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NCAA Football 13: Custom Conference Ideas to Run With

03:42 PM - August 13, 2012 by RaychelSnr

A future Sun and Fun Conference matchup?!

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.

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# 1 THE YAMA @ 08/13/12 03:43 PM

Loving the photo here! UCF represent!

# 2 speedy43 @ 08/13/12 03:55 PM

I like the Cali-Florida idea. Especially now that conference prestige is dynamic, I think I might try this and give the name Conference USA some meaning. Now if we could just edit conference names...

As for the Texas conference, that's something I usually do with the Big 12. I like to make a few moves to break them into a Texas and North division.

# 3 buckeyedude33 @ 08/13/12 05:30 PM

here is something a buddy and I did that has been really fun so far and has made for great matchups not just for us individually but across the whole ncaa landscape:
http://www.athlonsports.com/college-football/college-football-conference-realignment-draft-final-word

just be careful to readjust the other conferences after taking care of these 4 because otherwise you will have conferences with like 4-5 teams in them and teams will end up playing FCS teams 6 times a year. We forgot to do this in our first season so we had teams like marshall, ucf (not trying to hate but they played like 5 fcs teams), fiu, and a few others going like 12-0, 11-1. but other than that its a ton of fun

# 4 beelo @ 08/13/12 06:02 PM

I broke my conferences down by region. Made for some interesting conferences

# 5 LucianoJJ @ 08/13/12 06:12 PM

I think the All-Texas conference is great. Making conferences regional is great, as well. The Mountain West and the old WAC need to be sorted out. The Big East needs some tweaking, too. The possible combinations go on and on.

# 6 Tovarich @ 08/13/12 09:58 PM

I brought back the old 16-team WAC last year, played about 4 years in it with BYU, definitely my favorite so far.

# 7 DiegoQuin @ 08/13/12 10:11 PM

I like to make a few moves to break them into a Texas and North division.

# 8 TN - BRAVES FAN @ 08/13/12 10:18 PM

SEC East:
Virginia Tech
UVA
Vanderbilt
Clemson
Tennessee
South Carolina
Duke
North Carolina

SEC West:
Florida
Alabama
LSU
Tulane
Miami
Auburn
Georgia
Georgia Tech

# 9 tested29 @ 08/13/12 10:33 PM

The Cali-Florida idea is interesting. I've never thought to do that before. I'll have to check that out next time I roll a new dynasty.

# 10 zukes @ 08/14/12 12:22 AM

Nice article, here's how I broke mine down: 8 - 12 team super confrences, all with bowl tie-ins, 4 - 8 team confrences with the leftovers, the services teams as indepenents.

I went by prestige and talent and geography, here's how they look:

Big 12

West:

Baylor
SMU
TCU
Texas
Texas A & M
Texas Tech

East:

Houston
Arkansas
Arkansas State
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Tulsa (me)

Big 10

Ohio:

Bowling Green
Cincinnati
Miami (Oh.)
Ohio
Ohio State
Toledo

Michigan-Penn:

Eastern Michigan
Michigan
Michigan State
Western Michigan
Pitt
Penn State

MAC

North:

Illinois
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
Wyoming
Wisconsin

South:

Louisiana Tech
LSU
Mississippi St.
Ole Miss
Southern Miss.
UL Lafayette

SEC

North:

Alabama
Auburn
Georgia
Georgia Tech
Tennessee
Vanderbilt

Florida:

Florida
FIU
Florida State
Miami
UCF
USF

ACC

North:

Boston College
Connecticut
Maryland
Rutgers
Virginia
Virginia Tech

Carolina's:

Clemson
Duke
NC State
North Carolina
South Carolina
Wake Forest

Big East

East:

ECU
West Virginia
Kentucky
Louisville
Syracuse
Temple

West:

Western Kentucky
Northern Illinois
Northwestern
Indiana
Notre Dame
Purdue

WAC

west:

Arizona
Arizona State
Boise State
BYU
Nevada
Utah

East:

Colorado
Colorado State
Iowa
Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State

PAC 12

North:

Cal
Hawaii (not really North, but uhh)
Oregon
Oregon State
Washington
Washington State

South:

Fresno State
San Diego State
San Jose State
Stanford
UCLA
USC

Sun Belt

Florida Atlantic
Rice
Texas State
Troy
Tulane
UAB
UTEP
UTSA

Conf. USA

Akron
Buffalo
Kent State
Marshall
Memphis
Mid Tenn. State
UL Monroe
UMass

Mountain West

Ball State
Central Michigan
Idaho
New Mexico
New Mexico State
North Texas
UNLV
Utah St.

Independents

Air Force
Army
Navy

# 11 DaAceQB @ 12/09/12 03:26 AM

Great Idea with the Cali-Florida Conference,Going to do this.

# 12 DesertFox @ 12/09/12 10:22 PM

I almost always go with regional conferences. I've done Texas Leagues in the past, but I usually find that it tends to weaken too much, so I usually separate out the north and west Texas teams with the southern ones. One particular alignment I like is to make the ACC seem a little more coastal and regional and turn it into a 14 team league made up of a Floridas Division and a Carolinas Division. Another alignment I've used in the past is turn the MWC into a 16 team super conference with a Mountains Division and a Plains Division.

However, I just started using Mr. Nation's Relegation League settings and am liking what I'm seeing: http://www.operationsports.com/forum...ion-final.html

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