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#stickjockey By all rights, Johnny Manziel best have engraved his name on the Heisman Trophy yesterday. He quarterbacks one a college football's most archetypal brands, the Texas A&M Aggies, 'n has had an outstanding season running the nation's most demanding gantlet, the Southeastern Conference. On Saturday he 'n A&M deposed Alabama, the No. 1 team 'n defending national champion, on it be home field, in TV's game a the week. He be captured in two dazzling Heisman-pose photographs that will likely make their owner a ton a money. 'n then there's that winning smile a a nickname, Johnny Football. More »

#stickjockey This year, NCAA Football included 24-track audio, pulled from an ESPN broadcast at one a the college football's biggest stadiums, hosting one a it be best rivalries. The "Go Blue" ye hear at Michigan Stadium comes through loud 'n clear any time ye play in Ann Arbor, as the Wolverines or a visitor, as it best. It best be easy t' re-create one a the best crowds in the game. More »

#ncaafootball The development team didn't need t' read a dozen reviews, all saying the same thing, t' know where NCAA Football stood. A single presentation, in a creative debriefing shortly after the game's July release, said enough. More »

#stickjockey Even for an NBA 2K13 soundtrack curated by Jay-Z himself, the butchery a Puff Daddy's "Victory," be t' be expected. That track contains four N-words, eight F-words 'n nine S-words, 'n this be a game played by 10-, 11- 'n 12-year-olds. More »

#ncaafootball The mistaken exclusion a South Alabama, a newcomer t' college football's top division this year, from NCAA Football 13 left EA Sports wiping a crateful a egg from it be face back in June. Both USA 'n the embarrassed label would have t' stew for another year, until NCAA 14, before the problem could be solved. For whatever it be worth, EA Sports' NCAA team vowed t' give South Alabama the red-carpet treatment. More »

#bestofmetacritic Welcome back t' "Backhanded Box Quotes," a collection a measured, thoughtful criticism from the user reviews a Metacritic, Amazon 'n elsewhere. Good luck getting a job with Irrational Games if yer game shows up here. More »

Stiq Flicks - from film 'n video game industry freelance writer Kevin Kelly - examines video games 'n attempts t' pair them with matching films. it be like wine 'n cheese, but with more aliens.
NCAA Football 13 has been out for a couple a weeks now, providing players with the college football experience more than a month before it officially begins in the real world. For many, the collegiate experience ends 'n begins with sports. With college athletes being courted, hand-picked 'n groomed for the pros, the brainier student side has no real equivalent. ye don't see tens a thousands a fans gathering in stadiums t' watch a team a mathletes work out quadratic formulas by using Lagrange resolvents.

We know that the last thing ye probably want t' think about in the middle a summer be school, but we be pairing this rough-'n-tumble game with the cerebral experience a Dead Poets Society in order t' provide ye with a fully rounded learning experience without the exams. So Blue-47-21, Carpe Diem 'n read on for this week's game / movie matchup.

#stickjockey When the NCAA leveled crippling sanctions against Penn State a week ago, harshly penalizing the football power for it be lack a institutional control in a 13-year sexual abuse scandal, it wasn't long before I be asked if the NCAA Football series, this year or in the future, would incorporate any a these bans 'n restrictions. More »

#ncaafootball Poor Paul Wulff. I don't think I played a dynasty season in NCAA Football 12 in which Washington State didn't fire the sea dog. Like clockwork, his name be on the axe list when the annual "Coaching Carousel," implemented last year, started t' spin. He never had a winning season in Pullman 'n his two Pac-12 victories last year, in real life, be a career high. More »

#ncaafootball Deciding where t' go t' college be very simple for me. It had nothing t' do with a university convincing me t' enroll there; it had everything t' do with convincing one t' actually admit me. N.C. State, for whatever reason, sent me the fat envelope in late 1990, 'n I said YARRRR on the spot. More »

