College Football 27 Playbooks

Playbooks

WORK IN PROGRESS. Below are my playbooks along with other useful resources. EA sometimes mislabels playbooks by style, so you will see some labeled differently on this page and hopefully, more accurately. These tables are helpful in determining what style a playbook is.

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Team Schemes

It seems EA did a good job labeling playbook styles correctly although they are never perfect. For example, they have Auburn’s offense as Power Spread, but it is Veer & Shoot.

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Formations

Groups

This table gives a nice summary of what each playbook likes to do with formations by type & personnel grouped in various ways.

• Pro – Under-center pro formations: Singleback, I Form, Strong, Weak, Split Back.
• Run – Run-heavy formations: Wildcat, Flexbone, Power I, Maryland I, Wingbone, Wishbone, Full House, Split T.
• Goal Line is excluded. Every playbook has one Goal Line formation except Clemson (2) and Stanford (0).

All Types

Sets

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Personnel

Use this table to see which and how many personnel (PSL) groupings are used in every playbook. Personnel grouings is a two-digit number system that tells how many running backs (first digit) and tight ends (second digit) a formation/set has. For example, “11” means a formation/set with 1 RB and 1 TE. This also means it has 3 WRs.

The Variety (VAR) column shows how many types of personnel groupings each playbook has. The higher the number, the more variety. Lastly, Goal Line (32 PSL), Hail Mary (11 PSL), Clock Management (21 PSL), and QB Kneel (32 PSL) are not accounted for in the table as most playbooks have them.

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Play Types

• Total = Run + Pass + RPO
• Run = all runs including option & QB run plays

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Defense

Formations

All playbooks share the same Prevent (PREV) and Goal Line (GL) formations.

Sets

Plays

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Videos