NCAA Football 2010 has a new feature called Season Showdown. You can compete and represent NC State if you own NCAA Football 2010 on any console or participate on the official website:

http://www.easportsworld.com/en_US/ncaafootball/seasonshowdown

This competition is an opportunity to represent your school of choice in a virtual battle for domination, bragging rights, and ultimate fanatic pride.

The main phases of the competition:
Phase 1: This is the pre-season (Only 11 days to go) where schools are trying to jocky for possition going into the real season. A few features are still unavailable, but still enough to keep things competative and challenging each day.

Phase 2: The regular season, where the final features become active. Each weak revolves around the real-life match-up your school will face at the end of each week. Beat your match-up in 3 out of 5 categories and you get a boost in the overall standings.

Phase 3: The top 32 schools at the end of the season will compete in a tournament style competition. I assume the winning critiera will be consistent from the regular season. This final tournament will determine it all.

Right now NC State is ranked #47 out of 120. We have less than 900 registered gamers representing our school (Ohio State, who is currently #1 has over 19,000). I'm not expecting for us to take this over and win it all, but we can at least put up more of a fight. Peer school, such as GA Tech, UNC, etc have a few thousand users.

Feel free to use this thread to discuss tips on earning credits for NC State and discussing our overall progress.

Right Now, this is what you can do:
*Gamers:
-- compete vs CPU
-- compete vs other players
*Internet:
-- take trivia challenges (each week, the top 10 from each school goes towards the schools total trivia points)

What to wait for:
*Gamers:
-- Play vs. school's weekly opponent
*Internet:
-- Allies & Rivals: i dont know what this is yet

[Edited on August 20, 2009 at 12:53 AM. Reason : ]

8/20/2009 12:44:48 AM

what is this so called "NCAA Football 2010" you speak of?

tell me more...

8/20/2009 1:47:43 AM

so basically EA just wants me to play the game a lot?

8/20/2009 6:10:23 AM

^ Basically. However, you don't need to own or play the actual game to participate. The Trivia portion can be completed through the link provided.

8/20/2009 7:34:28 AM

NC State is still hanging strong. We are up to a little over 900 users.

For any of you on the fence, or have given up hope, I have found an easy quick way to earn credits for NC State. A casual player can earn 10K credits in a week with my strategy, which is HUGE for player to do in a week. I just started playing last Tuesday, and I am already over 10K credits with semi-causal playing (average about 1-2 hours per day). I jumped up to #50 in NC State's ranking of their 900 players in less than a week.

Here is what you do for quick and easy credits:
1) Select Play now and Exb. game
2) Play as NC State (auto 10 credits for loyalty)
3) Play a higher ranked team (15 credits points for underdog wins)
4) Set difficulty to rookie and Quarter lengths to 1 minute

Basically, you play a 4 minute game. With built in pauses and clock stops, it takes about 12 minutes to play in real-time.

For winning, you earn 150 credits (150 win, 10 loyalty, 15 underdog = 175 credits just for getting the quick and easy win... for additional points, make sure to kneel the ball if you are up in the 4th quarter for 10 sportsmanship credits a pop. Any extra strategy or skills points earned are a bonus. With the 175 credit base score, it is easy to average 200 credits per game. This means, you can earn on average 1000 credits per hour. Consider an actual game w/ normal difficulty and 5 min quarters takes 30-45 minutes minimum just to earn maybe 300 to 400 credits. This strategy is the best I've been able to figure out so far, but if anyone else has others, please share.

[Edited on August 23, 2009 at 8:03 PM. Reason : ]

8/23/2009 8:03:35 PM

If you're winning in the 4th, turn "Chew Clock" on for a bunch of sportsmanship points.

8/23/2009 8:05:22 PM

Has the matchup against So. Carolina started yet?

8/31/2009 1:26:05 PM

We have a chance at beating USC in the NCAA Football 2010 Season Showdown
We only need to win 3 out of 5 categories
-- we will lose playing vs CPU and vs Nation
-- we have a small edge in Allies/Rivals and vs Showdown Opponent
-- we are within striking distance for Triva - only about 8K credits behind and it's not hard to get about 500 pts per person.

You will need to register a username, but we can win this if we have a small surge of players. right now, we only have about 30 different people actually doing trivia for NC state

http://www.easportsworld.com/en_US/ncaafootball/trivia_challenge

9/5/2009 11:49:38 AM