EA broke the BCS

**Herky** · 07-22-2011, 08:18 PM

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What year are you in? I heard on Operations Sports radio show that things went fairly well with sim records.

If you are in year 1 or 2 that's weird. However, if it's year 5 or 6 that might seem weird, but with all the parity in college football it isn't out of the question.

Who would have thought that teams like Boise State or Utah would be BCS contenders?

**adamcsay** · 07-22-2011, 08:19 PM

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is it even possible to schedule "7" fcs teams in one year? come on now..

**TDenverFan** · 07-22-2011, 08:22 PM

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Originally posted by adamcsay

is it even possible to schedule "7" fcs teams in one year? come on now..

If you are in a 4 Team Conference, yes. FCS Teams become Placeholder Conference Teams in small conferences. They don't count for conference records, but they're tougher than normal FCS Teams, I believe.

37 · 07-22-2011, 08:23 PM

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Originally posted by TDenverFan

If you are in a 4 Team Conference, yes. FCS Teams become Placeholder Conference Teams in small conferences. They don't count for conference records, but they're tougher than normal FCS Teams, I believe.

The WAC has more then 4 teams

**prowler** · 07-22-2011, 08:26 PM

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Originally posted by NoFatGirlz4Me37

The WAC has more then 4 teams

Unless he removed some; a conference can have a minimum of four teams or only one in the Independent conference.

**tzinc** · 07-22-2011, 08:27 PM

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It was Year One.

I put all the top teams in a couple tough conferences, then I put the second rate teams in a few more semi-tough conferences, and finally I put some crappy teams in a few 4 team crap conferences.

Needless to say Idaho was in a 4 team crap conference. I didn't do their schedule the AI did and they played a bunch of FCS games not sure - they didn't play one even semi-tough team all year.

Something is wrong! In older versions of the game it would take a long time for a crappy team real or created to get to top positions in the polls and in bowls... that was REALISTIC... even if a team was decent but in a crappy conference they had to struggle to get respect.

This year's Idaho team goes unbeaten in a crap conference with 3 crap teams playing a crap schedule and gets the top spot and a champ. game slot .... no way! They must have done something to the BCS. It takes several awesome years before lower end teams start getting BCS respect.

**FedExPope** · 07-22-2011, 08:31 PM

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Yes clearly something is wrong with the division of the conferences. Idaho has improved...they're going to do well against teams like North Texas and Western Kentucky. That is if they didn't lose too many people this past year.

**rocker78** · 07-22-2011, 08:34 PM

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If people are going to seriously mess around with the conferences and make them non-realistic, i dont think they should expect realistic outcomes. JMO.

**tzinc** · 07-22-2011, 08:36 PM

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Originally posted by rocker78

If people are going to seriously mess around with the conferences and make them non-realistic, i dont think they should expect realistic outcomes. JMO.

Then why allow custom conferences in the first place if we can't expect realistic results. The whole point of custom conferences should be that we can redesign them and then still see realistic results!

That is a copout imo!

**jkra0512** · 07-22-2011, 08:41 PM

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Wasn't the BCS broken to start with?

**prowler** · 07-22-2011, 08:44 PM

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Originally posted by tzinc

Then why allow custom conferences in the first place if we can't expect realistic results. The whole point of custom conferences should be that we can redesign them and then still see realistic results!

That is a copout imo!

Given the setup of your conferences you would need a feature that allows you to hand pick which conference sends teams to which bowl games; and that isn't available.

**ezio** · 07-22-2011, 08:49 PM

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Originally posted by rocker78

If people are going to seriously mess around with the conferences and make them non-realistic, i dont think they should expect realistic outcomes. JMO.

I agree with this. especially because the OP said this:

I put all the top teams in a couple tough conferences, then I put the second rate teams in a few more semi-tough conferences, and finally I put some crappy teams in a few 4 team crap conferences.

With this setup I would expect the top teams to be knocking each other off thus giving them more loses than the other teams in the other confrences. Just my opinion of course

**tHurley2010** · 07-22-2011, 08:52 PM

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Originally posted by tzinc

Then why allow custom conferences in the first place if we can't expect realistic results. The whole point of custom conferences should be that we can redesign them and then still see realistic results!

That is a copout imo!

You can't expect to have a realistic outcome with unrealistic setups. And seeing as this is the first year EA allowed fully customizable conferences. It's not going to be perfect in its first year.

**tzinc** · 07-22-2011, 08:55 PM

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Yeah but a 1 loss OSU or 2 loss Oregon that played a brutal schedule should go in ahead of a no loss Idaho that played mostly FCS teams.

All the major bowls were preset so Idaho conference teams couldn't play in any of them but of course the AI changed that.

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