But the star today is the EA Sports College Football 27 video game.

We got to play it for the first time.

And, Ari, we played the mascot game.

Masked game's back.

That was one of my favorite functions of the older game.

You don't, it's not something you're going to play every time, but it's fun.

Yeah, well, the one big breaking news piece that we have for you guys is that

you cannot tackle the duke mascot or the james madison mascot duke by his cape um so if you think

you should be able to should be able to strangle him with it that's part of the game but we did

play it andy and you have played it intermittently i've played it. Certainly played it a heck of a lot more

in 25 when it first came out. But this is 27. What were your initial thoughts of the game?

So the thing that jumps out at me the most is quarterback play in the pocket. The thing that always

drove me crazy is that I would have a quarterback who I knew was a good runner who's a good athlete and he's just sort of wobbling around and looking very robotic in the pocket. You have to press, you have to press a button if you want to scramble, and then you can move, but then you can't throw. And that always bothered me. And now it feels like when you play as an athletic quarterback, he can move.

Like I was playing as Trinidad Shambliss when we were playing LSU Ole Miss. And that playing as Trinidad, you could move around in the pocket. He could escape and still throw. He could keep the play alive to throw, which we talk about quarterbacks all the time. Like in real life, that's what you need to be able to do. in the game, you kind of had to decide, I'm going to throw this or I'm going to run this.

There wasn't a lot of escapability. Now it feels like there's some escapeability. Yeah. And as you're looking on YouTube, a perfect outpass with the James Madison Duke all the way to the house. Sorry about that, Andy. but the thing that I noticed about this. Yeah, you couldn't tackle Eric Singleton, Jr. when I was playing at Florida. Let's be honest with them. Okay. It is a game that if you're expecting massive year-over-year changes, that's not what you're getting. They're not going to do that because they know they know you like the game. you've bought a lot of the copies of the game. They know you want to see,

like, you want to see Lane Kiff Because they know, they know you like the game. You've bought a lot of the copies of the game.

They know you want to see, like, you want to see Lane Kiffin at LSU. You, you want to see new guys in new places.

And it's funny because there are so many new players in new places. We played as Ohio State at Texas.

We set that game up, that week two game. And I was Ohio State and you were Texas. And like, when I got on defense and saw Quay Rusaw coming off the edge for Ohio State, I was like, oh my God, he transferred from Alabama and Ohio State. That's right. And the mechanism in the game, too, where they put stars underneath the star players. Yes. There were a lot of them on the field at the same time what i wanted to say andy is for me is something that matters a lot to me

is graphics and that we've continued on into this new 21st century of amazing graphics they got

sharper i thought yeah uniforms were crisp your the player movements were more smooth. It felt to me more realistic, more smooth. As you were mentioning with the quarterback play, I thought that it was a really well-done sharpening of the actual visuals of it. Now, there's a lot of changes when it comes to the dynasty mode and how you recruit and all the things they do. We'll get into that as you get closer to the game because they didn't let us get a chance to play with that as much today. So we'll get into that as we get closer. I think that in the menus and in the dynasty mode is where the majority of the changes are going to be. But for college football nerds like me and you yes people listening to the show it's just cool

like in the b-roll here you see lane kiffin coming out of the tunnel at lSU you see new graphics

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