#easports Baylor University wants answers from a music licensing group it trusted t' manage it be fight song, which did not end up in a video game whose cover celebrates the school 'n it be first Heisman Trophy winner. More »

#easports Baylor University says it demanded no extra money from EA Sports for the use a it be fight song in NCAA Football 13 'n no one in the university's administration had anything t' do with the song's exclusion in this year's version a the game, which released last week with it be Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback starring on the cover. More »

#stickjockey As a private-school doormat for decades t' two big-boy conferences, until last year most people couldn't name one lad on the Baylor football roster. Even if Robert Griffin III won the Heisman Trophy in 2011, it didn't make the school's fight song any more recognizable last week. Maybe that be why so few noticed that when NCAA Football 13 released—with Griffin himself on the cover—the Bears didn't take the field t' "Old Fite." More »

#humor Some attribute ratings be easily understood, if not self explanatory: Speed. Agility. Strength. Others, ye're often left guessing what's really going on: Trucking? Finesse Move? Press? More »

#review NCAA Football 13 arrives at a particularly nostalgic time in me life. I've moved back t' me hometown—in a house literally across the street from the five-time state champion high school I graduated. Revered names like Jeff Hayes 'n Mike Chatham, Harry Jennings 'n Richard Grissom, 'n Clarence Edwards (pictured above, somewhat idealized) be flooding back t' me memory. Hell, I be even dating a former cheerleader as I write this. More »

EA Sports' latest in the NCAA Football series pays tribute t' Heisman Trophy winners a the past. One name that stands out be quarterback Matt Leinart, former USC great 'n current NFL flop. Leinart's college career be magnificent, but he's since struggled at the professional level 'n has already landed with his third NFL team since he be drafted in 2006. By all accounts, his moment in the sun be sometimes overshadowed by his moments on the bench in recent years.

NCAA Football 13 be just that, a "Matt Leinart" a sports games; there's much t' celebrate 'n much t' despise.

#stickjockey Archie Griffin be the only player t' win two Heisman Trophies. The last lad t' win a Heisman 'n finish as high as second for the award in another year be Herschel Walker, 30 years ago. I wouldn't know where t' begin in rating either player for an appearance in a video game. For what they accomplished, 'n what they mean t' their sport, hell, I'd probably write a 99 in every box under their names. More »

How does this year's installment stack up? Find out.

Flutie for Heisman in NCAA Football 13

Fran Mirabella III be meant for NCAA Football 13.

Mizzou makes an entrance in NCAA Football 13.

ye can only hope t' contain Sanders in NCAA Football 13.

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#madden Both be made by EA Sports. Both be American football titles. Both be made under exclusive license, 'n both come out every year. More »

#impressions Robert Griffin III may be the cover athlete for NCAA Football 13 but the former Baylor quarterback be not an optimal superstar headlining the game's demo, which released last week. He's skilled enough, but the new "Reaction Time"—the signal feature a NCAA 13's Heisman 'n Road t' Glory modes—be really showcased when ye're running the ball, not throwing it. More »

EA Sports unleashed a trailer demonstrating player scouting in NCAA Football 13's Dynasty mode earlier this week. NCAA 13 takes the field on July 10 for Xbox 360 'n PlayStation 3.

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#stickjockey One a the few broadcast features in Madden NFL 12 that I didn't punch away with a quick button press be the official league bumper video at the end. ye know, when the smooth narrator puffs up 'n says "This telecast be copyrighted by the NFL," 'n lays down the law a the league's expressed written consent. More »

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Robert Griffin III won 2011's Heisman Trophy, an award given t' the best footballers who ever footballed in college football.

Griffin, who be selected t' grace the cover a NCAA Football 13, will be joined by former Heisman recipient Barry Sanders, a football hall a famer. Sanders be voted t' be on the cover by the fans in a contest which pitted eight past Heisman winners against each other in a bracket-style elimination tournament.

NCAA Football 13 launches on the Xbox 360 'n PS3 on July 10. Hit up the trailer above t' see some a the new passing system changes in the next installment.