EA Sports returns to college football … minus the college players

Electronic Arts announced today that it is working on a new college football game, the first since NCAA College Football 14’s release in 2013. However, it will not use the names or likenesses of any student athletes.

Issues around the rights and fees for those likenesses were behind EA’s departure from college football games in the first place. EA now has a new deal with CLC, the leading collegiate trademark licensing company, that will permits its games to use “more than 100 institutions featuring the logos, stadiums, uniforms, gameday traditions and more.”