# The Program: College Football — user reviews > 921 indexed App Store user reviews of The Program by Fantasy Mogul Inc, rated 4.70/5 from 40,851 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-program-college-football/id1586374382/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-program-college-football/id1586374382.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 32,275 · 4★ 6,016 · 3★ 1,513 · 2★ 365 · 1★ 682 ## What do users think of The Program? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Top 25 Ranking - 🚀 Playoff bracket - 👍 Slow starter but super fun - 👍 Immersive college football experience - 👍 Simple and addictive - 👍 Great game with room for improvement - 👍 Real good game - 👍 One of the best - 👍 Amazing and addictive - 👍 Extremely good and beautiful - 👍 Class game - 👍 Great game but some problems - 👍 Promising to say the least - 👍 Solid offline college manager - 👍 Great game **Cons** - 🔒 Requires login credentials - 🐛 Recruiting points too low - 🐛 Recruiting too difficult - 🐛 Kickers miss too many field goals - 🐛 Injuries too frequent - 🐛 Play calling not realistic - 🐛 Impossible to win or progress **Commonly reported bugs** - Kickers miss easy field goals - Punts and returns unrealistic - Recruiting percentages don't make sense - Difficulty level too high, impossible to win - Loading issues when continuing career **Most requested features** - Allow changing player positions - Give more recruit points later in season - Show players' top 10 schools and last 3 options - Make transfer portal available - Allow scouting both offense and defense - Add in-game adjustments and coaching decisions - Implement a transfer portal - Add off-season training and practice - Allow editing team name, logo, and colors - Option to sim games or call plays - Add more staff/coordinator options - Provide more ways to earn coaching points - Implement a playoff system - Add more bowl games - Allow redshirting more players - Show player stats and history - Provide more recruiting points or ways to earn them - Add mini-games during simulated games ## Newest reviews (17 of 921) ### 4/5 — Great game. Gets stagnant *2026-09-01, version 1.17.1* The game is really great. I love how the seasons can be totally different each time and it’s really a new experience every season. However, getting only one staff token per season is a killer. When the staff cost more and more yet you still only get one, it takes exponentially longer to get new staff and it becomes a burden of just going through a season to get tokens for new staff rather than playing the game. If maybe in the later seasons you got two or three tokens it wouldn’t be so bad but even later in the game it’s still just one token. ### 4/5 — Game difficulty *2026-08-26, version 1.17.1* I may just suck but I’m in year 3 and can hardly win a game. ### 4/5 — Challengingly addictive *2026-08-21, version 1.17.1* The upside is that the challenge keeps you coming back. You can really build and develop a good team Earlier issues have been fixed. ### 3/5 — Pricing *2026-08-14, version 1.17.1* It’s a really good game but the season pass should be 50 cents for each season of it’s gonna be 4 dollars it should atleast last 4 seasons that’s crazy pricing ### 4/5 — Pretty chill game *2026-08-12, version 1.16.12* Good game basically no ads and great time killer it’s just a slow game because you obviously start off trash then have to play seasons until you are a contender ### 4/5 — Super sick concept *2026-08-05, version 1.16.12* Love the game. Super smooth, well made. Couple tweaks could be made just like making the actually football sim a little more realistic. Had a couple times where teams have made 70+ yard field goals which is nuts but smaller things like going for it on 4th and short situations or being able to decide who your kick returner is. A little more variability in plays would be cool to see too. Overall great game though I’m hooked ### 2/5 — Mediocre at best *2026-08-05, version 1.16.12* I have been playing this game for a long time time now. The progression through the game is extremely slow and the inconsistencies will frustrate you to death. The recruiting is super annoying and you will have a recruit at 96% and they will say no and it will screw you. The game is inconsistent, has tons of flaws and even when you have the best team by far you will still lose. There is no championship game, there is not conference championship trophy, and the overall flow of the game is pretty bad. I’m frustrated often with this game and after 20+ seasons in, I’m only on the third prestige conference and I’ve had the best recruiting class for 12 seasons. It makes zero sense. ### 4/5 — Good but should be more interactive in game *2026-08-01, version 1.16.12* During the in game simulation we should be able to pick the play before the play starts. That would make the game more interactive and fun, not just sitting there and watching the team pick the same play over and over. ### 4/5 — Nice game *2026-07-31, version 1.16.12* Very addicting but still missing some details and additions to the game like editing your starting lineup and playstyles ### 3/5 — Winning Games *2026-07-29, version 1.16.12* Even when you have the upper hand or higher average, you still cannot win games most of the time. ### 3/5 — Fun but flawed *2026-07-28, version 1.16.12* I’ve been looking for an iPhone game like this and it’s almost everything I wanted, but the recruiting is ridiculous. There are seasons when the position I need most has nothing but 1 star players across the entire map. One season I needed a center and there wasn’t a single one available to recruit! They should add an option for changing the position of players on your