NCAA Football 12 Team Ratings and Prestige Revealed (Tradition Sports Online)

[The JareBear]

Quote: Originally Posted by NDFan1029

Penn State is a 6-star, and while they've had some good seasons, they haven't won a BCS bowl, either.

I was one of the first ones to say PSU was overrated in this game.

[K0ZZ]

Personally I do feel TCU and Boise do deserve their 5*'s, they almost singlehandedly put Mid Major programs on the map. That and they have been consistent, finishing towards the top of the NCAA the past several seasons even beating top AQ teams to get there. I could understand if they were one and dones but they managed to be consistent.

I do feel NIU deserves a 3*, they have been pretty stable under Coach Kill and they had a great season last year, just feels like EA wants to keep the MAC towards the bottom of the NCAA.

I do agree with needing a tradition rating, that way they can rank old school programs lower without annoying people.

ND being a 5* would mean they are still nationally relevant, but until they do something with their influx of talent they really aren't relevant. Same with Michigan which has been struggling. (No Texas shouldn't be dropped. Longhorn support hasn't dipped at all from one bad season).

Duke should be the lowest imo, they haven't even had a winning season since before 2002. They are pretty much the meaning of irrelevant. At least there is a slight bit of hope every year that Wazzou will do something.

[Fiasco West]

Quote: Originally Posted by jaredlib

Dude.... I GET IT! EA calls it a prestige rating but it REALLY isn't about prestige, it is about wins and losses in the game!!!! If it WAS really about prestige Notre Dame would never ever lose a star in the game.

Yeah this.

Besides, I doubt the Devs sit around and say "Notre Dame is not a 6* Program, put them in there with Michigan."

I'm guessing they just put the schools information into the game and let the game itself tell them who is a 5 or 6 star program. Because Stars have to be given and taken away in game also.

[NDFan1029]

Quote: Originally Posted by jaredlib

I was one of the first ones to say PSU was overrated in this game.

Yeah, I didn't catch your follow-up post. These threads are like walls of text sometimes, and I replied right before I saw it.

[The JareBear]

Last year it was explained to me simply:

To go from five-stars to six stars you have to finish in the top 5 or make it to the BCS title game. To lose a star, go from six star to five star, you have to finish out of the top 15.

That was the explanation given to how the game decides these things. Why Texas didn't drop, I don't know, that's EA's prerogative

[K0ZZ]

Quote: Originally Posted by Cane305

Only argument to that would be ND does play a pretty solid schedule year in and year out...

They play maybe one or two nationally ranked teams a year than fill their schedule with mid level talent at best.

USC and Mich/MSU (either or) will typically be their ranked opponents, than after facing middle level talent they fill their last 4 games with cupcakes (sometimes backfires)

Their schedule isn't on par with a Big Ten(12)/SEC schedule. Only AQ conference they could be scheduling better than is the Big East, than again that's not difficult.

[STLcardz-NDirish]

Quote: Originally Posted by jaredlib

Dude.... I GET IT! EA calls it a prestige rating but it REALLY isn't about prestige, it is about wins and losses in the game!!!! If it WAS really about prestige Notre Dame would never ever lose a star in the game.

I'm still confused though becuse if it is about Wins and Losses, then why did ND go down a prestige for winning more games than the previous season. Riddle me that one EA

[K0ZZ]

Quote: Originally Posted by jaredlib

Last year it was explained to me simply: To go from five-stars to six stars you have to finish in the top 5 or make it to the BCS title game. To lose a star, go from six star to five star, you have to finish out of the top 15. That was the explanation given to how the game decides these things. Why Texas didn't drop, I don't know, that's EA's prerogative

EA doesn't follow their own logic out of game. Texas is a nationally known program and it is expected they will bounce back, but if in game they are continually sucking and they never dropped people would complain so they had to program it into the game like that, otherwise the top teams would never fall.