So now that Custom Conferences are in what changes will you make?

[prowler]

Re: So now that Custom Conferences are in what changes will you make?

Pac-12 will remain the same.
Pitt and Cuse to the ACC.
Navy to the Big East.
Mizzou and TA&M to the SEC West.
BYU to the Big XII since there are rumors that they'll give up their independence.

I'll have to wait until I complete my 2014 season as I already started it by accident. Other than that no major moves since expansion is pretty much dead at this point.

Though this makes perfect sense, divisions can't be unbalanced by more than one team. Moving Mizzou and TAMU would give the SEC West eight teams and only six in the SEC East, you'll have to move a West team to the East.

[Kcordloh]

Re: So now that Custom Conferences are in what changes will you make?

2 QUESTIONS:

first, why is BYU rated D+ in conf. prestige and ND an A+??? both are in the same conf.

second, is it possible to make your conf. better??? i haven't seen any change yet.

Conference prestige is fixed, never changes. I personally have decided if the SEC is down for long time and the Big Ten is up for awhile those two will switch spots, etc; since we can switch BCS Bowl bids.

BYU is rated D+ in conference prestige because they are an independent and all independents are rated D+ except ND, because ND is ND. Which is why when I ran my Texas independent dynasty I bumped every conference down a notch and made the SEC the independents, and just had Army, Navy, ND, BYU, and Texas there. Was the DC for all of them using the exact same stats for the coaches as before, simmed the games and let the coaches handle the recruiting. I just changed the schedules.

[He1nousOne1]

Re: So now that Custom Conferences are in what changes will you make?

Though this makes perfect sense, divisions can't be unbalanced by more than one team. Moving Mizzou and TAMU would give the SEC West eight teams and only six in the SEC East, you'll have to move a West team to the East.

I bet Auburn would be willing to move to the East division as long as they were guaranteed their rivalry with Alabama would be the one protected instead of the Alabama-Tennessee rivalry game.

Doesn't matter though because the ground roots push within the Florida State community to move to the SEC is building.

Missouri would rather wait around in the Big12 until the B1G is ready for them or shows that Missouri will truly never get in. Then perhaps they will join the SEC and increase its overall academic rating.

[DJT]

Re: So now that Custom Conferences are in what changes will you make?

I bet Auburn would be willing to move to the East division as long as they were guaranteed their rivalry with Alabama would be the one protected instead of the Alabama-Tennessee rivalry game.

Doesn't matter though because the ground roots push within the Florida State community to move to the SEC is building.

Missouri would rather wait around in the Big12 until the B1G is ready for them or shows that Missouri will truly never get in. Then perhaps they will join the SEC and increase its overall academic rating.

Thats exactly what I heard, Auburn would move to the East, and Mizzou and TA&M would go to the west...which to me sucks for Auburn and Alabama...the rivalry would be downplayed since they are in a different conference.

I'd personally like to see FSU go to the SEC, but the ACC just upped the fee for leaving from 12m to 20m...so unless they have 20m they want to throw down the drain, I'm not seeing it.

[ATLsportsfan]

Re: So now that Custom Conferences are in what changes will you make?

To qualify for a BCS automatic bid, you must have a 12 team conference, including a conference championship game, and must have an overall conference rating over 80. If you drop below that, you lose your automatic bid. (By the way, I'm using Luv's rosters to calculate the ratings)

ACC- (87.5)
Atlantic: (23 stars)
Clemson, FSU, GT, MIA, NC State, and WAKE
Coastal: (21 stars)
Duke, Maryland, UNC, UVA, VT, and WVU

Big 12- (87.7)
North: (18 stars)
Colorado, ISU, KU, KSU, MIZZ, and Nebraska
South: (25 stars)
BAY, OU, OSU, Texas, TAMU, and Texas Tech

Big East- (83.4)
North: (16 stars)
Army, BC, UCONN, PITT, Rutgers, and Syracuse
South: (18 stars)
CINCI, ECU, Louisville, Navy, UCF, and USF

Big 10- (87.8)
Leaders: (25 stars)
Illinois, Indiana, OSU, Penn State, Purdue, and Wisconsin
Legends: (24 stars)
Iowa, Michigan, MSU, Minnesota, Northwestern, and Notre Dame

MWC- (85.3)
West: (17 stars)
AF, Boise State, CSU, Fresno State, Nevada, and SDSU
East: (18 stars)
Houston, Rice, SMU, TCU, Tulsa, and UTEP

Pac 12- (86.6)
North: (20 stars)
Cal, Oregon, OSU, Stanford, Washington, and WSU
South: (22 stars)
Arizona, ASU, BYU, UCLA, USC, and Utah

SEC- (89.3)
East: (24 stars)
UF, UGA, UK, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Vanderbilt
West: (28 stars)
Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, LSU, Miss State, and Ole Miss

[FinderKeeper]

Re: So now that Custom Conferences are in what changes will you make?

I like shadia147's idea, albeit with some modifications so as to fit a little more easily into the strictures of the game's parameters (I wish we could rename and/or delete conferences).

As I detest the conference championship games and prefer that each team in a conference play a full conference schedule, I decided to play "NCAA God" and limit conferences to a maximum of ten members. So, I've come up with 11 conferences of 10 teams each, along with 10 independents.