roster. It would make recruiting and roster building less frustrating. ### 5/5 — What I’ve been looking for *2026-07-28, version 1.16.12* Fun! ### 3/5 — Difficulty Scaling *2026-07-26, version 1.16.12* I have teams 10 points above the opposition and still am unable to score. It’s honestly laughable, I have teams at 50 versus low 40s and I can’t even move the ball. My qb is in the 70s and he can’t compete any pass short or long ### 5/5 — This is the game you’re looking for. *2026-07-24, version 1.16.12* Best Football game on the market. I wish you could call your own plays and play live, but still best game on the market! ### 5/5 — Fav *2026-07-24, version 1.16.12* This is the best ### 2/5 — Recruit signing/practice success probability isn’t truthful. *2026-07-20, version 1.16.12* Just recently, I attempted to sign 3 recruits all above 3 stars. I got their chance of signing at above 78 for two and 65 for the other. All three declined. I usually brush things like this off, even though it happens quite frequently… I just let it be. HOWEVER. The next 4 recruits I tried to sign all had chances below 50% with one at 33 and another at 35. They all signed. This is a VERY annoying thing that seems to happen often. You get a recruit with very promising signing chances (70% - up) and they seem to be willing to decline more so than the probability shown. This inconsistency can even be applied to certain training regimens like the “make or break”. A player could be given a “50/50 shot” at going up 5 overall points or down 5, but on the contrary the game gives a bar for every player you have that represents the likelihood of that players training being successful. It could say a 100% success rate, but often I find it to be VERY misleading, and the player suffers. this doesn’t just apply to that specific regimen. I feel like this is a tacky money grab for the developers. They get you to make multiple micro purchases for season passes after every season because usually you’ll find that with the given amount of recruiting points in the beginning isn’t enough to absolutely guarantee anything from more than 1-2 recruits unless you spend loads on said recruits (won’t have enough for anyone else.)You purchase the game pass thinking it’s going to benefit you in signing more people only for the probabilities in the long run to not be truthful — which gets you spending more money. Please fix. This happens way too often to be just bad luck & inconveniences. ### 5/5 — 10/10 *2026-07-19, version 1.16.12* I got beef with Lexington but other than that 10 out of 10 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Garbage game do not download!!! *2026-08-24, version 1.17.1* I decided to pay for the game in hopes that I could possibly win a game, recruit decent players, earn more coaching upgrade credits. I did not. In fact the game started to make me lose games against teams that I had more talent. These developers have absolutely no clue how to make an American football game. Absolute trash. Do not play this game! And definitely do not pay for this game. Absolute garbage. This is ridiculous. None of the changes for difficulty level I previously asked for were delivered. Also just note that if you watch the ads you may not get the bonus. I watched a minute of ads and still didn’t get the bonus and there’s no way to try again. Stupid idiot devs that totally ruined what could be a great game. The devs definitely don’t listen to your advice. On another note, never spend money. It only lasts a season, which is about an hour of gameplay. Think about a game on a ps5, would you pay 3 or 7 bucks per hour of gameplay? Absolutely not. So don’t do it here. Devs pull your head out of your underwear and give us the game we deserve and maybe we will pay 20 bucks to have it. Also new addition, you can be 3 points better than your rival on both sides of the ball, call plays designed to beat them, and still lose by 30 because the computer wants you to lose recruits. Seriously!!!! Just get a buyable permanent difficulty meter and this game would be sick. So disappointing. Ugh!!! I wish with all my heart this game was playable but it’s not. The devs will make you lose. Enjoy the anger. ### 1/5 — Garbage game do not download!!! *2026-08-20, version 1.17.1* I decided to pay for the game in hopes that I could possibly win a game, recruit decent players, earn more coaching upgrade credits. I did not. In fact the game started to make me lose games against teams that I had more talent. These developers have absolutely no clue how to make an American football game. Absolute trash. Do not play this game! And definitely do not pay for this game. Absolute garbage. This is ridiculous. None of the changes for difficulty level I previously asked for were delivered. Also just note that if you watch the ads you may not get the bonus. I watched a minute of ads and still didn’t get the bonus and there’s no way to try again. Stupid idiot devs that totally ruined what could be a great game. The devs definitely don’t listen to your advice. On another note, never spend money. It only lasts a season, which is about an hour of gameplay. Think about a game on a ps5, would you pay 3 or 7 bucks per hour of gameplay? Absolutely not. So don’t do it here. Devs pull your head out of your underwear and give us the game we deserve and maybe we will pay 20 bucks to have it. ### 1/5 — Lazy Coding *2026-08-02, version 1.16.12* The play calling in this game is absolutely abysmal. I had a game where I put in a Ilb2 blitz, and it wasn’t utilized once against a team that doesn’t even pass! Furthermore, I used this play against a team that has a mix of passing and running. That play was the only defensive play called the