The first NCAA 12 Offensive strategy guide is finally here with TGL’s NCAA 12 Offensive Explosion!

We have been in The Lab all day and night since getting our hands on NCAA 12 to bring you the best offensive guide possible! We discuss how to destroy the new zone coverage, shake man to man, and pound the rock at your opponent!

For the first time ever we are featuring a 100% Custom Playbook with the big addition of the online custom playbooks feature! Now you can either run our Official TGL Playbook or take your favorite formations, plays and add it into your own Custom or Team Play Book.

Included in the NCAA Football 12 Offensive Explosion there are 7 different formations from Ace to Shotgun and even Pistol totaling well-over 40 plays! Whether you prefer Compression, Spread or a mix, this guide has it all! If you love utilizing mobile QBs, we have great ways to maximize their speed! If you prefer an accurate pocket passing style, we have you covered too! 

We’re not giving you the 7 formations and 40+ play breakdowns from our TGL Playbook and simply wishing you luck, we provide an entire scheme from our TGL Playbook and all the other necessary formations and plays that did not make it into the guide!

This guide contains full HD video breakdowns with voice over. This has changed the way guides are done! Now you can watch exactly what we are doing, while we explain it it you at the same time! Think of it as a one on one class session.

The NCAA 12 Offensive Explosion is an absolute must have if you want a head start on the competition whether it be online matches, against local friends, or even the CPU. Get to studying now and when the game releases, you’ll already be way ahead with the learning curve of NCAA 12!   Take me to the guide now!

Here is a quick passing technique from the play Flood Slot Option. This is a play that is very effective against man or zone defense. The play is a flood based play which means it floods the zone with routes and makes it very tough to stop. Against man coverage we have opportunities to get our quick passing attach down if the defense continuously tries to bump their coverage.

Here are some of the new mocap animations that will be displayed in NCAA Football 12. The new bull rush feature looks awesome. In previous versions of the NCAA franchise, very good defensive ends that are big and not necessarily fast weren’t really good at anything but stopping the run. This should really help the big guys out. A guy like recent first round pick J. J. Watt out of Wisconsin is a good example. In NCAA 11 he is a good player, but doesn’t really match-up to his real life counterpart because speed is so valuable. The bull rush should even the playing field a bit as long as the speed guys aren’t just as good as the big DE’s.

The NCAA Football 12 development team made game-play improvement a top priority this year. One new feature is improved zone defense. One common problem year to year is that defenders had no thoughts of their own. If they were in a zone they ran into the zone area and that’s it. For example, if the offense ran a bootleg left and had all the receivers running routes to the left, if there was a defender in zone protection on the right, he’d stay put. Effectively guarding no one. Ben Haumiller talks about the improvement to the defensive AI:

Ben said that this is something that the fans have been asking for over and over. It’s nice to see an EA Sports development team listening to the community input to help improve their game.

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One of the coolest new features for the NCAA Football 12 game is the ability to create your own custom playbooks. Before I go any further, let me clarify that you can create your own playbooks, not create actual plays. So you will basically have the ability to piece together a playbook using formations from different playbooks. For example, maybe you like Wisconsin’s running and jumbo formations as Nevada’s Pistol formation. Well you can add both of them to your custom playbook. Head over to The Gamers Lab for discussion on exactly how this is going to work.

New Orleans Saints rookie and former Alabama Crimson Tide Heisman winning running back Mark Ingram will appear on the cover of NCAA Football 12 when it releases on July 12th, 2011. Ingram beat out Oklahoma’s DeMarco Murray, Washington’s Jake Locker, and rival Nick Fairly of Auburn for the honor. Head over to EA Sports to check out the cover shoot. NCAA ’12 will be available on the PS3 and Xbox 360.

EA Sports has released 25 new plays that will appear in NCAA Football 12. Head over to their Facebook page to see them all.

Head over the EA Sports to check them all out.

EA Sports is letting the fans decide the outcome of the NCAA 12 cover by a democratic vote. The finalists are Demarco Murray of Oklahoma (seen below at the photo shoot), Mark Ingram of Alabama, Nick Fairley of Auburn, and former Washington Husky Jake Locker.

