{"id":749361,"date":"2026-07-07T23:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/749361\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T23:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:01:15","slug":"why-isnt-deion-sanders-in-ea-sports-college-football-27-it-might-be-the-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/749361\/","title":{"rendered":"Why isn\u2019t Deion Sanders in EA Sports\u2019 College Football 27? It might be the money"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Deion<\/p>\n

Deion Sanders is one of four power-conference coaches whose likeness is not in College Football 27. Stacy Revere \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

July 7, 2026 Updated 4:41 pm EDT<\/p>\n

FRISCO, Texas \u2014 Colorado coach Deion Sanders says his absence in EA Sports\u2019 college football video game franchise is \u201cprobably\u201d because the company isn\u2019t paying him enough.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know about the video games. I have a wonderful team that handles a lot of business for me. If I\u2019m not in the game, that means they weren\u2019t paying enough,\u201d Sanders said Tuesday during Big 12 media days. \u201cIt probably didn\u2019t fit where we\u2019re going right now. That\u2019s probably it. It was probably just that simplistic.\u201d<\/p>\n

EA Sports\u2019 college football video game returned in July 2024<\/a> after an 11-year absence, and last year\u2019s game featured real-life coaches for the first time in the franchise\u2019s history. Last year, 12 coaches were not included in the game.<\/p>\n

This year, it\u2019s only seven: Sanders, North Carolina\u2019s Bill Belichick, Miami\u2019s Mario Cristobal, Iowa\u2019s Kirk Ferentz, Utah State\u2019s Bronco Mendenhall, Southern Miss\u2019 Blake Anderson and North Texas\u2019 Neal Brown.<\/p>\n

An EA spokesperson told\u00a0The Athletic that coaches aren\u2019t paid at all to be in the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll coaches and coordinators featured in EA Sports College Football 27 are included via unpaid licenses,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

Generic coaching avatars replace coaches who don\u2019t lend their likeness to the game.<\/p>\n

Belichick\u2019s likeness was also not included in the Madden NFL franchise for most of his tenure with the New England Patriots because he was not a member of the NFL Coaches Association, which manages licensing agreements with EA Sports.<\/p>\n

College Football 27 is set for wide release<\/a> on Thursday and could be purchased in advance last week.<\/p>\n

Colorado star Travis Hunter, who won the 2024 Heisman Trophy, was on the cover of the first game, College Football 25. EA said in November 2024 that College Football 25 was the best-selling sports video game of all time.<\/p>\n

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