Remember how much fun it was last year watching the shakeup of the college conferences? The anticipation of which teams would or wouldn’t move, and to where? The speculation on when it would all end? The talk of superconferences completely reshaping the landscape of major college football?
Well, EA Sports does, which is why the upcoming edition of NCAA Football will allow players to totally reshape conferences as they see fit during Dynasty mode. For those not familar, Dynasty mode allows the player (or players) to play the game over the course of multiple seasons, including recruiting and improving players, leading teams to bowls and championships, even advancing from one school to the next (riding the coaching carousel). Now, you’ll be able to not only manipulate the conference alignments, but also bowl setups as well, including BCS auto-qualifying status (for instance, as Kirk Herbstreit suggests, you could pull the Big Least’s AQ spot).
Want Texas to go independent? You can do that. Want to see what the Pac-16 would be like? You can do that. Wish Notre Dame would finally join the Big Ten? You can do that. How about trying out the zipper divisions for the Pac-12? You can do that. Heck, you could even get really crazy and completely re-align everyone into geographical conferences that would pair Boise State with Oregon and Washington, or Ohio State with Marshall and Western Michigan.
Maybe the next version will include media rights negotiations!