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NCAA Football 10: Custom Conferences

Posted On: Mar. 12, 2009 7:42 AM EST By: EA_BenHaumiller 75 Comments

Hey Everybody, I’m Ben Haumiller and I’m a designer on the NCAA Football series. I’ve been at Tiburon since 2000, starting out as a tester in QA, and I’ve been a member of the NCAA Football design team since NCAA 06. Since joining the team I’ve primary worked on our career modes (Dynasty, Campus Legend, etc.) our Online features, as well as a lot of the features you’ll find when checking out the My NCAA and Team Management sections of the Main Menu . You would be hard pressed to find a more passionate college football fan than myself, so working on the NCAA Football series has been a dream come true.

On NCAA Football 09 I was the designer for what had been long considered the “Holy Grail of NCAA features”, Online Dynasty.   I couldn’t have been more excited to get this feature into the game. Dynasty is without a doubt my favorite feature in any sports game, and bringing that experience online brought a tremendous amount of life into an already great game mode. Based on the feedback from the community I was not the only one that was able to resurrect gaming rivalries with old college roommates that now live on the other side of the country, increase my desire to sign the recruits in the nation for no other reason than to force the other dynasty members to settle for a 3 star prospect, and feeling the pressure of knowing the result of your head to head game will mean the difference between a BCS berth or finishing your season in December.

When it comes to any Dynasty (online of offline) it all starts with which team(s) will be human controlled. One of the most difficult decisions to make is which conference will be used. If you are all about the head to head games and want that BCS tie-in then the PAC-10 and Big East are great options since you know for sure you will play everyone each year. If you have a full 12 members and want to decide the conference title in a championship game, or if you want the challenge of taking a “mid major” and turning them into the next powerhouse you have a number of options.

However, sometimes it’s not that easy, sometimes it can be next to impossible to find a conference with the right mix of teams to make everyone happy. Well in NCAA Football 10 we have made life easier on commissioners across the nation with the addition of Custom Conferences. Now you will be able to swap any school in or out of your conference and replace them with another FBS school.  Each conference will keep their current number of members, so if you feel it’s about time that Notre Dame joins the Big Ten you’ve got to decide which school will become an Independent. Since there are 120 FBS schools in real life, you will need to keep 120 FBS schools in your dynasty. While Michigan fans won’t be able to prevent Ohio State from ever playing football again, they can take pride in relegating them to the MAC. 


Custom Conferences will allow for increased flexibility in your dynasties. Now it’s entirely up to you how the college football landscape will look in your dynasty. If you can’t play with anyone but your Cornhuskers, and your friend feels the same way about Clemson don’t just duke it out in a non-conference game, put a conference title on the line.

Wanna create a super conference with the top schools in the nation? Go right ahead. Do you miss the days of the old Southwest Conference, dust off the old wishbone playbook and put them all in the WAC, Mountain West, or Sun Belt. In NCAA Football 10 it’s up to you how you want to set it up.

-Ben

 

For more on NCAA Football 10 and the new custom conferences, check out ESPN's interview with Ben.  Also, stop by the NCAA Football 10 forum to discuss this blog.

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  • Greyking said March 12, 2009

    This is a great addition to the game.  I was wishing we could do this for our online dynasty last year.  Great work!

  • longhornfan93 said March 12, 2009

    I think you all are doing an amazing job with the game, and i can't wait until around mid-july when i am sitting in my living room and starting my fist Legend. However, there are a few things i have in mind that will make this years game one that people will be still playing in late June next year.

          1. Improve on the story line of the Legend and Dynasty Mode by maybe having a more detailed espn.com site or bring               back espn the magazine like with early editions of the game so that there is more hype around Legend stars or break out teams that might have a chance to go all the way. Also, i think it would be pretty cool if in Legend mode, the recruiting of your player was a pretty big deal. You could do that by making a Signing day where your player makes a decision on national news and gets a lot of coverage from the press if he is really talented.

          2. Bring back some old additions to the game like create a team, pontiac greatest games, lower division teams, and rivilary mode. They may have seemed to be bad or lame additions, but with a little improvement on both, they could expand the time that people are still interested in the game.

          3. Lastly, i think you all should try to make improvements on the coverage of the acutally gameplay by making a pregame show and a postgame show. It would add a bit more spice to rivilary and big time games.

        Like i said, i think you all are doing a wonderful job with the game. I remember in 2000 when i fist played the title at a friends house, and i thought it was awesome then. But because you all have made so many improvements to the game, its hard to try not to  give my opinion to make it as good as possible. Well, i know you are probably extremely busy, but if you do have a chance to look at this, i hope you will take my input into consideration. I feel that i share some of the same thoughts as other fans, so maybe this will give you an idea of what the majority of us want. Thanks for everything

  • BORN4CORN said March 12, 2009

    One question: Do logos on the field and uni's change when you switch conferences?

