High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! NCAA Football `06, known colloquially as College Football 2006 is a collegiate American football video game which was released on July 11, 2005. The product features former Michigan Wolverines standout and Heisman Trophy winner Desmond Howard on the cover. He is the only cover athlete not to have played the year before their respective game; Howard last played at Michigan in 1991. It is the only game in the series as of 2011 to have a music soundtrack, as the other games play school fight songs and general band pieces.