EA Sports' NCAA College Football License Agreement Ends

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Richard Walker

EA Sports' agreement with the NCAA is at an end, with the organisation deciding not renew the license. This makes NCAA Football 14 the last game that will carry the NCAA title and logo, as the partnership expires in June 2014.

However, EA Sports will continue to develop College football titles, with an ESPN source claiming on Twitter that the the next entry in the franchise will release as College Football 15.

"EA Sports will continue to develop and publish college football games, but we will no longer include the NCAA names and marks," writes EA Sports' Executive VP Andrew Wilson on EA’s official site. "Our relationship with the Collegiate Licensing Company is strong and we are already working on a new game for next generation consoles which will launch next year and feature the college teams, leagues and all the innovation fans expect from EA Sports."

NCAA Football 14 launched last week in North America.

[Via MCV | Thanks, ScottieElisabeth]

Comments
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  • So EA is going to make a generic college football game and try to stuff there pockets with more $$ by not paying NCAA to use logos and names.
  • What is the point of continuing the College football franchise if they don't extend their licence with NCAA? If not it will just be a generic football game without real teams or names.
  • The way I understand it, it won't change much. The schools already license themselves individually for the game anyway. The NCAA is nothing more than a governing body that holds the rights to virtually nothing related to football. This might even eventually bring back old options that disappeared once they put the NCAA name on it like expanded playoffs instead of bowls, etc. that the NCAA had removed because they didn't like it being in there.
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