re: What was your best NCAA Football moment?

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Wasn't there a 12 team max in online leagues?

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In the game? I have no clue.

All of this was done on that website I linked(which is homemade by one of our league members), and before that site, we did it on a site called League Daddy. So we'd have to report our scores/team stats/player stats and write recaps after the game, and the sites would track the standings and league leaders and what not.

League Daddy was very popular when the online leagues were at their height of success. There were plenty of 120 team leagues that popped up and they either didn't last long or they'd end up with guys owning multiple teams. Our league went 120 strong(or however many teams in D1) for almost 10 years, it was the GOAT, easily.

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What was your best NCAA Football moment?

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I was beating the brakes off of people online with Rice. Everyone would be so confused as to why I'd pick Rice...They had a WR that had 95+ speed, agility, catching (I think his name was Jared Dillard or something). Along with a very good QB.

I felt like I would return a kick off every game with him.

Playing on heisman and always fumbling on the goal line against a ranked team just to have CPU drive down and score the winning TD.

Every time. Every season.

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I'm about as big of a fan of the NCAA series as there is, playing to get atop or near the top of those leaderboards...i'd rather gouge my own eyes out. 1. You're going to play only cheesers when you get into that realm of top ranked players so it's the least enjoyable games you can possibly play 2. Against 90% of them, you simply won't win unless you cheese it up yourself...again there's no enjoyment in that.

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All of this is true, but I must say the first couple of weeks the game came out there wasn't that much cheesing because everyone was still trying to figure the game out.

In NCAA 2010 or 2011 I think they added the multiplayer leagues when multiple people could coach and play with a team.

My brother, my best friend, and myself all 3 created fake schools, started them as cupcakes (D- overall) and put them in the SEC.

In my 4th year I went undefeated (including beating my undefeated brother in the SECCG in OT), and won the Natty

It was the first time one of us had won the SEC or the Natty

In one of the versions with Dynasty mode, it took a very long time, but I managed to win the national title with UAB, and then Vanderbilt.

This is a very long story so please be ready to read a short novel.

My best friend could never beat me. Ever. It didn't matter that he always bought the game every year or that he played all the time. For whatever reason I just flat out had his number. This streak ran from the original Bill Walsh on Sega in '93 through NCAA Football 2001 on Playstation.

It didn't matter what teams we played as. I'd even let him pick both teams and I'd still win. Making it all the more infuriating to him was that he could often beat other kids who could beat me. It made no sense that I could constantly blow him out while I'd lose to people he had no trouble with. Even my little brother who was 4 years younger than me could occasionally beat me so it's not like I was some incredible player.

Over the years he had developed the habit of turned the game off when I would get too far ahead for his liking. It was understandable b/c getting beat by 6 touchdowns for 7 years straight really had to suck arse. All of this led to my most memorable game to the point that I still remember how the second half went down.

Anyway, this particular game I was really doing well and was up 35-0 at the half in an A&M vs A&M matchup. As he got mad and went to turn off the system I asked him if he'd keep playing if we switched sides and I would promise to not go for two or attempt onside kicks. (which didn't really mean much b/c I'm horrible at those) Since he would be getting the ball first in the second half and was willing to take a win any way he could get it he agreed. After a huge kick return he proceeded to march down the field and score on that first possession. A 42-0 lead w/ 5 minute quarters seemed insurmountable. He was finally going to win.

In those days I mostly ran out of the I-formation much like A&M did under RC Slocum. But since I was down so big I decided to run nothing but shotgun. This wasn't exactly my best formation but I figured there just wasn't enough time to run my typical offense. This was well before I was good enough in the passing game to reliably run slants all day as I typically went for teams with strong running games. I settled on mostly plays that had at least one WR running a streak and one running either a post or a flag.

First possession I scored in 2 plays. 42-7 He gets the ball and throws an INT on a play action first play. From the 35 I again go back to shotgun and get a TD in one play on a steak down the left side. 42-14. He decides right then and there to start bleeding clock. After a 3 and out I get the ball back around midfield. Feeling lucky I run the same play and this time hit the WR on the right side who is running the slant twice in a row for the TD. 42-21. He gets the ball back and after 3 straight runs up the middle the 3rd quarter ends.

4th quarter starts and he has to punt. I have a great return and start with the ball on his side of the 50. Once again after 2 plays I'm in the endzone. 42-28. The curse words are starting to fly and he is starting to melt down. This time he tries to use a few screen passes to change things up. Unfortunately, this leads to him getting shoved out of bounds shy of the first down on 3rd. He again punts and I somehow am able to return it for a TD. (this isn't something I often did) 42-35. Now with something like a minute and a half he gets the ball back and actually gets a pretty good return to about midfield. On the first play he breaks a run and gets a first down to about the 35 and I have to use my first time out. It seems like he'll survive the comeback.

