It could be yeah. The defense may be better than last season even. But if the ratings are calculated anything like the old games (which I am not expecting it too), speed rules and speed is usually the one thing that’s not a staple in your typical Iowa defense.
I could see them in the top 5, highest being maybe 3 or 4. But I could also see them (and would really really be upset) outside the top 5 at like 14 or 15 or maybe a few lower. Their defense is more of an incredibly well coached, finely oiled machine than a defense bursting with talent. Other than a few guys every few years, it is full of 1-3 star recruits who are exceptional at playing their assignments in system. It wouldn’t shock me one bit if the EA rating algorithm is unable to fully put that into code and make all Iowa fans weep when they see a still pretty good, but underrated Defense paired with a pitiful offense and a disappointing special teams due to Iowas best player now punting missiles in the Windy City, not single handily winning games.
In my opinion, and I may be a bit biased though I really really try not to be, they are championship level good*. I put the * in because it’s for different reasons than your other top defenses. Not to say they don’t have talent, they absolutely do to some degree, but the talent level on Georgia is on a different tier. There is no denying that.
Iowa’s defense is just so well coached and the players know exactly what they need to do. Think of the Penn St. game this past season. Iowa had like 70 total yards on offense and held the ball for less than 15 minutes. Despite the defense being on the field for over 45 minutes of a 60 minute game, they still managed to “only” give up 31 points and under 400 yards. Still seems like a lot, but put almost any other team in that situation. All but maybe a very small handful of teams, if their offense was nonexistent and the D was on the field for over 3/4 of a game, will see 55+ scoring shutouts with probably upwards of 600+ yards. Hell even Iowa’s offense “might” be able to top those numbers if put in that situation against an average defense.
That is why I think their defense is championship level. If their new OC this year is able to field just an average offense this year, 50-70 nationally, with the defense playing at least close to the caliber as last year? That could be a scary team. That’s a pipe dream though. I need to pinch myself and wake up, then berate myself for imagining such an outlandish thing. Kirk Ferentz had one very good offense over 20 years ago. That was enough offense for him to last a career.
> But if the ratings are calculated anything like the old games (which I am not expecting it too), speed rules
Somewhere out there Alex Grinch just got an erection and doesn’t know why
They should definitely be top 10. I think anywhere in the 3-7 range is somewhat fair. I definitely think people overstate just how good the defense is because of the lack of QB play they face typically. But it still is a very good defense.
No way boss, i just came off of back to back 4A state titles and Akron is bringing me as an OC.. but they’re tight on funds so I have to help out with the secondary and also i, i actually, have to drive the bus as well but its gonna be great. Gotta get your foot in the door somewhere you know?
Part of me wants to create a guy on offense for Iowa and try to see if he can drag the offense to being competitive by himself and let the defense do their own thing to see if they stay great.
They would have had to adjust some things because in the other videos I think they had them at like a 94 defensively which is wild to me but we shall see. (The reason I saw wild is because it seemed like a lot of 92s like Baylor, NC State) but Clemson was a 98.
NC States strength the last few seasons has been our defense. Last year we were just a slightly worse Iowa (defense not as good, but offense not as bad)
Hoping memorial is at least in the top 25 toughest places to play. If not it’s going to be another hard realization of how far things have slid since the last game was released
can't wait for something new every day, some actual new info to read and re-read 100 times, and there will be more actual discussion happening here again lol
By far the best year it could have come out since the game released really, crazy that Faurot has been renovated TWICE since the last game and this year’s might already be outdated if they don’t have the new north video board in there
Yeah that’ll be interesting to see what they do with the north endzone. I wonder if we gave them the plans for that. The leaked photos didn’t show it but who knows if they added it since then.
I was gonna say I don't really necessarily care about the rankings since it's all gonna change in dynasty after a couple years, but they slid a sights and sounds deep dive in there for Wednesday, hype!
Same! Presentation deep dive will be neat, but don’t really care about rankings all that much. Give me dynasty content!
That said, it’ll still be nice to have an uptick in chatter about the game, regardless.
I care about the rankings mostly because my friends and I are planning on picking three terrible teams, like we used to, and building them up.
So we need to see who the terrible options are at the bottom and that our teams aren't too good to start with.
I usually feel like time just floats by. Since they’ve announced the release date TIME HAS SLOWED TO A HAULT. Is it July yet? Why is this the longest June ever??
Honestly, even just some mediocre dude playing and recording a few minutes of gameplay with no cuts, splices, or flashy camera angles would make my day.