  • stephandbrian@cox.net said March 12, 2009

    I've been waiting for this feature for a long time.  Thanks EA!

    By the way, will we have the option of re-aligning the conferences during the off-season?

  • Spartan117 said March 12, 2009

    where is the game play improvements. yo guy have not shone any game play improvements.

  • fargosucks said March 12, 2009

    Great feature! I've enjoyed the ability to join conferences during dynasty mode in the past, but the ability to actually create an all-new conference is even better. Can you restructure the conference during your dynasty, though? Say you get four years in and want to leave the conference you're in and become an independant or join another conference, is that possible?

  • CPTryder1536 said March 12, 2009

    This is huge.  Thank you so much!  Now if you could let us import our old dynasties from 09 to 10 I will buy 5 copies of this game.

  • CPTryder1536 said March 12, 2009

    One thing you could add is scouting reports for the users in the dynasty.  Kind of how they use to have in Madden for the old gen systems.  Nothing over the top just showing the uers top 3 offensive and defensive plays of the users so we can gameplan around that and at least have an idea of how the user plays.  That would be great.

  • JBHuskers said March 12, 2009

    This is going to be a great addition for user flexibility in framing a dynasty.

  • Tovarich999 said March 12, 2009

    A nice addition...but, can we change which conferences get automatic BCS bids?  Say I want to bring back the Southwest Conference, and turn the Big 12 back into the Big 8.  The only BCS conference with 8 teams is the Big East, so I'd have make the Big 8 the Big East, and the Southwest Conference would have 8 teams as well, and I'd probably have to make them the Sun Belt since it's the only other conference with the correct number of teams.  But then the Big 8 would be getting in automatically, and the Sun Belt of course would not, and that would very uncool.  Also, how big of a recruiting hit will it be?  I know conference prestige is only one rating of 12, but if like your example, Ohio State is in the MAC, will they be getting 60th rated recruiting classes in a few years?

  • CPTryder1536 said March 12, 2009

    Also if we can have custom conferences could we have the ability to build new rivalries?  That would be kool if we could do that.

  • cdjacobs@hotmail.com said March 12, 2009

    Cool stuff.  Now I can finally put Florida State in the Sun Belt where they belong.  Just kidding, Ben.

  • KinGofHeartS19 said March 12, 2009

    stupid waste of TIME. your suppose to make the game more realistic not add stuff to the game that will NEVER happen.. How do u worry about getting the smaller schools who are catching up more BCS conference invites then having everyone in an online dynasty cry cause they have to face a user EVERY WEEK with ridicilous made up conferences. you must not read the FORUMS at all you could have done way more to the game then " made-up" garbage.cpu games in dynasty offers a reprieve and user DO lose to the cpu. take it for someone who been playing your game since 04' NOT NEEDED.

  • carter8152 said March 12, 2009

    now that is a great feature. i think if you add a pregame, half time and post game show. then that would make the game great

  • Philinkorny said March 12, 2009

    I have also been playing since '04 and I love this. I play as UTEP so its hard to get a BCS bid. You dont have to use it if you dont want it. its just something else that the gamer has control of. I also would like the feild and jersey logos to change though.

  • dneum7@mac.com said March 12, 2009

    This will be a big help for structuring online dynasties. Will had a lot of flexibility in the choosing of teams.

  • IndyColts2 said March 12, 2009

    Although you guys have a great idea going, it seems as though you just read the forums and jumped straight into this feature without really giving it a lot of thought. With this feature not fully developed or thought out, changing a team from one conference to another could mean that the names of the teams change, but the players, jerseys and everything else stay in the regular conference. Or, the biggest problem you guys will have is, the way recruiting will shape out now. Like someone said before me, how is conference prestige gonna play out now?? Will Ohio State, or Florida have a decrease in getting top recruits if they play in the Sun Belt? This can make or break you now. It's good you are trying to reach out to what the community wants this year, but unless you make all these non-gameplay features actually work, and make some drastic but realistic changes to the actual gameplay, this game will just be a roster update from 09'.Unless you already sorted out all the things that could happen (which I doubt you guys did), this feature is gonna be a bust.

    If you look at it where it is helpful that you can get all your dynasty friends in one conference, it is a great idea and feature. But then when you figure out all the things it will do to ruin the 0nline (or offline) dynasty, it is a terrible feature to include. Like I said before, this will make or break you and NCAA 10. Do it right, make it work, and don't let it screw up dynasty mode.

