Crazy things you've seen in FB games thread.

[alifeincomplete]

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The craziest? Central Michigan defeating Notre Dame when I was simming seasons of NCAA 10 for Madden draft classes.

The most frustrating? NFL 2K5, AFC Championship game of Denver at Buffalo. Denver scored 21 points on me in three minutes off three huge pass plays and I climbed out of a huge deficit throughout the see-saw game. I lead the Bills down field with a minute left and score, leaving Denver all of 15 seconds on the clock. They throw one final pass for seventy-some yards and score, retaking the lead and beating me by three.

Ugh, I had dreams about that game afterward, haha.

[skeezapleez]

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I was playing a game as Purdue against Wisconsin. I was ranked #8 as Purdue with a 7-1 record I believe and Wisconsin had a 3-4 record. The game was going back and forth the whole time until it got to the 4th quarter when Wisconsin took a 34-24 lead on me off a kickoff return for a TD(does this happen a lot to others?)...I drove down the field on the ensuing kickoff and scored a TD to make it 34-31...I kicked it off and stopped them with a 3 and out...I drove all the way down the field again after they punted off to me and with 5 seconds left on the clock it was 4th and Goal on the 1 yard line...they had stopped me on my previous 2 attempts after nearly getting it in on 1st down...so I was in a pickle, go for it to win the game or kick the field goal and send it to OT...the way the game had gone back and forth I didn't think I stood any chance in OT so I called a HB Dive on the goal line and scored with 2 seconds left which put me up 38-34...i ended the game with a botched squib attempt but that game left m sweating...still moved up 3 spots to #5 after that game though

[TheLeviticalLawKid3]

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I've seen some insane upsets in this year's version while in dynasty mode. Alabama got beat by 17 to the one and only North Texas. Notre Dame has lost to a FCS team on more than one occasion, and Florida loses to Kentucky almost every year I play.

[mm boost]

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Great story MM Boost. Your draw play in triple OT was an amazing call. The instant replay reversal also sound quite amazing.

The link below is a video on EA Sportsworld from an online game I played on NCAA 2009 last year. The other guy was Kansas and I was Idaho. We slugged it out toe to toe and the game went into OT. Here's the scenario of the play you are about to see... I was down by 7 in OT, it was 4th and goal to go from the 10 yd line. Do or die. If you watch the play closely you will see that the LE for Kansas appears to get chop blocked and I thought he was going down. he didn't go down though !! It was a just a stumble. In last years game, I would always jump out of the pocket if I saw the DE go down from a chop block. However... as I am about to run past this fallen defender, he catches his balance and is right on my heels. I tuck the ball at the 15 yd line and run away from him trying to get some space. You can see him stumble again at the 20 yd line as he misses a "big hit" tackle. The missed big hit gives me a little space to reverse and head back up field toward the end zone, and the DE is once again on my heels somehow. This is the cool part though... So as I am running back toward the line of scrimmage.. I am reading the receivers as I am running. You can see I have a rcvr one on one by the front pylon, but he's cvrd tight. That rcvr decides to clear out and starts running away from me.. but another rcvr comes into view. He's streaking thru the back of the endzone with two defenders trailing him. Without even thinking, I let the ball go at around the 15, trying to place a touch pass over top of the rcvr that is clearing out and dropping it in for the streaker. It's about the most perfect throw I could make. The ball floats down perfectly and the rcvr makes the grab doing a beautiful toe drag as he is going out of bounds for what appeared to be a miraculous TD.

Ahh...not so fast to celebrate though. His toe drag started just a hair out of bounds and the play is ruled INC. in fact, you can see the defenders celebrating the call immediately after it happens.

http://www.easports.com/media/play/video/1322264

My opponent had his mic open the whole time by the way. He was a young father with his kids in the room. I could hear all of them the entire game ooo-ing and ahhh-ing on differnet plays. Their reaction to winning on that play was very cool I could hear them going crazy as the DE missed two tackles on me before I threw the ball. It took all of us a moment to realize it was an INC pass afterwards too.

Even though I lost, I am just very happy that EA even allowed an out of bounds toe drag to exist. It would have been easy for programmers to overlook that and make all toe drags in bounds. But they didn't and as a result we got all this drama. Very cool.

Thanks bro, I love the emotion that goes into these games, and I appreciate the story you just shared, that sounded completely awesome. I will be sure to keep posting mine, hopefully more guys like you do the same.

