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While your academics and practice take up a lot of your time, you can also wade into the wild world of campus celebrity, attending parties with friends and signing deals with local businesses. Just make sure it doesn’t become your sole focus, or you’ll find it hard to stay on the field. Here’s how to start making money moves in College Football 26.
Picking Your School
You’ll also want toselect a school where you may play early and often!Look at your projected role when browsing colleges, and try to find one where you will be a starter. Making your playera five-star recruit during character creation is helpful, since it will drum up interest from bigger programs and give you the option to see meaningful action as soon as possible.
Managing Your Weekly Agenda
Once you get to school, you’ll haveaccess to your Weekly Agenda menu. If you want to start landing NIL deals, you’llneed to invest in your Brandwith energy points. This will cause your player to socialize,attracting more fans.
You’ll only haveone endorsement slot open to begin with, but increasing your following willunlock the ability to sign multiple deals(other slots open up when you’ve acquired 10,000, 250,000, and one million fans).
It may be tempting to invest all your energy each week into your Brand, but doing so willnegatively impact both your Academics and Leadership. You’ll need to balance your responsibilities, or risk becoming academically ineligible to play anddamaging the coach’s happiness.
The bigger your Brand becomes, thebetter the endorsement deals you’ll receive, allowing you greater autonomy to decide which companies you’d like to partner with.
Your following will also be increased by performing well in games, which you may see on the post-game stats screen.
Accepting Endorsement Deals
As your Brand grows, businesses willapproach you in between weeks of the seasonwith potential offers. These will require you topart with some energy upfront, but they willshower you with various perks. These can includeskill points, boosts to Weekly Agenda meters, stat boosts, and even more fans.
When starting out, it’s best to take whatever deals you can get, but as your popularity grows, you canafford to be more selective. It may evenbe to your benefit to turn certain opportunities down, especially if you need to pour a lot of energy into Academics and Leadership on a certain week.
