Your best conference ideas?

[Trent Steen]

What is your favorite custom conference that you've made? I'm just trying to get some ideas for some othere conferences in my dynasty.
I've made one conference with nothing but FCS teams and I added Notre Dame and WVU and switched out Louisville with Maryland for the ACC. But other then that I'm stumped!

[shopejay]

Quote: Originally Posted by Trent Steen

What is your favorite custom conference that you've made? I'm just trying to get some ideas for some othere conferences in my dynasty. I've made one conference with nothing but FCS teams and I added Notre Dame and WVU and switched out Louisville with Maryland for the ACC. But other then that I'm stumped!

I personally have made mine based on geography... I put all Texas Schools in a conference... I made a conference with all Florida Schools in 1 division and all California Schools in another division... Put all Ohio and Michigan schools in a conference... Made another with Carolina's in one division and the Virginia's in another with Maryland to even it out.... Other than that just use your imagination... Skies the limit and that's what I love about this game...

[stormisbruin]

Cincy, BYU, and Louisville to the Big 12. UConn to the ACC. West Virginia to the SEC. Army and UMass to the American. Mizzou and Pitt to the Big 10. Keep Maryland in the ACC. That's usually what I do anyway. Never mess with the Pac-12 unless the net gain is 0, since 12 is in the name. Hence why I always try to get the Big 12 to 12. Don't care so much about the Big 10 since they haven't been at 10 in a while.

[PocketScout]

I have finally gotten back around to setting up my Relegation Dynasty and just finished my first season in it. Will be posting results in the next couple days, but the first post explains how I have set everything up and run it. Click Here

[R.Moncrief]

Eh, mine are straight forward with every new dynasty. I basically have it memorized now..

ACC
+ West Virginia (from Big 12)

American (in order to validate BCS Berth)
+ Duke (from ACC)
+ Idaho (from Ind.)
+ Northern Illinois (from MAC)
+ Wake Forest (from ACC)

B1G
+ Maryland (from ACC)
+ Rutgers (from American)

Big 12
+ BYU (from Ind.)
+ Louisville (from American)
+ Houston (from CUSA)

Conference USA
+ Old Dominion (from Ind.)
+ Western Kentucky (from Sun Belt)

Sun Belt
+ New Mexico State (from Ind.)
+ Northern Texas (from CUSA)
+ UTEP (from CUSA)
+ UTSA (from CUSA)

There are other changes within the conferences from this point. I align the Sun Belt based on geographic location between East/West divisions. The B1G is split between Lakes and Plains, basically all teams that's state borders a Great Lake is placed within the Lakes division, all others are Plains. The Big 12 is split North/South based on locations with Oklahoma State (north) and Oklahoma (south) being separated.

The rest of the conferences remain the same.

I leave Notre Dame, Army, and Navy as the only independents.

[Trent Steen]

Thanks for the ideas, I think I might put SMU and Houston in the BIG12 to have a conference championship, I already have BYU in the conference. I was coming close to splitting the BIG 12 up among the PAC 12 BIG10 and SEC!

[Pizzaguylol]

I tried to go with something somewhat realistic, based off of regional rivalries, geography, media markets, etc. In the end, I kind of skew reality a bit because, eh, it's a video game, but I was satisfied with the results. I ended up with 4 super conferences, an all Texas conference (12 Texas teams in game, why not?), 3 12 team mid-major conferences, a 7 team CUSA for lower tier teams, a 4 team sunbelt for the bottom feeders, and all military schools are now independent.

After 2-3 seasons I will look at who the best/worst are amongst the bottom feeder/mid-majors and move up/down accordingly. Most super conference teams are set in stone, though. The American is seen as the top tier Mid-Major, and teams in that bracket are more likely to be moved up to super conferences. If a team in the MWC/MAC does well enough, it might get promoted to The American. Conversely, if a team in the American does poorly, it could be demoted to the MAC/MWC, etc.

The pecking order goes:
Super Conferences
American (Top Mid-Major)
MWC/MAC (Mid-Majors)
C-USA (Lower-mid majors)
Sunbelt (Bottom mid-majors)
Independents (variable)

PAC-16
East:
Arizona
Arizona State
Boise State
BYU
Colorado
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Utah

West:
California
Oregon
Oregon State
Stanford
UCLA
USC
Washington
Washington State

ACC
North:
Boston College
Maryland
Notre Dame
Pittsburgh
Rutgers
Syracuse
Virginia
West Virginia

South:
Duke
Miami (FL)
North Carolina
NC State
UCF
USF
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest

SEC
East:
Florida
Florida State
Georgia
Georgia Tech
Kentucky
South Carolina
Tennessee
Vanderbilt

West:
Alabama
Arkansas
Auburn
Clemson
Louisville
LSU
Ole Miss
Mississippi State

B1G 16 (Big Ten)
East:
Illinois
Indiana
Michigan
Michigan State
Northwestern
Ohio State
Penn State
Purdue

West:
Iowa
Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
Wisconsin

Lonestar Conference (Big XII)
East:
Houston
North Texas
Rice
Texas A&M
SMU
TCU

West:
Baylor
Texas
Texas State
Texas Tech
UTEP
UTSA

American Conference
East:
Arkansas
Cincinnati
Connecticut
ECU
Marhsall
Temple

West:
Northern Illinois
UL Monroe
UL Lafayette
Troy
Tulsa
Western Kentucky

Mountain West Conference
Mountain:
Colorado State
Idaho
New Mexico
New Mexico State
Utah State
Wyoming

West:
Fresno State
Hawai'i
Nevada
San Diego State
San Jose State
UNLV

MAC
East:
Akron
Bowling Green
Buffalo
Kent State
Ohio
UMass

West:
Ball State
Central Michigan
Eastern Michigan
Miami (OH)
Toledo
Western Michigan

C-USA
FAU
FIU
Louisiana Tech
Memphis
Mid Tenn State
Southern Miss
Tulane

Sunbelt Conference
Georgia State
Old Dominion
South Alabama
UAB

Independents
Air Force
Army
Navy

[Squeezee12]

Has anyone else had problems with a team or two that you moved into the Big 10 not playing any conference games? I've had it happen twice. First with Notre Dame. Moved them in and they kept their independent schedule. Then moved them out and out UCONN in and they played an independent schedule. Not a single conference game on their schedule..