[mm boost]

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Again, Playmaker's sliders never seize to amaze me. Moved onto the next game of my dynasty last night with Tech, 7-0 going into thursday night game against a struggling UNC team that started ranked high and 3-0, and has dropped 4 straight, coming in 3-4. I moved up to number #2 in the latest polls (Florida #1) as Oklahoma dropped a big game the previous week. Coming in, I viewed this as a game to really piece together the team and re-group before the ACC Championship game and Bowl game. The game started out, opening possession UNC has the ball. First play, huge loss in backfield of 4 yards on a toss play, on 2nd down, they drop back, pass, ball hits receiver's hands, and Barquell Rivers knocks the african american out of the guy as the ball falls to the ground. At this point, 3rd and 14, we are due for a nice blow out and a stat building game. On the next play, qb drops back, hits tight end and gets a 29 yard gain out of it. I am thinkin ok, fluke play. Next play, they blaze me, and on the rest of the drive, they totally shred me apart, driving to a touchdown, over 80 some yards on 12 plays, 7-0. I get the ball, try to stay poised. I run on first down, stuffed. I run on 2nd down, stuffed with 1 yard gain. 3rd down and 9, I drop back, pass to an in route to danny coale, and he is slammed, only 3 yard gain, they held me to 3 and out I have to punt ball back. So they get the ball, and drive right back down the field with hardly any effort. So i changed my gameplan to Aggressive, and finally make some big tackles and bone jarring hits on receivers to force incompletions, and I hold them to a field goal, 10-0. So at this point, I am feeling the pressure, but I get the ball, and try to improve my playcalling. I finally started getting in a rythm at the end of the 1st quarter, as I move down to their redzone. First quarter ended, 10-0 and the commentators made a comment about upset alert and how they was surprised at UNC's performance thus far. So I start the 2nd quarter, with a few running plays, and then finally get a hand off to darren evans and run it in for 6, score is now 10-7. They get the ball back, and just like the 1st quarter, they blaze me down the field, getting into the redzone. They drop back, I bought 3 on a blitz with a pinch, and about 3 guys come free in the qb's face and he gets DRILLED as he dumps the ball off underneath tryin to hit their wr on a hot route, but barquell rivers jumps the pass for the INT. At this point, I am jacked up!! Chance to take the lead. So I drive down, but they force me to kick a field goal, and I don't disappoint. 10-10. They get the ball, and AGAIN blast my defense down the field, making a huge 34 yard pass play as I converge on the tight end and tackle him short on the 1 yard line. I am sweatin bullets at this point, but I call sam blitz goaline defense and I break through the middle as they do play action, spear the qb but he gets the ball off on a fade route, but I take control of stephan virgil and jump over the wr's shoulder and make a huge interception in the endzone. Get the ball at the 20 with around 3 minutes left. I drive right down the field, call an option on the 7 yard line, they blitz the house but had their linebackers focused on my tailback and forgot about tyrod, and I bust it up the seam and in for a touchdown, 17-10...alright!!!!! making a comeback now! So they get the ball with around 1:43 left in the half, but for once my defense stands strong and I hold them 3 and out and use all my timeouts but one, getting the ball back with around 40 seconds left on my own 39 yard line. First play, I hit a big pass play to my receiver to the right, but tackeled in bounds at the 50 yard line, get them back to scrimmage and hike the ball with 25 seconds left, no one open, I scramble to try to get to sideline, but I am tackled just across the marker to stay in bounds around the 40 yard line...hurry up offense, I get the ball off with 9 seconds left in the half, I hit sam wheeler to the left and he is tackled at the 36 yard line and I call a time out just as he lands with 1 second left on the clock. I line up, kick it and the ball just tips the cross bar and goes in from 53 yards out, to make it 20-10 going into half time! I am feeling good at this point, 20 un-answered points, defense stepping up strong in 2nd quarter and I get ball to start the half. So 2nd half kicks off, I get the ball, but cannot mount any type of momentum, and they force me to punt. They get the ball, and here comes the tarheels, driving down the field, but defense holding strong on the goaline holding them to a field goal. 20-13. So i get the ball, and HERE comes my hokies that I am used to! Tyrod is hitting all his targets, darren evans is hitting the holes hard and gettin separation. I get down in the redzone, and as easy as I moved the ball, I was thinking to myself "this is gonna be automatic points, they can't stop me at all". I am at the 8 yard line, i call a pass to the right, I drop back to the 13, I get hit in the backside, and the ball flies up, OH GOD, here comes their defensive end as he snags the ball and he runs it back 87 yards for the touchdown...the commentators, for some reason are like screaming in excitement, I could not believe how real it looked and sounded. So they tie the game at 20 as we approach 4th quarter. They line up, kick the ball off and I receive it at my 8 yard line with stephan virgil, as I break it to the right and stutter step back to the left and I Am off to the races, taking it back for a touchdown as I am on my feet at this point, 27-20. So i kick the ball back off and they return it to my 46 yard line, hell of a return, but last line of defense makes a shoe string tackle on sideline. So after a few plays, they get in range, kick the field goal, and its 27-23 going into 4th quarter, me motioning 4th quarter with my 4 fingers in the air. I get the ball, drive down, and get down and score a td, making it 34-23. Feeling I have the momentum, my defense starts playing sloppy as they drive down, score a td on a slant across the middle as the guy dives and rolls across the goaline, 34-30. On the ensuing possession, with 3 minutes left, I am determined to atleast get a field goal, but my dreams were quickly shot down. I drop back on a playaction after they stuff my run twice on 3rd and 13, and again I am hit in the back, ball goes flying in the air, their same defensive end catches the ball after juggling it, and he runs it back in for a touchdown, 37-34...at this point i am screaming NOOO what did i do!?!?! So i quickly regain my composure, take the ball with 2:55 left and drive right down the field, and score on a 7 yard iso with backup ryan williams with 1:50ish left in the game to go up 41-37. I was thinking to myself, I left way too much time on the clock, as they have 3 time outs. They get the ball but return it to their own 49, I was so pissed off. Anyways, first play, they drop back, through a fade route down the sideline, but look who it is! Stephan Virgil, AGAIN jumping over the receiver for the INT, at this point I am screaming GAME OVER GAME OVER!!!!! WRONG! I get the ball, and instead of gettin a first down, they use 2 time outs after stuffing the run twice, and I drop back on a playaction full back fake tryin to hit darren evans but the ball sails over his head for an incompletion to stop the clock with 1:20 seconds left and one time out. I am outside of field goal range, so I drop back, and I punt the ball with max coverage called. I run down the field with my defender, and I dive at the 5 at the same time the ball is coming down and he kinda rolls to the side and catches the ball at the 4, keeping it from going in the endzone, PERFECT special teams play. So 1:15ish seconds left, 4 yard line, 96 yards to go to win. First play, they call 3 wr to left, drop back, pass, its batted down. Next play, same formation, throw the ball up, my defender drills the receiver as the ball falls helplessly to the ground. I noticed on these 2 plays, they ran 3 wr to the left, so on 3rd down, I run dime 3-2-6, and I do QB Trap and blitz my right side inside corner. Sure enough, they call the same formation, I bring my corner up beside the linebacker, send a confusing stunt with the line, and I come off the edge and deliver a crushing spear from his blindside to grab the safety, going up 43-37 with a mere 60 seconds left on the clock. They punt it to me, i return it safely, knee it a couple times and run out the clock, securing the win, 43-37...I narrowly escaped that game, it was so intense and some serious ramifications for ACC division if I would have lost. So I go back to ESPN headlines, and I was punished for my narrow escape over UNC. I go to Polls, I am still ranked #2, but when I checked the BCS polls, they dropped me just behind #3 Jayhawks! Wow! I checked their schedule though, and they still have to beat a #19 ranked team and have to beat Texas to prove they belong ahead of me. Of course the way I played last night, I have to prove myself. I am traveling to ECU next week to take on a #21 ranked ECU team that has upset Tech before. Matter of fact, I am actually picked to lose this game, so the upset alert panic button has been pressed. I am going to have to play lights out football to finish off a perfect season. Hope you guys enjoyed my game, mates.

