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What EA Sports' Popular Franchise Would Look Like Today

The last installment of EA Sports' wildly popular NCAA Football series hit shelves five years ago this week.

If the game still existed, your neighborhood GameStop would have been packed late last night with fans trying to get their hands on a copy of NCAA Football 19 as soon as the clock struck midnight. But alas, we must dust off our outdated PlayStation 3 or XBOX 360 in order to get our virtual college football fix.

WHY THERE ISN'T A GAME

In 2009, former UCLA basketball player Ed O’Bannon sued Electronic Arts, the NCAA and the NCAA’s licensing partner, Collegiate Licensing Company, after he noticed that EA Sports’ NCAA Basketball 2009 featured him — albeit without his name — on one of its classic Bruins teams.