re: EA College Football 25 Megathread - Mizzou stadium model leaked (early build)

Based on how Madden has treated the read option, I'm really curious to see how the flexbone and other option based playbooks work in this game.

It seems like in Madden if the defense doesn't have the setting to play the QB turned on it just automatically guards the QB if they have high speed, or it goes RB if its a slower QB (so your runs will be wide open, but you might not get far). If they have play the QB on, then the computer pretty much always contains the QB.

Ultimately how you run the triple-option depends on that first read, which is essentially just a read option but reading an iDL. If they use the Madden method, then the offense could basically be reduced to handoffs to the B Back. Now you're not running triple option every play, but it has to be part of your offense to open up the rest of the playbook.

With the most used method on defense of controlling the MLB (though I would argue user controlling a safety and bringing them into the box is better against triple option as long as you have decent corners) all you have to do is fill the gap the initial read creates and the offense is shut down.