A bunch of info on NCAA 2005

[JacktheRipper]

All of this was taken from posts on Gamefaqs.com and those were taken from operationsports.com.

Player Ratings:

QBs;
#11, USC, 95 OVR
#18, Oklahoma, 95 OVR
#16, Mizzou, 95 OVR, 85 SPD
#7, UConn, 93 OVR
#14, Georgia, 93 OVR
#8, Cal, 93 OVR
#16, ASU, 93 OVR
#7, Toledo, 92 OVR
#6, Clemson, 92 OVR
#18, Purdue, 91 OVR

RBs;
#43 K-state 97 (96 speed)
#24 Auburn 97 (90 speed)
#39 Syracuse, 95 (90 spd)
#32 Texas, 94, (90 spd)
#21 Minnesota 93 (90 spd)
#28 Wisconsin 92 (97 spd)
#33 Virginia 92 (87 spd)
#22 New Mexico 92 (90 spd)
#44 NC State (92 (88 spd)
#23 Auburn 92 (94 spd)

WRs;
#1 USC, 99 (90 spd)
#9 Oklahoma (94 spd)
#1 Michigan 95, (91 spd)
#82 Georgia 94 (93 spd)
#6 Cal 93 (92 spd)
#1 FSU 92 (96 spd)
#87 UCLA 91 (95 spd)
#15 Western Michigan 91 (93 spd)
#5 West Virginia 91 (94 spd)
#1 Toledo 91 (92 spd)

Top 25:

1. USC
2. OU
3. LSU
4. Georgia
5. Miami
6. FSU
7. Texas
8. Ohio St.
9. Michigan
10. Flordia
11. Tennesse
12. Auburn
13. Virgina
14. KSU
15. Clemson
16. Iowa
17. Nebraska
18. Louisville
19. West Virginia
20. NC State
21. Minnesota
22. Wisconsin
23. Cal
24. Maryland
25. Utah

A few more things...

If your beating a team somewhere around the 4th quarter you'll see the fans that are holding up signs get mad and just leave the stadium..

Before the season starts USC qb is ranked #1 as heisman.. and yes Mike Williams is on the game.. and UCONN Huskies QB is ranked in the top 5 best QB's in the game.

Jason White is preseason #2 for the Heisman behind Matt Leinhart from USC.. plus Mizzo have a guy on there along with K-State and the RB from Auburn..

yeah old spice is back also.. i haven't recruit yet.. I am taking it one game at a time.. don't wanna get burned out real fast like i did last year when i got the game 2 weeks before coming out.. So far every week i get a message telling me one of my players are messing up and i have to discipline them.. i always sit them for a quarter but the NCAA have a meter on how easy you are on them. For instance my CB did something that made it in the town newspaper and they wanted me to suspend him for 2 games and i just sit him for a quarter. so that raise the NCAA meter bar on watching my program

Ratings so far...

LSU runningbacks

#25 90 overall 91 speed
#10 89 overall 94 speed
#2 88 overall 92 speed
#22 84 overall 87 speed
#32 80 speed 89 speed

Arkansas QB

#9 88 overall with 85 speed..

Flordia State RB's

#3 89 overall 92 speed
#28 87 overall 96 speed

QB
#16 89 overall 70 speed

Pitts QB's

#11 80 overall with 62 speed
#3 80 oveall with 56 speed

V Tech QB's

#3 88 overall with 72 speed
#5 86 overall with 88 speed


Fastest players are tied between 2 guys. And yes one of them is a Miami Player and LSU

WR #4 82overall 99 speed 5'11 Soph.
WR #81 80 overall 99 speed 6'3 Freshman LSU

and Oregon Stud Freshman WR is 2nd best on the team at 80 overall with 94 speed 6'2 193

[JacktheRipper]

These are based on 2 1/2 weeks with a BETA copy. 90% of gameplay was on All-American. 10 pct on Varsity and Heisman didn't seem drastically different (although the CPU had a very promising run game on Heisman). Comments apply to both platforms.


