Playoff in NCAA 11?

[burnstuff]

Would anyone want this option? You don't have the difficulties of planning around finals like in real life, so it would be pretty easy to implement.

Also, how many teams?

[MrOctober430]

We'll never see it in a NCAA game sadly.

I'd love to have it in the Play Now area, just for ****s and giggles.

[JMU_Devil_Dawg]

It would be great to have the NCAA Division 1 football tournament in the game. This year it will again be 16 teams, but in 2010 it will be a 20 team tournament as two more conferences are getting automatic bids. And in any NCAA championship event you have to have at least as many at-large bids as automatic bids.

Did you know that since they started seeding teams in what is now the NCAA Division 1 Football tournament, the #1 and #2 seeds have never both made it to the final to play each other?

2008's bracket:
http://www.ncaa.com/brackets/2008/nc..._football.html

[rudyjuly2]

I really don't think the EA team has a choice when it comes to this. The NCAA, and NFL for Madden, have a lot of veto power in certain areas of their licensed games. If the NCAA doesn't want playoffs in the game, it won't be in the game.

[JMU_Devil_Dawg]

Quote: Originally Posted by rudyjuly2

If the NCAA doesn't want playoffs in the game, it won't be in the game.

The NCAA would be in favor of playoffs as the NCAA would get more of the revenue generated. The current situation that exists, largely in part due to a court ruling years ago that allows conferences to negotiate their own television contracts, keeps the vast majority of the money in the BCS and not distributed throughout the NCAA like the basketball tournaments.

The BCS licensing may be the driving force to keep playoffs out of the game, but not likely the NCAA.

[wulfman75]

back on the ps one ncaa had a playoff option, of course this was way before the bcs and the exclusive licensing bs so maybe that has something to do with it

think it was like 8 teams.

it wasnt that great in my opinion I played some ****ty school like duke for the natioinal title or something to that regard.

[yankeesgiants]

Quote: Originally Posted by wulfman75

back on the ps one ncaa had a playoff option, of course this was way before the bcs and the exclusive licensing bs so maybe that has something to do with it think it was like 8 teams. it wasnt that great in my opinion I played some ****ty school like duke for the natioinal title or something to that regard.

I forget the year but I think it was the one with Ricky Williams on the cover?

[GoBlue10]

NCAA '98 had the option to play a tournament at the end of thr season. It was a 16-team tournament. There was also a tournament mode that you could play without having to go through a season, like if your friends over or something like that.

Now don't forget that in '98 there was only 4 bowl games at the end of the season, so you needed to win your conference or finish in the top 10 to possibly make one of these bowls.

And this was the game with Danny Wuerffel on the cover.