Return of NCAA video games? Twitter reacts to NCAA’s vote to allow student-athlete benefits

The NCAA has voted to allow student-athletes to benefit off their name, image and likeness, and almost immediately, college football fans’ minds went to one thing — video games.

The popular NCAA Football video game franchise created by EA Sports hasn’t had a game released since 2013, due to student-athletes not being able to benefit from their likeness in the game. But Tuesday’s vote could be a step toward the games returning.

People on Twitter shared their thoughts on the vote, many of them also pushing for the video game series’ return. Here’s some of what they were saying:

Talk to me @EASPORTS
When can we get this started?!?#BringBackNCAAFootball

— Kirk Herbstreit (@KirkHerbstreit) October 29, 2019

Now that the NCAA voted to allow college athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness, could NCAA Football make a return? ? pic.twitter.com/mHgDFnQ6XN

— ESPN (@espn) October 29, 2019

https://twitter.com/DLeeMG8/status/1189241956012089345?s=20

This paves tbe way for NCAA football from @EASPORTS to come back. It will be a matter of working out the finances, which would likely be some kind of model that involves an overall fee to be split amongst all NCAA football players. https://t.co/SMBxtEFNvl

— Charles Robinson (@CharlesRobinson) October 29, 2019

So, when's NCAA '21 coming out?

— Nick Baumgardner (@nickbaumgardner) October 29, 2019

https://twitter.com/IanKenyonNFL/status/1189241734989041665?s=20

omg it’s happening!!! ?

Who’s ready for a 130-user NCAA 2020 dyno on PS5? https://t.co/7atci4AFMW

— Thor Nystrom (@thorku) October 29, 2019

NOW BRING BACK NCAA FOOTBALL https://t.co/I2YdJEz5Kg

— Master (@MasterTes) October 29, 2019

In all seriousness, pretty remarkable how quickly the NCAA was able to put legislation together when their feet were put to the fire. Almost alarming to an extent.

— Eddie Radosevich (@Eddie_Rado) October 29, 2019

A live look at EA Sports NCAA Football 20… pic.twitter.com/EFoY5FtZFQ

— Barrett Sallee ?? (@BarrettSallee) October 29, 2019

Translation: @EASPORTS currently hiring game developers with NCAA sports knowledge… https://t.co/155ODVL1hI

— Spotrac (@spotrac) October 29, 2019

HISTORIC‼️ Pay the kids ??? #NCAA https://t.co/dkCzcmPpue

— Josh Berrian (@_joshonair) October 29, 2019

Jake Rill

Jake Rill contributes to news coverage for Saturday Down South. He has covered the SEC since 2016.