  • MadScientist06 said March 12, 2009

    Great stuff. Running multiple dynasties, like I do, will get a lot easier with this feature. Now I can satisfy more coaches by giving them their favorite teams and still confine play into 3 dynasties instead of 6.

  • Pugh22 said March 12, 2009

    yea all this stuff is great and all, and i love the weekely updates, but yall also need to work on the gameplay too.... but this is pretty cool.

  • Spartan117 said March 12, 2009

    Game play please

  • youngj20007 said March 12, 2009

    honestly if i dont see some feature alot of us want ie presentatation, create a school and game play i aint getting this Sand i been a fan since the first one im tired of the disappointment

  • Nef77 said March 12, 2009

    Madden updates > NCAA updates

    Nice update but when are we going to hear about the gameplay. I would like to see the defensive adjustments you guys made cuz it's way to easy to score on the CPU. Also, can you bring back the 07 mini games from the old gen?

  • youngj20007 said March 12, 2009

    create a team please im not gonna use this feature i play in the sec so im str8 i want my own school

  • dbladed007 said March 12, 2009

    what would be cool is if you could bring the nfl headcoah aspect into the ncaa10 football game. make it so that in order to make it to the madden version you have to win in the college ranks. make it so that you can also play online and actually have the same graphics as the regular online dynasty game. make an online coaching dynasty. i think this would eleminate cheesing, cheating and all other bad aspects cheaters bring to the game now.  If you would add this aspect, you would indeed have the greatest sports sim game ever created...

    peace,

    dbladed007

  • GTRUTH said March 12, 2009

    It would be cool if you could watch people in the online dynasty play thier games like scouting them.

  • wandulonian said March 12, 2009

    When will they have 1-AA Dynastys?

  • DaveKlim said March 12, 2009

    The only way this feature would be cool is if you could add 1-aa schools into a conference or a create a team.  Moving a team around will damage the realism as well as the in-conference rivalries.  Why would someone want to get rid of OSU out of the Big 10 just because they don't like them???  There's no pleasure in avoiding a team because you don't like them just be a man and BEAT THEM!

  • goutah said March 13, 2009

    Great addition fellas. I'm looking forward to adding some of the old teams from the original Wac conference when I played. I hope the development team is still looking at adding some pre-snap footage when the players are walking up to the line of scrimmage, like you did in ncaa07. I thought that really added to the feel of a game on TV.

    Thanks fellas keep up the good work!

  • JerseySuave4 said March 13, 2009

    not really a big addition especially since you were able to have custom conferences in the ps2/xbox versions of the game so its just an old feature that finally made it to the new systems. And those that want realistic dynasties they won't even use this. This feature would be nice if create-a-team was in the game but i'd much rather hear about improvements to the gameplay because like someone said the defense in the game is absolutley horrible. Most of the games i'd play would be scores in the 40s,50s & 60s, because neither team could make a stop so it was just a shootout all the time.

    All the improvements we've heard about Madden have been about getting the gameplay realistic and improving the gameplay while so far with NCAA we've heard about:

    new super sim screen(never once used supersim)

    autopass (will never use)

    endzone art for bowl games

    custom conferences

    the only gameplay we heard about was through the Madden previews where they said procedral awareness would also be in NCAA. If they had said all these features they talk about with Madden also are in NCAA then i'd be happpy and wouldn't mind that we've just heard about the gimmicky stuff but lets get to the gameplay because thats the most important thing.

  • Spartan117 said March 13, 2009

    looks like no ncaa10 for me this year. waisting space with feature like this instead of showing gameplay improvements. last years game was terrible.we need to see gameplay improvement. what don't u understand gameplay is what we want to see improve. you can talk about these additions later on.

  • ronnymund said March 13, 2009

    No game play improvments = NO purchse for me!  Show some gameplay and player model improvments instead of wasting our time with these cosmetic changes to a crappy 09 NCAA Football edition.  I refuse to buy NCAA Football 2010 if field goal nets, field goal flags, and the ability to create a new conference are the only changes i will see

  • deusmortuus said March 13, 2009

    Not trying to lay on the negativity here, but I agree that while this is a nice and much-needed addition, this game needs gameplay improvements more than anything. The Madden updates have been all about how they are trying to make the game feel real gameplay-wise, these updates are mostly minor things that, as some above me have mentioned, could adversely affect gameplay.  Until I see updates about how the game is going to play better, this is still a no-go for me.  The prospect of custom conferences is nice, but if it means that the recruiting system is going to be even more screwed up than it was last year, it could lead to the straw that breaks the camel's back for my friends an I with this series.

