EA Sports college football is……almost back.
EA Sports is developing a new college football video game for the summer of 2024 after huge news dropped this week.
The Brandr Group, which helps facilitate collegiate group licensing deals, has withdrawn its lawsuit against EA Sports and its upcoming College Football 24 video game, according to Matt Brown of Extra Points and Michael Smith of the Sports Business Journal.
The speculation about the game has now been put to bed and the powers to be can get back to work to get the game out that everyone has missed for a long time.
BrandR sued over the NIL deals that EA was offering to college football players, arguing that EA was violating the company’s contracts with schools and its exclusive group licensing rights for players.
A statement from EA Sports stated the suit had no merit and the company was pleased to see BrandR withdraw its claims. The full statement:
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“We are pleased that BrandR has decided to withdraw their claims without any payment from EA. We’ve been clear from the beginning that this suit had no merit. Our focus continues to be on directly licensing individual college athlete name and likeness rights through an opt-in program that will give college athletes the choice if they want to be in our game. We’re pleased to move on from these claims and look forward to delivering EA SPORTS College Football in Summer 2024.”
In conclusion: It’s time.
Fans took to X and showed just how much they loved this news:
The last college football video game produced by EA Sports came out in 2013 — NCAA 14. Denard Robinson, the former Michigan quarterback, was on the last cover.
