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Central Michigan in the Big Ten, Southern Miss in the SEC. Houston in the Big XII.
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I already know now I will have a tough time deciding what chise to run with...a realistic conference set up....or a custom one.
TCU to the Big East still pisses me off in the "real world" one.Comment
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Any suggestions on who you think might be a better fit in those areas?
Central Michigan doesn't bother me that much...they get natural rivals in Michigan and Michigan St. with the move, and they typically end up being a pretty powerful school in the game. Houston to me is a natural selection to flesh out my All-Texas Big XII south division. Southern Miss was really a "There's no one left" decision, and they join in-state schools Ole Miss and Mississippi St.
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Iowa State to Big 10 obv
rival to Iowa, fits geographically.Comment
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This is what I'd do. 6 12 team BCS conferences, 5 conferences with 9 teams, 3 military schools independant. I might swap some of the Big East schools with ACC ones.
Big 10
Purdue
IU
Northwestern
Ohio St
Mich
MSU
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Mizzou
Illinois
Wisconsin
Iowa
Iowa State
Minnesota
Big 12
Texas
Texas Tech
TCU
TexAM
Baylor
Colorado
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma St
Kansas
Kansas State
Nebraska
Utah
Pac 10
Oregon
Org State
Washington
Wash State
Nevada
Boise
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Cal
Stanford
USC
UCLA
Zona
ASU
ACC
Miami
GT
UNC
Duke
Virginia
V tech
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FSU
BC
NC state
Clemson
Maryland
Wake Forest
SEC
Florida
Tenn
Vandy
Kentucky
Georgia
South Carolina
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Auburn
Miss
Miss state
Arkansas
Bama
LSU
Big East
Syracuse
Penn State
Pitt
Rutgers
UConn
ECU
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Notre Dame
West Virginia
Louisville
Cincinatti
USF
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My second draft...quite a few changes in this one as I try to balance the BCS conferences.
I'd like to tweak the Pac 12, so one idea I had was putting Fresno St. in the West, putting UCLA in the East with USC, then moving Colorado into the Mountain West to replace Fresno St. I'd like to have Colorado and Arizona in a BCS conference, but they really only fit in the Big XII or Pac 12, and there's no teams in those divisions that I want to swap into the Mountain West. My major issue is the the fact that there are three western conferences (Pac 12, MWC, and WAC) for a total of 30 teams, but there are really only 28 western schools, forcing me to put Iowa St. and Kansas St. when I'd rather have them in the Big XII or Big Ten.Code:Pac 12 East West USC UCLA Arizona St. Cal Colorado Stanford Boise St. Washington Utah Oregon BYU Oregon St. Mountain West Arizona Nevada Colorado St. Air Force Iowa St. Kansas St. UTEP Fresno St. Wyoming WAC Hawaii San Jose St. San Diego St. New Mexico New Mexico St. Idaho Utah St. UNLV Washington St. Big XII North South Oklahoma Texas Oklahoma St. Texas Tech Tulsa Texas A&M Arkansas Baylor Kansas Houston Missouri TCU SEC East West LSU Florida Ole Miss Florida St. Mississippi St. USF Vanderbilt UCF Alabama Georgia Auburn Georgia Tech Deep South Rice SMU North Texas La. Tech Tulane UL Monroe UL Lafayette FIU FAU C-USA Arkansas St. Memphis Mid Tenn St. Southern Miss Troy UAB W. Kentucky ECU Wake Forest Big North East West Ohio St. Nebraska Michigan Iowa Michigan St. Wisconsin C. Michigan Minnesota Purdue Northwestern Indiana Illinois ACC North South Virginia Tech Clemson Virginia South Carolina Maryland Miami Boston College Duke UConn N. Carolina Rutgers NC State Big East East West Penn St. Notre Dame Pitt Tennessee Syracuse Louisville Buffalo Kentucky West Virginia Cincinnati Marshall Bowling Green MAC N. Illinois Ball St. W. Michigan E. Michigan Toledo Akron Kent St. Ohio Miami (OH) Independents Navy Army Temple
Any suggestions on two western schools that I could create in teambuilder that are ready for the FBS jump?Comment
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If I add Montana and Cal Poly to FBS, and remove Eastern Michigan and Akron, I think I can achieve a better balance. Here's the divisions that would change from my previous version (changes in bold).
