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Remember the Playoff option? Old Defunct Features in NCAA Football Stuck

Posted on January 18, 2013 at 06:30 PM.

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Remember the magic of NCAA Football 2001?

If your thinking cap is on, you will remember that the very last game to step foot on the PS One in the NCAA Football series had a very unique feature: the ability to nix all bowls at the end of the season and settle things with an old fashioned playoff.

To me, this was one of the coolest old features in the game, as I remember epic struggles while fighting through a bracket of powerhouses while vying for a National Championship.

There was my 2005 Alabama Crimson Tide, I had brought the Tide back to respect and after a successful undefeated regular season (11-0), we had the playoffs. First there was the Rice Owls. How Rice became good, I'll never know. But there they were and there they went in a blowout. I remember the quarterfinals featuring a matchup against UCLA. Another blowout win.

Piece of cake.

Then things got serious. A rematch of my SEC Title tilt against Tennessee. I remember vanquishing the Vols by a score of 30-10 in that earlier matchup, preserved thanks in part to finding an old notebook which inspired this whole story. The semifinals game was a bit different. I remember frantically driving down the field with the seconds ticking down to kick a field goal to win the game. I have it scribbled down in my notebook and double underlined, 23-21. I'm pretty certain that I was down 21-10 at the start of the fourth quarter...so I must've been happy in my young age.

The National Championship featured a game that was rather pedestrian. I beat the Miami Hurricanes of the Big East conference (my how things have changed) 35-7.

I miss the playoffs feature.

There is a big part of me that wishes I could go back and play NCAA Football 2001 just to experience the thrill of playing through a bracket again at the end of the season.

With the absence of NCAA Basketball games, I can't even do that for any of my Alma Mater's sports. A shame indeed.

But most of all, I do miss the playoff feature of the PS One days. That is a feature I sorely wish we could bring back. Reality is overrated sometimes anyways.

What is your favorite old (and now defunct) feature of the NCAA Football series?

Comments

# 16 acidraindrops08 @ Jan 20

Well it'll be back in next year right? Hopefully they give us the option for more than 4 teams.

# 17 moneal2001 @ Jan 21

PS1 ncaa 99 create a play. by far the thing i miss the most from any previous edition. it was super advanced with the ability to set linemen blocking assignments(left, right, center, pull, and screen blocking), rb assignments(including option style plays), and receiver routes. i even made an option play that allowed me to give to the FB pitch to the rb or wr coming on a reverse or keeping it with the qb.