Custom Conference Ideas in NCAA 14

[BionicBeard52]

With NCAA 14 coming out in a little over a month I was wondering if anyone heard any news about custom conferences? Number of teams and conferences or if anything was added such as being able to delete independents?

[scotchtkh]

After hearing rumors of FCS teams getting together and forming its own conference to move up to FBS, I ran with that. Took 12 of the top FCS teams to make a new CUSA.
Georgia Southern
App State
Mont
Mont State
James Madison
Cal Poly
E Washington
Sam Houston
Central Ark
New Hamp
ODU
NDSU

[tHurley2010]

Quote: Originally Posted by BionicBeard52

With NCAA 14 coming out in a little over a month I was wondering if anyone heard any news about custom conferences? Number of teams and conferences or if anything was added such as being able to delete independents?

As far as I know, there has been no additional news regarding custom conferences, so it should be the same. You should be able to move teams from one conference to another conference. However, I'm assuming that because there are still independents, that independents will still be in the game, and will still be required.

Personally, I think it would be great if we could delete conferences; imagine no conferences and all the FBS teams are independents. Imagine some of the match ups that a no-conference schedule could produce. Alabama-USC? Ohio State-Oklahoma? Florida State-West Virginia?

Or turn that on its head; what about if there was one big conference with all the major FBS teams? Or four conferences of 24 teams where the top 4 of the first division go into a playoff for the national championship and the bottom 3 are replaced by the top 3 of the next division down.

[scotchtkh]

Other post was off-topic. Sorry about that.

Maybe limit the total number of schools for the division to around 130, that way you would be able to add to a conf w/out deleting any schools. Like the Sun Belt with the additions of App and GSU.

[Colt45]

You can still do all that now. If you search around this time last year, there were a couple of topics detailing relegation conference set-up.

[BionicBeard52]

Quote: Originally Posted by tHurley2010

As far as I know, there has been no additional news regarding custom conferences, so it should be the same. You should be able to move teams from one conference to another conference. However, I'm assuming that because there are still independents, that independents will still be in the game, and will still be required. Personally, I think it would be great if we could delete conferences; imagine no conferences and all the FBS teams are independents. Imagine some of the match ups that a no-conference schedule could produce. Alabama-USC? Ohio State-Oklahoma? Florida State-West Virginia? Or turn that on its head; what about if there was one big conference with all the major FBS teams? Or four conferences of 24 teams where the top 4 of the first division go into a playoff for the national championship and the bottom 3 are replaced by the top 3 of the next division down.

Yeah that's what I figured, I don't have as much a problem with leaving the current number of conferences but if there was a way to make it so there are no independents. Even just leaving 1 or 2 teams independent is annoying but I guess it is what it is. Can't wait to set-up my promotion/relegation dynasty

[falcor1234]

What i would like to see is having 5 or 10 blank spots that you can use to import teambuilder teams. So you can bring in teams to replace schools without taking any teams away.

[Colt45]

The only way they will ever allow this is if the schedules are totally randomized, with some teams maybe getting only 11 games.

Are you ok with trading realistic schedules with locked rival games, etc, and being ok with some teams playing only 11 games in exchange for this?