What's With NCAA 06 Football?

So I dropped $50 for a copy of EA Sports' NCAA 06 Football. I've read EA Sports is having trouble, but goodness. The game can be impossible. I played 12 games or so, and I was just about blown out in all of them. That was before I figured out the secret. It dawned on me that most of my lopsided losses were when playing the Longhorns. This was true regardless of which team I fielded, either Louisville, Michigan or even USC.

This is my new plan. Take Texas. Run a normal I-formation. Select the option play, then watch the score roll up. If I want a change, I can go with the normal Shotgun formation. Same deal.

I just finished a game in which both myself and my combatant played realistically. In other words, no onsides kicks, no going for it from our own 20 on fourth down, etc. In the end, more than 110 points were scored. Crazy.

EA's programmers must have gone to the same Institute Of Offense favored by John L. Smith and Bobby Petrino. Oh well. These guys could learn a thing or to from Marvin Lewis (let's just hope that continues to be the case). After all, how else does one explain losing by 30-something points to an unranked South Florida team?

Goodness. But that's embarrassing.