Today should be d-day minus two towards NCAA/College Football 15’s launch.

We should be celebrating the first new-generation effort of collegiate football, with the expected beautiful graphics and enhancements we were expecting all along.

This week should be the kickoff to our sports gaming season, where nearly every AAA game is released over a four month period.

Silence.

Instead this week is a lot like walking into a collegiate stadium this time of year. Instead of hearing the roar of thousands it’s likely quiet and serene, with only the hum of a lawnmower and the songs of summer birds filling the air. It’s quiet, too darned quiet if you ask me.

NCAA Football will have a lot of things which will be easy to miss on video game consoles, and for one of the most popular sports in America, it will continue to be a crying shame each and every July we don’t have a game.

As I wrote on last month, the odds of seeing another college football game are actually quite high. The popularity of the sport mixed with the prior commercial successes of NCAA will make sure that someone will give it a shot, even if that someone isn’t EA Sports.

An NCAA Football game with the real players, with new-generation details, and better gameplay than ever will be quite a commercial success. With no fears of litigation in the future, EA won’t have a problem bringing people on board.

But still, for now, we are left with NCAA Football 14 as our dance partner.

While our dance partner is flawed, it is good enough to keep us satisfied for a couple of more seasons at least — but by then we’ll need something new.

Something with those beautiful graphics we’ll be coming to expect from sports games, something with the advanced animations and physics, something with the advanced presentation options we’ll be looking at.

But for now, early to mid July will sit without a game to call its own. For now, we’ll be left with no new excitement, no wait for new rosters, no reasons to complain about missing new alternate unis or new stadiums.

For now, we'll be left with 'maybe next year'.

It’s going to be a lonely and harsh week — but we’ll get through this one together.

OS Note: We are expecting updated rosters for NCAA 14 from our community soon, which will allow you to play with this year’s players for both Xbox 360 and PS3. In many ways, you will get a more authentic experience this way, and will most certainly release when those are available.