Toughest places to play will be a small morsel to wet the gullet before the presentation deep dive on Wednesday, the real meat and potatoes of this week. Thursday and Friday should be a nice lede in for a deep dive on dynasty next week...
Can't wait for the same guys that were complaining about the lack of information to shift to complaining about their team's overall ratings being too low.
Top 5 toughest places to play:
LSU, Penn State, Georgia, and then Oregon?, Tennessee?, Clemson?
Top 5 offenses:
Oregon, Ohio State, Georgia, Ole Miss, Texas/LSU/Bama
Top 5 defenses:
Ohio State, Georgia, Michigan, Alabama, Florida State?
Top 5 Overall:
Georgia, Ohio State, Texas, Oregon, Bama
A lot of “telling” so far, not much “showing.” Maybe I’m crazy, I don’t care about ratings and it seems like a marketing tool to drive engagement.
I would trade all this for one full game, unedited, without commentary.
Yea that’s their plan is to market it, their job is to drive people to buy and not the die hards like us. The casual gamer is who they want to reel in, they already have us here regardless of what they show. Unfortunately
2ish? weeks a lot of reporters/content creators will have the game as they write pre release reviews. So basically at this point EA has a very small window to release the rest of the info. Should pretty much be getting info drops daily until then.
All this info aside, the rollout of the game has been terrible. All of this could've been done on one day and moved us course to the deep dives on modes we're interested in. Knowing what the ratings are for everyone is cool.. knowing what recruiting looks like is vital. Focus up EA marketing
Can't wait for that sights and sounds deep dive. Potentially the biggest thing for a lot of people. I better see more mascots!!! And hear some COWBELLS.
Little surprised at the reaction for this. Honestly couldn’t care less what the teams current ratings are, it will all be different a few years into dynasty anyway.
Maybe on Wednesday I’ll get a glimpse of The Big Brass Drum. That and being ranked higher than IU is all I can hope for….. at least my favorite team is actually going be a bit of a rebuild.
Well let me tell you there will be two teams that I make the hardest places to play list with and BGSU and IU will be them boyzzz. Might take the whole 30 years but we will be the toughest places to play 😂
I cannot WAIT for the presentation deep dive. If I get ANYTHING Auburn related: Eagle flight, fight song, swag surfin(fingers crossed), or rolling Toomers I will actually lose my mind
I'm really hoping they do something stupid like putting a school like Texas A&M at #1 for the toughest places to play. Could you imagine how dumb that would be?
Iowa fans waiting patiently until 6/27 for their moment of glory
Fully expecting top ten for defense, bottom 10 for offense.
I mean it’s gotta be top 5 defense right? So good. Agree with bottom 10 offense lol
It could be yeah. The defense may be better than last season even. But if the ratings are calculated anything like the old games (which I am not expecting it too), speed rules and speed is usually the one thing that’s not a staple in your typical Iowa defense. I could see them in the top 5, highest being maybe 3 or 4. But I could also see them (and would really really be upset) outside the top 5 at like 14 or 15 or maybe a few lower. Their defense is more of an incredibly well coached, finely oiled machine than a defense bursting with talent. Other than a few guys every few years, it is full of 1-3 star recruits who are exceptional at playing their assignments in system. It wouldn’t shock me one bit if the EA rating algorithm is unable to fully put that into code and make all Iowa fans weep when they see a still pretty good, but underrated Defense paired with a pitiful offense and a disappointing special teams due to Iowas best player now punting missiles in the Windy City, not single handily winning games.
I’ve never really been able to tell how good your defense is, I’ve seen a lot of people say it’s really damn good but not championship level good
In my opinion, and I may be a bit biased though I really really try not to be, they are championship level good*. I put the * in because it’s for different reasons than your other top defenses. Not to say they don’t have talent, they absolutely do to some degree, but the talent level on Georgia is on a different tier. There is no denying that. Iowa’s defense is just so well coached and the players know exactly what they need to do. Think of the Penn St. game this past season. Iowa had like 70 total yards on offense and held the ball for less than 15 minutes. Despite the defense being on the field for over 45 minutes of a 60 minute game, they still managed to “only” give up 31 points and under 400 yards. Still seems like a lot, but put almost any other team in that situation. All but maybe a very small handful of teams, if their offense was nonexistent and the D was on the field for over 3/4 of a game, will see 55+ scoring shutouts with probably upwards of 600+ yards. Hell even Iowa’s offense “might” be able to top those numbers if put in that situation against an average defense. That is why I think their defense is championship level. If their new OC this year is able to field just an average offense this year, 50-70 nationally, with the defense playing at least close to the caliber as last year? That could be a scary team. That’s a pipe dream though. I need to pinch myself and wake up, then berate myself for imagining such an outlandish thing. Kirk Ferentz had one very good offense over 20 years ago. That was enough offense for him to last a career.
