NCAA11 Off-Line Dynasty Progress

[TheGamingChef]

Also, I'm shocked by how closely the game's results are mirroring real life:

*Auburn is undefeated #1 at 7-0
*Boise State is undefeated but getting little love at #5

Thanks to my realigned conferences, I'm also seeing Nebraska dominate the Big 10, and TCU own the Big East. But there are some surprises - Washington State (wth?) is atop the Pac-12 and Texas is owning the Big 12.

[johntom2000]

Quote: Originally Posted by iamthepro

are u jt2000 on utopia?

Ya I used to be till all out of the blue I couldn't post there more.

[johntom2000]

Quote: Originally Posted by TheGamingChef

Also, I'm shocked by how closely the game's results are mirroring real life: *Auburn is undefeated #1 at 7-0 *Boise State is undefeated but getting little love at #5 Thanks to my realigned conferences, I'm also seeing Nebraska dominate the Big 10, and TCU own the Big East. But there are some surprises - Washington State (wth?) is atop the Pac-12 and Texas is owning the Big 12.

Could you post how you done your realignment? I am thinking about doing a new dynasty with the correct fixes in the conferences.

[UTEPis#1]

Just started my dynasty with UTEP. Crushed our FCS opponent 66-7 in week 1. Terrell Durbin ran for 396 yards and 7 TDs (both school records) but our QB Cedric Ham struggled (1 TD and 1 INT). Defense was dominate beside from one big run by their HB, but overall it was a great game.

Game 2 we faced off with #22 Houston. Early on Houston had a 4th and goal at the 1 inch yard line and our defense made the stop. Houston continued to move the ball well but didn't score until very late in the 1st quarter. 2nd quarter we gave up a big play TD so Houston was up 14-0. We go down and kick a field goal and then Houston fumbles around their own 20 yard line. Pass play puts us at the 2 yard line but then Cedric Ham throws a pick 6 and the game could not be salvaged. To add on to my pain my star HB Terrell Durbin is out for 7 weeks with a broken tailbone. The game ended Houston 35 UTEP 17.

Just got the game a few weeks ago and just started dynasty mode today. I'm really enjoying it.

[TheGamingChef]

Quote: Originally Posted by johntom2000

Could you post how you done your realignment? I am thinking about doing a new dynasty with the correct fixes in the conferences.

Here is what I have (the conference name listed is the name of the in-game conference):

**ACC: Consists of the 12 real-life Big 10 teams in their "Leaders" and "Legends" divisions
**Big 12: Consists of the 12 real-life Pac-12 teams in their North and South divisions
**Big East: After some debate, replaced USF with TCU. USF is now in the Wasteland Athletic Conference (WAC)
**Big Ten: Consists of 11 ACC schools. Couldn't keep them all, so Duke was shunted to the wasteland as well (WAC).
**Independents: Moved BYU to independent and put Army in the WAC also.
**Mountain West: Consists of the new upcoming conference as best I could do it (added Hawaii, Fresno State, Nevada, and Boise State. Removed TCU, BYU, and Utah.) However, I had to remove one more team to make room, so New Mexico also got stuck in the WAC.
**Pac 10: Consists of the 10 real-life Big 12 teams, playing their nine-game round robin schedule
**WAC: Decided to rename this the Wasteland Athletic Conference because it's basically the dump for teams that don't have a home. USF should (hopefully) rule this conference for the near future.

C-USA, MAC, SEC, and Sun Belt were unaffected.

I made the changes this way because out of all of the major conferences, the ACC is one that I don't care for as much, so I didn't really worry about keeping it right. I considered switching the Big East for a 9 team conference, but I didn't want the Mountain West sans Utah and TCU getting an automatic bid in the BCS.

I used this chart to make sure I got them all right. Except for the ACC missing Duke, the Big East missing USF, and the WAC just really being a cluster***, I got everything else as accurate as possible.

You may think it's a little weird (at first) seeing the ACC logo with an Ohio State-Michigan matchup, but really once you get used to it you will automatically think "Oh it means Big 10." The only thing you lose is the traditional bowl matchups, and EA was pretty bad at programming those in, anyway.

[Kriech23]

In my second year with Arkansas State. Sitting at 6-1 right now, but having trouble recruiting (set on Heisman).

First year I went 9-4, including a New Orleans Bowl victory over UCF, 27-24. Signed a few JUCO Jr. recruits, and some other scrubs. The impact of these JUCO's is just crazy. My 6'7" receiver that I just brought in is having a quite a year, since I switched my playbook to SMU's.

I don't think I have ever had this much fun with a dynasty, mainly because this is the first time I have really used a set of tough sliders. Before this dynasty I would win every game no matter who I was playing or playing with.

[UTEPis#1]

Moving right along in my season with UTEP.

Game 3 against New Mexico St. I dominated and won 34-20 but the game wasn't nearly that close. My QB Cedric Ham throw 2 INTs including a pick 6.

Game 4 I had a great come-from-behind win over Memphis. Down 24-7 at halftime. Finally broke out of my offensive slump by scoring a TD late in the 3rd quarter. Game was tied at 24 late in the 4th and Memphis fumbled and I returned it for a TD. UTEP wins 31-24.

Games 5 and 6 were dissappointing loses to New Mexico and Rice. I was only down by 1 TD to New Mexico in the 3rd but Cedric Ham throw a pick 6 and we went on to lose 34-10. All my recruits showed up to the Rice game and I was hoping for an easy conference win, but got smashed instead. Rice won 41-17. Ham throw pick 6s in both games and probably has broken a record for most pick 6s in a season.

I had enough of the turnovers so I switched to Derek Tate at QB. He is a worse thrower than Ham (if that's possible) but a much better runner. Game 7 was against UAB and I dominated with back-up running back (starting RB is out) Brandon Alfred and short passes and runs by Tate. UTEP rolls 45-3!

Game 8 was against Tulane. Again I had a lot of recruits at the game because it was a winnable conference game. Alfred ran well early but got hurt so I was down to my 3rd string RB but had a 10-0 lead. The rest of the game was ugly but I hung on to win 16-7.

So I'm 5-3 (3-2) with my top HB returning to face Marshall next week. Then I got SMU, Arkansas, and Tulsa. Marshall will probably be my best chance to win. Hopefully Tate can lead my Minors to a bowl game!

[UTEPis#1]

I put recruiting on Freshmen because I don't want to spend too much time on it, but I'm having fun with it. I've gotten about 90% of the guys I target, which is mostly 3 star recruits. I only targeted pipeline players who had me in their top 10 to start.