EA Sports College Football 26 Reviews

EA Sports College Football 26 is ranked in the 93rd percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
8 / 10
Jul 16, 2025

EA Sports College Football 26 builds on its solid foundations and celebrates what makes the college experience and its teams so unique.

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4.5 / 5.0
Jul 15, 2025

Everything that sold everyone on College Football 25 is bigger and better in College Football 26. Check out our review.

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8 / 10.0
Jul 14, 2025

So, EA Sports College Football 26 is better than last year albeit demonstrating its superiority in a measurement of inches rather than miles. That said, the raft of incremental improvements, massive amount of content to stuck into which when married with EA's reliably all-star, blockbuster presentation which succeeds in emulating the audiovisual sensation of the real-life spectacle mean that EA Sports College Football 26 remains an essential purchase for those looking to hit digital college gridiron. All in all, EA College Football 26 is the best football game to come along for a good while and once again supplants the Madden NFL franchise as the premier gaming series for America's most passionate sporting pastime.

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8 / 10.0
Jul 16, 2025

EA Sports College Football 26 is like being in the stands among the fans of your favourite team, living the traditions and experiencing the explosive gameplay as if you were actually there.

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Jul 14, 2025

An Audio and Visual Upgrade but some parts fall flat, This is the nature of yearly sport games unfortunately. But the ability to play from High School all the way to the NFL is a reason I would get both College Football & Madden this year.

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8 / 10.0
Jul 14, 2025

If you're a college football fan, this year's EA offering is a no-brainer. Even for newcomers, it's worth checking out thanks to the impressive customization and depth packed into the game. Coaches now have realistic counterparts, while new archetypes and a revamped transfer portal add meaningful layers to Dynasty mode. There are some hiccups, like persistent online lag, but overall, the series is clearly on a winning trajectory.

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Jul 16, 2025

EA Sports College Football 26 is a strong successor to its entertaining predecessor, packed with atmosphere, stadiums, teams, and modes for every type of player—though Road to Glory feels a bit flat and Ultimate Team leans heavily into monetization, the gameplay is solid, the performance smooth, and for college football fans, it’s a no-brainer.

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8.5 / 10.0
Jul 15, 2025

EA Sports College Football 26 is a step forward in the right direction and builds really well from where CFB 25 left off. There are plenty of quality of life additions from menus and UI to even more sliders and options for players for the various game modes.

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Jul 14, 2025

College Football 26 feels like a sensible step forward, a step back, and standing still all at once. Gameplay is even better than it was before, Road to Glory is somehow worse, and Dynasty is just about what it was last year. There are certainly worse outcomes for an annual sports title, but it is important to go in knowing that EA hasn't exactly reinvented the wheel.

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Jul 11, 2025

One of the reasons for its best-in-class performance is that while Ultimate Team is here, and sound, other modes – and those rivalries! – are given the space to outshine it.

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8.5 / 10.0
Jul 11, 2025

College Football 26 didn’t throw out the playbook from its first year back, but it didn’t need to. Instead, iterative improvements and quality-of-life adjustments build upon an already strong foundation.

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Tom's Guide
Top Critic
Jul 11, 2025

EA Sports College Football 26 is the second game in the revival of the franchise. After a solid debut, CFB 26 adds more to the mix with big improvements to neglected modes and presentation.

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9 / 10.0
Aug 21, 2020

College Football 26, from developer EA Orlando, is a marvelous football experience that picks up where the series left off last year and the years prior. It brings a good personality, refined gameplay that feels optimized and natural on offense and defense, and plenty of modes to keep college football fanatics happy. The only real hiccup in the game is teammate reaction and intelligence. It’s lacking and needs some improvement.

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8.9 / 10.0
Jul 10, 2025

I can say, without any exaggeration, that EA SPORTS College Football 26 is the best American football game I have ever played.

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Jesse Norris
Top Critic
8.5 / 10.0
Jul 7, 2025

Yearly sports titles tend to be small upgrades. College Football 26 is different, as CF25 set the groundwork after over a decade away. ’26 takes a more-is-better approach and smashes it. This is one of the best-playing and most realistic-feeling college sports titles I have ever played.

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