NCAA Football 09

NCAA Football 09

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Pontiac G8 4th Quarter Comeback

Pontiac G8 4th Quarter Comeback

Win a Play Now or Dynasty Mode game when down by 14 to start the 4th qtr. (Min Difficulty: Varsity)

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How to unlock the Pontiac G8 4th Quarter Comeback achievement in NCAA Football 09 - Definitive Guide

Start a Play Now game, with you as UGA/Ohio State vs. Idaho/Army. Set diff. to Varsity and quarter length to 2 minutes (3 if you're not that good). Go ahead and set your user AI sliders all the way up on everything, but don't touch the cpu's.

When playing the game, go into FG block when your opponent is on offense to allow them to pass for an easy TD. When you get the ball, just punt it back immediately and repeat the above step. When losing 14-0, turn off the play clock when you have the ball and call a run play so you can hold the clock for the remaining minutes.

In the third quarter, go ahead and turn off all penalties and edit the cpu's AI sliders to nil. Call a run play and dive around the 2 yard line or so (DON'T go out of bounds), making the clock run until the fourth quarter and putting you in good field position. Fourth quarter, score a TD immediately and go for 2. When the cpu gets the ball back, put a player in the backfield to sack the qb immediately (hence no penalties), then just call a timeout. Burn all your timeouts with this method and again put a person in the backfield to sack the punter (UNLESS they're in the endzone, which in that case just field the punt). Play D to win the remainder of the game against the crappy cpu.
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30 Oct 2009 17:42

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Awsome solution and its a quick way to do it. Thanks for the help with this one. :)
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By xXxN1GHTFALLxXx on 13 Sep 2010 21:06
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By Zacry072 on 13 Sep 2010 21:30
Did it on 1 minute quarters...as an added suggestion, just make sure you have the ball on the 3rd quarter kick off...Get them their 14 pts in the 1st half...take the ball in the 3rd quarter and get down to the goal line and run out the clock. So you have the ball 1st and goal to start the 4th saving you a lot of time.

I scored then with 56 seconds remaining...sacked them 3 times and got the ball back with 40 seconds remaining and scored with 8 seconds to go. Best was they threw a Hail Mary with 1 second on the clock and I picked it off and returned for a TD and the win in regulation. It made a simple boosted game pretty exciting, haha
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By Curtieson on 22 Nov 2010 14:27
Just in case some are having issues...you can also use the two controller method to get this one as well.
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By JLDUNC on 10 Apr 2011 01:58
Just got it messed up a few times but all my fault due to failed 2 pt conversions and ints . Good solution worked well
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By CrankyBauer24 on 31 Jul 2011 05:25
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Get two controllers and set the quarters to one minute. Use the second controller and use Hail Mary while your team uses Field Goal Block. Get the extra point as the second controller. Once it's your turn, punt it back immediately to the other team. Repeat.

It should now be 14-0 into the second. Turn off the play clock and take knees and wait. Get into good position to score at the start of the fourth quarter.

Score, punt, and do the same Hail Mary/Field Goal Block trick from earlier, but reversed. Tie it and then take the lead.

Time should be no problem here, but if something goes wrong, yes you can still get this if you happen to go into overtime.

Note: You can also get either the Ice the Kicker achievement or the Ice in Veins achievement. Just call timeout as the other controller while you kick a close field goal, or wait until 1 second to throw the ball into the endzone.

Just remember to use Hail Mary/Field Goal block for all plays.

Very easy achievement with two controllers!
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10 Jun 2013 14:09

Set Quarter Length to 2 minutes, Difficulty must be set to Varsity to get the achievement, if the difficulty is not set to Varsity the achievement will not unlock. Then just select Field Goal Block until they are up by at least 14. If you select Field Goal Block, more than 90% of the they will audible to a throwing play, but sometimes the stupid AI still wants to run the ball. Now once you are down by 14, just run down clock, waste time, then once the 4th Quarter starts, just start scoring and scoring until you take the lead, then again just run down the clock and waste time.

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