entire game! How is it possible that the game could simulate only calling 1 play on defense for an entire game?! This is lazy coding and game development! Every defensive play should be utilized at least once in a game. Why else would I choose them? ### 1/5 — Garbage *2026-07-13, version 1.16.12* Game is trash. Too many recruits lost with over a 90% chance to commit. ### 1/5 — Just got rid of everything. *2026-05-28, version 1.16.10* Logged in to see everyone I recruited was gone. I was in week 10/11 with no recruits. ### 1/5 — Hiiii *2026-05-26, version 1.16.10* I really want yall to see this i will bump it up after yall respond but i love this game so much but can yall please make a basketball version ### 1/5 — Go screw yourself *2026-05-02, version 1.16.9* I hope you have a terrible life devs. ### 1/5 — Percentages and ratings mean nothing and the dev doesn’t understand math. *2026-04-25, version 1.16.8* Title is accurate. the developer doesn’t understand how percentages work and when you email him he talks down to you because he doesn’t understand how percentages work. It’s one thing to have a lack of knowledge but to be be rude and condescending because you’re correctly called out for not understanding math is ridiculous. The game itself isn’t bad just know that your chances to sign a recruit are the same at 30% as they are at 99%. Both percentages will convert roughly 50% of the time. And despite your team rating and strategy the game outcomes are completely random and not based on strategy or play selection. Preemptive edit- just editing in advance of the developers condescending response where he continues to misunderstand percentages then condescendingly tell me to email for game play tips. ### 1/5 — Horrible *2026-04-01, version 1.16.2* I used to love this game but because I keep losing and don’t get 4 or 5 star recruits I just want to break this game! I also lost to a 2 and 5 team when I was 5 and 2! We lost 24 to 7!!!!! ### 1/5 — This game never gets better *2026-03-10, version 1.14.20* Do you all even do anything with this game anymore. I mean send an update or some to make the game better. The AI sucks. Built to work against you. Coaches don’t call the good plays. Calls the same play 4 times in a row even if it isn’t working. Can never get the players you need in transfer portal cause it always makes sure the players you need are picked before it gets to you. Just a piss poor effort on gameplay. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — A great little game to play on your phone *2026-08-30, version 1.17.1* Honest to God I really like this game. It’s a very fun game to play. There’s a lot of things you can do on here like the recruiting is pretty cool. I like the way it Sims the games. It’s pretty fun. Good time you get kind of lost playing this game. ### 5/5 — good *2026-08-29, version 1.17.1* good strategy game ### 5/5 — Great sim *2026-08-28, version 1.17.1* Wish it was more interactive ### 5/5 — Great game if it didn’t piss me off *2026-08-25, version 1.17.1* I completed my goals for the desert pacific conference, scored 61/55 gems needed to move to a new division, I finished the season 12-0 with a bowl win and 3 invites to the…Mid Mountain, Western Horizon and Sunshine Conference, I accepted the mid mountain conference, the game showed me new staff and coaches that I unlocked and even showed me the recruits, just for me to start training camp and the game to sent me back to the Desert Pacific conference and will not let me advance. I deleted the app, restarted my phone only to remain in the same conference I just moved from a minute prior. ### 5/5 — Game I come back to everytime *2026-08-25, version 1.17.1* I think they need a little better updating with some of the features but how active and consistent the developers are with the game it keeps me coming back to see what’s changed. I think they should focus less on things like new ai face models and focus on making attributes actually translate to performance (ex higher speed -> longer more breakout runs), or adjusting the frequency of certain recruits(ex I’ll have 2 4 star Tight ends + 3 more underclassmen and it’ll give me 3 4 star prospects for the next recruiting cycle. Also, I love the overall difficulty of the game, but moving conferences is extremely difficult and honestly as someone who has spammed this game as much as I have, I don’t think it’s feasible to think someone could even move conferences within a realtime dedication for 2-4 months and extreme luck, + buying the season pass to give u extra recruiting points. I do love this game and its potential, and I’m betting on it. ### 5/5 — Active fun game *2026-08-20, version 1.17.1* Real active game,I have spent hours on this game.I like how the game makes you think strategically but I also I think we should be able to get recruiting points for winning games and also have the player who scores or make a play. Have a small card of the player pop up on the area of the field or touchdown ,the play happens on to show users who’s making a impact. ### 5/5 — GREAT GAME! *2026-08-14, version 1.17.1* Great game, should have the same game for college basketball and same concept ### 5/5 — 👍🏻 *2026-08-03, version 1.16.12* Good ### 5/5 — The Program (Basketball Hopeful) *2026-07-31, version 1.16.12* Absolutely love this game but i’m dying to play a basketball version🙏 ### 5/5 — Great Game, it’s actually pretty hard to get good. *2026-07-31, version 1.16.12* This is an awesome game to play when you’re hooked on football and bored. I would say they could add more depth to recruits and they could have development traits. But overall I rate it 9/10, it’s pretty good. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-09.*