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*This game assumes that you already play the Stratomatic college football board game and are familiar with football rules and terminology. If you don't play Strat, no sweat... you can learn!
New Century Football is a dice-activated game in which you can play your Stratomatic teams against great teams of the past like 2005 USC and 1995 Nebraska (who is, by the way, named “the #1 college team of all-time, according to Jeff Sagarin). The game plays similarly to the Stratomatic game, but with room for expansion. But just as in real life, your coaching can make a difference. You need to get inside the opposing coaches’ head, just like the commander on the battlefield who anticipates the moves of the enemy. All teams will perform closely to what they did in real life, but chaos will often reign, as will be dictated by the dice roll.
I also have advice on how to play an entertaining solitaire-style game, with a coach’s override/offensive coordinator option which creates stress. Other options include a shorter field and shorter game; my own games are only 80 plays long because I need to find a winner, not entertain a crowd. Unique also is my overtime rule.
Concept: My idea began as an answer to the awful BCS arrangement in 2004, when USC, Oklahoma, Utah and Auburn were undefeated. That scenario was custom made for a four-team tournament. Also influencing me was ESPN’s “Best College Football Teams of All Time” show which ran in December 2005 and again in December 2006. The public voted the 1995 Huskers as the best of all time, which may be true. But mine is a more scientific approach; think of it as a study. A study which will reveal the team that really had the “best year” in the year from which that team was drawn. I think that’s more accurate than saying “the best of all time” because we can never really know.
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