NCAA 14 Thread

[HailtotheYo]

Final pots.  Winning % was the most highly weighted category (20%).

 

A

Oklahoma

Michigan

Alabama 3

Nebraska

Ohio State 2

Southern California 4

Texas

Tennessee

Georgia

Florida State 5

B

LSU

Florida

Auburn

Penn State 6

Miami (FL)

Texas A&M

Arkansas

Clemson

UCLA

Georgia Tech 7

C

Colorado

BYU

Virginia Tech

Washington

Boise State

Wisconsin

TCU

West Virginia

Minnesota

Iowa

D

Arizona State

Michigan State

Stanford

Miami (OH)

California 9

Missouri

Pittsburgh

Ole Miss

Maryland

Illinois

E

Fresno State

Utah

Oregon

Marshall

Troy

Duke

SMU

Kansas State

Louisiana Tech

North Carolina 8

F

Purdue

San Diego State

Houston

Texas Tech

Toledo

Syracuse

NIU

Massachusetts

North Texas

Connecticut

G

Central Michigan

Wyoming

Cincinnati

San Jose State

Boston College

Louisville

North Carolina State

Colorado State

Nevada

Washington State

H

Texas State

Baylor

Kansas

Northwestern

Tulsa

Oklahoma State

Ohio

Tulane

Western Kentucky

Oregon State

I

Bowling Green

Arkansas State

Rice

Southern Miss

Vanderbilt

Utah State

Mississippi State 10

Arizona

Ball State

South Carolina

J

Louisiana-Lafayette

Hawaii

Virginia

Kentucky

UCF

Idaho

Eastern Michigan

Rutgers

East Carolina

Louisiana-Monroe

K

Wake Forest

Indiana

New Mexico

New Mexico State

Western Michigan

Memphis

Iowa State

Temple

UNLV

Akron

L

Buffalo

UTEP

Florida Atlantic

Kent State

FIU

South Florida

Middle Tennessee

UTSA

UAB

Georgia State1

 

I'm lining up the conferences for each team ... the first two choices for each school will be based on Geography mainly, but I will weigh historical conference affiliation into it as well.  That's only for the top 2 choices though.  After that, geography only.

[Meacon Keaton]

What schools are you making Indy, again? I know Notre Dame but I can't remember the others. I may still your pot listings and do this too.

[HailtotheYo]

Army

Navy

Air Force

ND

Old Dominion

South Alabama

Actually almost done with the draw ....

[HailtotheYo]

Ugh, Wazzu/Org State are going to be quite oddly placed

[HailtotheYo]

Going to do a second draw and see how much different it is. First draw is being done World Cup style - Pot A team, Pot B team, and on down the line. Second draw will be to place all Pot A teams, then all Pot B teams, and on down the line.

[ThaBoss18]

Created a couple of Schools called New York and New York State then built the American Conference with 16 teams and the major teams as Boise State and Notre Dame and Lousiville plus added a couple of small schools

Then after the first year of me winning the conference title as NY state, I looked at the new coaches and the new Utah State coach,which is in my conference, is Lane Kiffin I didnt expect that

[HailtotheYo]

bleh, didn't get all that different outcomes.   A couple of conferences had as little as one change .... kind of surprising and not what I figured would happen.
 
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I went straight world cup draw style with the pots (used random.org to "draw" the numbers)
 
First the "A" pot was drawn to give me the "top team" in each conference (conferences assigned alphabetically)
 
AAC - Georgia
ACC - Ohio ST
Big Ten - Oklahoma
Big Twelve - Texas
CUSA - USC
MAC - Nebraska
MWC - Alabama
PAC - Michigan
SEC - Florida State
SUN - Tennessee
 
And the new conferences:

