EA Sports college football game returns & Sooners update with Jason Kersey
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 5 February 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The Earth is healing. EA Sports' college football video game will one day be in our hands, that is now a fact. Andy and The Athletic's Oklahoma Sooners scribe Jason Kersey have longed for the days of Dynasty Mode (2:00). With everyone caught up in the moment, it's important to revisit how we arrived here (4:00). Assuming we snag a PS5, which player during the game's hiatus do we want to play as the most (12:15)? The guys swap their favorite football video game stories (14:15) before chatting about Oklahoma's recent big name transfers (17:00). Arkansas-Arkansas St. is finally coming to Little Rock, and an obituary for the history books is shared (25:00).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. |
| 0:11.3 | Big, big news in the world of college sports this week. |
| 0:14.4 | Not national signing day, because look, everybody knows the real national signing days in December now. |
| 0:18.9 | Like four guys signed on Wednesday. |
| 0:20.5 | Nobody cares. The news everybody cares about is that EA sports is bringing back a college |
| 0:28.2 | football video game. We don't know exactly when. We don't know exactly how it will look. |
| 0:32.5 | But they have said they are bringing back a game. And that is massive, massive news, especially for one |
| 0:40.1 | member of our college football staff at the athletic. Our Oklahoma beatwriter Jason Kersey, |
| 0:45.7 | he's still got a PlayStation 3 just so he can play NCAA 14. He actually played to celebrate the |
| 0:52.4 | news. Jason, what did you think when you heard? |
| 0:56.8 | Well, you know, I know we're going to get into this later, but, you know, I, when I started it up the other night, I made a dynasty with Arkansas State randomly and decided to schedule Arkansas because they'll never play. |
| 1:08.4 | And then literally the next day they announced that game. |
| 1:11.2 | And I didn't know that that was coming. It is the week of hell freezing over it. That's what this is. |
| 1:16.8 | I know. I know. But yeah, no, that game, from the time I was probably 13 and I had my old |
| 1:22.7 | PlayStation, original PlayStation, and NCAA, until they stopped making it. That was just a huge part of my life. |
| 1:30.4 | I mean, I'm one of those guys who had a group of friends in my dorm, my freshman year |
| 1:34.3 | college, who played a dynasty together. I was still playing dynasties with my brother and |
| 1:39.7 | our friend up until, you know, as an adult covering college football, I was like checking |
| 1:46.0 | EA sports website to do my online recruiting when I was on the road to cover real games. |
| 1:51.4 | I mean, I love that game. So the other day, like, was the happiest maybe I've been in a long |
| 1:58.2 | time, certainly since the beginning of the pandemic. I'll tell you that. |
| 2:02.3 | What is the greatest dynasty you've ever created in NCAA football? Because I had a mailbag |
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