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  1. 6 hours ago, samba23 said:

    OK so each conference is named after a real life conference, as logically as possible. Therefore, the DI-A West conference is named after the Pac-12, the DI-AA conference is named after the Mountain West, the DI-A Southeast conference is named after the SEC and so on. Some of these make perfect sense (i.e. the divisions listed above) and closely resemble real life alignment. However, it's obviously not exactly the same. For example, the ACC in real life is comparable to the rest of the P5 but in this database it is a division level lower. The real life ACC also covers teams in this database's Southeast and East regions so theoretically the ACC could have been the DI-AA conference for either region in this database, I chose for it to be the division below the SEC and add the Big East as the division below the Big Ten.

    In this database each division (with a few exceptions) has 10 teams, therefore two real life Pac-12 teams had to be in the DI-AA Mountain West. Here, I have chosen Oregon State and Arizona, although when I finish the 2022 data update then Oregon State will probably move up to DI-A and either Colorado or Washington State will move down to DI-AA because Oregon State have been quite good IRL the last couple of seasons (I haven't looked at this too closely to make a decision yet).

    To give an answer to another of your given examples, in my database Clemson, Florida State, Miami and North Carolina all start the game in the SEC rather than the ACC (as they are IRL). Again, it is more instructive to look at teams as being in a geographical region IRL rather than what actual conference they play in. The four teams listed above are all among the best teams in the Southeastern region so therefore start in DI-A (although again once I do my data update then North Carolina could move down to DI-AA and one of Kentucky, South Carolina, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, etc could move up to DI-A).

    Hope this helps to understand why divisions are aligned as they are

    oh ok i think this makes sense, its more for promotion and relegation purposes

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