Playoff system and custom conferences

[osubeavs721]

Quote: Originally Posted by dochalladay32

You can't delete conferences. Must have 11 conferences + one independent.

weak sauce

[thelasthurtknee]

you really think the lawyers for NCAA approved deleting the conferences? or let you rename them? this is also why we cant add more teams. when the conference change came in 04 the ncaa wouldn't let EA make the change for the upcoming year. you guys have to remember the NCAA has the say on all of this. and all the teams make money off the game. this stuff is very closely watched. although we have alot of great ideas and im sure ea does also its the ncaa's call.

[acts238shaun]

Quote: Originally Posted by NEOPARADIGM

I like this sort of thing a lot. And it will be made infinitely better this year thanks to being able to select bowl tie-ins.

This. I'm doing eight conferences of the top 108 teams and leaving 3 conferences of 4 teams and 2 in the independents. Some conferences will have 14 teams, others 12. I will do it by prestige and location, such as adding USF and UCF to the same conference as FSU, Miami, and Florida, but I'll leave out FIU and FAU.

Georgia and GaTech will be in same conference as will Clemson and S. Carolina. ECU will join N Carolina, NC St., Duke, Wake Forest, etc. You get my point. Arkansas St. will not join Arkansas, UAB and Troy will be together but not with Bama and Auburn.

USM might join Ole Miss and Miss St because most of the 90's and half the 2000's they were the best team in Mississippi.

The big thing I have to do is figure out which 14 teams are the worst 14. San Jose and Western Kentucky are the easy ones.

[Andrews85]

So if I added teams to the Big East to get to 12 teams, would that automatically give them a conference championship game?

[dochalladay32]

Quote: Originally Posted by acts238shaun

This. I'm doing eight conferences of the top 108 teams and leaving 3 conferences of 4 teams and 2 in the independents. Some conferences will have 14 teams, others 12. I will do it by prestige and location, such as adding USF and UCF to the same conference as FSU, Miami, and Florida, but I'll leave out FIU and FAU. Georgia and GaTech will be in same conference as will Clemson and S. Carolina. ECU will join N Carolina, NC St., Duke, Wake Forest, etc. You get my point. Arkansas St. will not join Arkansas, UAB and Troy will be together but not with Bama and Auburn. USM might join Ole Miss and Miss St because most of the 90's and half the 2000's they were the best team in Mississippi. The big thing I have to do is figure out which 14 teams are the worst 14. San Jose and Western Kentucky are the easy ones.

108 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 2 = 122. Not gonna fly. 106 teams in 8 conferences and you are golden.

[dennis580]

Six 16 team conferences(the maximum number of 16 teams conferences you can have in the game) might be the best way to go as this would give 96 teams a fair shot at competing for the National Championship, and BCS bowls. Only 24 scrub teams would be left out in the cold. Keep the 6 BCS conferences intact, and just fill them up to 16 with the best remaining teams from the other conferences, and independents.

[Kcordloh]

Quote: Originally Posted by dennis580

Six 16 team conferences(the maximum number of 16 teams conferences you can have in the game) might be the best way to go as this would give 96 teams a fair shot at competing for the National Championship, and BCS bowls. Only 24 scrub teams would be left out in the cold. Keep the 6 BCS conferences intact, and just fill them up to 16 with the best remaining teams from the other conferences, and independents.

Not exactly equal opportunity though.
If NCAA 2012 shares the same bias as 2011 did, an undefeated BCS team from the SEC will get chosen over an undefeated Big 12 team, etc.

Here is my worry, and it might be unfounded. With 16 team super conferences, what say a team left in the WAC (San Jose State) goes 12-0? It's hard to imagine many undefeated teams in 16 team SC's, at least not the 2-6+ I got consistently in NCAA 2011.
Plus, with 16 team conferences they get 2-3 OOCG's a year, (9 conference games per year). So the odds of them getting all 24 of the non-AQ schools scheduled and knocking them odd are good, but what if the weak AQ schools get the games?

