So, about a week ago I was fooling around with my NCAA 12, and decided to blow up the conferences. I remembered THIS FANTASTIC POST by Anonymous IV at Mono Lake from just under a year ago, and his attempt to reorganize the conferences by nickname. Go on, take a minute to go back and reread it. I'll be here...
...done? Good. So, I started with that with my base, but quickly ran into some issues. Maybe with 2013 they'll just allow you to completely destroy conferences and reorganize however you like, but in 2012 EA Sports requires you to keep at least 4 teams in each conference. This means that 3-team conferences like Anon's "Ursidae" division are out. But, using it as a base, here's what I came up with; enjoy, debate, whatever, and I'll be back with another geographic based organization as part II.
NCAA 12 Rules: Must have 4 Independent Teams. Must have 4 teams per conference. No conferences can be destroyed.
Own rules: Make categories fit together as best given the rules above. I go by the team nickname, not that mascot, so for instance Carolina is the Tarheels, not a goat. Also, I don't care if your team was named after some Civil War unit--Tigers are Big Cats, not people. The exceptions are noted in the explanations below.
Teams are listed by conference in their current order as of 3rd season played with this alignment, Week 11. Conference in parentheses is the conference replaced in the game.
| Big Cat Conference (ACC) |
| Houston Cougars |
| Penn St Nittany Lions |
| Auburn Tigers |
| Fuck Clemson Tigers
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| LSU Tigers |
| BYU Cougars |
| Missouri Tigers |
| WSU Cougars |
| Pitt Panthers |
| Memphis Tigers |
| FIU Golden Panthers |
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11 Teams
I couldn't fit all the felines into one conference, so the ACC becomes the "Big Cat" conference.
| Cats & Bears (MAC) |
| Kansas St. Wildcats |
| UCLA Bruins |
| Northwestern Wildcats |
| Baylor Bears |
| KY Wildcats |
| Cal Bears |
| AZ Wildcats |
| Cinci Bearcats |
| Ohio Bobcats |
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9 Teams
The rest of the cats tied together nicely with the bear teams, especially since the "Bearcats" fit into both categories. They could have gone to the "Critter Conference" had I been scientifically technical, but this just worked nicely.
| Canine Conference (Big 12) |
| Miss St Bulldogs |
| UGA Bulldogs |
| Arky St Red Wolves |
| Wash. Huskies |
| NC State Wolfpack |
| UCONN Huskies |
| Nevada Wolfpack |
| Fresno St Bulldogs |
| N. Ill Huskies |
| New Mex Lobos |
| La Tech Bulldogs |
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11 Teams
Pretty self explanatory, I'd think.
| Avian (Wild) Conference (Big East) |
| Eagles Div |
| S. Miss Golden Eagles |
| BC Eagles |
| Ball St Cards |
| Air Force Falcons |
| LA Monroe Warhawks |
| E. Mich Eagles |
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| Owls Div. |
| Louis Cards |
| Miami Redhawks |
| FAU Owls |
| Bowling Green Falcons |
| Rice Owls |
| Temple Owls |
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12 Teams
For sake of balance, I divided falcons and hawks between the two divisions.
| Farm Animal Conference (B1G) |
| Cattle Division |
| USF Bulls |
| Texas Longhorns |
| Marshall Herd |
| Buffalo Bulls |
| Colorado St Rams |
| Colorado Buffaloes |
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| Poultry and Horses Division |
| SMU Mustangs |
| Oregon Ducks |
| VT Hokies |
| Boise St. Broncos |
| SC Gamecocks |
| W. Michigan Broncos |
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12 Teams
Couldn't get all the birds into one conference, so I threw the farm-types in here with the horses and cattle.
| Critter Conference (Conf USA) |
| GT Yellowjackets |
| Wisc Badgers |
| Maryland Terps |
| TCU Frogs |
| Mich Wolverines |
| Oregon St Beavers |
| Florida Gators |
| Arkansas Razorbacks |
| Minn Gophers |
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9 Teams
The rest of the animals fall into here.
| Industry & farming conference (SEC) |
| Nebraska Cornhuskers |
| IND Hoosiers |
| UNC Tarheels |
| Texas A&M Aggies |
| ? Boilermakers |
| Utah St Aggies |
| UTEP Miners |
| Akron Zips |
| Toledo Rockets |
| NM State Aggies |
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10 Teams
Here's where it starts to get interesting. Humans are a lot harder to group, and while Anonymous IV had some great groupings, they didn't fit as well into the game. Here we have industry (Boilermakers, Miners, Rockets, Zip(per)s, Tarheels) and farmers (Aggies, Huskers, and Hoosiers). Sure, no one knows what a Hoosier is, but they fit, and Tarheels could have been a military unit reference, but they also could have been referring to the tar industry in NC, so here they are.
| Cowboys & Indians Conference (MWC) |
| Natives Division |
| Illinois Illini |
| C. Mich Chippewas |
| Utah Utes |
| Iowa Hawkeyes |
| FSU Seminoles |
| Hawaii Warriors |
| SDSU Aztecs |
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| Cowboys & Settlers Div. |
| Ok St Cowboys |
| Oklahoma Sooners |
| Tex Tech Red Raiders |
| WVU Mountaineers |
| MTSU Blue Raiders |
| Wyoming Cowboys |
| WKU Hilltoppers |
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14 Teams
Hawkeyes are not birds, so I categorized Iowa as a reference to the Last of the Mohicans character. Hawaii is a native group, if not technically "Indians". I'm not sure what a "Hilltopper" is, but it seemed like some sort of Hatfield/McCoyish hillbilly thing like a Mountaineer.
| Old World Conference (PAC12) |
| ND Irish |
| VA Cavaliers |
| Idaho Vandals |
| MSU Spartans |
| Troy Trojans |
| USC Trojans |
| San Jose St Spartans |
| UCF Golden Knights |
| Army Black Knights |
| Rutgers Scarlet Knights |
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10 Teams
While the "Knight" teams don't technically refer to European geographic areas, that's where knights come from, so they are here. Trojans are here as well, even though technically it's Asia Minor.
| American History Conference (WAC) |
| Tenn Volunteers |
| ECU Pirates |
| KS Jayhawks |
| Navy Mids |
| Ole Miss Rebs |
| Vandy Commodores |
| Louisiana/Lafayette Ragin Cajuns |
| UNLV Running Rebs |
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8 Teams
Jayhawks are not birds, so this is really the only team I went with as a Civil War unit reference. Sorry, LSU fans. Volunteers I took to specifically mean the volunteering Davie Crockett, et al, from Tennessee, so they fall under US History as well.
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