Making it to the National Championship

[kgilley09]

Is this even remotely possible without going undefeated? I'm in my 3'rd year with VTech, and scheduled the hardest possible schedule going against Bama, OSU, Texas who were all undefeated teams in the previous year. I beat all of them, yet since I'm playing on Heisman and the computer decides every once in a while that I'm GOING to lose a game or two regardless of how I play, lost to Duke and Boston College. Boston College and a couple other teams then went undefeated, and I still can't come close to making the National Championship game. Is this something that's even achievable on Heisman difficulty? I love the challenge of the game, and know that a National Championship should be difficult to achieve....it's just frustrating at times.

[Pogo27]

Quote: Originally Posted by kgilley09

Is this even remotely possible without going undefeated? I'm in my 3'rd year with VTech, and scheduled the hardest possible schedule going against Bama, OSU, Texas who were all undefeated teams in the previous year. I beat all of them, yet since I'm playing on Heisman and the computer decides every once in a while that I'm GOING to lose a game or two regardless of how I play, lost to Dook and Boston College. Boston College and a couple other teams then went undefeated, and I still can't come close to making the National Championship game. Is this something that's even achievable on Heisman difficulty? I love the challenge of the game, and know that a National Championship should be difficult to achieve....it's just frustrating at times.

No.

Losing to Dook should pretty much take you out of national title contention. Losing a game in the ACC should pretty much take you out of national title contention.
Losing two games should mostly take you out of national title contention (although there is the real life exception of LSU...but they're not in the ACC now are they?).

There are too many non-BCS conference teams that go undefeated and the game loves to give them too much love. In fact, I really haven't seen a season without at least 3 undefeated teams.

So...if you can figure out how to prevent so many undefeated teams, then I imagine you could go 12-1 in the ACC (after WINNING the championship game) and make it to the national championship game.

[jphepler]

You expect to make the NC with 2 losses, one of which was to Duke????

[Deegeezy]

Quote: Originally Posted by jphepler

You expect to make the NC with 2 losses, one of which was to Duke????

Sorry but...

[EvanRG]

I love reading things like "the game decided I needed to lose."

[Secondary]

The game does decide that you need to lose. In my SMU dynasty I was playing TCU, down 34-31 with 4 minutes left. 2 consecutive drives I fumble and they recover. No turnovers the whole game, except when I am trying to pull a comeback. I ended up losing (which im very salty about). In my Ohio State dynasty I wiped the floor with Marshall so bad i had to Mass Sub and super sim midway through the second quarter, then I shut out Miami, the I play OU and their QB is going drive for drive with me picking apart my defense in which i snaked a 7 point victory.

[kgilley09]

Quote: Originally Posted by EvanRG

I love reading things like "the game decided I needed to lose."

Well when I beat BAMA, OSU, and several other top teams in the nation, you think I'm going to lose to a team like Duke because of the way I play? Or sheer luck? No, this game does decide beforehand in some cases that you ARE going to lose no matter what you do or how well you play. Hell, I had over 300 passing yards and 21 points going into halftime and Duke still beat me.....you're trying to tell me that's not programming?

[dalecooper]

Quote: Originally Posted by kgilley09

Well when I beat BAMA, OSU, and several other top teams in the nation, you think I'm going to lose to a team like Duke because of the way I play? Or sheer luck? No, this game does decide beforehand in some cases that you ARE going to lose no matter what you do or how well you play. Hell, I had over 300 passing yards and 21 points going into halftime and Duke still beat me.....you're trying to tell me that's not programming?

Yes. You might also be interested to know that we really DID land on the moon.