One of the most disastrous fiascoes I've seen in content design from EA whether CFB or any Madden.
1) They've made speed overwhelmingly dominant as an attribute, and it's even more so in CUT where abilities are largely ineffective.
2) They're giving a massive +2 speed boost to teams in the top 15 so everyone interested in a competitive team is spending an unrefundable 750k to do so.
3) For whatever reason I think I'm the only person that has noticed this, but the theme team boost boosts a lot of other useful stats and only the top THREE teams get +2 to ALL of those.
4) Of the four cards they showed tonight, only one is from a top 15 team (and they mostly are simply not very good)
5) Anyone that has a 50/50 theme team basically only has two spots (assuming you are 52/50 with punter/kicker to try to fit these players in.
I am a very casual fan of a few college teams and simply choose theme teams to have the best team possible (spare me your "THAT'S TOXIC!" takes) . I run a 50/50 Oregon team because Oregon is in the top three. In an Ultimate Team mode that has very limited content, you can't both create a system that drives players that want to run a good team to whatever is the best theme team, and then frantically try to cater to people trying to run theme teams of whatever their favorite mediocre team is (while they still can't get a +2 speed boost)