Herb Streit and Fowler to provide voices for EA Sports college football game featuring all FBS teams

Kirk Herbstreit and Chris Fowler are in the game.

ESPN “College Game Day” Analyst herbstreit and network broadcast stations Fowler On Thursday, he announced on social media that he will be providing the voice for EA Sports’ upcoming college football video game. Analysts David Pollack and Jesse Palmer made similar announcements.

This broadcast update comes on the same day that media outlets, including ESPN, reported that FBS soccer players were receiving invitations from EA Sports to have their names, images and likenesses featured in-game. I was disappointed. Scheduled to be released in summer 2024.

EA Sports Vice President of Marketing, Communications and Partnerships John Liseberg said Thursday. on social media It states that the game is “NIL on a scale never before done.”

“Over 11,000 individual NIL transactions happening at once. Athletes who opt in will have guaranteed income. It’s in the game,” Reseberg tweeted.

EA Sports College Football 25 will feature all 134 of the video game developer’s FBS teams. announced.

Notre Dame’s participation had been a big question mark since the school announced in 2021 that it would not participate “until rules regarding student-athlete participation are finalized.” But Fighting Irish athletic director Jack Swarbrick said Tuesday they are on board.

“EA SPORTS’ initiative to give more than 11,000 college athletes the opportunity to directly profit from their name, image, and likeness is the first of its kind, and we are proud of it. I am proud to have been a part of the process,” Swarbrick said. statement on social media.

Sean O’Brien, Vice President of Business Development at EA Sports said: told ESPN Players who opt in will receive $600 and a copy of the game.

EA Sports senior vice president Darryl Holt told ESPN that generic avatars created “based on the traditional strengths and weaknesses of the position over the past 10 years at that school” will replace players who opt out. He said it will be used for.

Holt also told the network that gamers won’t be able to create opt-out players, but “we won’t reveal how we’ll deal with that.”

“But yeah, you can’t edit it,” Holt told ESPN.

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AP College Football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-football