Coastal Carolina Beats Florida for BCS National Championship

The headline’s not exactly “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN” – but it got your attention, didn’t it?

Think you’ve got what it takes to lead the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers football team to the BCS National Championship game?

David Bennett need not worry; his head-coaching job is safe. And it really doesn’t matter that, in the real world, the Chants don’t compete in the NCAA Bowl Subdivision. In the video-game worlds of PlayStation and Xbox, anything’s possible.

So with college football season just around the corner, pigskin fanatics and “gamers” can gear up for it with EA Sports’ NCAA Football 08. It puts you in total control of your favorite team’s virtual destiny, from soup to nuts – or really, in this case, from recruiting to game-day play calling.

As Newsday’s Adam Abramson points out in this write-up, you’re the coach. The example he uses is Division I Championship Subdivision’s Hofstra University, but you may as well substitute the Chants, South Carolina Gamecocks, Clemson Tigers or essentially any of your college gridiron favorites, and see how far you can take them.

NCAA Football 08 just hit the store shelves late this week. If you’ve already bought it and given it a shot, let us know how you like it. In your virtual world, does Clemson’s Jad Dean split the uprights with that last-second 39-yarder to tie the Gamecocks?