Brick and Banner is a college football management sim built around one idea: Cut the busy work. Build your team for your scheme and watch them execute.  How far can you take your brand of football.

You start at the bottom — one coach, a Division III program with a small-town stadium, a thin roster, and a history nobody outside the county remembers. Recruit, build a staff, install a scheme, and win. If you succeed the phone will ring and the offers will come.  Division II comes next, but leaving the team you've built is a tough decision.  Recommend your trusted coordinator to take over once you leave, and keep the team and the coach under your control.  

COACHING DNA, AND WHAT A CAREER LEAVES BEHIND

Every coach develops a DNA over his career — ten traits earned on the field, not picked from a menu. Run the ball on fourth-and-two enough times and he becomes a Riverboat coach. Win on the road and he's a Road Warrior. Ground & Pound, Air Attack, Pressure, Ball Hawk, Discipline, Special Teams, Adjustments — each one grows from one star toward a diamond as he proves it, and each one changes how his teams actually play. When he retires, the ceremony lets him choose which of those traits to pass down, and they're banked into the tree for good. The next coach in the family opens his career already carrying part of that inheritance

CALL THE GAME YOURSELF

This is not a sim you have to watch from the press box. Build a game plan of fronts, coverage shells, pressure packages and formation checks, then take the headset on game day and call it snap by snap — or hand it to your coordinators and let your plan run. Every play resolves on the field in a broadcast-style viewer with real routes, real run fits and real pass rush.  Watch highlights or the whole game again in the box score.

RUN THE PROGRAM

Recruit for your scheme. Own the depth chart, every room, every week. Develop players through traits and coaching. Work the portal. Hire the staff, and lose them when they're good enough to leave. After every game, a report tells you why you won or why you lost, in football terms, so the next week is yours to fix.

BUILD YOUR OWN FOOTBALL

The Workshop is where you author plays, formations, playbooks, teams and whole leagues. Build the offense you wish your alma mater ran, then recruit for it. Single-player. No microtransactions. No online account. Your dynasty lives in your save files.

Single-player. No microtransactions. No online account. Your dynasty lives in your save files.