Custom Madden NCAA Football Simulator Helped LSU to National Championship

The NCAA Football season ended with LSU making Ohio State look like a bunch of noobs in the BCS Bowl last night. It turns out they had a secret weapon from EA Sports. Based on EA’s NCAA Football 08 game the PlayAction Simulator helped Matt Flynn and Ryan Perrilloux, LSU’s quarterbacks, to read the Ohio State defensive line.

The PlayAction version of NCAA Football probably isn’t much fun to play. Everything that isn’t play-related, like player celebrations and crowd cheering, has been stripped out. Plus, if the QB misreads a play it’s an automatic incompletion or interception. Still, the fact that these guys are learning from the game helps me to console myself that I could have played football. I only need to gain an extra 80 pounds and get over my irrational fear of choking on a mouth guard to really know.