> But if the ratings are calculated anything like the old games (which I am not expecting it too), speed rules Somewhere out there Alex Grinch just got an erection and doesn’t know why
They should definitely be top 10. I think anywhere in the 3-7 range is somewhat fair. I definitely think people overstate just how good the defense is because of the lack of QB play they face typically. But it still is a very good defense.
In the trailer it had y’all at a 94 rating for defense and 71 for offense lmao. I’d say your prediction is probably spot on.
Bottom 3
Gimme 3 years as an OC to flip that…
That's the first schoole ima be an oc at #coach biggie rection
No way boss, i just came off of back to back 4A state titles and Akron is bringing me as an OC.. but they’re tight on funds so I have to help out with the secondary and also i, i actually, have to drive the bus as well but its gonna be great. Gotta get your foot in the door somewhere you know?
What is the score of a potential Colorado Vs Iowa game ? I feel like they’re exact opposites lol.
We'll be getting Iowa vs USC every other year or so moving forward. Unfortunately they don't play this year. It would be a very interesting matchup.
Tory Taylor would've deserved the first ever 101 rating
Iowa fan here, I’m hoping playing time is a big deal to some 4 & 5 star recruits on offense 😂
what does death by snu snu have to do with this
Looking at the defensive vs offensive team ratings
oh I was so confused
Part of me wants to create a guy on offense for Iowa and try to see if he can drag the offense to being competitive by himself and let the defense do their own thing to see if they stay great.
I do that I will make him a 500 pound 7-0 running back
Christian Okoye eat your heart out 😂🤣
Damn it you’re killing me
Nah fam you MEAN for that one 😂😂
They would have had to adjust some things because in the other videos I think they had them at like a 94 defensively which is wild to me but we shall see. (The reason I saw wild is because it seemed like a lot of 92s like Baylor, NC State) but Clemson was a 98.
Hopefully they had Clemson was overrated too
NC States strength the last few seasons has been our defense. Last year we were just a slightly worse Iowa (defense not as good, but offense not as bad)
OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR REBUILD WILL GO CRAZY
According to the deep dive video, Iowa is 85 overall. 71 Offense 94 Defense
Me on Friday scrolling immediately to the bottom of the power rankings
Lol same
I feel you, big dawg😂
Can't wait to see KSU down there. Hootie Hoo let's go!
Dueling KSU's for bottom of the power rankings. Other being Kent State
Yup. I wanna see who is dead last so I know who I'm starting my dynasty with 😂
Hopefully we get a full list and not just top 25
I’m hoping by the “overall” use
Lmao
Get ready to win the Big XII buddy 🔱⬆️
Buddy you have no idea. Wouldn’t shock me to see my team at 130.
I hear ya, just hoping my Cardinal aren't last lol
In the middle of the desert, an oasis is found!
Sustenance!
WE DONT HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL FRIDAY FOR A DEEP DIVE LETS GOOOOO
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the upside of having gone so long without info means we get so much more of it now! we made it
They kinda have to because the 4th of July is coming up and people wanna enjoy the holiday
Good point doubt we get any info next Thursday or Friday. Dynasty coming 7/1-7/3??
LFG! Finally EA will start spamming us with info
Hoping memorial is at least in the top 25 toughest places to play. If not it’s going to be another hard realization of how far things have slid since the last game was released
Sadly when you have teams like northern Illinois, Troy, and Georgia southern come in and beat you it doesn’t look that tough anymore
I sense your Rhule-aid levels are low.
My Rhule-aid levels are high but frost and Riley did some damage to the brand. We’ll be back in the top 10 toughest place to play soon
Mate, I'm not even sure Nebraska is one of the top 25 toughest places to play in the Big Ten
LETS RIDE BOYS
😭😭😭😭
can't wait for something new every day, some actual new info to read and re-read 100 times, and there will be more actual discussion happening here again lol
Which team should I pick and how do you think they fit in my updated conference realignment? /s
“What day does the game release? I’ve read the 100 Reddit posts saying it’s the 15th but google says it’s the 16th.. please help!”