+ Overall visuals are solid, polished and the new front end and icon driven menus really have grown on me. All the dynasty stuff looks great as always and keeps you interested in the action away from the field.

+ HFA is cool. Not revolutionary or game-changing, but good 'nuff.

+ In-game dynamic player ratings are great. Get a hot QB and you can go to your depth chart and see him listed like 88 (+4) when he's an 84 by default. Stuff like that applies for all positions.

+ Inside running game is better...not exponentially but seems like blockers hold their blocks a bit smarter and seal off the inside a bit more on some runs.

+ "User this and User that" is great, but finding it really inconsistent. Like I clearly have my defender a lot of times but rarely get the user tackle designation. User catch requires you to take control and MOVE the stick before any catch animation kicks in. Very cool.

+ QB accuracy is back to more of the 2003 model. Less consistent, less accurate, unless it's one of the game's elite throwers.

+ Control overall is still great. Battle for the ball in the air between a CB/S and WR is still fun.

+ Tip Drill stuff seems in check as far as frequency so far. No probs there.

+ The new defensive sets are great and really can give the offense a variety of looks. Much needed improvement.

- Okay here's the biggie, El Grando, Mucho Problema, Game Zappah so far. Speed just isn't there. On offense, I'm seeing plays where a 92 spd WR is being tracked step for step by a 75 spd LB across the middle. 94 spd HB getting run down by 77 spd DL that started chasing from a couple yards back. This does a couple of things. For starters, it ruins some of the excitement on O, because you know that very few running plays are going over 20 yards no matter what guys you make miss. On D, you don't care as much about making the tackle because you know someone else will a couple yards later. The risk/reward of tackling, pursuit and all that is kind of handled by the weird slowness of the offense. Not slowDOWN mind you, just slow...quicksandy feeling.

- Defense, in addition to having a bit of a wacky speed advantage, seems to pursue in much more of a flocking fashion...like a big herd that just turns and runs after the ball carrier goes past them or the WR catches the ball. This hasn't been impressive looking.

- QB has ALL DAY to throw versus a lot of zones. I mean 6 to 8 seconds.

Which is fine...becauseeeeee

- The Zones are pass killers. The guys are hyperreactive on D and shut down a LOT of the short routes. With work you can get the short game going, but forget about the YAC fun (as stated before). Haven't tried to cheese too much with QB taking off running, but the guess is that it'd be effective but not to the extent it was last year (D gets to ya faster).

- Thanks to the slower WRs/RBs, crazy D tracking, and great zones...you can expect your share of 6 of 24 passing performances. RBs out of the backfield just get completely SHADOWED by even below avg. linebackers, so those routes are low reward. Streaks still work and can still go the distance. A lot of games so far degenerate into "who will hit the streak in the 4th quarter?"

- Agile running system. Blech. Weird leg-shuffling, leaning, cuts that really serve little purpose than let the D (already fast enough) catch up to you. Sure you can make a guy miss here and there but the lost ground is a big cost.

- Dynasty suffers a bit because the CPU offense, on All-American at least, is PATHETIC. QB Draws every 10th play or so, terrible running, streaky passing at best. Need to try Heisman more.

[JacktheRipper]

Here are more:

Pitts RB's
#43 85 overall with 87 speed
#34 84 overall with 88 speed
#49 78 overall with 82 speed

and the intro of NCAA 2005 have a scene on Bourbon Street.. Nice looking females to bad we don't see any nude girl (haha)

Oregon
16 Fr. 16 So. 16 Jr. 19 Sr.

not ranked.. overall roster is ranked a B-..


when i said not ranked i meant not ranked in the top 25

Pitt have 2 WR's
#8 88 overall with 90 speed
#86 86 overall with 92 speed

Arkansas is a overall B- RB's #26 is 85 overall with 93 speed and #32 is 84 overall with 92 speed...


