Pregame Setup
ATHLETIC DEPT
Use the Athletic Dept menu to view and manage team rosters.
VIEW ROSTERS
View the player rosters of each college team. Rosters will show the physical attributes and skill ratings of each player by rating each stat based on a scale of 1-100.
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Press the Right/Left Directional Button to choose a team roster.
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Press the Up/Down Directional Button to view the entire roster and player ratings.
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Press O and O to cycle through other skill categories.
BLUE CHIP RECRUITING
Recruit the nation's top blue chip incoming freshmen and junior college transfers. At the end of a Season, your blue chips may be selected to the All-Freshmen team.
GO RECRUITING
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Press the Right/Left Directional Button to select a blue chip team or press START to have the CPU randomly select a team for you. Be sure to review your team's roster to see what kind of players your team needs.
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Press the Up/Down Directional Button to choose a Playbook. Selecting the type of Playbook your team will be using will help determine the type of quarterback you'll be recruiting. Choose a Passing or Balanced Playbook to recruit a classic drop back passing QB. Choose a Running Playbook to recruit a dynamic option QB.
OFFICIAL VISITS
From this screen you'll choose one of five recruits from nine positions.
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Press the Up/Down Directional Button to select a blue chip recruit. Frosh indicates a college true freshman. Junior indicates a junior college transfer.
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Press to check a recruit and invite him on an official visit. If a school is highlighted in blue under school preferences, the recruit has given that school a verbal commitment. Flashing numbers indicate a gamebreaker. The higher a blue chip's overall attribute, the more attention he'll attract.
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Press to continue and repeat the previous steps to invite all nine recruits to your school.
LETTER OF INTENT DAY
On Letter of Intent Day, you'll know which recruits have chosen your school. The list of players will be shown on the screen.
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Press the Right/Left Directional Button to view the recruits that other colleges have landed. Each blue chip signing with your school will be automatically placed on the roster depth chart and issued a jersey number.
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Press to keep the current recruiting class or to discard and go recruiting again.
CREATE WALK-ON
Create Walk-On allows you to be creative in building the perfect football machine. Or for fun, create yourself using your own physical attributes.
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Press the Up/Down Directional Button to a player attribute, then the Left/Right Directional Button to raise/lower the attribute selection. Notice that the player ratings at the bottom of the screen adjust as you alter the player attributes, retaining the characteristics of a complete player. Press and hold L2 + the Right/Left Directional Button to move the attribute slider more rapidly. Press R1 + R2 to reset all slider settings.
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Press to continue to the Place Walk-On screen.
PLACE WALK-ON
Choose a walk-on and place him on your team.
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Press the Up/Down Directional Button to select the team option, then the Left/Right Directional Button to choose a team.
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Press the Up/Down Directional Button to select the jersey number, then the Left/Right Directional Button to choose a number.
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Press the Up/Down Directional Button to select the walk-on, then the Left/Right Directional Button to select a player position. Determine your walk-on's position by the NCAA Prospects listing. If the prospects are an option quarterback or a halfback, select one of those two choices for your player's position.
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Press the Up/Down Directional Button to choose a player to replace and press .
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Press & replace the player.
EDIT SCHEDULE
Switch a game on the schedule to a different date or give your team a breather from the college grind by creating a BYE on the schedule where it didn't exist before. You can also change the opponent of a scheduled game or simply change a game from Away to Home and give your team an advantage in an important matchup.
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Press the Right/Left Directional Button to choose a team schedule.
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Press the Up/Down Directional Button to choose a game on the schedule.
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Press the Right/Left Directional Button to change opponents.
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To change the location of the game to Home or Away, press O.
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To change the week to a BYE week, press O.
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To choose a random opponent for a game, press 8. Pressing L2+ will choose random opponents for the entire schedule.
LOAD/SAVE TEAMS
After you have created players and/or altered rosters, save teams to the MEMORY CARD. You can also load a previously saved team. A team cannot be loaded after a Season has been started. If you attempt to load a previously saved Bowl Season or Tournament, your current Bowl Season or Tournament will be canceled.
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Before altering files, select a MEMORY CARD slot by using the Directional Buttons to select MEMORY CARD slot 1 or MEMORY CARD slot 2 and pressing .
To save a team settings/seniors
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Press the Directional Buttons to select Save Team and press .
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Press the Right/Left Directional Button to select a team and press .
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