Voting begins Monday, March 7, and runs through April 4.Fans can find the EA Sports page on Facebook and then “like” their favorite players’ page. Only one vote per day is allowed, but fans can vote every day and can also post the link or even start a Facebook group to encourage others to vote.The winner will be announced April 19 on ESPN’s “First Take”.EA Sports twitter.

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PLAY—PA PUMP AND GOPLAYBOOK SYRACUSEFORMATION–SB SNUGSThe PA PUMP AND GO is a very big part of my offense when using the SAINTS book in MADDEN, and the SYRACUSE book with NCAA. Not only do you have an excellent play here, you are running it out of one of the best formations in the game, SB SNUGS. Not many people know that this little formation is equipped with a very unique blocking system used by the sole back.

Its called POWER BLOCKING and it works big time taking care of Nanos and A Gap heat. I will include in the description of this play a quick overview of this blocking that can be utilized in all of the plays in SB SNUGS.PA PUMP AND GO embarrasses man coverage. People who know me and who have played me online have seen this little gem in action. The out and up move by the “B” WR is not only effective but is also unbumpable.

I run this play with Michael Floyd and I almost feel sorry for the defense. He will leave the defender bewildered as he did twice last night against FLORIDA and ALABAMA in 2 unranked games where both times he scored from 50 yds out.I always have this play in my regular audibles and when I see the match up man coverage I want I will check to this play.Another nice tip is the fact that in SB SNUGS you can flip any play without moving a sole and without the defense knowing any better. So if I see cover 1 and my human opponent is using the safety to a particular side I just flip the play and run it with my other WR and use the same setup as normal. I have used this play vs zone but it is man coverage that this play really excels in. Also, there are to many other nice options for zone coverage with this formation. I have at times ran this formation the entire game, solid as you can get.Before I go into the setup for this play I want to briefly describe the POWER BLOCKING by the back. This will be brief, so much more can be done with this but here go.POWER BLOCKING FROM SB SNUGSThe back is aligned directly behind the QB. No matter what he is doing pre snap you want to block him right or left and then motion him away from the side you are blocking. He will line up either right or left of the qb but will remain in the backfield. By blocking him to one side and motioning him to the other you have employed power blocking because he will now step up very hard A GAP and will block any defenders trying to penetrate, and does a damn good job I might add. Now if you block him one way and motion him on the same side of the block he will just block normally and pickup anyone outside in. It is when you block him one way and then motion him opposite of the side you are blocking, that is when you get that hard A GAP fill, and it is very good, believe me! Lets use a quick example of power blocking from SNUGS.

Lets say you feel an A GAP Nano or heat coming left A GAP (Looking at tv screen) what you would do to pick this up is first you must apply blocking to the back to get him off of a route or blue or whatever, in this case we would block him left. Then we would motion him to the right of the QB. At the snap of the ball watch how he comes hard to the opposite side, in this case to his left just as you applied when hot routing him to block. With this system you can apply other receivers that are using blue routes in a specific play, or you could use maximum coverage to compliment the POWER BLOCKING SYSTEM.PA PUMP AND GOB Out and UP–place your fastest player here, this is the man this play is made for and it works damn good. VS ZONE I usually check to another playin this great formation but if you want to stay with it then SLANT OUT.A–Flat route and the reason for B being bumped, nice check down. VS ZONE put on streak in conjunction with B’S SLANT OUT.Y BLUE ROUTE, nice vs zone and we will leave as is with conjunction to B and A’S route vs zone.

If I am feeling very heavy pressure I sometimes keep Y into block, works very well with LB’s Power block for great protection.X Corner Route, very nice to go to when you see your opponent trying to user against the out and up, single coverage here, nice odds. You can also do as I do sometimes and bring him across on a shallow to the side of the out and up for another option.LB POWER BLOCK, probably the most important person on this play, remember its protection first and if you apply him like I described using the power block you will have a very enjoyable play and a very PISSED of defense!QB-YOU!–It is very important as with any pass play to allow the CPU to complete your QB’S drop so he is not throwing off his back foot, this applies to the video game even bigger than real life lol! SERIOUSLY!You may have to throw early, but your protection should be fine if you apply everything we talked about from a protection stand point. Just lead pass after the receiver begins to break hard up field. Its hard to describe because every situation is different so take this play in the lab, you will have a blast! I promise you that no other play brings an honry smile to ones gace like this play does, kind of sneaky lol!