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peder · 10-25-2011, 01:05 AM

I did something very similar. 8 teams per conference, 32 independent teams. I'm not sure how you went about deciding which teams fall into which conferences, but I used a spreadsheet to set up each conference with teams that correspond to that conferences prestige. So gone from the Big 10 are teams like Indiana and Minnesota, leaving only the "A" teams. The SEC loses Vanderbilt and Kentucky and the two Mississippi schools and is left looking like an "A+" conference. At the other end of the spectrum, the bottom 32 teams were dumped into the Independents.

What you end up with are 11 meaningful conference races every year, with my hope being that year-over-year, the power stays away from a crappy Sun Belt conference where Troy goes 12-0 against worthless opponents and works their way into the National Championship game.

10-25-2011, 01:05 AM	#2
peder Rookie OVR: 0 Join Date: Jul 2011	Re: Can't Advance Past Conference Championships - A solution I did something very similar. 8 teams per conference, 32 independent teams. I'm not sure how you went about deciding which teams fall into which conferences, but I used a spreadsheet to set up each conference with teams that correspond to that conferences prestige. So gone from the Big 10 are teams like Indiana and Minnesota, leaving only the "A" teams. The SEC loses Vanderbilt and Kentucky and the two Mississippi schools and is left looking like an "A+" conference. At the other end of the spectrum, the bottom 32 teams were dumped into the Independents. What you end up with are 11 meaningful conference races every year, with my hope being that year-over-year, the power stays away from a crappy Sun Belt conference where Troy goes 12-0 against worthless opponents and works their way into the National Championship game.