Retro Bowl vs Retro Bowl College: What Changes
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Retro Bowl College keeps the offense — the drag-to-throw, the dive, the three-minute games — and swaps the front office for a college program. There is no salary cap. Instead you recruit a class each off-season from a pool of high-school players with a limited number of visits, and the players you land only stay for four years before they graduate whether you like it or not.
That changes the strategy. In the pro game you can keep a great quarterback for a decade; in college you are always two seasons from replacing him, so the recruiting board matters more than any single game. Academic eligibility is another wrinkle: players with poor grades can be ruled out of games, and a tutoring upgrade is the college equivalent of the training facility.
The season is longer, with conference play, rivalry games that swing recruiting and a playoff at the end. If you liked building a dynasty in Retro Bowl but found the cap management repetitive, College is the version where the roster keeps changing under you. Both games are on this site — Retro Bowl on the home page, College on its own page.
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