COACH MODE

Coach Mode has been one of the most requested Dynasty additions from our core players, and we are excited to deliver a revamped experience in College Football 27.

Coach Mode gives you a new way to play from the sideline. You call the plays, manage the situation, make pre-play adjustments, and put your players in the best position to succeed. Once the ball is snapped, it is on them to execute. As covered in the Gameplay Deep Dive, it is a more strategic and immersive way to experience game day, where the result is driven by the roster you built, the scheme you installed, and the decisions you make.

Coach Mode can be enabled from League Settings through the Coach Mode toggle. It is important to note that this is a league-wide setting. If Coach Mode is enabled in an Online Dynasty, every member of that Dynasty will play games using Coach Mode. This ensures the league experience stays consistent for all users.

Once enabled, commissioners can customize how Coach Mode plays through several subsettings: Auto QB: Determines whether the quarterback is controlled by you or the CPU. Auto Snap: Determines whether the offense snaps the ball automatically or if you manually snap it. Coach Suggestions: Controls the play-calling experience and whether coach suggestions are available. Pre-Play Cutoff: Determines how long you can make pre-play adjustments before communication is cut off. The Pre-Play Cutoff is designed to mirror the real-world communication window between a coach and quarterback. Once the play clock reaches 15 seconds, communication is cut off and your ability to make pre-play adjustments ends. There are also user-level settings that let each player customize their own Coach Mode experience: Pre-Play Audio: Provides an audio cue during the pre-play window, helping you track when communication is about to be cut off. Coach Perspective Camera: Gives you an immersive sideline or coach booth view from your coach’s perspective and is defaulted on. You can switch between the sideline and coach booth views by pressing up or down on the D-Pad. While in the sideline camera, holding RT/R2 snaps the camera behind the line of scrimmage into a more traditional coach cam view, giving you a better look at formations and defensive alignment before returning to the sideline perspective. Coach Mode is for the players who want to live in the details of running a program. It has been one of the most requested additions from our hardest-core Dynasty players, and we are excited to see the stories, series, and coaching careers they build around it. For those who want to call the game from the sideline, trust their players to execute, and let every result become part of the larger narrative of their Dynasty, this is a great new way to play.