Toledo is the highest rated team. Red Murdock and Emmanuel McNeil-Warren rank as the MAC’s top players.
Last summer was a monumental one for the sport of college football.
The old generation was reunited with and the new generation was introduced to a college football video game. After 11 years in hibernation, the passing of NIL legislation ultimately made way for EA Sports to produce a college football video game again.
EA Sports College Football 25 was a resounding success, and now the game will be released on an annual basis. On July 7, EA Sports College Football 26 first became available to the public, implementing new features and showcasing updated rosters.
What does the Mid-American Conference look like in EA Sports CFB 26? The team ratings and players overalls are listed below:
Toledo leads all 13 MAC programs with an overall of 78, ranked one point ahead of Buffalo. On the other end, Ball State and Kent State are tied for the lowest rated teams on the entire game at 68 overall.
Program Prestige
Each program is assigned a “prestige” value on a star system. The highest rated programs including perennial playoff contenders Georgia, Alabama, and Ohio State are labeled 5 stars. Conversely, lower rated programs, such as recent FBS additions Kennesaw State and Delaware, are labeled 1 star.
Program prestige plays a key role in recruiting in the game’s “Dynasty Mode.” Below is each MAC program’s prestige rating. No MAC program is rated higher than 2 stars — the prestige given to Miami (OH). Two MAC programs — Akron and Kent State — are given 0.5 stars, a prestige level which wasn’t present in EA Sports CFB 25.
Compared to CFB 25:
- Miami (OH) upgraded from 1.5 to 2 stars
- Akron downgraded from 1.5 to 0.5 stars
- Buffalo downgraded from 1.5 to 1 star
- Kent State downgraded from 1 to 0.5 stars
Player Ratings
The 10 highest rated players by overall are listed below for each MAC program.
Top Players in the MAC
Buffalo middle linebacker Red Murdock and Toledo strong safety Emmanuel McNeil-Warren are the highest rated players in the MAC at 90 overall. Nine MAC players received a rating of 85 or greater.