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ACC: Clemson, Duke, Georgia Tech, Maryland, N. Carolina, N. Carolina State, S. Carolina, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest

BIG CENTRAL (edit Big 12): BYU, Colorado, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Utah

BIG EAST: Boston College, Cincinnati, Connecticut, Louisville, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Syracuse, Temple, W. Virginia

BIG TEN: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Purdue, Wisconsin

METRO (edit C-USA): C. Florida, E. Carolina, Florida State, Marshall, Memphis, Miami-FL, S. Florida, Southern Miss, Tulane, UAB

MAC: Akron, Ball State, Bowling Green, C. Michigan, E. Michigan, Kent State, Miami-OH, Ohio, Toledo, W. Michigan

PAC-10: Arizona, Arizona State, California, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington, Washington State

SEC: Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Tennessee, Vanderbilt

SWC (edit MWC): Arkansas, Baylor, Houston, Rice, SMU, TCU, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Tulsa

SUN BELT: Arkansas State, FAU, FIU, La.-Lafayette, La.-Monroe, Louisiana Tech, Middle Tennessee, N. Texas, Troy, W. Kentucky

WAC: Colorado State, Idaho, New Mexico, New Mexico State, San Diego State, San Jose State, UNLV, Utah State, UTEP, Wyoming

INDEPENDENTS: Air Force, Army, Boise State, Buffalo, Fresno State, Hawaii, Navy, Nevada, N. Illinois, Notre Dame

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As you can see, I resolved the MWC/WAC shuffling by (1) sending BYU and Utah to the former Big Eight, (2) making Boise State, Fresno State, Hawaii, and Nevada independents (so that they could play stronger schedules), and (3) merging the remaining ten (weaker) programs into the WAC.

As far as choosing which conference to assign to the empty Mountain West space, it's a toss-up. I chose to place my created SWC there, and assigned the "Big Central" to the Big 12 space. Someone who instead prefers to give the empty Big 12 space to the SWC would assign the "Big Central" to the old Mountain West.

The other noticeable change is assigning what I'm calling the "Metro" Conference to the empty C-USA place. My main quandary here was where to place specific teams, as certain "Metro" teams could have been placed in the ACC and Big East, or vice versa.

Cincinnati (Big East), Louisville (Big East), South Carolina (ACC), and Virginia Tech (ACC) all had a history in the non-football "Metro" Conference along with Florida State, Memphis, Southern Miss, and Tulane. I may still try to create a Metro Conference with those eight teams, plus Miami and South Florida. Another time, perhaps...

In the end, however, I chose to emphasize the "Northern" identlty of the Big East, and the origins of the ACC in and around the Piedmont region of the "Southern" Atlantic coast.

I haven't yet fiddled with the bowl affiliations, as that's a whole new can of worms to sort out. I'll no doubt want to tweak my set-up after a few seasons, and I might still yet try to create super-conferences, if I can do so without leaving remnant "mini-conferences" with fewer than eight teams.

Looking forward to your feedback!

[Isura]

Re: So now that Custom Conferences are in what changes will you make?

So I finally got around to setting up custom conferences and started my dynasty. I toyed with the idea of creating 14 team Big10 and SEC. But don't like going to 9 conference games (to get 8 games you have to scrap cross-rivalries). Don't see the point in having A&M and Mizzu smashed every week in the SEC anyways

I made a few simple changes, mainly to strengthen the Big12 and Big East into legitimate BCS conferences. This gives both conferences the cashcow of a championship game.

Big12 - Add BYU and West Virginia. I love the BYU addition. BYU has their own TV station and a huge following. This is great for Big12 revenue and long term stability. BYU is also better off long-term in the Big12 because scheduling as an independent could become an issue if super conferences ever come to fruition. WV is a lesser asset but they have a solid program and fanbase. It also widens the Big12's geographic appeal.

Plains Division:
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Missouri
BYU
Kansas
Kansas State

Lonestar Division:
Texas
Texas A&M
Texas Tech
Baylor
West Virginia
Iowa State

Protected Rivals:
OU - UT
OSU - WV (a good new rival for OSU)
BYU - TAMU (BYU wanted to play UT every year, this is next best compromise)
Mizzu - Baylor
KU - TTU
KSU - ISU

Big East - Added Boise, TCU, and Central Florida. All solid additions that gives the conference respectability. This brings the Big East to 10 teams and 9 conference games. May add Houston and SMU next year to give a championship game. Little concerned about making CUSA too small because they get 6 automatic bowl bids.

Then shifted Tulsa,Fresno, Nevada to MWC. Also moved Temple to CUSA. I'll probably move 2 more teams from the MAC to CUSA next year, so that only the BCS conferences get a championship game.

[Kcordloh]

Re: So now that Custom Conferences are in what changes will you make?

My conferences for my dynasties became the following.

ACC: Added West Virginia and Clemson
Big East: Added SMU, Temple, lost West Virginia, Rutgers
Big XII: added Arizona, Arizona State, Arkansas. Lost A&M
Big 10: added Rutgers & Notre Dame
C-USA: lost UCF, Houston, Tulsa, SMU
MAC: lost Temple
MWC: added Fresno State, Nevada, Hawaii, Tulsa, Houston, lost TCU
Pac 12: lost AU/ASU, added TCU/BYU
SEC: lost Arkansas, added A&M
Sun Belt: no change
WAC: down to Idaho/LA-Tech/Utah State/San Jose State

The Big XII was my favorite, since I am Missouri. Rotating pods of 3 teams, with strict set rivals. Oklahoma and Kansas are in rotating pods, Missouri plays one due to division matchups and the other due to conference rivals.