Conference Realignment Guide

[vjcvgj]

In my first dynasty I forgot all about this when I start a new one a can def use this.

[Spartan Warrior]

Indiana vs. Purdue is the only protected rivalry in the Big Ten right now. As of now there don't seem to be any plans to change that.

Starting in 2016 they will be moving to a nine game conference schedule. You can control the number of conference games by altering the conference rules to start conference games earlier.

[DonohoFlnkr]

Quote: Originally Posted by Spartan Warrior

Indiana vs. Purdue is the only protected rivalry in the Big Ten right now. As of now there don't seem to be any plans to change that. Starting in 2016 they will be moving to a nine game conference schedule. You can control the number of conference games by altering the conference rules to start conference games earlier.

How did you do this? I want to keep the SEC at 8 games and still have protected rivalries, so any help would be appreciated.

[wiscowilz]

I decided to pick this game back up recently and continuing a previous dynasty.

I will be doing all of the real realignments through 2015, although I might add Memphis and Cincinnati to the Big 12 in 2015 to put them at 12.

If I dont put Cinci and Memphis in the Big 12 in 2015 I will be putting them in the Big 12 in 2016.

I will be keeping UAB in CUSA and doing a few other changes.

South Florida and UCF as well as Navy will switch divisions in the American Athletic Conference and Marshall and Massachusetts will be moving in.

New alignment will be: (keeping at 12 teams)
American Athletic Conference
SOUTH:
Houston, Memphis, SMU, Tulane, Tulsa, South Florida, UCF

NORTH:
Cincinnati, Connecticut, East Carolina, Navy, Marshall, Massachusetts, Temple

Bowling Green will move into the WEST division in the MAC wil their natural rivals.

With Marshall leaving CUSA that leaves them at 12 and I have debated moving New Mexico State and Troy into CUSA. They both have natural rivals in CUSA.

WEST:
La Tech, North Texas, Rice, UTEP, UTSA, Southern Miss, NM State

EAST:
FAU, FIU, MTSU, UAB, ODU, WKU, Troy

One other move I have debated doing is moving Boise State and BYU to the Pac 12 (putting them with 14 teams). Boise would move into the NORTH division and BYU in the SOUTH.

With Boise State out of the MWC I would move Idaho to teh MWC to keep them at 12 and take their spot.

This would leave Sun Belt with 6 teams which I am fine with.
Arkansas State, Georgia State, ULL, ULM, South Alabams, Texas State



These moves would put every Big 5 conference at 14 teams except the Big 12. These moves may or may not take place in 2016 or may take place over a couple years. Big 12 would definitely expand by 2016 and Marshall and Mass would move to American Athletic to keep them at 12. Bowling Green will change divisions in 2016.

The NM State, Troy, Boise State, BYU, and Idaho moves may or may not take place right away. Might move Idaho and BYU to MWC before ultimately moving BYU and Boise State to Pac 12.

Here is what it ends up looking like

AAC	12		ACC	14		BIG 12	12		BIG TEN	14
SOUTH	NORTH		ATLANTIC	COASTAL		SOUTH	NORTH		WEST	EAST
Houston	Connecticut		Clemson	Boston College		Baylor	Cincinnati		Illinois	Indiana
SMU	East Carolina		FSU	Duke		Oklahoma	Iowa St		Purdue	Ohio State
Tulane	Navy		Georgia Tech	Pittsiburgh		Oklahoma St	Kansas		Wisconsin	Penn State
Tulsa	NIU		Miami	Syracuse		TCU	Kansas St		Iowa	Michigan
South Florida	Massachusetts		NC State	Virginia Tech		Texas	Memphis		Minnesota	Michigan State
UCF	Temple		North Carolina	Wake Forest		Texas Tech	West Virginia		Nebraksa	Maryland
			Virginia	Louisville					Northwestern	Rutgers
CUSA	14		INDY	2		MAC	12		MWC	12
WEST	EAST		Army			EAST	WEST		MOUNTAIN	WEST
La Tech	FAU		Notre Dame			Akron	Ball State		Air Force	Fresno State
North Texas	FIU					Buffalo	Bowling Green		CSU	Hawaii
NM State	MTSU					Kent State	C.Mich		Idaho	Nevada
Rice	ODU					Miami	E. Mich		New Mexico	SD State
UTEP	Troy					Northern Illinois	Toledo		Utah State	SJ State
UTSA	UAB					Ohio	W.Mich		Wyoming	UNLV
Southern Miss	WKU
PAC 12	14		SEC	14		SUN BELT	6
NORTH	SOUTH		EASTERN	WESTERN		Arkansas St
Boise State	Arizona		Florida	Alabama		Georgia St
Cal	Arizona St		Georgia	Arkansas		ULL
Oregon	BYU		Kentucky	Auburn		ULM
Oregon St	Colorado		Missouri	LSU		South Alabama
Stanford	UCLA		South Carolina	Mississippi St		Texas St
Washington	USC		Tennessee	Ole Miss
Washington St	Utah		Vanderbilt	Texas A&M

[Spartan Warrior]

Quote: Originally Posted by DonohoFlnkr

How did you do this? I want to keep the SEC at 8 games and still have protected rivalries, so any help would be appreciated.

I don't know exactly how it works, but the number of conference games will change depending on the size of the conference and when you set the games to start. If the conference has ten or more teams and you set conference games to begin in week three or before, it will set up a nine game conference schedule.

So to keep it at eight games I would set the conference games not to start until week five. That forces it to set up an eight game conference schedule.

[jello1717]

Quote: Originally Posted by Spartan Warrior

I don't know exactly how it works, but the number of conference games will change depending on the size of the conference and when you set the games to start. If the conference has ten or more teams and you set conference games to begin in week three or before, it will set up a nine game conference schedule. So to keep it at eight games I would set the conference games not to start until week five. That forces it to set up an eight game conference schedule.

The game determines the # of conference games by the size of the conference and whether or not you're using protected rivals, not when the games begin.

[tarheelguy4736]

I did a realignment in my previous dynasty and will probably start another one just like this in the future. I did it based on geographical region, to kind of keep teams in close proximity to each other. Also, I set it up to have each conference have a conference championship game, which is also pretty cool. In each conference there are highlighted teams, the teams with the same highlighted color is part of the same division within the conference. The power conferences still have most of the power teams but I tried to evenly distribute teams throughout all of the NCAA. In the lower tiered conferences, if a team was getting too good, I would move them up to one of the power conferences and swap them with a team that consistently did bad (again, based on their geographical location). Just thought I would post this on here in case someone else wanted to use the same format.

[Tbow15UFgators]

Quote: Originally Posted by tarheelguy4736

I did a realignment in my previous dynasty and will probably start another one just like this in the future. I did it based on geographical region, to kind of keep teams in close proximity to each other. Also, I set it up to have each conference have a conference championship game, which is also pretty cool. In each conference there are highlighted teams, the teams with the same highlighted color is part of the same division within the conference. The power conferences still have most of the power teams but I tried to evenly distribute teams throughout all of the NCAA. In the lower tiered conferences, if a team was getting too good, I would move them up to one of the power conferences and swap them with a team that consistently did bad (again, based on their geographical location). Just thought I would post this on here in case someone else wanted to use the same format.

I would put USF in the SEC. I know they ain't a power house. But you can setup a some good rivalries. See who is the best Florida team


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