I forsee a problem with this, and I wonder if a 12-0 WAC champion that beat 3/4 or more FCS schools will get a bid over a 12-1 AQ school.

[bkrich83]

Quote: Originally Posted by dpw1717

I posted this last year and now your able to custom the conferences I thought I would post this again. If we were going to dismantle conferences, why not do it right? Let's just keep it somewhat simple. I don't understand why every other sport organizes teams geographically, except for college football. Sure, it kind of worked out that way for natural reasons, but it also gets really messed up. For instance, the WAC spreads from Hawai'i to Louisiana! Conference-USA form Carolina to Texas! Etc.* Here is my answer, redo all the conferences so they're in geographical order. It saves the schools money, and will keep most rivalries intact, since most are in-state rivalries. The one thing you must do is make sure that a conference has all the teams from a given state. Thus, the 10 schools in Texas must all be in the same conference, same for the 7 from Florida and California, etc. Here it is: 12 conferences, 10 teams each, you play 9 conference games and 3 non-conference games (scheduled at your will, just like normal). Each conference must play its top two teams in a championship game and name a conference champ. That would be the start of the bowl games is the conference championship game. Then you have 12 teams left and the way you seed it by total points scored. You then have to add 4 more teams to make the bracket right and the way to do that is by adding teams that played in the conference championship game and again by total points scored. When you start the playoffs it’s 16 teams and for the next three weeks are the playoffs for a total in the season of 17 weeks. The way I see it, it's still 12 games in the regular season (I believe stretched out over 14-15 weeks), and still 4 weeks in the post-season one week being the championship game. I added all the bowl games up for my new playoff system and it would be 25 and that’s less than 30 plus it has been. In case you wanted an idea of how the conferences would look, I'll include that below. I take no responsibilities for bad conference names. I just now put this together, and making each conference have exactly 10 teams takes some wiggle room. I'm sure if it was actually to happen it could be perfected: Southwest: California, Hawai'i, Nevada California Fresno State Hawai'i Nevada San Diego State San Jose State Stanford UCLA UNLV USC Northwest: Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming Boise State Idaho Kansas Kansas State Nebraska Oregon Oregon State Washington Washington State Wyoming Four Corners: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah Air Force Arizona Arizona State Brigham Young Colorado Colorado State New Mexico New Mexico State Utah Utah State Lone Star: Texas Baylor Houston North Texas Rice Southern Methodist TCU Texas Texas A&M Texas Tech UTEP Louisiana Purchase: Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma Arkansas Arkansas State Louisiana - Lafayette Louisiana - Monroe Louisiana Tech LSU Oklahoma Oklahoma State Tulane Tulsa Gulf Coast: Florida, Mississippi FIU Florida Florida Atlantic Florida State Miami (FL) Mississippi Mississippi State South Florida Southern Miss UCF Southeast: Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee Alabama Auburn Georgia Georgia Tech Memphis Middle Tennessee Tennessee Troy UAB Vanderbilt Atlantic: New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia Clemson Duke East Carolina North Carolina North Carolina State Rutgers South Carolina Virginia Virginia Tech Wake Forest Richland: Ohio, West Virginia Akron Bowling Green Cincinnati Kent State Marshall Miami (OH) Ohio Ohio State Toledo West Virginia Great Plains: Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri Illinois Iowa Iowa State Kentucky Louisville Missouri Northern Illinois Northwestern Purdue Western Kentucky Great Lakes: Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin Ball State Central Michigan Eastern Michigan Indiana Michigan Michigan State Minnesota Notre Dame Western Michigan Wisconsin New England: Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania Army Boston College Buffalo Connecticut Maryland Navy Penn State Pittsburgh Syracuse Temple

I think it's a great idea. I'd love to be able to do something like this.

I remember in an old version of NCAA you could use the bowl system or a playoff system when you set up your dynasty.