EA Sports announced that College Football 27 will be released July 9.

Kewan Lacy of Ole Miss, Dante Moore of Oregon and Malachi Toney of Miami grace the cover.

This is the third edition of the game since the series went on hiatus after NCAA Football 14 was released in 2013.

The first college football video game that EA Sports released was in 1993 with head coach Bill Walsh on the cover. The first athlete to be on a cover was Joe Gordon of Kansas State in College Football USA 96.

Gordon went to high school at Arlington (Texas) and is one of seven players from the Lone Star State to grace the cover along with Michael Crabtree, Ewers, Gordon, Robert Griffin III, Brian Johnson, Brian Orakpo and Lacy.

Featured on the cover of College Football 27, Kewan Lacy ran for over 1,500 yards and 19 touchdowns as a senior at Lancaster in Texas. (PHOTO: Wayne Grubbs)

Florida is second with six including Heisman winners Tim Tebow and Danny
Wuerffel. Tommie Frazier was the second athlete to be on the cover in  College Football USA 97 after leading Nebraska to back-to-back
national championships.

California is third with five. Reggie Bush, Carson Palmer and Ricky Williams all earned the cover after Heisman campaigns while DeSean Jackson and Mark Sanchez round out the group.

Read on for a look at where every cover player went to high school.

Texas – 7 

Quinn Ewers, EA Sports College Football 25, Southlake Carroll (Southlake)
Joe Gordan, College Football USA 96, Arlington
Robert Griffin III, NCAA Football 13, Copperas Cove

Kewan Lacy, EA Sports College Football 27, Lancaster

California – 5
Reggie Bush, NCAA Football 07, Helix (La Mesa)
DeSean Jackson, NCAA Football 09, Long Beach Poly (Long Beach)
Carson Palmer, NCAA Football 2004, Santa Margarita (Rancho Santa Margarita)
Mark Sanchez, NCAA Football 10, Mission Viejo
Ricky Williams, NCAA Football 2000, Patrick Henry (San Diego)

Michigan – 3
Donovan Edwards, EA Sports College Football 25, West Bloomfield

Minnesota – 2
Larry Fitzgerald, NCAA Football 2005, Academy of Holy Angels (Richfield)
Chris Weinke, NCAA Football 2002, Cretin-Derham Hall (St. Paul)

Ohio – 2
Desmond Howard, NCAA Football 06, St. Joseph Academy (Cleveland)
Charles Woodson, NCAA Football 99, Ross (Fremont)

Oregon – 2
Joey Harrington,NCAA Football 2003, Central Catholic (Portland)

Alabama – 1

Ryan Williams, EA Sports College Football 26, Saraland


Arkansas – 1
Darren McFadden, NCAA Football 09, Oak Grove (North Little Rock)

Georgia – 1
Travis Hunter, EA Sports College Football 25, Collins Hill (Suwanee)

Kansas – 1
Barry Sanders, NCAA Football 13, North (Wichita)

Kentucky – 1
Shaun Alexander, NCAA Football 2001, Boone County (Florence)

Pennsylvania – 1
Matt Ryan, NCAA Football 09, William Penn Charter (Philadelphia)

Virginia – 1
Owen Schmitt, NCAA Football 09, Fairfax

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