AAC	ACC	BIG10	BIG12	CUSA	MAC	MWC	PAC	SEC	SUN
UGA	Ohio ST	OK	Texas	USC	Nebraska	Bama	Michigan	FSU	Tenn
Penn ST	Ga Tech	Ark	MiamiFL	UF	TexAM	Auburn	LSU	UCLA	Clem
TCU	WISC	Col	Iowa	Va Tech	Wash	BYU	W Va	Boise	Minne
MiamiOH	Stanford	Maryland	AZ ST	Mich ST	Ole Miss	Pitt	Illinois	Cal	Mizzou
K State	Marshall	Troy	Utah	Oregon	Fresno	SMU	Duke	La Tech	North Car
Toledo	NIU	Umass	SDSU	North Tx	Purdue	Tx Tech	Syracuse	Houston	Uconn
Cincy	Wash ST	SJSU	BC	Louisville	Nevada	Wyoming	NCST	C Mich	Col ST
W Kent	Kansas	Org ST	Ohio	Nwestrn	Tulane	Baylor	OK ST	Tx ST	Tulsa
S Car	Ball ST	S Miss	Vandy	Miss ST	Ark ST	Arizona	Utah ST	Bowl Gr	Rice
Hawaii	UL Laff	Kentucky	E Car	UCF	E Mich	Rutgers	UL Mon	Virginia	Idaho
W Mich	Indiana	Wake	N Mex	Akron	Temple	UNLV	Memphis	Iowa ST	NMST
UTEP	FAU	Buffalo	MTSU	UTSA	GeorgiaST	UAB	Kent ST	FIU	USF

 

Yeah, so CUSA is loaded ... LOL Hawaii and that travel ... the MWC appears to be the most competitive

[Meacon Keaton]

Nothing says "Mountain" and "West" like good ol' Alabama.

[HailtotheYo]

Yeah, some of my favorites are all but Utah St in the Pac 12

Stanford/Washington ST in the ACC

UCLA/Cal in the SEC

Now I gotta figure out the BCS Bowl allocations. Two conferences get hosed.

[Krone]

I've been considering getting this game for a while now, but haven't. Seeing as it's the last year or whatnot, I really want to get it and used to love the old NCAA Football games (I think the last one I got was like '07 or '08). Plus, I prefer college over Madden just because of the diversity you get and the large amount of teams along with recruiting, the rankings, ESPN presentation, all that good stuff.

And since it was talked about a few pages back (a while ago, I know), but I was a HUGE fan of College Hoops 2K. I only got 2K7, and even did a diary a few years back in the cube with the UC Riverside Highlanders, but thought they did an awesome job with their presentation. Even having a bracket show for the big dance was spectacular and actually gripping. Also, let's not forget about the halftime show 2K used to have back in their NFL days with Chris Berman at the half. If they could just have the same actual gameplay as EA, I think they could have or could do loads of spectacular things with it.

Also, lol at Cuse being in the PAC. Cross country conferencing it up, I love it!

[A-Dub]

I feel like the second draw was especially mean to NU. I far prefer the first draw for my Wildcats.

[Rocketbusta]

So I picked this up from the xbox sale. I think I enjoy it more than Madden, maybe it's the 3-1 start to my FIU dynasty.

[Meacon Keaton]

Yeah, I stopped buying Madden years ago. I'm a bigger college football fan than pro, so I'm bias, but I've always preferred the college games over Madden.

[DMN in the House]

Is anyone still playing this? I know I'm all late, but I just picked this up. Meacon? Meacon?

[Meacon Keaton]

I do I do! I was just playing it this afternoon. I have it on the 360, though. :/

[DMN in the House]

Aww, super lame!

[Alex.]

major bump sorry but recently got back into this game, really do love it! in my latest season with SMU (like 6 seasons into it now) we had:

#1 Arizona

#2 SMU

#3 Georgia Tech

#4 Northwestern

 

how about that for a shake up lol

[Meacon Keaton]

I still play this like once a week. I took South Alabama to the National Title game where we lost. We run the triple option offense.

Ive moved the conferences around to reflect how they look now and Navy dominates the AAC to the point that they're 11-1 or 12-0 every year and are now yearly in the title race.

Id give a nut for them to make a new version on the PS4.

[Alex.]

There are reasons why I do not upgrade to Xbox one. First it is now down to 299.99 but Ill be waiting til its down to 199.99 or when the next GTA comes out whatever comes first. Also I still enjoy 360 games like the older 2ks and especially NCAA. 

I moved SMU into Big 12 after a few years, got 3 national championships in the bank now and this past off season really thought about bolting the program for Michigan. I do want to go to a new school. 

@Meacon how long do your dynasties usually go?

[Meacon Keaton]

I usually have two going at once: one where I just recruit and sim the games. They last 20-30 years. And another one where I play every game. It also involves two of my friends, and it's going on seven.