Subscriber Q&A: Ben Haumiller on the New EA Sports College Football Game
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast
Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner
4.9 • 916 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Part 2 of our conversation with EA Sports College Football principal game designer Ben Haumiller. Ben takes a bunch of subscriber questions on the upcoming CFB game and the state of college sports video gaming in general:
* How to actually learn to play a football video game
* Incorporating the House settlement and NIL
* How a new 'gadget” position” embraces the reality of modern depth charts
* Improvements to the coach carousel
* The process of putting music in the game
* The customization options for conferences and teams (or, in other words, why you cannot destroy the SEC and put all the teams back in the SoCon)
* Different uses for Team Builder
* The potential for a custom stadium builder, one day
* Whether kicking and loud road environments are still impossible
* Adding scandals to college sports video games
And more. Thanks for Ben for joining us, and thanks to our subscribers for not just supporting the show but providing the inspiration for this one. Join us on a free trial and get lots more episodes as well as question-asking rights.
Producer: Anthony Vito
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| 0:00.0 | We're coming, and we ain't backing down. |
| 0:01.9 | We don't need a bunch of cats in here. |
| 0:03.4 | Looking in the mirror. |
| 0:04.5 | Everybody just do your job. |
| 0:06.7 | You understand that? |
| 0:07.7 | Hey, will you shut up? |
| 0:08.6 | I'm bitterly disappointed with the officiating today. |
| 0:11.1 | Guys being dudes. |
| 0:12.3 | And they run through our like a shit through a ten horn, man. |
| 0:14.7 | Ah, fuck it. |
| 0:16.3 | Thank you, Lee. |
| 0:17.7 | Alex Kirchner here with Richard Johnson and our guest this week, Ben Homiller, the principal game designer for EA Sports College Football 26. Ben, you down to answer some questions directly from the mouths of splits, undo, or the keyboards of splits, undoos subscribers? |
| 0:31.5 | Absolutely, Alex. And to the, if the person's listening who happened to see us talking at Burgers Never Say Die a couple years ago and came up to talk to you. |
| 0:41.7 | I was just a random guy who was sitting at the table. |
| 0:44.3 | Yeah, no, we were having a conversation about the game. |
| 0:46.0 | So that that person didn't even realize that what was going on at the time. |
| 0:49.3 | You know, what's funny is that I live in Los Angeles now, as I talk about on this podcast sometimes. |
| 0:53.5 | And I think that is one of maximum two or three times that I've in Los Angeles now, as I talk about on this podcast sometimes. And I think that is |
| 0:54.7 | one of maximum two or three times that I've actually met a listener in Los Angeles. It was more |
| 1:01.5 | common when I lived in D.C. And like whenever we are in like Atlanta for something, I'm always very chuffed |
| 1:06.0 | because we have a lot of listeners there. But that was like a big, a huge ego moment for me because |
| 1:12.6 | Ben was under the impression that Los Angeles is just crawling with people coming up to |
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