Thanks to a lawsuit, video game players like me can no longer play the latest NCAA Football game on Xbox/Play Station/Wii.
But back in its glory days, one of my favorite game modes (aside from slaughtering foul mouthed 10-year-olds in head-to-head matches on Xbox Live) was "Dynasty," where you become the head coach/athletic director/bad behavior enabler of your favorite school.
Mine, obviously, was Georgia, where I took the team to an unprecedented 14 consecutive national championships, 12 Heisman trophies and 0 discipline action taken on any rule violators.
One of the best parts of this game mode was the ability to customize your conferences.
I approached this two ways when I first played around with the custom conferences. The first was simply picking the 15 best teams I wanted surrounding Georgia, and the other was picking quality schools that actually made sense geographically.
Here is how the first one came out, and feel free to disagree (send mean tweets to @BStewartWDUN on Twitter):
SEC East:
- Florida
- Florida State
- Georgia
- Ohio State
- Oklahoma
- Texas
- Virginia Tech
- Southern Cal
SEC West:
- Alabama
- Auburn
- Boise State
- LSU
- Michigan
- Nebraska
- Oregon
- Wisconsin
As you can see, I left a few of the regular SEC members in the conference, but imagine seeing match-ups among these schools on a week-to-week basis. Holy moly, it'd be a license to print money for the TV stations! LSU and Southern Cal? Michigan and Florida State? Georgia and Oregon?
Now we'll take a look at a 16-team conference that might actually make sense georgaphically. Again, any and all teams in the southeast are fair game with the ability to drop/add as you see fit.
SEC East:
- Clemson
- Florida
- Florida State
- Georgia
- Georgia Tech
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Virginia Tech
SEC West:
- Alabama
- Auburn
- Arkansas
- Baylor
- LSU
- Oklahoma
- Texas
- Texas A&M
I know, it's heresy among Georgia fans that we even think about admitting the Yellow Jackets to the SEC, but ... wouldn't you rather go ahead and make it count a little bit more when we play them every year?
Not to mention the fact that they were members of the SEC at one time.
And of course, Baylor is a bit of a wild card, as they aren't historically powerful. They've just been a power of late (the opposite of their Longhorn friends).
So, now that I've rambled on and on, what are your thoughts?
You can email your dream conferences to [email protected] and maybe next week I'll pull a few of my favorites to post on Glory Glory.
http://accesswdun.com/article/2015/8/327255/your-dream-sec