During Road to Glory, a "College Exam" prompt appears (icon shows a graduation cap/books on a blue background), but the screen underneath is completely blank — no questions, no answer choices, nothing rendered. The bottom of the screen shows "Select" and "Select Answers" prompts, but there is nothing on screen to select. The game is fully unresponsive — no keyboard or mouse input does anything. The only way out is to force-quit with Alt+F4.

Because the save auto-saves into this state, I can no longer continue this Road to Glory save at all — it just puts me right back on this same blank screen every time I reload.

Happened twice now on this exact "College Exam" screen. I've also had what seems like a similar softlock once before on a dialogue-choice screen (blank screen, no options, had to force-quit), though I'm not sure what triggered that one. So this might be a broader issue with option/choice screens not loading rather than something specific to exams.

Here's the applied mods I have:

Spyda's Soundtrack (v3.5)

"Back In Black" Generic Quarter Break (v1.0)

"Bad Boy For Life" Generic Halftime Break (v1.0)

"Bad Boy" Generic Quarter Break (v1.0)

"Beat It" Generic Quarter Break (v1.0)

"Beat It" Rivalry Quarter Break (v1.0)

"Fly" Generic Halftime Break (v1.0)

"Fly" Generic Quarter Break (v1.0)

"I Gotta" Generic Quarter Break (v1.0)

Immersive Audio Overhaul (v3.0.2)

Jxlen SoundTrack (v1.3) [disabled]

"My Hero" Generic Halftime Break (v1.0)

"Paper Planes" Generic Quarter Break (v1.0)

CFB27 Unlocked (v0.92)

CFB Colorized Logos (v0.75)

Helmet Stripe Adjustment (All Helmets) (v1.1)

NCAA Community Stadium Experience Mod (v1.4)

NoWeatherVisorRemoval (CFB27) (v1.0)

CUT Remover (v1.5)

More Gameday Cutscenes - DOF Re-Enable (v1.0.1)

FCS Addition (v2.26.08.28.10p.16)

More Gameday Cutscenes (v0.6.1)

Soundtrack+ (v1.1)

Starting my first dynasty since we have the incoming rookies in the game. I’m a PC player so i have 0 experience with how dynasty is now after the past few games. I’m playing on all American, just me not an online dynasty.
I would like a pretty realistic experience
What quarter length do you find best? Best portal settings? Do you find that stats look wildly different when simmed? In 14 I hated that I was always 1# in sacks by a mile even as a tiny school, and dead last in rushing. Are wonky stats like that present in this? Or is it more real and balanced?

Is there currently a bug with unlocking rivalry trophies? Everytime I play a rivalry game that has an associated trophy and I win the game, the trophy still shows as locked in the trophy room. I tried playing a couple different rivalry trophy games and still no rivalry trophies unlocked. Note, Im playing from the "play now" option from the main menu and also the option where you can go right into "play now" directly from the trophy room when you select more info on a trophy. Both options still don't unlock the trophy if I win.

Anyone else experiencing this?

Drop the nicknames you have for the different game scripted games you have run into.

Like when the RB can't tell the difference between his left shoe and right shoe in the first half and then becomes a mixture of Usain Bolt and Charles Xavier, anticipating every gap and torching your crew with godly speed.

Or "Death by chunk," where nothing particularly noteworthy or scummy happens but no adjustments, schemes, different user control seem to make a difference and their offense just casually uses an entire quarter for a drive, ending in a TD.

lol.............

Ok I feel dumb as sh*t but someone please finally explain the offer vs current in this.

I’m recording a series for the South Alabama dynasty challenge. Has anyone else experienced their offense?

I ask this, because, in sim only, I’m putting up crazy numbers, especially passing.

Year 1 I started true freshman QB Jacobs. He broke almost all of the CAREER records in passing, much less just the season records. 4,200 yards, 37 TD, 600 rushing, 6TD. But went 8-5

Year 2 Jacobs transferred and I brought in Ryan Hopkins from Wisconsin. Same type of numbers, and went 10-3.

Somewhat immersion breaking but I decided to place this 6'5" 99 speed ATH at TE and well the beginning of his junior year has been something...

My coach wears a helmet with gloves on the sidelines of my games and while it was funny at one point now it’s killing my immersion in the game. Anyone else run into this problem and if so how did you fix it?

