College Football 26 releases on Thursday and I’m in the process of writing the review for SB Nation (spoiler: It’s amazing). When it came time to check out the new features the first thing I had to see was what EA Sports would do with Bill Belichick this time.

Bill Belichick went decades without appearing in Madden football video games. He's keeping the streak alive by declining to appear in CFB 26

Miami (Fla.)'s Mario Cristobal and Iowa's Kirk Ferentz also aren't in "College Football 26," with those two, Bill Belichick and Deion Sanders being replaced by random characters.