A beginner's guide to Road to CFP
What's up newbies? I wanted to take a minute to give you some tips on the road to college football playoff mode in College Football 26 Many of you just got the game for Christmas and are finding it frustrating. Trust me when I say you are not alone. After playing both College Football 25 and 26 exclusively in this mode, I figured a couple of tips to help you get started to reach your goal, which is winning in national championship in this mode. 1.Road to CFP is hard. Sorry to disappoint you, but it's just a fact. Winning a Natty is much harder this year than it was last year. 2. Before you even get started playing this mode, practice. Practice with the team you want to use in a national championship game. Some guys like to use multiple teams throughout the season and then run to their favorite tier one team once they reach the playoffs. Others want to take one team and grind through an entire season. Either way, it's fine. Just make sure you practice with a team you want to win a natty with on heisman level. 3. When practicing, take some time to understand your team. your players, their strengths and their witnesses. This will save you much frustration as you grind through this mode. 4. Once you're confident, you're ready to play a few games. Just know this, the first four games in your season are a set up. Those four games matchmaking seems to give you someone that you should win against, even if you have a lower tier team play again say Alabama, Georgia or Ohio State. In my opinion, this is EA way of one, allowing guys to win the minimum number of games to either stay in that division or get promoted or 2 keep you at an even when lost record. Just know...the storm is coming. 5. Once you get past games 4, all hell breaks loose. This is when the toughest match making seems to kicks in and you'd up against more quality players. Games 4,5,6 and seven are hard. I would suggest once you're comfortable use any tier for games 1 through 4 and then for games 4,5,6,7, and 8, be more selective and pick your tiers sleection. Example select tier 2 3,4 or tier 5 when seaching for a opponent. It will take you some time to find games in those teirs, but be patient. You'll have much more fun this way versus banging your head against Ohio State, Alabama, Georgia, Texas, South Carolina, Florida, or Indiana during these games. I've had season that a play Miami 4 times in the first 6 games. 6. Once you have grinded games 3 - 7 and you are in a comfortable position to make the CFP continue to be very selective on the teams you play. The reason I say this is because if you are lucky enough to make the CFP don't expect to see any mid to lower rank teams. In the three games of the playoffs you will probably only play against Ohio State, Georgia, Alabama , Texas , and you will probably have to beat any of those teams multiple times. I have literally had playoffs in which I had to play ohio state three games in a row. Last year, we saw so many different teams in the playoffs, now we only see maybe 4-6 different teams. 7. Once you make it to the CFP , just know the games in the college football playoffs are slower, meaning that your players actually run slower than they normally would doing the regular season. Certain routes, you may have to wait a tick longer for them to develop. This is why practice is important. 8. If at any time, you find yourself down ten or fourteen points in the game, be patient, don't back out and quit the game. EA thinks they are slick but if someone jumps mo out to a quick lead the logic shifts and the losing team becomes almost unstoppable. You can ask around but unless a miracle happens if someone is up 10-0 or 14-0, I'd bet my lifesaving that within 5 plays the losing team will score. 9. The 4th quarter is pure madness. Again EA thinks they are smart, but in the fourth quarter all kinds of craziness will happen(especially in a tight game). I've seen 28-35 points scored in the 4th quarter alone in the CFP. EA is creating manufactured drama to try to make the game feel more exciting but we all see it and know its trash. If WE were creating the excitement vs the logic of the game dictating it, this would be different. 10. Lastly, when you need to, just put the controller down walk away. Like I said, winning a Natty is crazy hard now. Even the top player have said so. This game/mode is rage inducing and well...sucks compared to what we had in 25. Sorry but just being honest. Try to have fun if you decide to play. I hope the above helps someone. Oh and cover 4 shaded down helps against crossing routes ✌️College Football 27 Road to CFP Wishlist
