Go By Alphabetical Order and give every conference access to a BCS Bowl.
10 Conferences, 126 Teams= 12 Teams in each of the conferences and 6 Independents. Just pick 6 teams to be independent. I usually do the 3 Service Academies, NMSU, Idaho, and Umass.
Lol this might be the most interesting thing I've seen.
Lol this might be the most interesting thing I've seen.
You should give it a try, it makes for a fun and very different dynasty.It does a decent job of spreading out power teams too. Most every conference has a few great-elite teams.
I've been running a relegation-style league for a little while now. I've seen a few people with the same idea, but I have a different setup.
Initial Set:
-All Divisions get 12 teams, except for two (more on that later)
-Only 1 Independent team--#1
-Top division is #s 2-13, next one down is #14-25
-The rest of the divisions are set up by overall
-Top division conference champs get automatic bowl bids, all set to any bowl (fill out however many slots there are)
-Top 2 and bottom 2 in each conference get relegated in the off-season, based off winning % (conference record as tiebreaker)
-Teams only move up or down one league, regardless of if they're ranked--I couldn't figure out a way to maintain the top two divisions as all ranked schools without things going absolutely screwy everywhere else.
As an example, here's my current layout starting afresh (I just set the conferences from best to worst in alphabetical order)
Independent - Alabama (#1)
ACC - pre-season ranked #s 2-13 (I split the divisions into odds and evens just to be interesting)
American - pre-season ranked #s 14-25 (same split as ACC)
Big 12 - USC, Washington, VT, Miami, Mich. St., Iowa, Auburn, Miss. St., North Carolina, Ole Miss, Arkansas, Baylor
Big Ten - AZ St., Tennessee, Arizona, BC, Utah, GT, Wisconsin, Texas Tech, Missouri, UVA, UMD, Northwestern
C-USA - San Diego St., California, ECU, NC State, Penn St., WVU, Houston, Purdue, UCF, USF, Kentucky, Rutgers
MAC - Temple, Iowa St., Fresno St., Illinois, Syracuse, Kansas, Indiana, Cincinnati, SMU Wake Forest, BYU, UConn
MWC - Wash. St., Ohio, Minnesota, Duke, FIU, Buffalo, Colorado, Ark. St., Ball St., Toledo, San Jose St., Tulsa
Pac-12 - Pitt, UL Lafayette, Utah St., UTEP, FAU, Tulane, Rice, Wyoming, UL Monroe, Nevada, Troy, Hawaii
SEC - Army, Kent St., Colorado St., N. Texas, W. Kentucky, S. Miss, UNLV, Miami OH, Marshall, Bowling Green, Navy, Mid Tenn St., C. Mich, LA Tech,
Sun Belt - UMass, UAB, W. Mich, New Mexico, S. Alabama, UTSA, Georgia St, Texas St, Air Force, Old Dominion, Akron, Idaho, Memphis, NM St., E. Mich
I put 14 in the 2nd to last because I wanted to try and keep an even split everywhere except the bottom group (which I have labeled as the "trash" division), and I wanted to maintain that the Nat'l Champ gets to be independent. it's led to some strange matchups, definitely some weirdness in the top 25 polls (3-3 Oklahoma being ranked 9 after 8 weeks), and almost always some interesting scorelines.
Hope that you guys try it--its been a lot of fun so far!
Okay, here's a few breakdowns. I tend to leaving protected rivals off. The only one's I care about in real life are UF-LSU and UGA-Aub. And then the California schools in the Pac-12. Anyway, with nine conference games and six teams per division, you'll still play your most important inter-divisional rival pretty frequently with six teams rotating for three spots and you'll play the other teams more frequently than you would otherwise.
So I wanted to make things make more geographical sense, so I kept all the Ohio and Michigan schools together, making them the singular 14 team conference. I was thinking I could also have two thirteen-team conferences with Mizzou in the Central and ULM in the SEC, but I want to try to have everyone have a conference championship game and have as balanced schedules as possible, so I might do that a later year.
Best Conference Record Hosts all; no auto-bids... gonna try to do a playoff for the first time... no protected rivals... everyone starts conference play in week one... MWC and P12 play Friday night games and November night games. B10, CUSA, American don't do November night games.
The idea I'm working on for my 2019 roster dynasty. It's basically what actually exists with slight modifications:
Spoiler
ACC (Charlotte; no protected rivals)
North-BC, Duke, Maryland, Pitt, Cuse, UVA, VT
South-Clem, FSU, GT, Miami, NCSU, UNC, Wake
AAC (Best Conf Rec Hosts; no protected rivals)
East-ECU, Navy, Rutgers, Temple, UCF, USF
West-Cinci, Memphis, SMU, USM, Tulane, Tulsa
BXII (Dallas; no protected rivals)
North-Louisville, Iowa State, Kansas, KSU, Ok St, WVU
South-Baylor, Houston, OU, TCU, Texas, Texas Tech
B10 (Indianapolis; protected rivals... might rotate based on this thread)
East-West
Penn State-Nebraska
Indiana-Illinois
Michigan-Minnesota
Michigan State-Northwestern
Ohio State-Wisconsin
Purdue-Iowa
I've used the one in the OP there before, just replacing UAB with The Citadel and Idaho with North Dakota State. Have had some fun dynasties with it.
I've just started a dynasty with this set up and am wondering if it could work with tier 1 having 11 team conferences?? I like the idea of not having conference championship games at the highest level.
Here's my realignment plans: ACC --> SEC: Florida State, Miami, Clemson, Louisville
Battle for the Sunshine State really heats up. Louisville and Kentucky get their in conference rivalry as does Clemson and South Carolina
SEC --> BIG12: Texas A&M, Missouri
American --> BIG12: Houston
Texas powers all in one conference. Missouri tags along to border war with Kansas and K State
American --> ACC: UConn, UCF, USF
Independent -->ACC: UMass
Filling the void left by the mass exit UConn and UMass create a nice rivalry with BC. USF and UCF bring a new Sunshine State rivalry to the ACC
MW --> PAC12: Boise State
Boise finally steps up to the power 5
Independent --> PAC12: BYU
BYU v Utah now means more
American -->BIG12: Cincinnati
Slides up into the power 5. Debated putting them in the B1G with Ohio State. Thought they fit a little better here for now.
B1G --> BIG12: Nebraska
BIG12 --> B1G: Iowa State
Swap gives Iowa State their rivalry with Iowa. Nebraska moves back to the BIG12 hoping to rekindle past glory.
MW --> American: Air Force
Brings the Military schools into the American conference. Fitting.
CUSA --> American: UAB
To balance out the American Conference
SunBelt --> MW: Idaho, New Mexico State
Get them into a more geographically logical situation.
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