Your best conference ideas?

[elantradave]

I love how the game still has the Texas/Oklahoma game even if they're in separate conferences. It's fun, because some years they even play in bowl games (since I put Texas in the SEC and Oklahoma in the Big Ten). Then there are some odd rivalries...like Florida State and Maryland?

[GOheels2627]

I basically fixed the acc geographically so now it has:
North Carolina
East Carolina
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Duke
Georgia Tech
North Carolina State
Clemson
FSU
Florida
Maryland
UCONN

[osubucki6]

Quote: Originally Posted by Jeremy7679

I haven't done it on this version yet, but I had a decent game based on the late 1980's/early 90's conference alignment, which is the college football I grew up loving. This is the 1991 Alignment which is just about perfect to me: --American Athletic (The first year of the Big East) Boston College Miami Pittsburgh Rutgers Syracuse Temple Virginia Tech West Virginia --ACC Clemson Duke Georgia Tech Maryland NC State North Carolina Virginia Wake Forest --Big 12 (Is the Southwest Conference, made them the Big 12 so they would be linked to the Cotton Bowl) Arkansas Baylor Houston Rice SMU Texas Texas A&M TCU Texas Tech --Big Ten (When they actually had 10 teams) Illinois Indiana Iowa Michigan Michigan State Minnesota Northwestern Ohio State Purdue Wisconsin --Independent (Teams that didn't exist back then are dumped here as well. They're the bold teams. Also the 1991 Big West teams are in here as well, as there are only 5 left) Akron Arkansas State Army Boise State Buffalo Cincinnati Connecticut East Carolina Florida Atlantic Florida International Florida State Fresno State (BW) Georgia State Idaho Louisiana-Lafayette Louisiana-Monroe Louisiana Tech Louisville Marshall Memphis Middle Tennessee Navy New Mexico State (BW) North Texas Northern Illinois Notre Dame Old Dominion Penn State San Jose State (BW) South Alabama South Carolina South Florida Southern Miss Texas State Tulane Tulsa Troy UAB UCF UMASS UNLV (BW) UTSA Utah State (BW) Western Kentucky --MAC Ball State Bowling Green Central Michigan Eastern Michigan Kent State Miami (OH) Ohio Toledo Western Michigan --MWC (Is the old Big 8) Colorado Iowa State Kansas Kansas State Missouri Oklahoma Oklahoma State Nebraska --Pac 12 Arizona Arizona State California Oregon Oregon State Stanford UCLA USC Washington Washington State --SEC Alabama Auburn Florida Georgia Kentucky LSU Mississippi State Ole Miss Tennessee Vanderbilt --Sun Belt (Is actually the old WAC) Air Force BYU Colorado State Hawaii New Mexico San Diego State Utah UTEP Wyoming The problem with this alignment is that last year the game wouldn't advance past the conference championship week if at least one conference didn't have a title game. I would probably go ahead and add 3 teams to the MAC and let them be the only CCG. Anyway, this alignment would be fun I think because you'd have 8 (maybe 9 with the WAC) strong conferences with a lot of solid independents.

Just did this and it took two tries and a lot of time. First time I tried there were too many independents and C-USA was unused so I exited went to teambuilder and found the three big west teams and replaced Georgia State, South Alabama, and Texas State. You also left out Nevada so I moved them in the Big West and had to add a 13th MAC team cause there was one too many independents.

[Jimbo614]

All the teams in the Sunbelt Conf go Independent

The Sunbelt now becomes the old SWC with all those teams, including Arkansas and Houston. UCF is a new tenth team.

South Carolina goes to the ACC


The America Conference essentially becomes the Big East again. But with Penn State, West Virginia, Boston College ,Miami, Syracuse and Virginia Tech.
Cincinnati and Louisville go to the Big 12

Nebraska, Mizzou, Colorado, all go back to the Big 12

Most Mountain West teams go Independent.
Mountain West conference re-establishes the old WAC conference, with Utah and BYU, amongst others such as San Diego St, Utep Air Force etc.


Marshall goes back to the MAC, Northern Illinois and Ball State go Independent.

