NCAA Football 06
NCAA Football '06, known colloquially as College Football 2006, is a collegiate American football video game which was released on July 11, 2005. It is the successor to NCAA Football 2005 in the NCAA Football…
NCAA Football 06 is a sport developed by EA Orlando, released 11 July 2005 on PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
What NCAA Football 06 is
NCAA Football 06 is a sport game developed by EA Orlando and released in 2005. It was published by EA Sports. It is available on PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
The premise, in the publisher's words
NCAA Football 06 is a collegiate American football video game which was released on July 12, 2005. It is the successor to NCAA Football 2005 in the NCAA Football series. The product features former Michigan Wolverines standout and Heisman Trophy winner Desmond Howard on the cover. He is the only cover athlete not to have played the year before their respective game; Howard last played at Michigan in 1991. It is the only game in the series to feature Division I FCS teams on all platforms as of 2026. NCAA Football 06 was the first game in the NCAA Football series to shorten the year to the last 2 digits.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the NCAA series
NCAA Football 06 is the 39th of 60 entries we hold in the NCAA series. It arrived 6 months after NCAA Football 2005 / Top Spin. The next entry was NCAA March Madness 06 in 2005. Its critic score of 85 is 6 points above the series average of 79. The highest-rated entry is NCAA Football 10 at 90.
How it was received
NCAA Football 06 holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 18 points above the year average.
What it launched against
NCAA Football 06 launched on 11 July 2005, within three weeks of Battlefield 2, Advance Wars: Dual Strike, We Love Katamari and Fatal Frame III: The Tormented. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Battlefield 2, Advance Wars: Dual Strike, We Love Katamari, Fatal Frame III: The Tormented.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for NCAA Football 06 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Quick answers
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