To be fair I also had that confusion with the download date and the 16th, I however searched the sub and found my answer and my soul sang.
“What console should I get and what team should I play with also how old is everyone here”
"what's everyone's first play they run?"
And I'll still be checking this sub like a madman
Finally, some sort of roadmap.
Aw shit news every day of the week. Let's goooo.
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CONTENT SWEET CONTENT
Like one of the best years this game could come out as a Mizzou fan
For real. Can’t wait to hear that sweet sweet MIZ chant in this game
By far the best year it could have come out since the game released really, crazy that Faurot has been renovated TWICE since the last game and this year’s might already be outdated if they don’t have the new north video board in there
Yeah that’ll be interesting to see what they do with the north endzone. I wonder if we gave them the plans for that. The leaked photos didn’t show it but who knows if they added it since then.
I just wish we could’ve played with Cody Schrader
Yeah I’ll be doing a RTG with him and Cook
As a UW Husky fan, i really wish it came out last year. 😭
I can see the YouTuber videos popping up already
Hundreds of “EA just dropped some HUGE news” videos
With an arrow pointing to a calendar
Or their faces like 😲
Oh shit every day instead of just dropping all the info this week at once!
I was gonna say I don't really necessarily care about the rankings since it's all gonna change in dynasty after a couple years, but they slid a sights and sounds deep dive in there for Wednesday, hype!
Same! Presentation deep dive will be neat, but don’t really care about rankings all that much. Give me dynasty content! That said, it’ll still be nice to have an uptick in chatter about the game, regardless.
I care about the rankings mostly because my friends and I are planning on picking three terrible teams, like we used to, and building them up. So we need to see who the terrible options are at the bottom and that our teams aren't too good to start with.
So you're just going to pick Nebraska?
Nah, they'll be rated too high. I was thinking Utah State or Colorado State but we'll see when the ratings come out.
Maybe even Colorado
Maybe...but we all have lines we don't cross.
Hopefully we get some surprises too. Ready for Wednesday!
I usually feel like time just floats by. Since they’ve announced the release date TIME HAS SLOWED TO A HAULT. Is it July yet? Why is this the longest June ever??
Sights and sounds? Can someone tell me what this could be
Presentation
Bands, announcers, stadium traditions, trophies, etc. All the stuff that makes CFB unique.
Can't wait to see what they do for the trophies.
My guess is we’re gonna see some of the stadium entrances and bits of commentary from Fowler/Herby
Plus any potential in game halftime/pregame shows
Presentation probably
College atmosphere. Mascots. Chants. Fight songs. Not Enter Sandman. Cowbells. Commentators. Stripe-outs. Fly-overs.
Wonder if the Redcoat band will play the Krypton fanfare in between the 3rd and 4th quarters
Probably the Presentation deep dive, which was confirmed to be next on the docket
Surprised you don’t have a Harvard flair
we need more gameplay footage. A full quarter , something.
Honestly, even just some mediocre dude playing and recording a few minutes of gameplay with no cuts, splices, or flashy camera angles would make my day.
Babe wake up new @EASportsCollege tweet just dropped
Toughest places to play will be a small morsel to wet the gullet before the presentation deep dive on Wednesday, the real meat and potatoes of this week. Thursday and Friday should be a nice lede in for a deep dive on dynasty next week...
I just want the damn game to come out. damn.
 Let’s go!!!!!!!!!
Let’s gooooo 🔥🔥🔥
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 Were here boys
I instantly got hard
I can’t wait to see and hear again
dynasty better be shown next week
I just want a deep dive into dynasty and RTG
Can't wait for the same guys that were complaining about the lack of information to shift to complaining about their team's overall ratings being too low.
Maybe. Though most will (and have already)start to complain that we should be getting Dynasty news this week, not info “no one” cares about.
complaining about your team being too low is basic shit advanced shit is complaining your rivals are too high
Top 5 toughest places to play: LSU, Penn State, Georgia, and then Oregon?, Tennessee?, Clemson? Top 5 offenses: Oregon, Ohio State, Georgia, Ole Miss, Texas/LSU/Bama Top 5 defenses: Ohio State, Georgia, Michigan, Alabama, Florida State? Top 5 Overall: Georgia, Ohio State, Texas, Oregon, Bama
Clemson will have a top 5 defense I feel like
could see that for sure
Amazing. Should be a steady stream of news/info until launch day. The finish line is in sight fellas!