[DeskCoder]

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I've seen some insane upsets in this year's version while in dynasty mode. Alabama got beat by 17 to the one and only North Texas. Notre Dame has lost to a FCS team on more than one occasion, and Florida loses to Kentucky almost every year I play.

In my dynasty Ohio State is 0-3 against Toledo. And Toledo sucks, never winning more than 5 games a year.

[skeezapleez]

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Played in the Sugar Bowl last night as #4 Purdue against #7 Texas. Colt McCoy threw all over me all game, I lost my starting RB and TE for the entirety of the game(among other injuries). Somehow I managed to eek out a FG as time expired to win the game 24-21.

I should not have won that game. Thank you football gods.

[gator15]

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craziest thing i did was scoring 110 on miami on hiesman 7 minuet quarters. No joke (or cheesing). I had like 8 ints (5 or 6 brought back for TDs) and just could not be stopped on offense. The best ive ever played, and probably the worst ive ever seen the cpu play. Yes, I ran up the score, but I was up 65-0 at halftime.

[hitstreak13]

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Nice stories guys. In NCAA 06, I was Washington and was playing at home against Michigan State. The game took me a full 2.5 hours as I beat them 81-72 (was in college so eh). I still have the stats written down on my computer because I never had such a game with so much offense (or lack of defense) since or even before that. Isiah Stanback went 33-50 for 633 yards and 8 scores, Drew Stanton went 41-66 for 556 and 5 scores, Their running backs rushed for 366 yards while mine compiled 383.

