CFB 25 Custom Conference Thread

[nofx94]

The last threads about this directly (at least according to the search and the pre-post warning) are from a decade ago. So this is a place to share your goofy/wacky/classic/old-school conference realignment ideas.



Here are two of mine.


Geographic

All conferences are no divisions, 9-game conference schedule

ACC (South Carolina-Georgia-Florida 15) (Orlando)
Clemson, Coastal Carolina, FIU, Florida, FAU, FSU, Georgia, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, Georgia Tech, Kennesaw State, Miami, South Carolina, UCF, USF

American (Midwest, northeast corridor) (Metlife)
Army, BC, Buffalo, UConn, Illinois, Minnesota, NIU, Northwestern, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Syracuse, Temple, UMASS, Wisconsin

Big-12 (Texas) (AT&T in Dallas)
Baylor, Houston, NT, Rice, SHSU, SMU, TCU, Texas, A&M, TxSt, TTU, UTEP, UTSA

Big Ten (Michigan-Ohio) (Ford Field)
Akron, Ball State, Bowling Green, CMU, Cincinnati, EMU, Miami U, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio, Ohio State, Toledo, WMU

CUSA (Central-US) (Lucas Oil)
Indiana, Iowa, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Purdue, Tulsa

MAC (Mid-Atlantic) (EverBank)
App State, Charlotte, Duke, ECU, JMU, Kent State, Liberty, Maryland, Navy, NC State, North Carolina, Old Dominion, Virginia, VT, Wake

MWC (Mountain West) (Allegiant)
Air Force, AZ, ASU, Boise, BYU, Colorado, CSU, Reno, UNM, NMSU, UNLV, Utah, Utah State, Wyoming

Pac-12 (Pacific 12) (Sofi)
California, Fresno State, Hawai’I, Oregon, Oregon State, SDSU, SJSU, UCLA, USC, Washington, Washington State, Stanford

SEC (La-Miss-Bama)
Alabama, Auburn, Jax State, Louisiana, Louisiana Tech, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, USA, Southern Mississippi, Troy, Tulane, UAB, ULM

SBC (Ozarks-Appalachia)
Arkansas, Ark State, Kentucky, Louisville, Marshall, Memphis, MTSU, Tennessee, Vandy, WVU, WKU


...


I also have a promotion-relegation pyramid idea but I haven't figured out all teh teams for it yet.


Top Conference - Big 10 (10 teams)
Next tier - SEC, ACC (11 teams each)
Third tier - Big XII, Pac-12, AAC (12 teams each)

Fourth tier - CUSA, SBC, MAC, MWC (13 teams each)
14 Indies
Rules: bottom two teams in Big 10 drop to the 22-team second division; conference champs from each go up; bottom three schools in SEC/ACC drop to Big XII, pac-12, AAC, champions from B12/P12/AAC go up; last place team in each conference and the next worst record drop to CUSA, SBC, MAC, MWC, their champions go up; last place team in each conference and one more go down; five best indies go up


Need to figure out the geographical configuration to split the tiers (I did east-west on 14) but I'm really excited with the tier model (in that game I had two divisions in each tier, including at the top)


Would love to hear you all's ideas.

[Tyler Durden]

I really like yours nofx94. I also tried different settings with relegations and stuff. Here is my setup:

SEC

Legends Division
Alabama
Auburn
Clemson
Florida
Florida State
Georgia
South Carolina
Tennessee

Leaders Division
Arkansas
LSU
Mississippi State
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Ole Miss
Texas
Texas A&M

BIG 10

Super Division
Cincinnati
Indiana
Michigan
Michigan State
Notre Dame
Ohio State
Penn State
Pittsburgh
Purdue
Temple

Hero Division
Illinois
Iowa
Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
Northwestern
Wisconsin

PAC 12

Northern Division
BYU
Colorado
Oregon
Oregon State
Utah
Washington
Washington State

Southern Division
Arizona
Arizona State
California
Fresno State
Stanford
UCLA
USC

ACC

North Division
Boston College
Maryland
Rutgers
Syracuse
Virginia
Virginia Tech
West Virginia

South Division
Duke
Georgia Tech
NC State
North Carolina
Miami FL
UCF
Wake Forest