Basically in case I forgot someone. Every Conference is ten teams. No Championship games.
I tried to return everyone to their original Conferences with the exception of UCF, UC, and UL

[Jimbo614]

I wish I had thought of putting the old SWC in the Big 12 instead of the Sunbelt.
That's a great idea Jeremy!!
BTW, think about putting Penn State in your American Conference and South Carolina in your ACC.
Makes them both much tougher

[Dregs]

I created a better, improved American Conference.

I moved some notable schools from their respective conferences and place them in a east-west division with games played at night and the championship in Detroit.

Miami
FSU
Louisville
Cinn. Bearcats
Umass
SMU
Missouri
Temple

there are more, but currently playing a game against louisville with my created team, the university of chicago bears.

[Cards_King70]

AAC (former Metro)
Louisville
Memphis
Cincinnati
Florida State
South Carolina
Virginia Tech
Tulane
Southern Mississippi
Georgia Tech

St. Louis is only school that doesn't have football.

Sun Belt Conference
South Florida
UAB
South Alabama
WKU
Louisiana Tech
Old Dominion
Georgia State

Virginia Commonwealth New Orleans, UA-Little Rock don't have football program while Jacksonville is in FCS. Charlotte is not in NCAA Football 14 either. You can use teambuilder for Charlotte and Jacksonville if you want to.

ACC including former Big East that will replace Va Tech, FSU and Georgia Tech.
South Division
North Carolina
North Carolina State
Duke
Wake Forest
Clemson
Miami
Virginia

North Division
Boston College
Connecticut
Pittsburgh
West Virginia
Syracuse
Rutgers
Maryland

CUSA (Former Southland and Southern)

West Division
Arkansas State
UL-Lafayette
UL-Monroe
North Texas
Texas State
UTSA

East Division
Troy
Marshall
East Carolina
Georgia Southern
Appalachian State
UCF

Technically, UCF was never part of Southern ,but they're part of ASC that Arkansas State used to be in.

[way2fast8x2]

I started off by putting teams in their conferences based on the 2015 season with navy in the AAC and as time i went on if teams did well i moved them up to better conferences trying to keep it somewhat realistic.

I also moved the team i was currently coaching to one of the big 5 conferences that it fit best in. I was coaching Old Dominion in the Big 12 and won a National Championship so I left them there when I took a different job.

After 10 seasons I checked all the teams records and ended up moving Boise St, Fresno St and San Diego St to the Pac 12 and removed Washington St to make the Pac 12 a 14 team conference.

A few seasons later it is now the year 2028 and I am planning a few big changes. I always felt like Notre Dame belonged in the Big 10 and next off-season they will be moved there. The Big 12 will become the 5th conference to have 14 members with the addition of Nebraska and Houston (just won the NC) also BYU was moved there when I added ODU to keep it an even number of teams.

With recent news of UAB folding I am going to make them the only Independent team and send Army to the AAC so they can be with their Navy rivals.

So here is what my conference alignment looks like:

SEC
bama aub lsu olm mst a&m
mizz ga uf sc uky ten van

ACC
fsu clem lou wf bc cuse ncst
mia gt vt duke unc pitt va

B10
osu mich msu psu rut md nd
wisc in mn ill ia nw pur

PAC12
ore stn orst cal wa bsu frs
ucla arz asu usc utah col sdst

B12
tex ok okst tt hou neb byu
bay tcu ks ksu wv iast odu

AAC
ucf usf ecu ucon tem cin
mem smu tuls tuln navy army

MWC
wyo usu colst af id wast
sjst hi unlv nev nm nmst

MAC
noill emu cmu wmu kent tol
bg ball buf ohio miaoh akr umas

CUSA
fiu fau mars wky soms mdtn
utsa utep rice nt lout txst

SUN
troy ulm usa arkst gast ull

IND
uab

I still need to make final decisions on divisions within some of the conferences. I know the B10 east is pretty stacked but i just cant take the teams apart from each other and I am currently coaching Michigan State, they were in pretty bad shape when I took them over.