NCAA Football 12 Blog - Custom Conferences

[dochalladay32]

I can already sense 2 things for 2013.

A) An improved scheduling algorithm. I mean really, if you are going to let us put 4 teams in a conference, let us play 3 conference games. Sure, some FCS teams may have to fill the out-of-conference, but other teams still have to play non-conference games and you might have some independents lying around. Hell, if I put the time an effort, I could make one using the teams in the game and it would probably work a bit better than just filling in FCS teams as conference games.

B) Allow us to edit all bowl tie-ins. Some are saying small conferences will have an advantage playing cupcakes, but these small conferences most people are using just have mid-majors. They may pull off a 6-0 or whatever conference record, but will be lucky to go 3-3 outside of it. So they'll get to go to the Humanitarian bowl. Not a big deal. If the conference is small, some of the bowl bids will become at larges, or maybe they made it so they are delegated to a larger conference (doubt it). It will be broken, but not too bad.

[PaperBoyx703]

Quote: Originally Posted by Block-O

Its about time they stopped scheduling a non conference game after the OSU/UM game.

This was one of my BIGGEST gripes about the dynasty mode.

[Spanky]

This whole scheduling thing seems extremely complicated. If they're able to pull it off right, they've really accomplished something.

[drewst18]

Or make FCS teams better? In reality that is what the WAC is going to be, they are going to bring in FCS teams.

The difference is that these FCS teams are improving quickly. Every year now it seems there is a FCS team that beats a decent to bigtime FBS team. I am sure a FCS team that hooks up with LA Tech would give em a good go, and it should be that way in the game.

[stugotsII]

I'd love to set up 4 super conferences and have the conference winners play in a 4 team playoff.

Playoffs need to be part of real and video game college football.

[Skull]

Quote: Originally Posted by drtrix

"The number of conference games depends on the schedule type you select and the number of schools. By default all conferences use the correct schedule type, but we needed to account for how conference schedules would work for conferences with less than eight schools or more than 13. Here's a quick breakdown of how many conference games will be played for each schedule type: 4-8 schools – 7 conference games. There are no protected rivals since everyone plays everyone else. For conferences of 4-6 schools FCS opponents will play the part of your additional conference games" Would this not screw with top 25 rankings? For example, a team from the WAC (assuming people move Hawaii, Boise, etc to the MWC) could pick up 3-4 conference wins from FCS teams.

yeap this is a HORRIBLE design choice, once again EA screws up something so simple, they could've alleviated things by allowing more teams to be added...but i guess since the last time they did that (when WKU was dded) the game completely broke - so hey, take the lazy way out

[rollinphat]

still no word on conference prestige being dynamic or not which means it most likely won't be.

custom conferences is a great feature, but it's going to be lacking if the conference prestige doesn't fluctuate from year to year.

you could have 8 six star schools in CUSA and it would still have a C+ conference prestige....just isn't right.

[jwilphl]

That 120-team limit better be gone next year. I'm glad they made these improvements, but I can still envision problems (some already mentioned). I guess we'll see how it plays out.

Conference prestige is an interesting notion, although I would imagine it does vary based upon the collective sum of the teams in the conference. Is that too hopeful?

And I'm not sure I understand it entirely. If you have a four-school conference, you still play 7 conference games? So you play the other teams twice plus one team three times? That makes absolutely no sense.