Editor’s note: This is the third story in a series of team-by-team articles revealing 2015 SEC player ratings in the most recent EA Sports college football video game, NCAA Football 14.

Who misses the NCAA Football video game?

If you’re like me, it was a right of passage every August amongst friends who were waiting for fall practice to end and the college football season to begin — a necessary space-filler and quality appetizer for the main course only weeks away.

From building dynasties as a head coach by recruiting five-star prospects to becoming the next superstar on Road to Glory, EA Sports did it right and for that, I’ll be forever grateful.

In lieu of the franchise’s two-year absence following Ed O’Bannon class-action lawsuit relating to use of likenesses, we’ve combed through fanatical forums (one 535 pages long and counting) to find the most accurate 2015 season roster update available, downloadable for free on the NCAA Football 14 main menu.

This is what SEC rosters would look like if NCAA Football had released last month. For those playing on Playstation 3, use vikesfan059’s roster for an entire, well-put together FBS update.

How Auburn players would rate in ‘NCAA Football 16′

  • Duke Williams, 95 OVR (overall)
  • Cassanova McKinzy, LB, 89 OVR
  • Avery Young, OL, 89 OVR
  • Jonathan Jones, DB, 88 OVR
  • Montravius Adams, DL, 88 OVR
  • Alex Kozan, OL, 88 OVR
  • Kris Frost, LB, 88 OVR
  • Carl Lawson, DL, 87 OVR
  • Daniel Carlson, K, 86 OVR
  • Nick Ruffin, DB, 85 OVR

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A few immediate observations: Duke Williams is Auburn’s best player at 95 overall, but there’s not another player with an A average — a bit surprising. Cassanova McKinzy and Avery Young come in at 89 and Carl Lawson, arguably the Tigers’ top defensive player, is too low at 87 overall.

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Jeremy Johnson, a preseason Heisman candidate under center, is listed properly as a ‘pocket passer’ with above average speed (87), but his overall rating of 85 ranks in the middle of the pack in the SEC on this particular roster update. We’d like to see his break tackle score somewhere in the 70s based on his size and his strength could use a boost as well. From the quarter of football we played with him against Louisville, he’s awfully quick in the zone read scheme.

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Here’s where the roster gets screwy. The depth chart at running back needs to be rearranged a bit — Peyton Barber is not Auburn’s fourth-stringer heading into the season. We do like the fact that this update has all four ballcarriers in the same range overall, an ode to Gus Malzahn’s interchangeable philosophy.

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