Less than 48 hours until the final month of the summer without football begins. And honestly, if you don’t really think too hard about it, July has some football with media days and fall camp.
Michigan State fans are patiently waiting with a cautious optimism for Pat Fitzgerald’s first season as head coach. There are definitely some excited nerves out there because another bad season or poor coaching hire will set this program back to the Stone Age.
In the meantime, we can all get a little mental break with the release of EA Sports College Football 27 on July 9 and July 6 for those who pay for the early access. I know I’m excited to binge this game, but I was also curious about the ratings. Well, last week, the video game released all player ratings for this year’s game and some of the ratings had me speechless.
I picked out three guys who I felt got slighted the most by the game.
1. Brady Pretzlaff, LB — 67 overall
What in the absolute disrespect is this rating? I know I over-use the term “disrespect” but Pretzlaff being rated as the fifth-worst player on the entire team? Am I missing something?
Pretzlaff has had a quiet career thus far because of a redshirt and a season-ending injury. He came in as a four-star linebacker and is only going to be a sophomore this season. He could very well end up as a starter and the second-best linebacker on the team behind Jordan Hall by the end of the season.
I don’t get this one.
2. Alessio Milivojevic, QB — 75 overall
Speaking of things that I don’t quite understand, Alessio Milivojevic is rated a 75 overall? I’m pretty sure most quarterbacks in last year’s edition of the game were rated at least a 75. This feels painfully low for a returning starter who took over for Aidan Chiles and looked better than the one-time No. 1 transfer in college football.
And guess what? Chiles is rated an 80 overall by EA Sports. That may be due to more of a sample size so EA Sports didn’t want to be too reactionary, but considering Milivojevic kind of stole his job, there’s some explaining to do about this rating.
3. Trent Fraley, OL — 75 overall
Another one that I just simply don’t understand is Trent Fraley being a 75 overall. This one makes me think that he was one of those “just slap on a rating” guys because he was ranked the No. 724 transfer in the 2026 class which was already way too low.
Fraley won the FCS Rimington Award last season for being the top center. He was an All-American as well just one year after being named the All-Newcomer team — he began his career at Marshall and transferred to North Dakota State. I’m not sure how you can be the top center in the FCS and not even crack an 80 overall in College Football 27.
That feels like a really bad rating to me.
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