Say hello (again) to EA Sports College Football. The beloved video-game behemoth is back

One with a story mode that would transport the 7-year-old into a college dorm room, where letters from fans filled his mailbox, the campus newspaper teased a championship and a list of Heisman candidates adorned his computer screen. “You know, we'd always joke, because he was a big kid, that 'Hey, maybe you're going to be on there someday,'” says the father, Bill Swartout. Today, more than a decade later, that 7-year-old — Brayden Swartout — is an offensive lineman at Central Michigan, living the story mode in real life.