Conference Invites

[Mck23tyler]

Do you guys remember being invited to new conferences when you played with a lower leveled team? Those were the days. That was when I felt like I had the most fun playing NCAA Football. Now you can just put any team in any conference and it doesn't give you the game satisfaction of being invited to a new one

[jt2000]

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ya, EA has really dumbed down things. They took alot of the good features that made NCAA fun but, its nice to be able to keep up with the conference changes to keep things real tho.

[jello1717]

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I think the newer custom conference setup is EXTREMELY better than the old system.

[Deuce2223]

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I liked being invited, but have to agree that being able to add teams to conferences is way better. When I ran as Boise State, it seemed like WSU was always the team kicked out for me to join the Pac-10. Now I can just add them.

I am currently play as Georgia State,and want to move them to the SEC or ACC someday, because I had a hard time playing the Sun Belt schedule. Instead I moved them to Independent and I made a rule that I can't move to the ACC or SEC until I have back to back finishes in the Top-25, at least 1 Top-10 Finish, a BCS At-Large Bowl win and my Attendance up to 40,000.

[superxero27]

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Conference invites sucked because you had to replace a pre-determined team in that conference.
You couldn't just join a conference.
Or even pick the team you wanted to replace.

That feature was infinitely more half-assed than the current custom conferences system.

[butchmcdoo]

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I definitely enjoyed the pursuit of earning a conference invite, but I too prefer the way it is now. Especially with how the conference landscape is constantly changing.

[Mck23tyler]

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I liked being invited, but have to agree that being able to add teams to conferences is way better. When I ran as Boise State, it seemed like WSU was always the team kicked out for me to join the Pac-10. Now I can just add them.

I am currently play as Georgia State,and want to move them to the SEC or ACC someday, because I had a hard time playing the Sun Belt schedule. Instead I moved them to Independent and I made a rule that I can't move to the ACC or SEC until I have back to back finishes in the Top-25, at least 1 Top-10 Finish, a BCS At-Large Bowl win and my Attendance up to 40,000.

I like the way you do that. I may have to try that out one day.

[jsr862]

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I like the new system, you just have to be realistic in how you move teams if you want to keep it has life like as possible.

I am an OC at South Alabama. First year we went 11-2 and finished #17.

I am now banking on a 3-Star 79 overall (+10 gem!) who I am looking to land with FSU 1,000 more points behind locked out to lead me forward.

I have a 3 year contract and in year two, if we finish with decent winning records the next two years I am moving them into the empty slot in CUSA to even it out.

[canesfins]

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I liked having to earn a conference invite. I wish we had the current option for custom conferences but at the same time still had the conference invites in the game.

[coyotedelmar]

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Agreed it would be interesting/nice to have conferences grow naturally by themselves as well being able to still modify them if you wanted. It gave another goal to aim for at the very least.



Too bad the game would probably never sell (much) without licenses, would be awesome to have natural growth, the ability to rename, delete, add, etc. Conferences, and move teams around.

[Burkell777]

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i just wish you could use more then 12 teambuilder teams cause i added Charlotte, Georgia southern and Appalachian state, but had no room to add more to make the sun belt get a conference champ game. i wish you could add all 120!

[Mck23tyler]

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I totally agree with wanting to just add more teams in general. It would be nice to be able to add more teams without having to get rid of someone

[mattoon2]

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I thought being invited was fun. What i do with my dynasty in 14 is every 5 years i redo all the conferences based on the teams overall overall, but leave them alone in between the 5 years, that way a team that's on the decline has a chance to rebuild and vice versa. How i have it set up is

ACC: above 85 but not in 90's
American: 84
Big 12: 77
Big 10 90's unranked
Cusa: 75
Independant: lower than 75
Mac: below 85 but still in the 80's
Mwc: same as Mac
Pac 12: same as Big 10
SEC: 90's and ranked
Sunbelt: 79

I didn't use this to start in my dynasty, but i make small tweaks on it so all teams will fit into it. i just finished my 2024 season. i also started with a team in every conference and cut it down each year so now i control 5 teams. using this makes for some good games/bowl match ups.