So he decides to play for a FG (something he was actually pretty good at) and starts running up the gut and forcing me to use my final two timeouts. He is able to run it down to about the 25. He lines up for a kick he usually makes, snaps the ball..... and I block it! I return the ball to midfield. No timeouts. Less than 20 seconds. It's Hail Mary time.

I'm not sure what defense he ran, I only know it wasn't a prevent. I suspect it must have been some sort of combo zone designed to stop me from using the sidelines. Either way, as I snap the ball I see the inside WR on the left is streaking down the field uncovered. I threw it up and held my breath.

A&M's WRs in those days were often nothing to write home about. Usually there would be one, maybe two pretty fast dudes you might know even as a fan of the team while the rest were JAG type players. That year though, they actually had 3 guys that were pretty good. Robert Ferguson, Chris Cole, and Bethel Johnson all made it to the NFL. While none of them reached their potential in the NFL, they were a pretty damn good college trio and were probably the best group of WRs A&M ever had to that point. Then there was Dwain Goynes. He is probably best remembered by A&M fans (TexAgs posters anyway) for a game against Wyoming when Pam Ward thought he was down at the half yard line on a TD call. The dude had one thing going for him though. Speed.

As the ball floated in the air all I could think was he was going to randomly drop the pass. NCAA was always annoying w/how WRs seemed to drop easy catches with nobody around to defend them. This time, however, Dwain came through. Once he caught that ball it was off the races. Time runs out before he gets the endzone and the rubber band speed of the defense makes it seem like he will get caught. But he doesn't. He is a touchdown! (A&M radio play by play announcer Dave South reference for non Ags) My friend is now dropping F bombs. (which at the time was very rare) I kick the extra point and its on to overtime! 42-42.

He wins the toss and decides to play defense like 99% of the world would do. But now the pressure if off. I can run my offense. I run left, I run right, I run up the gut... I'm not sure how many plays I ran. I just know they were all running plays. The touchdown comes off a fullback dive up the middle. It's now 49-42. I still have to defend the second half of OT. It doesn't last long. First play, my friend throws a fade into the endzone. It looks like a sure TD. But instead of catching it, the WR tips it up and it gets picked off by one of my DBs. Game over.

My friend is enraged. He throws the controller down and starts ranting about the damn game hating him, that this was a setup, that I knew how to cheat somehow. He was saying anything he could to try and process what had just happened. I sit silently trying to not rub it in. Finally the red starts to leave his face. I tell him this could have happened to anyone, I was lucky, I got all the breaks. It doesn't help. He just looks down at the ground completely defeated. About 30 minutes later after some half hearted attempts to shoot some hoops outside he goes home.

That was the last time my best friend since the 3rd grade ever played with or against me in a video game. He hasn't bought a game system since. To this day I have never been able to dominate anyone in anything the way I could kick his arse at NCAA.

poor fella

Mine is Madden on the Sega.

One glitch in Madden 95 was the Hail Mary was too easy to complete. It was an evenly matched game, and in the last minute the losing team kept throwing (and completing) Hail Marys. I made one with just a few seconds remaining. Then the opponent threw one as time expired...and made it for the win.

This is Madden and is bittersweet because of the quitting MF.

I was playing ultimate team and got matched up with a similarly matched user and from the beginning I am crushing him. Pick returns, long runs, fumble returns. In MUT I had about 60 at halftime. Come 4th quarter I'm thinking this dude has so much patience to be playing and trying through this. He's trying to run time and not let me score and is punting. All the while I am getting close to 100. Just nothing was going his way. I crack 100 with about a minute left and then he does three delay of games and it kicks him. I never thought to check the stats when he was doing that.

Another on Madden was playing a guy who just joined my league as the niners in Madden 17. He was undefeated and wrecking teams but played cheasy. We had sim rules but since he trash talked and was killing people the commishes wanted to play him themselves. I got him week 15 and he was 14-0. He went up 14-7 in a hard hitting defensive slugfest. He relied on a cheese playbook he made with adjusted audibles and would switch to what the defense came out in but I just stayed heavy with fast LBs and stuffed the run and made him pass through zone.

Well I have ball with about a minute left and promptly Tom Brady down the field of about 60 yards and score with about 5 seconds left and we go to OT.

He gets ball first and I force a punt and he kept running c4 all game. I knew cheat plays to beat it and came out with fake screen fade in the trio and audibled a hitch to fade and the safety and corner both bit down on that and the WE next to him ran open for the game winning score.

Prior he bragged about taking on #1 on headboard and #5 and winning and I beat him both sim and him cheasing. He then got kicked too.