Overview:
- Estimated achievement difficulty: 2/10
- Offline: 47 (940 )
- Online: 3 (60 )
- Approximate amount of time to 1000 : 5-10 hours
- Glitched achievements: None
- Does difficulty affect achievements? Yes for one achievement. The difficulty must be at least on Varsity to get the "Pontiac G8 4th Quarter Comeback" achievement.
Note #1: The achievements can be obtained with 2 controllers and the sliders can be adjusted as well. Rules can be changed, such as offsides. You can NOT super-sim any games and expect to get the in-game achievements.
Note #2: If you need any extra help on obtaining these achievements check out the Achievement Guide for NCAA Football 09 written by myself, Seng IV, and the x360a community. You can find that guide HERE.
Step 1 (In-game achievements):
There are in total 28 achievements to be gained while playing a Play Now or Dynasty Mode game worth a total of 510. You can easily obtain half of these achievements in one single game. It should only take you 2-3 games to get all 32 of the in-game achievements. Most of the in-game achievements require you to throw or run for certain amount of yards or score a certain amount of TD's. If you leave the Quarter Length on 5 minutes you should be able to get all of these in no time. However, I would suggest you putting the Quarter Length at 1 minute and holding the ball as long as you can when you have it to get the "Pick-Free", "On Lockdown", and "Mmmmm.....Donut" achievements. To get the "Triple Threat" achievement simply play as the Florida Gators or the West Virginia Mountaineers as they both have fast QB's. Now throw a TD pass with the QB and then score a rushing TD with that QB as well. Then put in the backup QB and move the starting QB to either WR or TE and throw him the ball and have him score. To get the "That Just Happened" achievement when you get on the 1-yd line. Put your Punter in at QB and run a QB Sneak. Have him dive over to score the TD. After he scores you should get the "That Just Happened" achievement and the "Up and Over" achievement as well since you dived into the endzone. The rest of the in-game achievements are self explanatory and should be obtained within a couple of hours.
Step 2 (Dynasty achievements):
Most of the Dynasty achievements from '07 and '08 are back in '09 so you should be familiar with acquiring them by now. There are 7 Dynasty achievements worth a total of 155. First off pick a team that has a Conference Championship game. In total there are only 5 conference championship games. So pick a team from either the ACC, Big 12, C-USA, MAC, or the SEC conference. After you pick a team simply sim through the season making sure you go undefeated. After the season is over play the conference championship game making sure you win. After the game is over you should unlock the "Conference Champs" achievement. Once you get back to the schedule if you played with a team from the Big 12 or the SEC you should have also unlocked the "Heisman Memorial Trophy®" achievement. Now since you won that game and since you should have gone undefeated during the season you should be invited to play in the BCS Championship game. Make sure you play that game making sure you win it. After the game is over you should unlock the "National Champions" achievement and the "Out on a High Note" achievement. Now to get the "BCS Conference Invite", "Oil Tycoon", and "Mr. February" achievements refer to the Achievement Guide for NCAA Football 09. There are several methods to getting those achievements and one of them should work for you. That guide can be found HERE.
Step 3 (Campus Legend achievements):
There are only a few Campus Legend achievements and they're all relatively easy. You first want to make sure you win the High School state tournament that you play before you get an offer for college. That way you can get the "Russell High School Champ" achievement. While playing in the High School tournament you should get the "High School Hero" achievement as well during one of the games. Just make sure you play the best possible game and after the game is over you will get that achievement. Then accept a spot on a school where you will be the 2nd string QB. Now once the season begins go into practice. It should only take 2-4 practice sessions and you should be promoted to 1st string and you'll get the "Place at the Table!" achievement. Now to get the "The Legend of Campus Legend" achievement all you have to do is simulate seasons. I would start a new Campus Legend with Tim Tebow (#15 on the Florida Gators) or any good QB, HB, WR and simply sim seasons. You should easily unlock this achievement after the 2nd or 3rd season.
Step 4 (Mini-Game & Mascot achievements):
These are probably some of the easiest achievements in the game. All you have to do to get the Mascot achievements is simply play as the mascots respective team, like play as the Florida Gators to get the "Got Gator Bait?" achievement. As you're playing with the team after you score a touchdown on the side the mascot is on all you have to do is run over to the mascot and hit . The achievement for that certain mascot will then pop up. To get the mini-game achievements you can either play them with 2 controllers or you can play against the CPU on Freshman difficulty. Either way you will also get these achievements very easily. The mini-games in this years game are extremely easy to beat compared the the bowling achievement from '07 & '08.
Conclusion:
Now you should either have the full 1000 in this game or at least close to it. To get the 3 online achievements all you have to do is just start up an Online Dynasty on Xbox Live. Nobody has to join it just make one and you'll get the "Reach Out and Crush Someone" achievement. To get the "A/V Club President" achievement while in a game save a replay or photo and then once the game is over upload the photo or video to the EA Servers. Now to get the "Join the Ranks" achievement just simply finish an online game, you do not have to win the game. Oh and to get the "Create a Custom Sound" achievement make sure you have a few songs saved on your 360 and go to the Main Menu and add them to a chant. After you do that you should unlock this achievement.
x360a would like to thank Bishop24 for this road map