Yes, I realize all of the hurdles that have to be reached before this can happen - but a man can hope...right?
This is my formal plea for EA to begin working on a reboot, simply called California College Football ’23. The NCAA won’t be involved in this unless they figure out they should allow players to make money off their NIL by then, and if they don’t the California schools could become non-NCAA members. That’s fine! EA Sports can simply build a game around USC, UCLA, Cal, and Stanford — the biggest programs — and dive deep to get even FCS, D-II, D-III, and NAIA school players some money themselves in order to build out the game.
By my count there are 22 college football programs in the state of California from the NAIA level up to FBS. That’s enough! Let’s make a game where we throw all of them into one big California football conference, and just like the old NCAA games you could dominate with USC or try to make the scrappy Humboldt State Lumberjacks into a state powerhouse. I dare you to tell me you wouldn’t be pumped to launch a dynasty with the Whittier Poets and try to take them to the top of the state within the decade by way of good old fashioned ‘crootin.
Yes, I realize all of the hurdles that have to be reached before this can happen - but a man can hope...right?