I would love for all of you guys who go on about how "THIS IS 2024 HOW IS THIS NOT A THING!" would think for a minute.
Yes, Madden has cross-play for online franchise, it came in a "beta" form in M24. Let's look at the logistics of Madden and then we will look at CFB.
Madden has 32 teams, 53 players on each, plus a few hundred FA and around 400+ "rookie" draft prospects per season. That is a decent load on servers I would imagine, and they are now going to put Cross-Play Online Franchise into M25 OFFICIALY.
CFB has 134 teams (4 times the teams) 85 players on each (1.5 times as much) so that's already a pretty big difference in terms of server load. Not to mention generating recruits.
I imagine the team at EA will be keeping a close eye on the servers for Online Dynasty and will look to see how they can get cross-play in this go around.
I want cross-play as much as the next guy, 3 of the guys I work with and I were finally able to do a franchise together when they added cross-play, two of us are on Xbox the other two are on PS5. I want this just as much as the next guy, but I would rather see them not do it right away, get the logistics figured out, and then implement it. If they do it right away and it fails, that would be worse IMO.