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New NCAA Football Game Unlikely As NCAA Working Group Deems Group Licenses “Unworkable in College Athletics”

Student-athletes may soon be paid for their name, image and likeness, but that alone won't bring back the NCAA Football video game.

Talks of changes to the NCAA's name, image and likeness rules brought renewed hope that we'd soon see a return of the NCAA Football Video game, but it seems that hope was misguided.

Despite the NCAA Board of Governors' support for rule changes that would allow student-athletes to be paid for their name, image and likeness (NIL), a college football video game does not appear to be in the cards anytime soon as an NCAA working group determined that group licenses for video games are “unworkable in college sports.