BYU football player gets a questionable makeover in EA's new College Football game

Anticipation for the newest edition of EA Sports' College Football video games is beginning to peak as the general football-loving public sits on their hands, anxious to finally see some football back on their TV again, even if in a completely digital form.

Clips of the BYU Cougars making their home field entrance, complete with the traditional marching band "Y" tunnel, the "Go Cougs" banner, and the triumphant sound of The Cougar Song ringing across the valley, everything just gets us more and more excited for the opening snap, the first whistle, and the roar of LaVell Edwards Stadium this fall.

But as we learn more about EA Sports' newest upcoming release, College Football '27, the more we learn that this updated edition may not be quite as flawless as we had originally hoped.

Exhibit A: the face scan for BYU defender Cannon DeVries is, well, less than flawless. Just take a look for yourself.

As far as we know, this is the only example of such an egregious error, with DeVries' race, face, hair, and practically everything about his likeness completely lost as they've taken a stereotypical white kid from Utah and inexplicably entered him into the game as an African-American. That couldn't have been intentional.

It's a baffling mistake and makes you wonder if this was an automated system error or just a massive oversight from the design team. Regardless, I'm certain EA and their team are working tirelessly to comb through all the rosters again to ensure no similar errors are made the second time around.

Cosmo the Cougar had a bit of fun on social media, too, taking a moment to laugh at just how ridiculous the disparity between these two images really are.

Who knows? Maybe it's BYU's website, roster, and jerseys that made the mistake, and EA is just miles ahead of the curve. Probably not.

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