College Football 26: How To Maximize Coach Trust and Happiness

How do coach trust and happiness in College Football 26 work? Find out with our extensive guide on the subject.

Keeping your coach happy will help you play more games (Source: EA Sports)
Keeping your coach happy will help you play more games (Source: EA Sports)

The journey from a collegiate football player to ultimate glory in the NFL is a long one, and you can experience this long and bumpy ride in College Football 26’s Road To Glory. Along the way, you’ll not only need to do well during your games but also give it your all during training sessions and academic pursuits.

Doing well in all of these areas will slowly earn you the coach’s trust and will also improve their happiness. Consistently excelling in training sessions might mean more matches where you get to play too. So, it is crucial to maximize coach trust and happiness in College Football 26. In this guide, we’ll explore how you can impact these attributes.

How To Improve Coach Trust in College Football 26

How you perform on the field defines how much faith your coach has in you (Source: EA Sports)
How you perform on the field defines how much faith your coach has in you (Source: EA Sports)

Coach trust is an attribute that shows how much faith your coach has in your abilities as a player. You can earn the coach’s trust in two ways: play well during matches or perform admirably during training sessions. Initially, you might not be high enough on the depth chart to play in most matches, so you’ll need to impress your coach during practice. By the end of practice, you might earn a Bronze medal, earning you 50 coach trust points. A Silver medal gives you 150 coach trust, and Gold gives you 300 points.

If you perform poorly during practice sessions or during a match, it can also penalize your coach’s trust. If that happens, you’ll need to earn back the trust. Or, you might lose your starting role in matches.

Coach trust will also depend on Position Battles. These trigger when you and another player in the same personnel group have the same amount of coach trust. When that happens, you’ll play three back-to-back practice matches with the other player. Perform better than them in these matches and go up through the depth chart. However, if you fail, you’ll need to earn trust points again before you can challenge that same player.

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How To Improve Coach Happiness

The next part of this guide on coach trust and happiness in College Football 26 is about building up the happiness quotient. Your performance on the field and during practice sessions has an impact on trust. However, for coach happiness to increase, you’ll need to impress them with both your on-field and off-the-field activities. The happier your coach, the quicker you’ll be able to earn their trust.

The primary way of lifting their happiness rating is by doing well in your Academics and Leadership actions through the Weekly Agenda menu. So, you’ll want to invest some of your energy points in these two categories each week. Doing so will ensure that you maintain good grades in your tests. Similarly, making responsible choices in between practice and games can also help improve your coach’s happiness rating. Beyond these, your performance during training sessions and during actual games can also impact the happiness rating of your coach.

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