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Originally Posted by sovereignstar v2
Your Mountaineers are giving me a helluva challenge trying to find a conference for them in my reimagination I'm doing for this game. Currently, you are only able to have conferences of 10/12/14/16 and I'm trying to limit myself to 12 and 14 whilst purging my league of all the riff raff. Rivals have to be a team inside their conference and so far using that site I've been able to have each team matched up with a primary or secondary rival. Until West Virginia.
ATLANTIC COAST
Florida State Miami
Maryland Virginia
NC State North Carolina
Boston College Syracuse
Clemson Florida State
Wake Forest Duke
Syracuse Boston College
Virginia Tech Virginia
Miami Florida State
Georgia Tech Clemson
North Carolina NC State
Duke North Carolina
Virginia Virginia Tech
Pittsburgh Syracuse
BIG TWELVE
Nebraska Oklahoma
Missouri Kansas
Kansas State Kansas
Iowa State Kansas State
Colorado Nebraska
Kansas Missouri
Oklahoma Texas
Oklahoma State Oklahoma
Texas A&M Texas
Baylor TCU
Texas Tech Texas
Texas Oklahoma
TCU Baylor
SMU TCU
BIG TEN
Michigan State Michigan
Iowa Wisconsin
Indiana Purdue
Michigan Ohio State
Ohio State Michigan
Minnesota Wisconsin
Purdue Indiana
Illinois Northwestern
Northwestern Illinois
Wisconsin Minnesota
Penn State Ohio State
Notre Dame Michigan
PACIFIC TWELVE
USC UCLA
UCLA USC
Washington Oregon
Arizona State Arizona
Oregon Washington
Stanford Cal
Arizona Arizona State
Cal Stanford
Washington State Washington
Oregon State Oregon
Utah BYU
BYU Utah
SOUTHEASTERN
South Carolina Georgia
Florida Georgia
Georgia Florida
Tennessee Alabama
Kentucky Tennessee
Vanderbilt Tennessee
Auburn Alabama
Arkansas LSU
LSU Alabama
Alabama Auburn
Mississippi State Ole Miss
Ole Miss Mississippi State
WESTERN ATHLETIC
San Diego State Fresno State
Hawaii Fresno State
Wyoming Colorado State
Colorado State Wyoming
New Mexico San Diego State
Boise State Fresno State
UNLV Nevada
Air Force Colorado State
Utah State Boise State
Fresno State Boise State
San Jose State Fresno State
Nevada UNLV
UNNAMED
Rutgers UConn
West Virginia
Louisville Cincinnati
Cincinnati Louisville
UConn Rutgers
USF UCF
UCF USF
Memphis Cincinnati
Houston Rice
Rice Houston
Army Navy
Navy Army
Sorry for the bad formatting. Rivals are on the right. Maybe I replace Memphis with Marshall or something
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Realistically, for West Virginia, I would say drop Wake Forest, BC, or Duke from the ACC and put WVU in. WVU has legitimate rivalries with Pitt, VPI, and Maryland and, to a lesser extent, Louisville (that series got pretty heated before they both left the Big East), Syracuse, BC, and Miami. They are the 15th winningest D1 program of all time and, sadly, are the winningest program to never have won a national championship.
Even in bad years, WVU would be in the top half of attendance for the conference and in good years would be in the top 4 behind Clemson, FSU, and VPI since they all have higher capacity stadiums. WVU averaged more than 60K per game as recently as 2007 and has a record of 70,222 but they shrank their stadium seating down since then. And, TV games with WVU vs Pitt and VPI are going to get high TV ratings (and WVU has even had recently played Maryland in made for TV neutral site games and just signed on to play a two game series vs UVA in Charlotte in made for TV matchups). Wake Forest and BC aren't doing that, unless they are playing Notre Dame or another team that draws.