GSG

I've never been a big game player so I may not understand this but why is Michigan State included with these other 9 teams? 9 of them make sense to me but couldn't/shouldn't #10 be someone like Alabama, Florida State, Michigan, Ohio State......?

And if it's based on recency bias, shouldn't a few of those be in place of even Nebraska? Is it a licensing or legal issue?

@JJ Husker  This is a complete guess, but some of it may have to do with where each state/school is at with NIL etc.   I know in '20 there was absolutely no one I wanted to play as.  I also think it may have something to do with getting more apparel sponsorship money in the game.  NBA2k does quite a bit of apparel branding, and I'd imagine that helps bring in more revenue for the game.  For instance, I don't believe any Adidas schools were represented in the very s#!tty Face of the Franchise/career mode for last year's Madden.  I'm very open to corrections though.  Madden '20, as I mentioned in the thread, had you only play two games on your University team.  What GSG is saying is that in '21 you will play two whole seasons.

You may also be on to something with the licensing.  Maybe 'bama was wanting more money for the licensing than EA was willing to offer.  

They replaced FSU and Texas Tech with Nebraska and Michigan State from what I've seen. I think the idea was not just have Bama, Clemson, Ohio St, etc. every year