Holy shit, I'm not going to lie, I straight up quit my bowl game the first time through. Wake Forest started the game with some sort of coach skills power-up and that paired with these sliders made for one of the most unplayable games of NCAA I've ever encountered. I made it a quarter and a half and I just stopped because it was pointless trying. I was 0 of 7 with 2 INT and had been tackled for a loss on 5 consecutive runs and I just said fuck it. I have never seen a CPU game play like that. Excessive route mirroring, OL being pancaked on both run and pass plays. It was honestly unbelievable... and then I figured out why. Urban Fucking Meyer is Wake Forest's head coach and his recruiting and game management skill trees are almost entirely maxed out. That explains so much.
I restarted and just rushed through it, super simmed defense and special teams and it took me benching a 97 OVR quarterback and forcing a late turnover to win. My 97 OVR QB started 1 of 7 with an INT. My Sophomore 3rd stringer came in (my "official" 2nd stringer is redshirting) and was lights out, 13 of 18 for 140 yards and 2 TD. Hansen ran 20 times for 182 yards and a TD thanks to 3 40+ yard runs. No one else ran for more than 40 yards in the entire game despite 41 total attempts. 41 rushing attempts, 8 tackles for loss by WF. Just absurd.
Oh well, that caps the season. NIU finishes 11-2 (7-2) and Fiesta Bowl champs. Sophomore Andy Hansen won the Heisman Trophy with an overwhelming 2040 points including 521 1st place votes. The next closest candidate had just 178 1st place votes. After the 29-24 Fiesta Bowl win, he finished with 266 rushes for 2082 yards and 22 TD.
Hopefully we make some slider changes to get things balanced out and change up the conference a bit for next year. A lot of brutally un-fun games this year but I'm ready to get going. Going to miss Senior at WR and Flynn at TE but the rest of my offense returns. I do lose Root at QB but despite his 97 OVR, he really wasn't that good so not a big issue.