EA Sports College Football Will Include Tech To 'Seamlessly' Integrate Player Likenesses

EA said that it will be able to add real-world college athlete likeness to its upcoming NCAA Football game “very seamlessly” thanks to a “database structure” of the game’s technical architecture.

With the Supreme Court’s ruling that student athletes can profit off of their name, image, and likeness, the doors have been opened for companies like EA to potentially return to using real-world athletes in sports games. To this point EA’s response has measured, saying that it is watching for developments and plans to explore the possibility of implementing real-world athletes into their games.

"We are building architecture of the game with database structure if and when that comes online we can add it to the game very seamlessly,” EA Chief Operating Officer Blake Jorgensen says.

The statement indicates that EA is certainly building up some sort of technical infrastructure that would allow it to more easily implement real-world athletes’ name, image, and likeness. What form that ultimately takes though, and how quickly it can be achieved, remains unknown. 

For now, don’t expect any new developments anytime soon. EA announced it was returning to college football games way back in February 2021, despite the lack of student athletes’ likeness.

Details (including release date) have yet to be announced for EA Sports College Football, or any other college sports games EA may have plans for. Collegiate Licensing Current indications are that the next college football game may not arrive until 2023.

Joseph Knoop is a writer/producer for IGN.