certain locations. Generally, you get a higher boost the closer the players are to your school, but that also depends on your coach. Pipelines are ranked in a tier system from 1-5, with a Tier 5 pipeline (represented by a pink icon) giving the biggest added boost.

Road to Glory (the mode where you’re one athlete, not a whole team) is actually fun now, at least once. Central Pennsylvania two-star QB Caleb Jenkins flunked out of Arizona State, then became a model citizen at Marcus Freeman’s (!) Wisconsin. Never was a big fan of this mode, but its new high school recruitment phase provides enough depth.

EA Sports' College Football 26 is going offline for maintenance in the next 24 hours, rendering the game's online unplayable for a bit.

Fresno State is looking to have a legendary season under first year head coach Matt Entz. Just two years out of a conference championship, the Bulldogs have bee