Divisional Rivalries in Custom Conferences?

[AgentFelix0013]

Hi all, I'm about to set up an offline dynasty where I reworked the BCS conferences to make it interesting this year. I tried to get all the quality BCS teams and non-BCS teams into 5 conferences (sorry Big East). I then set them up by region to eliminate where some of them overlap in real life (ex: SEC, ACC, Big East)(Big 10, ACC, Big East). In setting the divisions though in my 3 biggest conferences I was wondering how you have to do it if I want to have cross divisional rivalries?

Example. In my new SEC Georgia will be in a different division than Florida. Do I have to specifically sub Georgia in for LSU to maintain that annual inter-divisional matchup?

have my spreadsheet of conferences here, organized top to bottom by rating, the 2nd-4th tabs have the conferences with their preferred rivals across from them.

(had to flip names of ACC and Pac 10 as the numbers worked out that way)

[BaylorBearBryant]

Well, the Big East gets an automatic BCS bowl bid. How's that going to work out?

[AgentFelix0013]

could throw 7 of the 13 deleted teams in there. they'd get an auto-bid still but my goal was just to make the interleague play more intense. removing the dukes, vandy's and wazzous of the world. there were six 2 star teams in the BCS conferences.

[Pogo27]

Yes, Georgia has to go to LSU's slot in order to play Florida every year.

LSU-Florida
Georgia-Auburn
Alabama-Tennessee
Mississippi-Kentucky
Mississippi State-Vanderbilt
Arkansas-South Carolina

The Big 12 doesn't work the same way. No one from the north plays anyone from the south every single season.

I'm not sure exactly how the ACC works.

[AgentFelix0013]

Thank you!!! ACC is the same as SEC. It infamously put Miami and FSU in opposite divisions when they created them for an annual inter-divisional game and the hope of a rematch in the conference title game. We both just failed to live up to it.

[Pogo27]

Quote: Originally Posted by AgentFelix0013

Thank you!!! ACC is the same as SEC. It infamously put Miami and FSU in opposite divisions when they created them for an annual inter-divisional game and the hope of a rematch in the conference title game. We both just failed to live up to it.

What are all the cross-division match-ups in the ACC?

FSU-Miami
Ga Tech-Clemson
NC State-UNC
WF-Dook
???

[AgentFelix0013]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pogo27

What are all the cross-division match-ups in the ACC? FSU-Miami Ga Tech-Clemson NC State-UNC WF-Dook ???

BC-VT
Maryland-Virginia

[Pogo27]

I see. Do the other two cross-division games rotate the same as the SEC? You play a team home or away, do the opposite next season, and then they're replaced, on a 5-year rotation, so year 6 you'll play the same 8 teams you played year 1, etc.

I hope the Pac-12 does it ACC style, ignoring geography and keeping a cross division rival, using these pairings:

Washington-Washington State
Oregon State-Oregon
Cal-Stanford
USC-UCLA
Arizona-Arizona State
Colorado-Utah


and make sure that USC/Oregon are in opposite divisions, so they could potentially meet in the championship game.