Not that many big improvments from last year except online dynast
NCAA 2009: There is some improved gameplay and the game looks a litte bit better this year but overall the gameplay feels mostly the same. You can also kind of choose your celebration in the endzone you can run up to the mascot or run to a team mate or press y and celebrate by yourself it really doesnt add that much to the game but you can't celebrate in college football anyways
Game Modes: The Mascot games are back and are not that great all mascot teams are 99 overall and the jukes turn into crazy front flips but its really not that fun. NCAA 09 has a couple of mini games that you probably wont waste alot of your time on. Campus Legend mode is more of the same go through high school playoffs be a 5 star recruit be 5th string at pretty much every school you go to work your way up to first string in about 1-2 weeks via practices then you blow every team out and win the hiesman every year then export your guy to madden, overall the campus legend mode gets very dull very fast. The games biggest improvment is probably the online dynasty which is very great and should last awhile if you get it started with the right people.
Overall: This game is very fun and a good game for college football fans it is also a great game to play with friends online dynasty its about the only real improvment in the game but it should last untill madden comes out i recomend this game to any football fan