  • deusmortuus said March 13, 2009

    Just as a side comment to this: Why are we forced to keep conferences at their original sizes? If you're going to have this feature at all, why can't we be allowed to completely restructure the conference?  Say I want Notre Dame to join the Big-10, you're forcing me to kick out Northwestern or Indiana or something.  Why can't the Big-10 become a 12 team conference and then make them play a conference championship after building divisions for it?  Why can't I make the PAC-10 become another conference that plays a championship game?  And yeah, why can't I turn the Big 12 back into the Big 8 by just kicking the Texas teams out of the mix rather than cobbling everything together by finding conferences with the "right" number of teams?  I understand the ease this will bring to some online dynasties, but I get the feeling it's not being very fleshed out and is going to have issues...

  • carter8152 said March 13, 2009

    I think these feature should also be added

    - Improve Teams Ratings System

    - Improve Presentation/Add Cutscenes

    - Refs, Chain Gangs, Field Goal Nets

    - Bowl Game Endzone Art

    - Field Deterioration

    - More Player Accessories

    - Varied Snap Counts

    - Formation Subs

    - Medical RS's

    - More Fluid Running

    - Bigger Rosters

  • brayjay12 said March 13, 2009

    The ideas of a customizing your conference is great but i also beliveve that adding the option of choosing which type of post season you could choose from at the end of the season would be cool also. you could choose from having your traditonal bcs bowl games or you could choose to have 15 team playoff that will decide your national championship you could use this in the dynasty mode or legend mode. i also think that allowing the commentators to talk aabout last years games and show highlights from the past would be extra cool. plus interviews with the players and coaches after and before the game post game interviews and national signing day would really be a great idea for the game.

  • MONDEO FIVE said March 13, 2009

    XBOX360 DYNASTY! I JUST NEED ONE!

    I have an On-line Dynasty. We have been playing for 15 dynasty seasons & have recently switched conferences 2 give us a new feel & fresh start. We r now n the Pac10. We moved 2 this conference bcuz we firmly believe the true excitement comes from head 2 head play. We r n the 1st season since the move & have run n2 a problem.. we lost a player recently dropping us down 2 8 humans. We usually 4ward every 48 hrs. Or until every1's done. The Team available is OregonSt. they r currently 3-2.. They need a gd coach who is willing 2 build them up & make them gr8. If u always wanted 2 play n a Dynasty that has NO CHEESE. And has serious playersthat takes the gAme serious & has guyz with integrity than u r n luck! My Gamertag is MONDE05. Send me a message & we'll get ya goin. Thx Fellaz!

  • KillPriest said March 13, 2009

    why does it seem that every time the ncaa football guys add features they always screw it up.  what good is it to make custom conferences if you can't REALLY make custom conferences?? for years fans and media alike have wondered why Notre Dame isn't in the Big 10.  But apparently you can't just add Notre Dame into the Big 10 (which would make sense of course), you also have to take a team out.  So we are stuck with a goofball 11 team conference.  I don't understand why they don't sit down and hammer these small details out???????  Wouldn't it make sense if we could add teams to each conference so that we could have Six BCS conferences that each have 12 teams.  And wouldn't it make sense to give us the ability to add a conference championship game to each conference.  If you are going to give us a new feature, don't half-A$$ it.  This will be another useless feature that no one will really utilize.  And everyone will wonder why they spent so much time screwing this feature up instead of actually improving on the field game play, which is what we spend 90% of our time with when we actually play the game

  • gatorfanatic said March 14, 2009

    great addition you guys at EA. I love that fact that you are listening to us and taking into consideration what we are saying. For all the people out here that keep on complaining about the game play, they can read they know that it needs work and they are probably working on it as we speak. You can't rush them since the game had problems with it especially on defense. Give them time and they will provide the updates for ncaa 10. Remember you still got 4 months til it comes out, plenty of time to make drastic improvements to them. Be patient

    Thanks EA

  • rooinfo@gmail.com said March 14, 2009

    That is great that you are allowing us to customize a conference.  I would also like to see the ability to leave the conferences the same, take a 1 star school and build them up until a power conference offers them a spot, much like the off line dynasty.

    If you are willing to restructure the game in this way why not allow for a choice in post-season mode?  IE a playoff system we could choose to use or not?  This would make online dynasties even better.  

  • PATFINEST54 said March 14, 2009

    wat happened to the campus legend drills to get him better

  • Laxmaniac816@yahoo.com said March 14, 2009

    Oh, and don't forget dynamic weather and time. It's kind of strange when you have a game around sunset and the sun... never sets.

  • FieldgeneralUK said March 14, 2009

    Will the "next gen" versions ov NCAA 10 now have the FCS teams (Div-1aa) teams as per the PS2 version???

    I'd like to see em on the 360 and PS3 versions.

