I know this has been stated in other threads but ESPN is making a huge mistake releasing the game after Madden. I myself am a Madden fan but with all the new features that ESPN has I'm really looking forward to the game.
The problem is if you are a fan of Madden or NCAA's gameplay for the most part you will hate ESPN's. For instance I gave 2k3 a shot after not playing Madden for a while and thought it was ok after hating it at first. Now that I got NCAA and played a few games, I tried to go back to 2k3 and I'm like this game is terrible.
If ESPN wanted to really challenge Madden this year I'm afraid a Sept 2nd release will not work to its advantage.