NCAA Football 13: Custom Conference Ideas
Submitted on: 08/13/2012 by
Bo McCready
One of the great features in NCAA Football 13’s Dynasty Mode is the ability to make custom conferences. You might be surprised at how much longevity custom conferences add to Dynasty Mode. In this column, I talk about a few ideas for custom conferences that I’ve enjoyed using.
The Top Twelve
This one’s pretty simple: place the top twelve teams into a conference together, updating the conference’s membership each year based on the final rankings from the prior year. By allowing the biggest heavyweights to slug it out against one another, you’ll see which team emerges from the wreckage as conference champion. The biggest disadvantage is that you can give only one automatic BCS bid to this super-conference, which probably will deserve several bids.
The Top Twelve
This one’s pretty simple: place the top twelve teams into a conference together, updating the conference’s membership each year based on the final rankings from the prior year. By allowing the biggest heavyweights to slug it out against one another, you’ll see which team emerges from the wreckage as conference champion. The biggest disadvantage is that you can give only one automatic BCS bid to this super-conference, which probably will deserve several bids.
A future Sun and Fun Conference matchup?!
The Cali-Florida Conference
California has seven FBS teams. So does Florida. Let each state’s teams constitute a division of this powerful conference, which would feature USC, Stanford and Cal as the heavyweights of the California division and Florida, Florida State and Miami as the heavyweights of the Florida division. The conference champion wins the right to claim that their state has better beaches.
The Texas League
Texas has more FBS teams than any other state with 12. Why not keep these schools together to battle for a state championship? Texas is the obvious heavy hitter, but TCU isn’t far behind. Baylor, Texas A&M and Texas Tech will be waiting in the wings for the Longhorns and Frogs to slip up. It’s a rough introduction to FBS football for Texas State and UTSA, but if they can survive in this conference, they’ll prove they belong.
The Broken Sieve Conference
Like scoring? Take the worst scoring defenses in NCAA football and lump them all together. For this year, that means UAB, New Mexico State, Baylor, Indiana, Tulane, Akron, Texas Tech, UNLV, New Mexico and Kansas. The fun part is that not all of these teams are terrible overall, and some of the high scoring just comes from their offensive styles. This is the kind of conference where scoring records are broken and where no students want to be the mascot because they’re afraid of having to do pushups whenever their team scores.
OS readers, what are your favorite custom conferences to use?
California has seven FBS teams. So does Florida. Let each state’s teams constitute a division of this powerful conference, which would feature USC, Stanford and Cal as the heavyweights of the California division and Florida, Florida State and Miami as the heavyweights of the Florida division. The conference champion wins the right to claim that their state has better beaches.
The Texas League
Texas has more FBS teams than any other state with 12. Why not keep these schools together to battle for a state championship? Texas is the obvious heavy hitter, but TCU isn’t far behind. Baylor, Texas A&M and Texas Tech will be waiting in the wings for the Longhorns and Frogs to slip up. It’s a rough introduction to FBS football for Texas State and UTSA, but if they can survive in this conference, they’ll prove they belong.
The Broken Sieve Conference
Like scoring? Take the worst scoring defenses in NCAA football and lump them all together. For this year, that means UAB, New Mexico State, Baylor, Indiana, Tulane, Akron, Texas Tech, UNLV, New Mexico and Kansas. The fun part is that not all of these teams are terrible overall, and some of the high scoring just comes from their offensive styles. This is the kind of conference where scoring records are broken and where no students want to be the mascot because they’re afraid of having to do pushups whenever their team scores.
OS readers, what are your favorite custom conferences to use?
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