{"id":319384,"date":"2026-06-02T17:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/319384\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T17:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:07:14","slug":"ut-star-lands-on-ea-sports-college-football-27-deluxe-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/319384\/","title":{"rendered":"UT star lands on EA Sports College Football 27 deluxe cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EA Sports College Football 27 announced its cover athletes for both the standard and deluxe versions of the title on Tuesday, and the star linebacker from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/schools\/duncanville\/football\/2025\/schedule\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Duncanville<\/a> is among the faces immortalized on this year&#8217;s game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ole Miss running back Kewan Lacy, Miami wide receiver Malachi Toney and Oregon quarterback Dante Moore are the featured players <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EASPORTSCollege\/status\/2061823941916651689?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">on the standard version<\/a> this season, while Simmons, Indiana head coach Curt\u00a0Cignetti, USC quarterback Jayden Maiava\u00a0and Notre Dame cornerback Leonard Moore also collectively grace <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EASPORTSCollege\/status\/2061826276218843402?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">the deluxe edition<\/a> alongside them.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons becomes the second Longhorns player to land cover honors since the game&#8217;s return to prominence in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>EA Sports rebooted its college football franchise two years ago after an 11-year hiatus, and College Football 25 became one of the best-selling sports video games in U.S. history. Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers, Colorado two-way star Travis Hunter and Michigan running back Donovan Edwards were on the cover that year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>EA Sports College Football 27 is scheduled to release worldwide on July 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EA Sports College Football 27 announced its cover athletes for both the standard and deluxe versions of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[826,132,134,133,1638,88145],"class_list":["post-319384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-arts-entertainment","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-brief","tag-tp-colleges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}