I'd like to bring in one more western team to replace Air Force in the Mountain West. Then Air Force could join the military schools as an independent, and Temple would be removed.Code:Pac 12 East West USC [b]Washington St.[/b] Arizona St. Cal [b]UCLA[/b] Stanford Boise St. Washington Utah Oregon BYU Oregon St. Mountain West Arizona Nevada Colorado St. Air Force UNLV [b]Colorado[/b] UTEP Fresno St. Wyoming WAC Hawaii San Jose St. San Diego St. New Mexico New Mexico St. Idaho Utah St. [b]Cal Poly[/b] [b]Montana[/b] Big XII North South Oklahoma Texas Oklahoma St. Texas Tech Tulsa Texas A&M Arkansas Baylor Kansas Houston [b]Kansas St.[/b] TCU Big North East West Ohio St. Nebraska Michigan Iowa Michigan St. Wisconsin C. Michigan Minnesota [b]Northwestern[/b] [b]Missouri[/b] [b]Illinois[/b] [b]Iowa St.[/b] Big East East West Penn St. Notre Dame Pitt Tennessee Syracuse Louisville Buffalo Kentucky West Virginia Cincinnati Marshall [b]Purdue[/b] MAC N. Illinois Ball St. W. Michigan [b]Bowling Green[/b] Toledo [b]Indiana[/b] Kent St. Ohio Miami (OH)
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Hawaii Boise Fresno st Nevada to MWCComment
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Too much time on my hands. Top 25 by my conference set-up, this should be interesting. The ACC needs a Clemson resurgence.
Code:24. NC State ACC 17. Virginia Tech Big East 1. Oklahoma Big 8 7. Oklahoma State Big 8 16. Nebraska Big 8 23. Missouri Big 8 6. Ohio State Big 10 11. Wisconsin Big 10 15. Michigan State Big 10 10. Florida State Ind 21. Notre Dame Ind 3. Stanford Pac-10 5. Oregon Pac-10 25. Arizona State Pac-10 2. Alabama SEC 4. LSU SEC 12. Auburn SEC 13. South Carolina SEC 19. Mississippi State SEC 20. Florida SEC 9. Texas A&M SWC 14. TCU SWC 18. Arkansas SWC 22. Texas SWC 8. Boise State WAC
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New blog.
Talks about scheduling logic/type and stuff for differing amount of teams in a conference, pretty interesting.Comment
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Some interesting things I noticed:New blog.
Talks about scheduling logic/type and stuff for differing amount of teams in a conference, pretty interesting.
"If you aren't into the neutral site thing, go ahead and set it so that the school with the best conference record hosts the game (like the PAC-12 and Conference USA do)." That's a pretty awesome addition, and would give extra incentive to not only win your division, but also finish with the best record so you can host the conference championship game.
"4-8 schools – 7 conference games. There are no protected rivals since everyone plays everyone else. For conferences of 4-6 schools FCS opponents will play the part of your additional conference games" WTF? FCS schools? Weak...I won't be going lower than nine teams.
"You can set a conference to be tied to a specific bowl, or you can set it so that the champion of a conference is guaranteed a spot in one of the BCS bowls, but not tied to a specific one (think Big East currently)." I like this addition...it will be interesting to see how the BCS assigns them to bowls if you just make every champion an auto-qualifier with no bowl tie-in.
Nothing was mentioned about the ability to rename a conference, so I guess that's a no-go. And even though I'd like to delete a conference, I can understand why they won't allow it...but requiring at least one independent? That's dumb.Comment
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