Everything Virginia Tech Submitted to EA Sports for New College Football Video Game (2024)

The initial set provided in July 2022 included hundreds of photos of Lane Stadium. Presumably, these are used by EA Sports to recreate Lane Stadium as realistically as possible in the video game.

The photos include everything from the specific sets of bleachers versus chairback seats in the South End Zone and West Stands, the very back wall at the top of the East Stands, close-ups of the Jumbotron, the electrical set-up on the visitor's sideline, the trees and shrubbery in the corners of the stadium, and other finer details of the stadium.

The photos did not include the interior of the tunnel Tech uses to make its entrance to the field, but it did include the front opening of the tunnel. Here are a few of the images provided.

Virginia Tech also included 17 audio files in the initial set of assets. We can assume these will be used to build an authentic experience when playing games as Virginia Tech in the video game.

Here is the list of audio files, using their file names. The links will open the file to play in a Google Drive folder.

• #2 FINAL
• #10 FINAL
• Carmine Burana FINAL
• Charge FINAL
• Crazy Train FINAL
• Danger Zone FINAL
• GOBBLE
• Hokie Pokie
• Imperial March FINAL
• Ironman FINAL
• Lets Go…Hokies
• Nokia FINAL
• Rock U FINAL
• Shenandoah FINAL
• Tech Triumph
• V-Tag FINAL
• Wake Up FINAL

The July 2022 set of assets included information about when these sounds are typically played, such as Tech Triumph after a touchdown, the Gobble noise on third downs, or the Let’s Go Hokies Stadium Yell Pre-Team Runout.

Of note, Tech included a note of importance that the team takes the field to “Enter Sandman” by Metallica. Metallica would need to license the song to EA Sports for it to be included.

Multiple emails sent to Metallica’s management asking if the song had been licensed to EA Sports were not returned.

In the set of assets provided in February 2024, Virginia Tech included images of the helmets and jerseys in both maroon and white, vector files for maroon or white jersey numbers 0-9, and a file for helmet decal logos that is named “ACC_Football_Digital-WBG(1).” One might assume that is an ACC logo.

One might also assume that only providing images of maroon and white jerseys and helmets means those will be the only options in the video game. Here are the images provided.

Lastly, Virginia Tech withheld a document that featured headshots with names of student-athletes, as the document obtained records considered protected as education records under the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act and under Virginia's FOIA as scholastic records.

One last assumption here, but EA Sports will likely use that to build Virginia Tech’s roster and use each player’s image and likeness to create each player within the game.