College Football 27 Road to CFP Wishlist What's up gamers... I've noticed a number of similar list for other game modes but as always, Road to CFP need some love. After playing this mode exclusively in both CF25 and CF26, I'm confident this list will be worthwhile.. 1. Roster Setup - finally be able save our depth chart once and not have to do it every single games. This leads to less pauses and setup and more play time. 2. Same offensive and defensive settings( ex tackling set to conservative, hooks set to 10 yrd, Wr set to conservative catch on certain routes) again this leads to less setup and more gameplay 3. Matchmaking overhaul- We should be able to see our opponents BEFORE the game starts and NOT in pregame presentations. CF25 allowed us to at least see who we were playing, CF26 is failing in this area. We went from seeing opponents, record, and division to nothing. This takes away from. The overall experience. I suggest a mix of CF25 and 26. We need to see who we are playing, record, division, stats as well as have the option to back out and NOT have to play the top teams over and over again. We're tired of playing OSU, LSU, Bama and Texas on 26 like we did Bama in 25. 4. Uniform selection - we've asked for this for multiple years now. Last gen madden had this option. This shouldn't be hard to accomplish. 5. Night games - Saturday night games are a must. Make this happen please. 6. Improve gameplay such Oline blocking, improved tackling angles( for the love of God please fix this). 7. Remove scripting-game play is incredibly scripted. Even game plays the same to the point I can watch player movements of my players and I can tell who will win the game. 8. Additional end season bowl games - teams today can go 6-6 and be bowl eligible. In CF 26 that will only get you promoted and playing tougher competitions. This method doesn't promote the desire to keep playing. End season bowl win should give you a bump in rankings for the next season. 9. Revamp abilities- CF 25 abilities made it so multiple teams were usable. (Ex Kansas, Georgia Tech, Texas State, Michigan State). This made the overall game better and enjoyable to play. Only playing Tier 1 or 2 teams get boring quickly. And at 10. Remember the joy, energy and excitement you (EA) had at the release of CF25. Road to CFP was something special. Remember there are football fans across the country that want to take their favorite team to the CFP with a shot at winning a national championship. Remember weekly updates are nice but buffs and nerfs based on weekly real life college football actually hurts long term game play. Everyone deserves a shot...that what college sports is all about.CF26 in a nutshell
The skill based matchmaking within college football 26 is killing the game. Why am I in division such as all conference consistently playing guys on heisman. Very good chance I won't be buying 27. Once again, money and poor development choices ruin gaming. Skill baseed match making is the reason why I don't play cut, and spend money within that mode.Bravo EA
This latest weekly update was a major improvement from recent weekly updates. Run blocking was much better Game play was smooth Matchmaking was solid(played against multiple teams not OSU, IU or the other overused schools) Playing was actually fun again. I've been critical of this game this year , so I must give credit with credit is due. Let's see how this game plays tomorrow because there have been recent updates which I thought were pretty good only to see the game take more steps back.
I WANT MY DUB EA
Monday I WON a Road to the CFP Semi-Final game against username [REMOVED] and never received credit for my victory. Photos attached below show my final score against UVA and then my results history and Home Screen directly after the win with no sign of that game even existing. To go 12-1 and get the win that puts me in the championship game just never recorded is completely unfair Edit: Removed player ID. This is against our "naming and shaming" rule. -CMPlayoff and championship Trophies
Good morning. While winning a sugar bowl game, my opponent purposely disconnected their internet and forfeited the game. Although I won, I did not receive the sugar bowl trophy nor is it displaying in my trophies room. Could possibly assist on how I could correct this issue? ThanksEA Any Tier = SEC or OSU
Can someone at EA please explain to me why almost 4 months after release, select any tier in Road To CFP STILL ONLY GIVE YOU Alabama Georgia LSU Ohio State I cant do this anymore, I cant find a game on most other tiers and I cant compete, with my team(Oregon). STOP **bleep**ING FILTERING OUT TEAM!!!!Desyncing in Road to CFP
Almost everytime I play a Road to CFP game I get desynced and lose connection to the EA servers. Most of the games I am winning or catching momentum and bang I get disconnected and get stuck with a loss. I’ve dropped ranks and it probably has accounted for half of my losses over the past couple of weeks. It’s the only game mode I really enjoy playing outside of H2H with a friend and frankly at this point I don’t even want to play any more. I have highly speed internet and never have issues with any other games or IOT devices outside of College Football 26. It’s ridiculous it’s either an issue with the CF 26 Servers or another stupid way these basement dwellers have figured out how to get an easy win. I never had a single issue with CF 25.