    The custom conference idea is a great one! I play in a online dynasty that use's the Big 12. I got lumped with Iowa State and the guy who was allocated Baylor soon got pissed at getting hammered also! So 10/10 to EA sports for this one! Im my opinion the NCAA range of games is the BEST football game on the market! Yes I play Madden but it just isn't as good as NCAA!

    Thanks EA !

  • Laxmaniac816@yahoo.com said March 14, 2009

    Great idea, keep up the good work! I like all the new additions, and can't wait to see what else you guys have planned. I'm really hoping that you make the game feel more like it is in real life, i.e. more team-specific traditions and such, pre-game and post-game shows, the bands, and more crowd interaction. I want to feel like it's the same ESPN style experience you get on tv. Can you tell I'm longing for football season again?

    Thanks EA!  

  • buckswr7 said March 14, 2009

    I have posted on here before and mentioned some things about new player accessories and and new equipment and the pre game and post game and team entrances and stuff like that but i also think EA needs to get teams jerseys right. like Arkansas' jerseys on this years game werent even the right ones they didnt have the white tusks on the sides of the jersey and i would like to see the right jerseys put in  

  • cbwinebaugh said March 14, 2009

    one thing i would like to see fixed in NCAA 10 is that the Arkansas State University Red Wolves make a touch down the announcer doesn't yell Touch Down Indians ( they changed mascot's)

  • Rammerjammer95 said March 15, 2009

    We need to have the option of playoffs (16 team, 8 team, or 10 team)!  Its gonna happen, so it would be cool if we could use it.

  • x12tigertwix said March 15, 2009

    i probably wont use it, unless a team switches confrences in real life. i like it to be as real as possible. i really want to see div. 2 teams in there. that would be AMAZINGLY AWESOME.

  • southernmissfan2 said March 16, 2009

    thanks so much i have been playing since 06 and been waiting for this feature i play with southern miss and now i can bring south florida back to c usa and cincinatti and kick marshall out. one thing that i want to see is more scouting info i would love that show footage of the prospect playing go see game that would be great and be realistic nobody can run a 4.16 except for about 5 people if that and the difference in speed is awful i can have a 93 speed guy have a 20 yard lead on someone with 95 speed and get caught i hope u add these things thanks for listening

  • Nef77 said March 16, 2009

    your campus legend drills from the old gen were the best. my friend doesn't know anything about football and that year i taught him how to play option attack and we got hooked on it. here's some easy fixes i found when i was playing Campus Legend last night.

    1) Can you fix the camera when we are on punt return.

    2) My QB can't manually put anyone in motion.

    3) Maybe you could bring back the academic quiz and mid term from 07 on the old gen. That was fun but take off with the idea.

    Thanks guys and good luck

  • SFA_jacks said March 16, 2009

    I agree with everyone that says Division 1AA/FCS teams need to be put back into the game. There should be an option to have those teams work their way up to the FBS or at least the old way where you just selected the D1-AA team and subbed out a D1 to take its spot (Like in the PS2). Also the game should bring the feature where the user decides how the end of the season is determined like on the PSone game in 2001 or 2000 the user had the option to choose between playoff or bowl games. In the tournament/playoff option the teams not invited to the playoffs got to go to the other minor bowl games. With the way technology has advanced it would be too much to ask to make these changes to enhance the game.

    FCS/Divion1 AA teams like Texas State have over 25,000 students are currently trying to move up to FBS by expanding their stadium and increase ticket sales. To make the game more realistic FCS teams should be added with Dynasty options where this can be done.  by SFA_jacks on

  • SFA_jacks said March 16, 2009

    What about a creat-a-conference option, where you can name and edit conferences like make a southwest conference or Big 8, etc.

  • JoJoUgaWR5 said March 16, 2009

    good so far but there still isn't much realism

    1.)MAKE THE SIDE;INES JAM PACKED WITH PLAYERS CHEERLEADERS AND REPORTERS

    2.)PLEASE MAKE THE CROWDS WAY WAY LOUDER SO THAT THE CAMERA SHAKES

    3.)PLEASE WHEN THE QB TAKES A KNEE AT THE END OF THE GAME AND THERE IS LIKE 15 SEC. LEFT SHOW PLAYERS WALK ON TO THE FLIED FOR A CELEBRATION AND IF IT IS A CONFERENCE OR RIVALRY GAME SHOW THEM POUR GATORADE ON THERE COACHES ESPECIALLY IF ITS A CLOSE GAME.

