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A Modern Remaster of NCAA Football 2006 for PCSX2 & AetherSX2

The NCAA NEXT Mod is a fully integrated modification of NCAA Football 06 with a ton of new features to the original game and previous modification releases. This package is a combination of our team's texture package of over 51,000 new graphics textures and modifications to the entire game's core engine, database structure, and strings to enhance gameplay, dynasty mode, visual quality, and much, much more! This is just a short list of things that this mod has changed!

Features include:

General League Updates

136 Team Full FBS League with 2026 Conference Realignment including creation of new teams
2025 Start Year
2025 Player Rosters & Coaches, Heisman and Pre-Season All-Americans
10 Additional Bowl Games Added to Post-Season, along with the College Football Playoff Rule Changes
Added a new team-developed College Football Playoff ranking system that should bias towards wins, losses, and strength of schedule and reduces conference prestige bias that results in teams with many losses in the Top 10
Pre-Season Injuries
Added Medical Redshirting (automatic) into the mod!
Improved Sim Engine and Sim Stats
Increased Stadium Count
Updated Stadiums for Coastal Carolina, and other teams
Updated Coaches with career stats (new feature!) and hot seat performance values based on real-life
Updated every coach with realistic coaching playbook, schemes, and pass ratios
Updated scheduling system to prioritize conference scheduling matchups of dissimilar conf prestige (i.e. Power 4 vs Group 6 games)
Fully removed 1A/1AA designations and converted to FBS/FCS naming
Added option for Notre Dame as an Independent team with an ACC hybrid schedule
Updated Team Overall / Team Rating System
CPU always picks the best player for each depth chart position in off-season
Aflac Kick-Off Game Special in Week 1!

Recruiting Updates

Added full transfer portal system
Updated Recruiting Database
Revised Fullback Recruiting archetypes
New Names Database with 22,000 First and 22,000 Last Names File Added. * There are over 24.1 Million Unique name combinations now possible!
Added an additional layer of recruit randomization during off-season
Re-Rate In-Season Recruits in off-season
Removed 1-Star Recruits (moved to 2-Star)
Fullbacks, Kickers and Punters max out at 3-Stars
Updated Walk-On Database with improved appearance and gear selection
Removed Transfers re-joining original team from scoring system in Transfer Portal feature
Removes the ability for Athletes to become fullbacks
Added a feature to choose the best position for the "Athlete" role during recruiting/position change phase
Improved NFL Draft declarations
International Recruits
More varied In-Season Recruits
Realistic State by State recruit distribution based on real data
Polynesian Surnames and distribution by state
Recruit Randomizer including attributes, face, hair, etc.
New dialogs/captions

Gameplay Updates

Modern NCAA Rules
New formation sets: Pistol Offense, Shotgun Wide Spread, Wide Slot and Duo
Modern Playbook Updates
Updated all playbook AI settings
4 Impact Players by Default
Updated Player Fatigue System
Updated In-Game Scorebug with record displayed in dynasty mode
Updated every player's physical model shapes utilizing an updated and improved body shape algorithm
Instant Defensive Playcalling (similar to Corso offense picks)
Player Lock feature on both offense and defense - You can play as any position!
More Hot Route Options

Graphical Updates

26.5GB (51K+) high res graphics
Deinterlacing built-in to improve visuals
Modern Scorebug
Custom Uniforms and Glove options with up to 20 uniform combinations per team!
Updated Custom Fields for every team
Updated Stadiums
Tattoos and other new gear options
Athlon Sports Magazine Pre-Season Ranking List & Graphics
Updated Sports Illustrated to The Athletic for weekly news
Updated Uniform Expansion to add Kennesaw State
Upscaled Player and Coach face graphics
Updated Sideline camera crew textures
Updates to every team-specific scorebug
Fixed network broadcast logos for Playoff Bowl games (e.g. Sugar Bowl, Rose Bowl, etc.)
Hard Rock Stadium for Miami & Orange Bowl
Upscaled/Updated In-Game Composure Textures
Updated UI Textures in most menus
Updated On3 Rivals logo and in-season recruiting board

General Updates

Player Editor unlocked in Dynasty Mode
Allowance of #0 and duplicate jersey numbers
New player rating system! This rating system rates players from 40-99 with no gaps. In the original game, there were only 32 unique ratings between players, that were translated into a 40-99 system. In this new update, there is now a full 60 values that represent the 40-99 spectrum.
Updated Player Overall Rating System & UI Display! Player Overall rating system to improve normal distribution, recruiting diversity, and player growth built with AI
New Music Soundtrack
New Main Menu video! We cracked the video codec!
Removed Mascot Games from Main Menu
Added Save Warnings to prevent crashes
Fixed Loading Screens with Loading Screen Updates
Allows up to 6 Create-A-School teams
User Interface/Menu updates utilizing new-in house compression tools to full revamp the game menu layouts
Updated database capacity sizes to reduce memory issues and increase capabilities for future (including the 40-99 system)
Rename T, G, C to OT, OG, OC in menu screens
Finally fixed the Play by Play team name calling of "newly created" FBS teams in this mod (e.g. Liberty, UTSA, Charlotte, Coastal Carolina, Old Dominion, South Alabama, Georgia State, Kennesaw State, etc). They will no longer be called "Air Force" but by their team name!
Updated School Names: California, East Carolina, Florida Intl, Hawai'i, Louisiana, Miami (OH), Middle Tennessee, Missouri State, Sam Houston, UConn