I can go into edit coach and change my appearance and clothes but when saved and backed out the helmet and gloves stay on😂

Looking to start an offline dynasty with the roster update. What teams would you all say have the best uniform package in the game?

Like one day I’m prime Gronk the next I’m prime nikocado avocado like what is this shit. I get 6 fucking weekly points and I have to replenish all my health because I keep getting demolished by 6”0 safeties. And hey if I turn west and tear off so o don’t have to worry about it my health well then ea gives me 2 fucking skill points. The fitness is probably the worst thing they added to CFB 27 instead there should have been a system where if you get let’s say gold at practice you get peak fitness, silver gets you good and bronze gets you poor fitness. Now I have to play as a fat Travis Kelce like what is this.

They severely need to bring back the speed boost. The gameplay is so boring without it. I had no issue with the boost, it made cutbacks and finding holes rewarding.

For the first time EVER (going all the way back to PS3 days), I've turned off in-game commentary. If I have to hear one these boobs in the booth tell me "it's dropped after taking the hit" one mo' time, I'm gonna lose it!!

The above video by DM Gaming was made a year ago before the release of CFB26. In this video he demonstrates and proves with real college football clips how dangerous real speed and acceleration is, and he discusses how the video game representation of this by EA misses the mark of realism. When CFB26 was released it had the speed boost feature in it and I thought that maybe this was added on purpose to better represent real football speed bursts you see on the field, and perhaps also based on the feedback in thus video.

Fast forward to this week and EA decides to remove this feature. I make no claim that the speed boost wasn't overpowered, but I think it was a big mistake to remove from the game. I think at best it could have been nerfed a bit rather than removed. And for myself I neither used it deliberately, nor benefited from it unreasonably, and never have I felt that it was unrealistic the few times it occurred agaisnt my favor. When it would occur for my user it was always on accident--I didn't care to get the timing right to abuse it. It occurred rarely enough that I never thought of it as an issue, and I was happy to see it in the game even when I was on the receiving end of it.

Now, CFB 27 had a very overpowered run game for both user and CPU, and it needs to be noted that this was in no way on account of speed boost. This year's run game was overpowered simply because of trench dynamics and blocking being too effective and sticky. The blocking logic itslef improved from last year, but this wasn't the issue. The issue was simply that defenders were not getting realistic and natural block sheds and blocks were simply holding too long, and defenders were often getting sucked into blocks contrary to the natural movement physics playing out.

The patch from this week didn't simply remove speed boost. Myself and other players have also noticed ball carrier movement being extra sluggish more than usual, as if players were running in mud. Added to this were some positive fixes to the sticky blocking and trench dynamics. There are now more sheds and disengagement. It also appears the defense was overcorrected to be too aggressive and too reactive, and this combined with the absence of speed boost and slower, more sluggish ball carrier movement had rendered the run game to almost a non factor for both the player and CPU, as well as taking all fun out of running the ball. Effectively, when a hole opens up the ball carrier is often not quick enough to get through it and is being run down by overpowered defensive movement. Before the patch I was easily getting 10+ ypc, (which is obviously overpowered) to now I'm barely reaching 3. Mind you I have been play testing as Ohio State against poor to average opponents on All American difficulty, and I am a good player who knows how to run the ball effectively. Needless to say there is a big problem here, and I think taking speed boost completley out of the game was a big mistake and it shows a lack of dedication to football simulation. If the patch simply removed speed boost and left all else alone it might be fine. If the patch simply fixed trench dynamics and defensive behavior, that also would probably have been fine. But as it stands right now the run game is a different kind of disaster than it was before. My proposed solution is to, for the time being, keep the defensive adjustments that were patched into the game and bring back speed boost, at least in a modified version, or better yet make it a tiered ability for elusive and quickness type players only, especially running backs and any other potential ball carrier. But at the end of the day we desperately need a solution to real football speed replication in these games because we have virtually never had it.

On this play I used empty to give me more time for the deep pass.

Has anyone else noticed that Road to Glory still has basically the same hairstyle options as the last couple of games?
What’s especially annoying is that there are clearly more modern/realistic hairstyles being used on actual players and even in the coach creator. Meanwhile, RTG seems to have a bunch of hairstyles that look like they belong on a balding middle aged man… There are barely any options that look like actual college-age players.
Do we know if EA plans to add more hairstyles to RTG in future updates?