This is my last post till tomorrow or maybe later tonight but if you still don't believe me JUST DON'T THEN... However those who do, you will enjoyed this year game.. Injuries put sideline my LOLB for 3 week shoulder...

A few teams ratings...

Alabama
OVR B
OFF B
DEF B+
SPC C+


Arkansas
OVR B
OFF B
DEF B
SPC B


Auburn
OVR B
OFF B+
DEF B+
SPC B-


Cal
OVR B
OFF A-
DEF B
SPC C


FSU
OVR A-
OFF A
DEF A-
SPC B+


Georgia
OVR B+
OFF A-
DEF A-
SPC C+


LSU
OVR A-
OFF A-
DEF A-
SPC B+


Miami
OVR A-
OFF A-
DEF A-
SPC B


Ohio State
OVR A-
OFF A-
DEF A
SPC A


Oklahoma
OVR A+
OFF A+
DEF A+
SPC A


Texas
OVR A-
OFF A-
DEF A-
SPC A-


USC
OVR A
OFF A-
DEF A+
SPC A+


Note: Oklahoma is the ONLY A+ team this year. USC is the ONLY A team. The rest are A- and down...


Here is some more stuff that looks great.

[JacktheRipper]

I should have put this at the top but oh well. This is a guy that has the beta copy of the game. The mods and admins say he is legit. So there ya go.

So what do you guys think of that info?

[bluntside]

bamarulz2020 said:

#21 Minnesota 93 (90 spd)

It's good to see Marion Barber III get some love from the EA gang.

bamarulz2020 said:

I'm seeing plays where a 92 spd WR is being tracked step for step by a 75 spd LB across the middle. 94 spd HB getting run down by 77 spd DL that started chasing from a couple yards back.

This concerns me a little bit, but we'll have to see how the finished version plays.

bamarulz2020 said:

So far every week i get a message telling me one of my players are messing up and i have to discipline them.. i always sit them for a quarter but the NCAA have a meter on how easy you are on them. For instance my CB did something that made it in the town newspaper and they wanted me to suspend him for 2 games and i just sit him for a quarter. so that raise the NCAA meter bar on watching my program.

This is shaping up to be a really cool feature. I'm looking forward to see how nasty some of the players are in terms of how long the NCAA would like to see them sit.


Great find bamarulz2020. Hopefully we'll get overloaded with videos for the next 10 days.

[stellar]

bamarulz2020,

Could you please post some information about The Ohio State Buckeyes? How are their QBs and RBs? How about the defensive backs? Also how good and fast is Ted Ginn (Freshman CB #7). Who on the team besides AJ Hawk (LB #47) is over 90 overall?

Thanks a lot for your help. This info and anything else you could tell me about Ohio State would be much appreciated. Thanks again.

[JacktheRipper]

Stellar,

I wish I could, but I am just copying and pasting info from this one guy. He hasn't posted the info that you are looking for, and I don't have an advance copy (though I'd sell my sister for one). I go and check out topics every once in a while, so if he does post new info, I'll relay it to everyone here.

[JacktheRipper]

I have a little more info, via screenshots from that guy.

Number one, Mike Williams is in the game, if you didn't notice earlier.

A.J. Hawk is a 93, there is some MLB #51 who is an 88, and a ROLB #42 who is an 85.

Braylon Edwards is a 95, Jason Avant is a 87, and Steven Breaston is a 85.

That's bout it, goodbye.

[Gators]

Stellar I found these from maddenmania where someone got them from OS, not sure if its what you want but its OSU pictures.

[bluntside]

I'm really liking the new design of the depth chart/roster, especially the image of the player at the top of the screen. Kind of helps put a face on the number.

[LjSnUo]

This stuff is all great i think that they may have screwed Justin Vincent though because he was a top 10 back last year and he isnt in this years game.