    4.)WHEN A PLAYER GETS INJURED DON'T SHOW HIM GET UP SHOW STAFF AND COACHES ON THE FIELD HELPING HIM UP IF ITS A MINOR INJURY

    5.)SHOW FANS WHEN BIG PLAYS HAPPEN CHEERING LIKE IN 2K5

    6.)PLEASE HAVE A PRE-GAME SHOW AND POST GAME SHOW LIKE IN NCAA FOOTBALL 06 PS2

    PREGAME WARMUPS AND POST GAME INTERVIEW SHOWSALSO ADD HALFTIME

    PLEAS LISTEN TO WHAT I HAVE TO SAY OR TRUST ME YOU WILL LOSE MANY CUSTOMERS BECAUSE I'VE ALREADY TALKED TO ALL MY NCAA FRIENDS AND THEY WANT THESE ADJUSTMENTS AND I THINK PEOPLE AGREE

    AND MAKE THE DYNASTY MORE REALISTIC BY ADDING SUSPENSIONS AND TEAMS BREAK THROUGH BANNERS

  • SFA_jacks said March 16, 2009

    More over, put Division 1AA teams back in the game.  I've bought the game since '96, but took off the last 2 years because when the game moved to PS3 the D1-AA teams didn't go with and I went to D1-AA school; so I couldn't play it without the team.

  • Hypnomix said March 16, 2009

    I don't get why we can't create a conference or why we can't add more teams to an existing conference without having to kick a team out. Bring back the FCS teams and allow us to add FCS teams to conferences!

  • kgab11 said March 16, 2009

    Put the create a school back on, it was by far my favorite feature, and seems like everybody wants it back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • DaAceQB said March 27, 2009

    please include these Conferences and all the schools

    NCAA Division II Football Conferences

    Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association • Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference • Great Lakes Football Conference • Great Northwest Athletic Conference • Gulf South Conference • Lone Star Conference • Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association • Northeast Ten Conference • Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference • Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference • Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference • South Atlantic Conference • Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference • West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference • Independents

    Also

    NCAA Division III Football Conferences

    American Southwest Conference • Atlantic Central Football Conference • College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin • Centennial Conference • Empire 8 • Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference • Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference • Liberty League • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association • Middle Atlantic Corporation • Midwest Conference • Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference • New England Football Conference • New England Small College Athletic Conference • New Jersey Athletic Conference • North Coast Athletic Conference • Northern Athletics Conference • Northwest Conference • Ohio Athletic Conference • Old Dominion Athletic Conference • Presidents' Athletic Conference • St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference • Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference • Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference • University Athletic Association • Upper Midwest Athletic Conference • USA South Athletic Conference • Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference • Independents

    and last but not least

    NAIA Football Conferences

    Central States Football League • Dakota Athletic Conference • Frontier Conference • Great Plains Athletic Conference • Heart of America Athletic Conference • Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference • Mid-South Conference • Mid-States Football Association • Independents

    and include every team please its not accurate or complete when some teams are missing from the Conferences i noticed this when it comes to the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision Conferences you leave some teams out dont do that thats cheating use a true football game should include every school every division every Conferences and every mascot and logos

    NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision Conferences

    Atlantic Coast Conference * • Big 12 Conference * • Big East Conference * • Big Ten Conference * • Conference USA • Mid-American Conference • Mountain West Conference • Pacific-10 Conference * • Southeastern Conference * • Sun Belt Conference • Western Athletic Conference • Independents

    also include all the awards not some again we get shafted when only a partial list is there

    College football awards

    Best player awards:

    Heisman Memorial Trophy

    Maxwell Award • Walter Camp Award • AP Player of the Year

    Bronko Nagurski Trophy (Best Defenseman)

    Chuck Bednarik Award (Best Defenseman)

    Dave Rimington Trophy (Best C)

    Davey O'Brien Award (Best QB)

    *** Butkus Award (Top LB)

    Doak Walker Award (Best RB)

    Draddy Trophy (Academic Heisman)

    Fred Biletnikoff Award (Best WR)

    Jim Thorpe Award (Top DB)

    John Mackey Award (Best TE) Johnny Unitas Award (Best Senior QB)

    Lombardi Award (Top OL, DL, or LB)

    Lott Trophy (Defensive IMPACT)

    Lou Groza Award (Best PK)

    Manning Award (Best QB)

    Outland Trophy (Top Interior OL or DL)

    Ray Guy Award (Best P)

    Sammy Baugh Trophy (Top Passer)

    Ted Hendricks Award (Best DE)

    Wuerffel Trophy (Humanitarian-Athlete)

    Paul “Bear” Bryant Coach of the Year • Home Depot Coach of the Year

    Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year • Walter Camp Coach of the Year

    AFCA Coach of the Year • Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year

    Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year Award • Broyles Assistant Coach of the Year

    Walter Payton Award (Best Div. I FCS Off.) • Buck Buchanan Award (Best Div. I FCS Def.)