BIG 12

Lone Star Division
Baylor
Houston
SMU
TCU
Texas Tech
Texas State

Country Division
Kentucky
Louisville
Memphis
Mid Tennessee
Vanderbilt
Western Kentucky

Sun Belt
FIU
Florida Atlantic
Georgia Southern
Georgia State
Jacksonville State
Kennesaw State
Louisiana
Louisiana Monroe
Louisiana Tech
South Alabama
South Florida (USF)
Troy
Tulane
UAB

MAC
Akron
Ball State
Bowling Green
Buffalo
Central Michigan
Eastern Michigan
Kent State
Miami OH
Northern Illinois
Ohio
Toledo
UConn
UMass
Western Michigan

Mountain West
Air Force
Boise State
Colorado State
Hawaii
Nevada
New Mexico
New Mexico State
San Jose State
San Diego State
UNLV
Utah State
Wyoming

American
Appalachian State
Army
Charlotte
Coastal Carolina
East Carolina
James Madison
Liberty
Marshall
Navy
Old Dominion

CUSA
Arkansas State
North Texas
Rice
Sam Houston
Southern Miss
Tulsa
UTEP
UTSA

[clayshime]

Has the latest patch fixed some of the issues with custom conferences? When I did an overhaul I ended up with a mess. Teams had league games the same week as the conference title game, including one team who had to play both in the Big 10 title game and at Purdue. Conference games never rotated either.

[Spartan Warrior]

I think a fun What If? is "What if Joe Paterno had been able to set up his proposed Northeastern Conference in the 1980s?"

My understanding is he wanted to unite the northeast independent schools of the time in a conference.

Proposed membership was something like: Penn State, Pitt, West Virginia, Syracuse, Rutgers, Boston College, Virginia Tech, Temple, and Maryland.

Obviously most of those schools ended up joining the Big East when they started playing football in the early 90s. And they landed Miami, who I think sort of took Penn State's place as the top dog in the conference.

I think Louisville and Cincinnati would have eventually joined this conference as they make sense geographically.

1) Boston College
2) Cincinnati
3) Louisville
4) Maryland
5) Penn State
6) Pitt
7) Rutgers
8) Syracuse
9) Temple
10) Virginia Tech
11) West Virginia

If you really want a 12th team there's a couple options. UConn, Massachusetts, Maryland, Virginia, Notre Dame, Army, Navy.

[Locke888]

If EA can’t stop the ridiculous amount of upsets I’m just going to setup 10 conferences with 12 teams each and spread the wealth between them geographically as best I can. Every conference will be as equal strength wise as possible so upsets won’t be super stupid just regular stupid.

[Spartan Warrior]

Another hypothetical: what if the Southwest Conference didn't fold after they got raided by the Big Eight and the SEC?

So they lost Arkansas, Baylor, Texas, Texas A&M, and Texas Tech. That left them with Houston, Rice, SMU, and TCU.

So who would they add to reload? Tulane, Arkansas State, UTSA, Texas State, North Texas, UTEP, Tulsa, Louisiana Tech, ULM, Louisiana. Some of those schools weren't D-IA at the time but you can say they added more schools as time went along.

I have a fun Big Ten idea: what if you added two more schools and split it into the Original Ten and the New Ten? Let's say you get Pitt and Notre Dame to join. Then the divisions are:

Original Ten: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Purdue, Wisconsin
New Ten: Maryland, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Oregon, Penn State, Pitt, Rutgers, UCLA, USC, Washington

If I had my way the Original Ten and New Ten would both play round robin schedules so everyone plays each other. And then the two division winners would play each other at the Rose Bowl for the conference championship.

[studbucket]

Here are some of the thread posted on this in the last month, for reference. Sorry they didn't show up in your searches.

https://forums.operationsports.com/f...ion-ideas.html

https://forums.operationsports.com/f...lignments.html

https://forums.operationsports.com/f...alignment.html

https://forums.operationsports.com/f...alignment.html

https://forums.operationsports.com/f...elegation.html

[Bill1]

Going to do the 1999 conferences but with 1 twist. I'm going to put both Big West and Wac together since there not enough conferences to do both.