EA Sports College Football 26 became available via early release for those who preordered the game’s deluxe edition. (Full release is Thursday, July 10th.) There are a handful of things South Carolina football fans should know about this year’s version of the game.

It's already been noted that two of college football 's biggest head coaches do not appear in the game. Neither Colorado's Deion Sanders nor North Carolina's Bill Belichick is a part of College Football 26. Instead, they have been replaced with fake characters.

College Football 26 is here. Nearly a year after the game made its triumphant return in 2024, EA Sports is set to release a new edition of the video game. The college football videogame landscape was dormant for 11 years after legal actions around NIL forced EA Sports to shutter its NCAA Football operation.