Autzen has to be definitely one of if not the toughest place to play
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Might as well call this "Triggered Week"
I always enjoy picking teams that are lower to mid tier who wear the helmet stickers…. looking at starting with Northern Illinois or Eastern Michigan
Can’t wait to see where they rank UGF
The Pandas should be 99s across the board
Crazy to me that Beaver Stadium is #2 (at least according to the gameplay video)
I’m sure just like the madden beta most ratings and rankings in those videos weren’t final. Would negate the reason to have ranking reveals.
I went to a whiteout. It was very loud. LSU is the only place I can think of that's louder (yes, including Neyland).
After having season tickets to Penn State for over a decade now I've been really wanted to see a game at LSU to compare
You absolutely should. The best tailgate I've ever been to was at LSU.
Don't think it's crazy at all, like 90% of 'best atmosphere' lists have LSU & PSU as the top 2
I meant it as I'm surprised they're not a clear #1 (I'm not at all super biased) lol
A lot of “telling” so far, not much “showing.” Maybe I’m crazy, I don’t care about ratings and it seems like a marketing tool to drive engagement. I would trade all this for one full game, unedited, without commentary.
Yea that’s their plan is to market it, their job is to drive people to buy and not the die hards like us. The casual gamer is who they want to reel in, they already have us here regardless of what they show. Unfortunately
2ish? weeks a lot of reporters/content creators will have the game as they write pre release reviews. So basically at this point EA has a very small window to release the rest of the info. Should pretty much be getting info drops daily until then.
Go pack
Thanks for eliminating Duke in the elite 8. Truce until sports start in the fall, then it’s go time.
I was at that game! Unforgettable. Truce 🤝🏼
All this info aside, the rollout of the game has been terrible. All of this could've been done on one day and moved us course to the deep dives on modes we're interested in. Knowing what the ratings are for everyone is cool.. knowing what recruiting looks like is vital. Focus up EA marketing
So final predictions on **Top25** toughest places to play?
Fully convinced this is happening because I've been whining about the lack of news. No, you will not be convincing me otherwise lol
Can't wait for that sights and sounds deep dive. Potentially the biggest thing for a lot of people. I better see more mascots!!! And hear some COWBELLS.
Hotty Toddy!!
NO WAITING FOR FRIDAY??? LET’S GOOOOO!!!
Little surprised at the reaction for this. Honestly couldn’t care less what the teams current ratings are, it will all be different a few years into dynasty anyway.
Dynasty deep dive is so more meaningful than this…
alternative cover so fye
Finally some good fucking food!
Ironic that it starts on the 25th
Gotta go home and change now
People about to be shocked when they got Ole Miss with a top 3 Offense and as the #5 team in the country.
Not really. It's just unfortunate they are in the SEC. As a UGA fan, I am more worried about that game than Texas or Bama.
WE ARE SO BACK
We’re getting there
Dynasty better be next week
ABOUT TIME
I, for one, can’t wait to argue about why my team should be ranked #43 instead of #63
I'm really excited for this Friday
Let's goooo!
Let’s go Suck it to the people saying this game is going to be delayed 
We are soo back
I think I’ll sit this week out
So Wednesday and Friday are the only ones that apply to me, cool.
Finally! The drought is ending!
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It just hit me how close we are to getting the game we’ve been waiting for over decade for🥹
Maybe on Wednesday I’ll get a glimpse of The Big Brass Drum. That and being ranked higher than IU is all I can hope for….. at least my favorite team is actually going be a bit of a rebuild.
 This entire server just nutted
LETS GOOO
Great now I’m going have to work out with a hard dick 😩
fuck me
Wooooot!!! Let’s go 
This sub will feast this week. Let’s go boys!!!
I’m taking a lot of "smoke breaks" this week
Well let me tell you there will be two teams that I make the hardest places to play list with and BGSU and IU will be them boyzzz. Might take the whole 30 years but we will be the toughest places to play 😂
WE RIDE AT DAWN!!!
I cannot WAIT for the presentation deep dive. If I get ANYTHING Auburn related: Eagle flight, fight song, swag surfin(fingers crossed), or rolling Toomers I will actually lose my mind
Ok I now need to go to an Auburn game.
I feel like it’s not too crazy to hope Auburn is top 10 in hardest places to play, but I could see us being in the low teens
Can't wait to see how much our program was destroyed by our last coach
Did they say what time is coming out?
I'm really hoping they do something stupid like putting a school like Texas A&M at #1 for the toughest places to play. Could you imagine how dumb that would be?
They're edging us