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Getting Started Playbook Analysis FBS Teams FCS Teams Advanced Strategy

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PRIMA Ofﬁ cial Game Guide

Calling the right plays in the right

situations is arguably the most

important skill to master in NCAA

Football 08. A horrible player who’s

great at selecting plays will often do

better against the computer than an

excellent player who’s horrible at

play calling—that’s how vital this part

of the game is to ensuring success.

This section breaks down the of-

fensive and defensive playbooks so

that you can ﬁ nd plays that best suit

your playing style.

WHAT’S NEW

NCAA Football 08 has made a few

changes to its playbooks relative to

previous versions.

Each playbook still has 12 user-

editable formation slots; however, in

the PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions,

all the Hail Mary plays are incorpo-

rated into various shotgun playbooks

rather than as a separate formation.

(The Hail Mary remains a separate

formation set in the Xbox 360 and

PlayStation 3 versions.)

Several formations have expanded

the number of formation sets; other

sets (such as Full House and Power

T) are no longer offered as separate

formation sets to choose from.

On the following pages are lists

of the most common formations

in the game. After each formation

is a number in parentheses, which

represents the number of Division I

FBS team playbooks that contain that

formation set. That number is a good

indication of how common or rare a

speciﬁ c formation might be.

ACE

Ace formations feature a single

running back (often the halfback)

behind the quarterback and four pass

catchers (either wide receivers and/

or tight ends). Ace formations are

usually biased toward the passing

game—but with a talented halfback

and solid blocking from the tight end,

you can run out of it as well.

Team playbooks that rely heavily

on ace formation sets include Idaho

and Northern Illinois.

Offensive Formation Sets

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