NCAA Football 11
50 Achievements
1,000
15-20h
Greatness
In Road to Glory Mode, earn a spot on the NCAA All-Time leaderboard.
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How to unlock the Greatness achievement in NCAA Football 11 - Definitive Guide
In Road to Glory mode, go to Stats & Records>Leaderboards>Offline Leaderboards>NCAA. Here you will see the Legend Rank score that you need to beat for your position.
As a QB, I needed to beat a Legend Rank score of 2100. My achievement unlocked at the end of the ACC Conference Championship game in season 2 when my Legend Rank score reached 2135.
If you play as QB, the best way to attain the achievement is to always audible to a pass play. Throw the ball deep as much as possible. Score as many TD's and get as many wins as you can. End of the year awards and bowl wins help increase your score also. You should easily hit the mark necessary by the end of the second season, if not early in the third season.
To see the particular score you need to beat, go to Stats & Records, Leaderboards, Offline Leaderboards, NCAA. You just have to make it onto the leaderboard, so just beat the lowest score on there.
If you're having trouble with getting a high enough score, you can change the settings. This will disable you from making the online leaderboards, but if you can still get the achievements since those are related to the offline leaderboards.
Go to Road to Glory Setup, House Rules, and click on Modify Settings. Set the difficulty to Freshman. Turn off injuries. Set Player Min Speed Threshold to 0 (so that your fast players will outrun slower opponents more).
RB to Game Rules. Turn off whatever penalties you think are necessary. (I turned off holding so my O-line didn't nerf me.)
RB to Custom AI. Set all User settings to 100 and CPU to 0. This will make you into a superstar.
Now, if you're a QB, set up your audibles so that you can run every play as a long pass play. (I always play QB, so if you're not, do whatever you need to do. I found QB to be the easiest.) At this point, you should score so often that you eventually get benched.
Make sure you save after every game. After the last game of the regular season, make double sure you save. If you don't win the Heisman, and you've been leading, reload that save and resim until you do. The Heisman is worth a lot of points, so you want to make sure to win that. If you're undefeated but don't make the Championship game, and resimming doesn't help, don't worry. You'll probably make it next year. This achievement will probably take two years to get in any case.
This achievement is NOT based on the Online Leaderboards, but the Offline Leaderboards instead. You can check the leaderboards in Stats and Records to see how many points you need to be on it. Just create a player with 99 overall outside of Road to Glory and then choose an existing player in Road to Glory. If you want to get it legit, you can go in and change your difficulty to Freshman and also modify anything else you need to. Using either of these methods, you WILL NOT be included on the Online Leaderboards. You need 2100 points to get on the NCAA All-Time leaderboard.
There is a third option for the above achievements that is even easier. [Thanks to goothgone]
Choose a 99 RE from existing players. Go into House Rules and turn penalties off. Now you can go across the line of scrimmage before the snap and stand next to the quarterback. When he snaps the ball, sack him. You should get the achievement in around 3 games.