    Eddie Robinson Award (Best Div. I FCS Coach)

    Harlon Hill Trophy (Div. II) • Gagliardi Trophy (Div. III) • Melberger Award (Div. III) • Rawlings Award (NAIA)

    hey we want a compleate game every year i buy this game its my favorite game from the Bill Walsh College Football Gaming days to todays present series i have played them all and some i really loved and others i was kind of irate about but the main things were the missing schools,division,Conferences,mascot and logos

    hey all of us love our Division I FBS schools but some us love our div 1 fcs,div 2,div 3 and naia schools as well and while we talking about custom Conferences will you be adding the past Conferences logos that have either been disbanded or merged that would be a nice touch for creating custom Conferences and will say your team leaves one Conference when they start in the new Conference will the new Conference logo be on the field and uniforms

  • DaAceQB said March 27, 2009

    also create a team mascots,logos and flags

    most of the time we have these lame sorry kiddie logos they suck give use something with passon take a look at these

    here

    www.rivalart.com/.../mascots

    i mean you dont have to copy them in every way but take note they look alive and expressive and look ready to strike thats what we want and make it so that we can place them on any area of the helmet  

  • DaAceQB said March 27, 2009

    also have it that when we change the logo that it does not affect the team colors because many times with the team colors and logos tend to blend into each other on the helmet and does not stand out like it should

    check out these helmet logos styles here

    www.protuffdecals.com/.../football-helmet-decals_600x650.jpg

    we should have these

  • DaAceQB said March 27, 2009

    on the helmets we should have name plates

    and if we gonna have triple stripes it should be like this

    www.protuffdecals.com/.../single-colored-stripes_400x430.jpg

    check out this dual stripe design

    www.protuffdecals.com/.../multi-stripes_350x486.jpg

    what about the titan strips

    www.protuffdecals.com/.../titan-style-stripes.jpg

    and lets not forget about the panther stripes

    www.protuffdecals.com/.../panther-style-stripes.jpg

    also bronco stripes

    www.protuffdecals.com/.../bronco-style-stripes_500x360.jpg

    check out the tapered-stripes

    www.protuffdecals.com/.../tapered-stripes.jpg

    also check these out and inclue these in the game

    www.healyawards.com/.../LogoBook.pdf

    also put all these nicknames in the game

    www.smargon.net/nicknames

    and how about letting us make more then 12 teams some of us have huge hard drives in our ps3 space should be the deciding factor if we have it we should be able to use it

  • HEAVY-HITTA said March 30, 2009

    how bout you devs just give us a option of having a playoff like you did back in the ps1 hayday of ncaa football.  that would make every online dynasty better. having custom conf is cool and all but at the end of the day, only 1 team will play for the NC. At least with a playoff system, you could have more depth at the end of the season in which teams are awarded for a good season by being in the playoff and you never know. If you do it right, maybe the NCAA would adopt you playoff system into real college football. The BCS is a joke. True champs win in the playoffs. not by a computer generated poll.

  • kperry316 said March 31, 2009

    Oh, and keep the add music feature but please do just a little research and add all the school fight songs. I am more than willing to travel to all 120 schools and get audio copies of all thier fight songs. It's just something nice instead of the crappy generic caliope music you get when you play as someone from the MAC or WAC.

  • kperry316 said March 31, 2009

    Oh, and one more thing- please, for the love of GOD, please fix the players leaving glitch in online dynasties for the new game. This is a royal pain in 09 and I may get a little manic if it continues in '10. I've had teams go to utter crap because of this. Please EA. Please.

  • kperry316 said March 31, 2009

    One question: will your rivals change if you change conferences? For example, I'm currently playing an online dynasty as Boise St. and last year I switched from the WAC to the PAC 10 but my rivals are still Idaho, Hawaii, and Fresno St. Hopefully I can either change my rivals or they change automatically since you get a recruiting bump when they visit for a rivalry game- I haven't played a rivalry game in 2 seasons. Kinda hard to justify adding Idaho to your schedule as a PAC 10 team unless you're USC (sorry, had to take a jab).

  • ucla22 said April 08, 2009

    I like it! In Ncaa 2010 here are all the things they need

    - Create a tradition and rivalry

    - create a school, mascot,  championship bowl, and cheer squad

    - and maybe improve dynasty

  • jewofa said April 19, 2009

    PLEASE BRING BACK CREATE A SCHOOL!!!!

  • steveadler76 said April 22, 2009

    Wow, some people have gotten a little crazy with comments.  I'll try to keep this short and on topic.

    I think this is great!  If I could suggest....

    Create a conf?  I would like to see the Pac-12

    This would include a create a conf trophy as well.

    Not sure if this is your department but HOW ABOUT A PLAYOFF????  

  • W1ldace said April 24, 2009

    I like the idea of custom conferences.  It would be nice to be able to restructure the conferences before each season.

