EA Sports knows its football

by Kevan Lee on Jun 5, 2008 12:15 PM PDT in Boise State football Comment 7 comments

While so-called experts are making preseason picks about WAC champions and dark-horse BCS candidates, EA Sports is speaking the plain truth. And nothing says credibility like a video game.

Fight Fight BSU brought us news of Bronco Stadium being one of the toughest places to play in NCAA Football 09, and today we find that the team rankings in the game are optimistic, too. EA Sports lists Boise State and Hawaii as the best teams in the WAC with Fresno State a distant third. Here is the predicted order of finish judging from the total team rankings (in parentheses)

Boise State (77)
Hawaii (77)
Fresno State (74)
New Mexico State (74)
Nevada (69)
LaTech (69)
San Jose State (62)
Utah State (60)
Idaho (60)

We were also pleased to find out that EA thinks Utah State has the worst offense in college football and Idaho has the worst defense in college football. We haven't felt this good about a video game since we went undefeated in Madden 05 on the Gamecube.

NCAA Football 09 rosters [EA Sports]

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How does NMSU have that high of a score? Their amazing offense dropped exactly zero points on BSU last year.

by Drew on Jun 5, 2008 12:42 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Personally, I think Hawaii is going to drop off greatly this year. They lost all their weapons on offense. Not to mention the new coach and new system.

Besides, Hawaii is the type of school that will get good for one year when everything falls right then drop back off due to how tough it is to recruit there. They just can’t easily reload when they lose the talent they lost last year.

by Jason Haberman on Jun 5, 2008 1:06 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I was surprised with NMSU, too. Maybe we shouldn’t be putting this much stock in video games after all.

I think Hawaii’s ranking is a nod to their season from last year. Even though they lost a ton of players, I bet EA gave them the benefit of the doubt on a number of rankings.

by kevanlee on Jun 5, 2008 5:12 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Distant third for Fresno State? Three points is not distant, my orange-afroed friend.

by Benjamin Baxter on Jun 5, 2008 5:55 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Bbaxter, three points seems a lot farther away when it is the same distance between the Broncos and New Mexico State. You’re right, though, the video game gap may be closer than we think.

by kevanlee on Jun 5, 2008 6:26 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

They screwed up a little on the Nevada offense though, and have NMSU ranked to high.

We were number 11 overall offense last year and return 8. A little more credit should have been given there.

NMSU is so hyped it’s ridiculous. It’ll show again this year.

by Packfan7 on Jun 6, 2008 11:00 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs