All Equal Strength Conferences

[Shibito]

Has anyone come up with a set up to completely balance out all conferences from the start?

I've been trying to come up with a setup to place 2 'Anchor' schools in each conference and expand of those. I was curious if anyone else had already tried this?

[bigbob]

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When you say all of them, do you actually mean all of them? Or do you mean the SEC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12, Big East and ACC?

[Shibito]

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I mean all of the conferences, not just the AQ. I would eliminate all BCS tie-ins.

[bigbob]

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I'd gladly help make it, seeing as I have nothing to do until 6:00pm while I sit at work and do nothing.

So far, this is what I have, and obviously you can put them in whatever conference, I just had the conferences listed:

ACC
Alabama

BIG 12
Georgia

BIG EAST
Texas A&M

BIG TEN
Florida

CONFERENCE USA
LSU

INDEPENDENTS
Notre Dame
Michigan

MAC
Oregon
Nebraska

MWC
Ohio State
Boise State

PAC-12
South Carolina
Texas

SEC
Florida State
Louisville

SUN BELT
Clemson
Oklahoma

WAC
Stanford
Kansas State

[Shibito]

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I like your baseline. I was thinking of just leaving 1 team in Indy, but it would be interesting to set it up like a normal conference.

[bigbob]

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I like your baseline. I was thinking of just leaving 1 team in Indy, but it would be interesting to set it up like a normal conference.

I was going to do that too, but I wasn't sure what you wanted to do with them.

I figured just put the worst team in it, or maybe just leave Notre Dame in it.

[Shibito]

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Ya, as soon as I get home I'm going to try and draw up a couple drafts.

[Shibito]

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Here's what I have so far, not finished by any means.

ACC:
Florida
Florida State
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Boston College
UMass
Army
Navy

Big 10:
Purdue
Notre Dame
Michigan
Michigan State
Ohio
Ohio State
CMU
WMU
EMU
Illinois
Northern Illinois
Indiana

Big 12:
Baylor
Texas
Texas Tech
Texas State
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
UTSA
UTEP
Western Kentucky
Kentucky
Mid Tenn State
Tulane

Big East:
Clemson
South Carolina
North Carolina
Duke
NC State

CUSA:
Stanford
Cal
Penn State
Pittsburgh
San Jose St
Fresno State
West Virginia
Marshall
Temple
East Carolina
New Mexico
New Mexico State

SEC:
Alabama
Troy
Georgia
Georgia Tech
Auburn
USF
UCF

PAC 12:
Oregon
Oregon State
USC
UCLA
Hawaii
Air Force
Idaho
Wyoming

MWC:
TCU
Boise State
Washington
Washington State
Nevada
UNLV
Colorado
Colorado State

WAC:
Utah
Utah State
Arizona
Arizona State
BYU
Kansas
Kansas State
Ole Miss
Mississippi State

MAC:
LSU
Louisiana Tech
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Houston
Tulsa
Tennessee
Vanderbilt

Sun Belt:
Texas A&M
Missouri
Arkansas
Arkansas State
Nebraska
Iowa
Iowa State


Any thoughts?

[irishluck10]

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It seems like if you did this to the conferences too many of those anchor teams would go undefeated or be in contention for the NC game every year that the BCS would fail more than it already does. Thats why I prefer 4 or 5 big conferences that contain the powerhouse teams so that the truly better teams will beat real competition during the year and make the NC game more interesting.

[freegigi90]

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wow nice ideea , maybe try and do big 5 confereces to have 12 teams and a championship game , i always wondered what harm on long term dynasty has if i let independents and wac with 0 teams , is it possible first and second any bugs will happen ?

[thehardknoxlife]

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wow nice ideea , maybe try and do big 5 confereces to have 12 teams and a championship game , i always wondered what harm on long term dynasty has if i let independents and wac with 0 teams , is it possible first and second any bugs will happen ?

You have to leave at least 4 teams in a conference and you have to have at least 1 as an Independent. Something interesting a lot of people don't realize is that you can put as many teams as an Independent as you want.

[Shibito]

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It seems like if you did this to the conferences too many of those anchor teams would go undefeated or be in contention for the NC game every year that the BCS would fail more than it already does. Thats why I prefer 4 or 5 big conferences that contain the powerhouse teams so that the truly better teams will beat real competition during the year and make the NC game more interesting.

It makes that much more emphasis on going undefeated as well. I understand where you're coming from as well.

[dontjoice]

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It seems like if you did this to the conferences too many of those anchor teams would go undefeated or be in contention for the NC game every year that the BCS would fail more than it already does.

[Shibito]

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It seems like if you did this to the conferences too many of those anchor teams would go undefeated or be in contention for the NC game every year that the BCS would fail more than it already does.

Better then having 1-3 star prestige teams in the NC game though right?

[Noble Evildoer]

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This idea reminds me of when my friend and I did a conference draft. Basically, every conference would take turns picking the best teams available (Alabama, Michigan, and Mizzou ended up in the Sun Belt for example). It basically lead to a world where each conference had one or two teams that dominated all of the other teams, and made it so there were a lot more unbeatens being left out of title games, and things of that nature.