I don't get to play much now with work and all, but that was just incredible. Ironically enough, that same season USC came to town and beat me 6-3 on a last second field goal. I have always played 10 minute quarters so that was a defensive game from the get go. Stanback went 10-24 for 55 yards that game and my running backs carried the ball 30 times for just 63 yards.

Granted USC is a much better team, but I have never been held under 7 points in any NCAA game nor have I scored more than 60 before or since that.

[Raddy]

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This just happened a few minutes ago, so I had to post it.

I was playing against Alabama as Georgia Tech in an online ranked match. My offense stalled in the first half and I wasn't doing very well; right before half-time the other guy scored a touchdown on me and then faked a field goal and got the two-point conversion to make it 25-14. I got the ball to start the second half and still couldn't get anything going and wound up punting it. On their next drive, I held Alabama to a field goal to make it 28-14. After returning the kick-off to my 35 yard, I drove down the field and capped it off with a 47-yard PA pass to make it 28-21.

On the very next play, he ran a screen pass (which he'd been doing all game with frustrating success), but I sacked him before he got it off and recovered the fumble. On the first offensive play, I optioned my fullback up the middle and broke it for a huge gain. I could have scored but there was still time left on the clock so I tried to run it down a bit by standing at the goal line, but the guy I was playing must have thought I was taunting him. I scored on the and f'ed up the kickoff, and he returned it my 48-yard line. He ran another screen pass on his first play and ran it to my one-yard line. He tried to get me back by standing on my goal line and diving as I tried to tackle him, but I hit him from both sides as he dove and he fumbled the ball, which I recovered on my 1-yard line. I again ran the ball up the middle to try and get some breathing room, but he thought I was going right and my FB ran the ball 99 yards to take the lead (an A++ play according to the post-game highlights :wink. He got the ball back with two minutes left and scored with 20 seconds left to make it 35-35. I didn't get anything on the my drive and we went into OT.

I won the toss and took defense first. He gained big yards with a screen pass on his first play and took it to my 5-yard line. The next play I stuffed the run. On second down I sacked him for a ten-yard loss. On third down, he tried to run a screen again, but this time I crashed the line to the left to sack the QB and blitzed my LB's to the right to pick up the screen, and I hit him as he threw and my defensive end got the interception to end his drive. On my drive, I just ran it up the gut three times in a row and kicked a field goal to win the game.

[mm boost]

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Wow, I am impressed, that is awesome!!!

[mm boost]

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This is a crazy thing, but more of a "I didn't know you could do that". I was playing UVa last night, last game of my season they was #25, I was #3 VT and we won 70-48. In the game, lined up to kick the extra point, ball was snapped, soon as my holder got the ball I accidentally hit the controller on my leg and it pressed either the l2 or r2 button, and instead of kicking, the placeholder stood up and 2 of my receivers popped out and went for a pass, almost like you would do if it was a bobbled snap in real life. Has anyone else seen this or did I just experience a glitch? It was pretty cool cause they brought the house, had I knew what i was doing and completed the pass, i would have got an easy 2, but it stuned me more than anything, so I just stood there and got hit. Can someone else confirm this?

[canes21]

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Are you sure it wasn't a fake FG from the start?

[mm boost]

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I have never ever called a fake field goal, and the way it looked, it looked very unnatural, the fake didnt look planned. Very weird.

[UnderRatedCoast]

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When I was in the army I used to play co-op dynasties on Madden and NCAA with my roommate. We were playing Madden 03 and were using the 49ers, since that was our favorite team. We had a system on field goals where we would try and run a stunt to get a guy through unblocked, but it never worked. One game came down to a short field goal by the opposing team to win the game with only about 15 seconds left...we were all tied up. They snapped the ball, and we ran our stunt...I ran through the line with a CB untouched and jumped, blocking the kick. Not only did I block it, my roommate switched to Merton Hanks and picked up the ball. There was no one between him and the endzone, and I had my player running side by side to the endzone. The funniest thing about this game was that neither of us had been able to figure out how to high step into the end zone by this point, and we just figured there were always defenders that were too close. Well, as we get inside the twenty, we're both going nuts. I start yelling, "do the high step! do the high step!" So he starts pushing buttons. First he hurdles, then he spins, then stiff arms...nothing. Then out of nowhere a defender comes FLYING into the screen and hits him on the 1 yard line. Not only do we not score the TD, but Hanks fumbles the ball into the endzone and it bounces out of bounds. So the other team gets a touchback with two seconds left. Had he not fumbled it, we could have just kicked the field goal for the win, and we ended up losing in OT because NFL rules are stupid and we never even got the ball. Now that was a classic luulz ending to the game.