EA broke the BCS

[ezio]

Quote: Originally Posted by tzinc

Yeah but a 1 loss OSU or 2 loss Oregon that played a brutal schedule should go in ahead of a no loss Idaho that played mostly FCS teams. All the major bowls were preset so Idaho conference teams couldn't play in any of them but of course the AI changed that.

Fair point but the polls have been a problem in NCAA so with this setup it doesn't surprise me.

[TracerBullet]

BCS is always going to be broken at least somewhat in EA games, but its not all their fault. Until the formula for the computer polls are known, its probably always going to be somewhat screwy anyway.

[Gosens6]

I'll take this over Alabama and Ohio State winning every single year.

[FedExPope]

Quote: Originally Posted by tzinc

Then why allow custom conferences in the first place if we can't expect realistic results. The whole point of custom conferences should be that we can redesign them and then still see realistic results! That is a copout imo!

I believe the whole point of custom conferences is to have custom conferences. I don't remember realism being thrown around when it was being talked about pre release. I don't see how realism is supposed to bend to every single person's tampering. It's not even realistic to edit them in the first place...its also not realistic, for example, to have OSU and USC in the same conference, they're a thousand miles away from each other.

[MillerTE92]

Well if you Drastically change the landscape of college football like you did then teams like Idaho can win out their schedule and teams like Oregon are going to lose 2 or more games and are going to be left out and unbeaten teams are going to make it and don't complain that EA messed it up when it sounds like you did that yourself

[bigbob]

Things like this happened all the time in NCAA 11. In my first 3 years of a Tulsa dynasty, Middle Tennessee State we undefeated to the National Championship in year 1, finished 3rd after a one loss season and then was back to normal during year 3.

[voodoo_magic]

I haven't seen anything like this and I've done a few years worth of testing for some other things.
My custom setup is tiered with the worst teams in the lowest conference but I still got the top teams in the title game.
Smallest conference I have is 7 so I wonder if it's due to the 4 team conference?

[dochalladay32]

You asked for it. And 7 FCS teams? No. They played 5 max Computer will rarely schedule more than 1 FCS out of conference game.

I've seen teams win that probably shouldn't, but it's a game. Big deal. Like I told the other guy who went crazy because a team got into the title game that he didn't think belonged and wanted to move to the Vegas bowl, play the game, make sure they lose. If it makes you feel better, do it.