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Until Saturday Newsletter<\/strong> \ud83c\udfc8\u00a0| This is The Athletic\u2019s college football newsletter. Sign up here<\/a> to receive Until Saturday directly in your inbox.<\/p>\n

Today in college football news, it\u2019s the 10th birthday of the greatest pop album ever, \u201cEmotion\u201d by Carly Rae Jepsen. I might prefer \u201cDedicated Side B,\u201d though.<\/p>\n

The Video Game: Dynasty mode, the main event<\/p>\n

Absolutely, it\u2019s time to lead the newsletter with the video game again. (Though if you\u2019re not into the video game, there\u2019s other stuff below.<\/strong> And to be fair, it\u2019s June.)<\/p>\n

Moments ago, EA Sports released the second \u201cdeep dive\u201d video<\/a> previewing the upcoming followup to the record-setting College Football 25<\/a>, this time highlighting new features in Dynasty mode \u2014 aka the team-management mode, aka the mode in which some of us will once again spend 99 percent of our time with this game.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Chris Vannini and David Ubben, who\u2019ve spent a good bit of time with the July 10 release, just discussed some of their favorite new Dynasty features<\/a> \u2026<\/p>\n

David:<\/strong> \u201cWe\u2019re underrating how much having real coaches (more than 300 head coaches and coordinators) will add a new element to the game<\/strong> as a whole and, specifically, Dynasty mode. When you create a coach, it often feels like you\u2019re stepping into a fantasy version of college football. Adding player names helped make it more real, and coaches will make it even more so.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2026 and their hopes for further improvement:<\/p>\n

Chris: <\/strong>\u201cThere will finally be protected opponents. You can select one or two in a conference. This was announced for last year but pulled at the last minute. \u2026 I still miss the ability to take control of games not involving your team.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m most interested in what appears to be improved recruiting<\/strong> (like a busier transfer portal and my team\u2019s position needs appearing right up top, rather than on a separate screen) and the series regaining some historical record-keeping (the return of your own Trophy Room, along with an ever-updating list of national champions from 1869 onward, which some of us are carefully scrutinizing by comparing to the champs crowned in 2017 by the Colley Matrix<\/a> and in 1984 by the University of Alabama<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Also, when I read this sentence by Robby Kalland at CBS<\/a>, I literally fist-pumped:<\/p>\n

\u201cPro Potential got a tweak so it doesn\u2019t just evaluate the talent you have on the roster at present, but factors in your draft results for the past four seasons.\u201d<\/p>\n

No longer will my Colorado State Rams or FIU Panthers be punished for going a year without a draft pick in between first-round Biletnikoff winners.<\/p>\n

(A correction: Last week, I described mass substitutions as being \u201cabsent\u201d from last year\u2019s edition. It was absent at launch, when I put in the far majority of my hours, but was patched in a bit later. Still, this year\u2019s game looks like it has better lineup management.)<\/p>\n

Quick Snaps<\/p>\n

\ud83e\uddd1\u200d\ud83c\udf3e \u201cIn some crazy way, I enjoy all the crazy stuff that\u2019s going on the last couple of years here with our game and the landscape and all that. It\u2019s almost like a challenge.\u201d <\/p>\n