Penn State's overall team, as well as its individual offensive and defensive units, earned top-five rankings in the EA Sports College Football 26 game

Rounding out the top 25 overall teams are Miami (86), Florida (86), Texas Tech (86), Arizona State (85), Michigan (85), Ole Miss (85), Oklahoma (85), Indiana (85), SMU (84), Tennessee (84), Missouri (84), Auburn (84), Duke (84), South Carolina (82) and Illinois (82).

EA Sports College Football 26 ranks Michigan football as the 15th best team overall. Michigan plays two other ranked teams in the game: #17 Oklahoma and #3 Ohio State. The game, a potential barometer for the upcoming season, releases on July 10th (July 7th for the deluxe edition).