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Overview

Take control of a college football program and lead the team to victory! Old School Football Coach is a PC game that gives you the true college football coach experience. Set your strategy, pick your plays, and watch the action unfold in front of you. Get ready for full game simulations with complex AI behaviors, presented in a retro 2d style.

Want to build a team from the ground up? Old School Football Coach has a career mode that allows you to grow your team year-after-year on your quest to become the next college football dynasty. Set depth charts, recruit new players, and design new plays on your road to be the #1 team in the nation!

Features

  • Design your league with editable teams and conferences. Decide which team you want to coach.
  • Each player is unique with 15+ attributes that determine how good they are! Review your players and set your depth chart.
  • Choose if you want to control your players directly or take a more relaxed approach by only calling out the plays.
  • Design new plays to outsmart the competition.
  • Postseason bowls and playoffs are highly customizable! Configure the number of spots available as well as conference tie-ins.
  • Research high school players and compete against other schools as you attempt to recruit them to your team.
  • Browse stats and rankings from around the league.

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Build 23-02 - Coaching Carousel

Announcement
January 27, 2023 (Link)

A new update (23-02) of Old School Football Coach is here! The new changes include the following:

  • After the season ends you can now get offered coaching jobs at other schools depending on how your team has been performing.
  • AI schools can now fire under-performing coaches between seasons and attempt to hire better replacements from less prestigious schools or from the pool of unemployed coaches.
  • There is now an off-season period between seasons where you can fire your assistant coaches and hire new ones
  • Assistant coaches can now develop and gain new abilities between seasons

Other Improvements

  • New career mode saves will begin in the year 2023.
  • Several balance changes have been made to recruiting to help prevent the skill level of all teams from averaging out over time
    • Talented recruits are now more likely to care about high prestige and recent success in schools.
    • All recruits are now more likely to care about a school’s proximity to their home.
    • Recruits are now more likely to commit slightly earlier if a good team has given them the best offer.
    • On average there will be less good recruits each season and more recruits on the lower end of the skill rankings
    • The number of available recruiting points has been halved so that a recruit’s interests have a bigger impact
  • Additional types of media headlines can pop up during the career mode season to, for example, report on coaches that are on the hot seat or to report on post-season results.
  • Improvements have been made to the preseason ranking algorithm.

Happy Coaching!