NCAA Football 12 Team Ratings and Prestige Revealed (Tradition Sports Online)

[TDenverFan]

Re: NCAA 12: TSO breaks down all 120 teams ratings and prestige

Michigan and Notre Dame finally fall to 5 stars. Though I don't understand why Penn State is still a 6 star program.

And I know Boise State has been incredibly successful, but 5 stars still seems too high. I think 4 would be perfectly appropriate.

I disagree. If Boise deserves to be 4 after about 10 years as a top 25 program (Finished ranked all but a couple of years), then what does a program like USC, who has a tarnished reputation, Notre Dame, who hasn't been nationally relevant for a while, or Texas, who flopped last year, deserve? A .5 Star? (That's harsh, I know, but a Hyperbole drives a point well)

I think EA needs to explain how they make these numbers. Hawaii was ranked for part of the year and dropped a star, Texas fell out of the ranks quickly and stayed the same, Fresno has 8 wins and falls, Miami OH reaches 10 wins and fails to gain a star, Toledo has 8 wins and stays a 1 star, etc

[The JareBear]

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Yeah....some of these ratings don't make sense....

Luvtothat9s, I'm looking at you Bro...good luck, gonna have your work cut out for you

[Special27K]

Re: NCAA 12: TSO breaks down all 120 teams ratings and prestige

Michigan and Notre Dame finally fall to 5 stars. Though I don't understand why Penn State is still a 6 star program.

And I know Boise State has been incredibly successful, but 5 stars still seems too high. I think 4 would be perfectly appropriate.

I think 3 years is appropriate time frame for very prestigious programs like Michigan and ND to lose that 6*, Boise and TCU should not be 5* programs IMO. EA is way too generous in handing out these ratings, as well have made it too easy to gain prestige. Prestige shouldn't be a "What've you done lately" thing. It should go far back. I know TCU was quite a power in the 30's and 50's still not 5* worthy based on their mediocrity after that and Boise has only been FBS/D-1A since 2001 and only really known nationally since the 2006/07 Fiesta Bowl, they shouldn't be within reach of 5*'s. It should take minimum 2 years of success to go up a prestige star.

TCU 4*
Boise State Upper 3*/Bottom 4*

[The JareBear]

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I agree the process should be longer and more difficult...it should be a long term accomplishment to get that sixth star not a one year turnaround.

[Noble Evildoer]

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I think 3 years is appropriate time frame for very prestigious programs like Michigan and ND to lose that 6*, Boise and TCU should not be 5* programs IMO. EA is way too generous in handing out these ratings, as well have made it too easy to gain prestige. Prestige shouldn't be a "What've you done lately" thing. It should go far back. I know TCU was quite a power in the 30's and 50's still not 5* worthy based on their mediocrity after that and Boise has only been FBS/D-1A since 2001 and only really known nationally since the 2006/07 Fiesta Bowl, they shouldn't be within reach of 5*'s. It should take minimum 2 years of success to go up a prestige star.

TCU 4*
Boise State Upper 3*/Bottom 4*

Go about a decade back on that.

[SlickRick11]

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Thanks for posting this..... IMO overall they did good on the ratings but of course there are a few that people will have a problem with no matter what but im happy with it

[Special27K]

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Go about a decade back on that.

Whoops skimmed the info, joined the WAC in 2001. Joined D-1A in 1996.

[The JareBear]

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Come on slick.....it's not that people have a problem no matter what. Be realistic man, not every school has a B+ defense. There are good schools, take Arkansas recently, who really had pretty medicocre defenses (C,C+, or B- tops) that are still good teams. I don't like how EA inflates everything year in and year out.

Online Dynasty will be the same this year as last....in the fourth season every user team will have a stable of 99s and then there will be a dropoff for everybody in year 5

[NDAlum]

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Typical

To be blunt: this is lame as hell

[blkrptnt819]

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I agree the process should be longer and more difficult...it should be a long term accomplishment to get that sixth star not a one year turnaround.

I very much agree with this.

[Bucs1211]

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I still dont understand how Miami is better then ND when we clearly out played them is the bowl game.

[TheRealCar10ck]

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wow ECU's special teams an A-...what did they see last year? We lost Dwayne to the Cowboys sooo...eh what am I talking about I'll take it. Should be a C+ or B- ha. And our D a B-? We were the worst in the NCAA last year but...eh I'll take that too ha.

[blkrptnt819]

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Miami should be a 4* as should TCU. Boise is a 4.5* but do to rounding go up. Prestige Stars 1-4 should take a year. A 5* should take 2 years and a 6* should take 3 after that. So with that being said to go from a 1-6* should take 8 years and that's still generous. PSU is a 5*, Texas definitely deserves to stay a 6*. UNC should be a 3*, Fresno should be a 3*.

[coogrfan]

Re: NCAA 12: TSO breaks down all 120 teams ratings and prestige

It seems like a couple of non-AQs randomly lost prestige.

Fresno 3 to 2 after an 8 win year
Hawaii 3 to 2 after an almost top 25 Year
There may be others I didn't see

Also, I noticed Wazzou is the only 1* AQ, not Duke. And Texas is still 6*?!?! Houston, a 4* last year, went 5-7 year, dropped a star. Texas, a 6*, went 5-7 and didn't drop a star.


Also, thanks for posting!

For the record, UH was a 3* in NCAA 11.

[Bucs1211]

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Notre Dame got a top 10 recruiting class and get bumped down to a 5 star????