Selecting the right playbook in College Football 26 is just as important a decision as any. The playbooks you pick on offense and defense determine what plays you have access to, which can massively affect the performance of the players on your team. If you chose a team with a running/option quarterback, but your playbook is full of long passing plays, you might not have much success on offense.
While College Football 26 does let you pick your own playbooks, it can be slightly overwhelming to try and make a selection. After all, you have to sift through every playbook in the country. To make matters harder, some playbooks might say they offer a specific offensive or defensive formation, but the playbook actually only has a few plays in that formation.
Fortunately, if you’re looking to make your playbook selection easier in CFB 26, you can use a simple tool that allows you to narrow down exactly what you’re looking for.
Use This Tool To Pick Your Playbooks In College Football 26
The tool in question is a website called Playbookgamer.com, which boasts every playbook in CFB 26 and the different formations and plays in those formations of each playbook. You can also see every school and what each of their playbooks specializes in.
What the site does is allow you to easily filter the type of offense and defense you want to run. The site will sift through every available playbook and give you options based on what you filtered. These options will then tell you the number of sets and plays for the formation you selected.
So, for example, if you want to run a 3-4 Defense in CFB 26, all you have to do is go to the “Defense” section of the site. Under the “Formations” drop-down menu, select “3-4,” and then the site will bring up every playbook that offers a 3-4 formation. You can view these playbooks and see exactly how many 3-4 sets and plays it offers. This makes it much easier to know which playbooks have an abundance of the formations you’re looking for instead of only having a few plays to pick from.
The same can be done for offensive playbooks. If you want more “Shotgun” style plays, then you can pick that formation from the drop-down menu, and you’ll see what playbooks offer that formation the most. The offense section also allows you to filter by “Style” as well, so you can customize your playbook options even further.
Finally, if you just want to browse playbooks by school, the site shows every school and what offensive and defensive formation it runs the most. For example, Alabama runs a Multiple-style offense and a 4-2-5 Defense. This gives you an idea of what plays will be in their respective playbooks. However, as we mentioned earlier, just because you see a certain style described for a team’s playbook doesn’t mean they’ll have an overwhelming number of plays for that style. That’s where you’ll want to use the filtering options that we talked about before.
If you want to dive deeper into a team’s playbook in CFB 26, we also recommend you check out the CFBFan website. This showcases every single play in a team’s playbook, which allows you to further gauge whether or not you want to use a specific playbook.
The most optimal strategy with these two tools is to use Playbookgamer to find a few playbooks you’re interested in based on the formations you want. Then, use CFBFan to see if those playbooks have the right plays you’re looking for. After using both tools, you should have the single offensive and defense playbook you want to use in CFB 26.
Of course, we also have some general suggestions on the best offensive playbooks and best defensive playbooks in the game, so check out those guides for some more tips.