    A couple of other online dynasty suggests:

    Create/setup recruiting rules.  

    Example: restict recruiting time(3 hours, 5 hours, etc.)

    Example2: restrict the quaility of players able to be recruited (by star quality, speed, etc).  We restrict offensive players to B+ or lower on offense and no higher than 3 star quality.

  • Doggtown31LCC said May 12, 2009

    I wish they would make it to where you could change a players ratings, heights, and weights on the dynasty mode. I buy the 2K Basketball Game instead of EA's because you can change all that stuff if you want. It is a game and why would that be resticted, if you want to play it right then don't change it. I just wish I had that option. That would make it perfect, also the recruiting takes to much time.

  • Doggtown31LCC said May 12, 2009

    very glad to see the create-a-team back

  • Tate-Smillie said May 23, 2009

    I would play in the SEC, and these would be my teams in it.

    Georgia (my team)

    Florida

    Texas

    Oklahoma

    USC

    Alabama

    Ohio State

    Michigan

    Georgia Southern (created in Team Builder)

    LSU

    Auburn

    Ole Miss

  • Tate-Smillie said May 24, 2009

    IF YA'LL ACTUALLY CAME ON HERE FROM THE TEAM BUILDER BLOG, THANKS AND THIS IS THE CORRECT PLACE.

  • Tate-Smillie said May 27, 2009

    SEC:

    Georgia

    Florida

    Texas

    Oklahoma

    USC

    Alabama

    Ohio State

    Michigan

    Georgia Southern

    LSU

    Auburn

    Ole Miss

    ACC:

    Texas Tech

    Air Force

    Texas A&M

    South Carolina

    Kentucky

    Oklahoma State

    West Virginia

    Michigan State

    Louisville

    Hawaii

    ECU

    Baylor

    Big 12:

    Georgia Tech

    Vanderbilt

    Miami

    USF

    Northern Illinois

    TCU

    Utah

    UCLA

    Penn State

    Appalachian State

    Florida State

    Eastern Michigan

    Southern:

    Furman

    Wofford

    The Citadel

    Elon

    Western Carolina

    CofC

    Samford

    Davidson

    Missouri

    Illinois

    PAC 10:

    Arkansas

    Boise State

    Buffalo

    Clemson

    California

    Iowa

    Fresno State

    Kansas

    Mississippi State

    Western Kentucky

    Sun Belt:

    Army

    Navy

    Ball State

    Duke

    Connecticut

    Colorado

    Notre Dame

    Rutgers

    UCF

    Temple

    Syracuse

    Idaho

    UTEP

    Big East:

    FAU

    FIU

    Bowling Green

    Central Michigan

    Oregon

    SMU

    Troy

    Stanford

    Big 10:

    Boston College

    BYU

    Indiana

    Kent State

    Iowa State

    Louisiana Tech

    Kansas State

    Louisiana- Lafayette

    Southern Miss

    Rice

    San Diego State

    WAC:

    Ohio

    Purdue

    San Jose State

    Oregon State

    Pittsburgh

    Akron

    Northwestern

    New Mexico

    New Mexico State

    Mountain West:

    Maryland

    North Texas

    Cincinnati

    North Carolina

    Arizona

    Marshall

    Middle Tennessee State

    Memphis

    Miami (OH)

    MAC:

    Western Michigan

    Arkansas State

    Wisconsin

    Wyoming

    Washington

    Wake Forest

    Washington State

    Virginia

    Virginia Tech

    Utah State

    UAB

    Tulane

    Nevada

    Independents:

    UNLV

    Nebraska

    Tulsa

    NC State

    Minnesota

  • irishfan22 said May 28, 2009

    It would be great if Ben ever responded back or added people as friends,guess he is too busy. I would like to have a recruit that is a LB /pass rusher,haven't seen that yet in the previous games as well as not allowing the Irish to recruit JC guys since the University doesn't allow them too. When do you guys get the new incoming freshman #'s for the season?

  • Dreville85 said May 31, 2009

    Ben

    first of all great job. some things that i would like added to the dynasty mode is the off field problems, (grades, troubles, injuries etc.) also lets say your team has won the championship three years in a row, couldn't there be like a football fund where, they upgrade the staidum and uniforms, (for the uniforms make sure to have alternates). these things will give a gamer more to look forward to then just signing recruits, but also to builder a campus. thank you for all you have done, last thing will the team builder be able to work for the online dynasty?

  • dewaynejones36@yahoo.com said June 05, 2009

    im so happy,  i stopped playing ncaa football the past 3 years because i got tired of not having the create a team.  Thank god EA Sports came to it's senses.  I'm so fired up to get back to my tradition of playing it.