Riley Skinner on NCAA Football 2009

If there's anything guys in the prized 18-35 year old demographic love, it's video games. And when it comes to college sports fans, nothing tops the annual NCAA Football game published by EA Sports. July marked the release of NCAA Football 2009, and once again guys everywhere are building their favorite schools into football dynasties.

Real football players might be busy, but that doesn't mean they don't have some time to enjoy playing as their digital doppelgängers. Sometimes, though, the game doesn't quite get it right. Here's my conversation with Riley Skinner on the topic:

Zach Smith: Have you guys been playing any NCAA Football 2009?

Riley Skinner: (Laughs) Yea we’ve got it at our house and we play, we do.

ZS: And what do you think of the Deacs?

RS: We’re not too happy about that. We saw that we’re ranked 23rd in the game (Ed. note - it's actually 25th) and I think our ratings are the same as Duke. I think all of our number ratings are the same as Duke, so we’re not too sure how that works out - that you’re ranked 23rd and you have the same ratings as Duke. But we “up” ourselves a little bit on the game (more laughs). Just trying to make it, as we see, more realistic (and of course, more laughs).

Skinner may be pretty impressive on the real football field, but I bet I could take him on the digital gridiron - assuming he couldn't play with his artificially inflated self.