Deion Sanders is finally headed into EA Sports College Football 27, giving Colorado fans something they’d been missing since the game’s return in 2024.
Sanders said Monday that he’s being added to the game for the first time, and EA’s Tuesday update is set to include him as Colorado’s coach. Until now, he had been absent from all three editions released since the series came back.
His omission was part of a larger group at launch on July 9. Sanders was one of seven coaches left out of the game, along with Bill Belichick of the North Carolina Tar Heels, Mario Cristobal of the Miami Hurricanes, Kirk Ferentz of the Iowa Hawkeyes, Bronco Mendenhall of the Utah State Aggies, Blake Anderson of the Southern Miss Golden Eagles and Neal Brown of the North Texas Mean Green.
At Big 12 Football Media Days, Sanders was asked about opting out of the game for a third straight season, and he made it clear the situation was not as straightforward as many assumed.
“I don't know about the video game,” Sanders said. “I have a wonderful team that handles a lot of business for me.
If I'm not in the game, that means they weren't paying enough. It didn't fit where we're going right now.
That's probably it. It was probably that simplistic.”
Even before this update, Sanders already showed up in another part of the game. In Road to Glory, players can pick archetypes of legendary college football players to shape their own characters, and Sanders is one of those options, shown in Florida State Seminoles garnet and gold.
Sanders has not been the only Colorado name tied to the game this year. Linebacker Gideon ESPN Lampron also drew attention when EA’s player-model work produced an especially rough likeness.
The game did not use face-scan technology, instead relying on manual recreations of players, and Lampron wound up on the wrong end of that process. He later took to X to joke about the mistake.
Off the field, Sanders has also been in the middle of a few promotional pushes as Colorado’s season gets going. He recently appeared in an advertisement supporting the ‘Save College Sports Act,’ and he addressed that on Tuesday.
“That's not my concern. My concern is this team.
I did something. I was asked to do something.
I did it because I thought it was the right thing to do, along with certain colleagues of mine who shared in doing their version of it as well. But I shot it, and that was it.
Haven't thought about it since, man. You know, I'm for it.
I believe what I say, and I say the things I believe, but that's not my thought process right now,” Sanders said.
That ad, along with a recent collaboration with Blenders and now his addition to EA Sports College Football 27, has kept Sanders in the spotlight away from the field, and that figure won’t be going away anytime soon.
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