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

[SlickRick11]

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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

I completely agree with you jared.....especially on the online dynasty part.....thats exactly what'll happen by year 5 or 6 and that will hurt the long-term dynasties but I am being realistic in my opinion!! I clearly know and understand not every team has a B+ defense but I just like the equality of it and it creates less mismatches.....the ratings may not resemble exactly what they really should, but thats why its a video game..... there may not be a logical or understandable reason for it but I would just much rather them overrate teams than underrate them thats all no big deal

[The JareBear]

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Yeah, I see you're point. Fair enough.

Plus they let us edit rosters to our hearts content anyway

[wkukicksbutt]

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Can't wait to start a 1-star Dynasty, plenty of teams to rebuild, of course I am selecting WKU, but plenty of options for others. Akron, EMU, NMSU, New Mex, UAB, San Jose St, UNT, Memphis, FAU, ULL, ULM, Utah St, Kent St, Ark St, MTSU, Idaho, FIU, Tulane, Washington St, WMU, and Army.

[splff3000]

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Ughh, Looks like a lot of overrated teams again. At least they got my Tigers(Auburn) right. Anyway can someone tell me why Alabama is A+? I posted this in the other thread before it was closed.

I had no problem with Bama being A+ last year because they had just won the championship and had a lot of players coming back, but not this year. They lost an impact RB, impact WR, their starting QB, and 3 offensive linemen, yet they're still an A+? Huh? Well, ya'll might as well get used to playing Bama online. Seems they're overrated......again.

I really would like to know how they come up with these team ratings. Are they just guessing or are they using some kind of college football website or something. Some of this stuff just seems off. I know Bama is preseason no.2, but that doesn't mean they're an A+ team.

[arsenal123gunners]

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How does michigan get a B+ on defense? Their secondary was god awful last year

[Noble Evildoer]

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

I was thinking it was more like 91 or 92. Just figured they came up at the same time as Arkansas State since we were both in the ill-fated Big West.

[The JareBear]

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My theory is this....

EA obviously can't recreate the actual rosters since, well, they get freaking sued.

I think they just throw rosters together, focus on the key players, and fill in the blanks around them based on the school. Michigan is still a big name. Their D should be a C or C+ at the best but that just won't happen without custom rosters

[RebelHog]

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B rating for Special Teams for Arkansas? Did EA do their homework?

[Noble Evildoer]

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B rating for Special Teams for Arkansas? Did EA do their homework?

Arkansas State got a D- for special teams so it's not all inaccurate.

[Nature_Boy]

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South Carolina A A B+ B 4. Very pleased with South Carolina's ratings this year.

[RebelHog]

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Arkansas State got a D- for special teams so it's not all inaccurate.

Hugh Freeze offense should be fun to run on this game though. Can't wait to watch Stephen Hogan tear up the Sun Belt Secondary!

[xcrushx]

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Very generous ratings to Virginia. I'm surprised to get a B overall. I was figuring a C+. B is very generous.

UCLA is really a 2* prestige? Wow! I have a hard time comparing UCLA to some of the other 2* prestige teams. I know they have struggled but still.

Looks like I'll use Akron again as my team to build up.

Why is Michigan still 5*? After their struggles with Rich Rod. They should have dropped to a 4*. It's a good job but realistically Michigan isn't the school or job it was before Rich Rod. Michigan didn't have their pick to anyone they wanted. I think their prestige has really fallen.

USC should be 5* max, possibly even 4*. They have struggled the past couple years and with all the NCAA penalties they aren't the superpower they were a few years ago. I understand USC is still a big name but they haven't had the success to be a 6*.

Florida State should be 4*. They've improved this past year but they've had so many mediocre seasons that they don't deserve that 5* rating.

Virginia should possibly be a 2* considering they have had 4 losing seasons in the past 5 seasons. It's pretty hard for me to argue for them to still be a 3*.

Miami should be 4* at the most. Just like Florida State they have struggled much too much to have them at 5* prestige.

Iowa 5*? Not sure what they've done to deserve that. Yes, they have had good seasons but I wouldn't think they have deserved to be given 5*.

The ratings seem slightly high for all teams. I'm not expecting any teams to be very dominate this year. I personally don't feel any of this year's teams deserve an A+ rating. It should be reserved for the best of the best teams.

[Bullet Sponge]

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I usually just use a roster file that puts the actual names on players (FairdaleKings usually) but this year I might actually wait for one where the players are all rerated to more realistic levels.

[ActLikeYouCrow]

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i agree with the sentiment that noone should be an A+, but the team ratings/grades dont necessarily make sense in comparision with the individual player ratings. i dont know about boise being one of the top 5 offenses from a rating perspective after losing their two starting wr's. miami still has talent, but lost some guys to the draft. hard to justify an A- on offense when you dont have a skill player back who was all conference.

seems odd that the 4 teams with at least A- on offense and defense are ranked no.1, no.2, no.28 and no.34

[SlickRick11]

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My theory is this....

EA obviously can't recreate the actual rosters since, well, they get freaking sued.

I think they just throw rosters together, focus on the key players, and fill in the blanks around them based on the school. Michigan is still a big name. Their D should be a C or C+ at the best but that just won't happen without custom rosters

exactly right.....what is it 70 man rosters 120 different teams? there's a lot of filling in blanks whenever they're doing the rosters