Season 3 - Week 1 Open

Week 1 is now open.  Due to the holiday I will advance the week on Tuesday (12/3).

Through two seasons of NCAA14 college football in the AALoA we have seen some great user games, remarkable rebuilding projects, outstanding individual performances and things should only get better.  While we said goodbye to Notre Dame and Penn State as user controlled teams we also sill see the return of AD Zach Davis as he returns to college football after a season off and has convinced Pete Carroll to return to the college ranks and his old stomping grounds.

With ten AALoA teams in year three of building their teams to fit their styles, what can we expect to see in 2015?

New Bullies On The Block



From 2006-2012 college football was ruled by the mighty SEC.  During that span a team from the SEC Conference won the BCS title each season and the conference was widely regarded as the nations best and elite.  However, have we seen a changing of the guard over the last two seasons?  Is the Big Ten the new bullies on the block?  The Big Ten Conference is the home of each of the last two BCS National Champions (2013-Nebraska, 2014-Iowa) and even boast a win over an SEC team (Alabama) in last year's title game.  In the last two years the Big Ten also placed two teams in the Top 3 of the final Coaches Poll (2013-#1 Nebraska & #3 Iowa, 2014-#1 Iowa & #2 Michigan State).  Iowa will be hard pressed to duplicate last year's efforts after losing RB Damon Bullock as well as their entire starting LB rotation.  Nebraska continues to fine tune and evolve offensively behind QB Tommy Armstrong.  Could this be the year Michigan State owns the Big Ten and possibly more?  The Spartans return their QB and a stout defense but who will replace HOF WR Keith Mumphery?

Not So Fast, My Friend



The SEC teams, in particular Alabama and Missouri, channeled their inner Lee Corso with a hardy, "Not so fast my friend!".  The Crimson Tide and Tigers will be eager to prove that the best football is still played in the south and the dominant conference is still the SEC.  The Tide made it to the championship game last year and return starting QB Alec Morris, Heisman finalist RB TJ Yeldon (99OVR), RB Kenyon Drake a solid offensive line and an always stout defense.  Meanwhile, Missouri will have the services of 2014 AALoA User QB of the Year Maty Mauk as he and Dorian Green Beckham look to prove they are the best QB-WR combo in the country.  They'll have plenty of opportunities to prove themselves with out of conference such as Missouri-Iowa, Alabama-Nebraska and Missouri-Michigan State.

Other Contenders



The Ohio State Buckeyes once again find themselves near the top of the pre-season polls (currently #7) but they will face the big obstacle of replacing all-world QB Braxton Miller.  Also, will Coach Tressel return to the sidelines following his late season absence in time to get his team clicking?  And in La-La-Land the return of Coach Pete Carroll to go along with a plethora of talent has renewed the excitement in Southern California as USC looks to make a run for the title this year.

Not To Be Forgotten



Rounding out the AALoA lineup are three teams that have treaded water the first two seasons and are hoping that senior leadership and two seasons of bringing in their recruits gets them heading in the right direction as we enter the 2015 season.  The Fighting Illini were contenders for the Big Ten East Division in 2013 before falling back last season.  Redshirt Junior QB Wes Lunt (99OVR) will be running the show and big things will be expected of him and the #14 ranked recruiting class of Illinois.  Coach Jon Gruden found the college game a lot tougher than he expected and he and Coach truth of Georgia Tech have both found themselves on the coaching hot seat.  Can they turn it around before those pink slips start coming in?

Great write up pitt!

Yeah Pitt, great job as usual.

The Fighting Illini are ready to step their game up. And good write up as always.

Thanks fellas.

Week 1 Schedule

#1 Alabama vs #20 Georgia
#4 Michigan State at UCLA
#5 Iowa vs #22 Missouri
#9 Nebraska at Georgia Tech
#15 USC at Illinois

Preseason Polls - Top 10

1. Alabama
2. Notre Dame
3. Virginia Tech
4. Michigan State
5. Iowa
6. Texas
7. Ohio State
8. Louisville
9. Nebraska
10. Miami

Preseason First Team All-Americans (user teams only)

RB TJ Yeldon (Alabama)
WR Dorial Green Beckham (Missouri)
OG Tommy Brown (Nebraska)
OC Austin Blythe (Iowa)
DE David Busch (Nebraska)
DE Faith Ekakitie (Iowa)
DT Kevin Williams (Nebraska)
OLB Ed Davis (Michigan State)
OLB Quinton Powell (USC)
CB Geno Smith (Alabama)
CB Trae Waynes (Michigan State)
FS Anthony Gair (Iowa)
SS RJ Williamson (Michigan State)
K Mauro Bondi (Nebraska)

Steel Pitt wrote:#5 Iowa vs #22 Missouri

I'M RANKED.

*faints*

Great write-up as always man.

Squirrel can only play Sun/Mon. I can play any day except for Mon. Might be tough to get it off.

I have extended the advance date to Tuesday due to the holiday.  Hopefully that gives everyone enough time to play their games.

Nebraska vs Georgia Tech kicking off on twitch (if my console will stop freezing) grrrrr.

well fellas I have the xp glitch, advice?

As Ani and Nike can attest, me and truth cannot play our flipping game. It started with the uniform pack disconnects at the team select screen. So I bought the packs that truth bought.  That almost worked. We got to the coin toss, and then it disconnects before we can select our kickoff.

At a loss of words.

I'm deleting all NCAA data off my hard drive. I'll back up Madden's draft classes and my custom playbooks on the PS Plus online storage. And the only "uniforms" i'm downloading are the free ones that everyone should have by now.

Or, I may just send the game disc down my garbage disposal. We'll see...

So me and truth just can't play.
I've deleted all files and reset everything.
When I win the toss, we disconnect at the kickoff screen.
When truth wins the toss, I can't even select field direction and it immediately disconnects.

I'm at a loss.

Me and Squirrlz are scheduled for tmrw at 7:30PM PST

Iowa defeats Missouri 30-10 in Opener

After being tied at 3 after one quarter the Hawkeyes used a huge second quarter (17-0) to pull away from the Tigers.  Iowa lead 30-3 in the fourth before Missouri got in the end zone.  The story of the game was the gloves worn by each teams DB's.  It seems like the Iowa DB's dipped their gloves in stick 'em while the Missouri DB's dipped their gloves in butter. lol  Both QB's actually made a number of bad decisions and had some bad throws but it seemed that every bad throw by Jason Wade (Iowa) resulted in a pass deflection while every bad throw by Maty Mauk (Missouri) resulted in an INT.  Mauk would throw 4 picks in the game total.

GG Mustard

Steel Pitt wrote:Iowa defeats Missouri 30-10 in Opener

After being tied at 3 after one quarter the Hawkeyes used a huge second quarter (17-0) to pull away from the Tigers.  Iowa lead 30-3 in the fourth before Missouri got in the end zone.  The story of the game was the gloves worn by each teams DB's.  It seems like the Iowa DB's dipped their gloves in stick 'em while the Missouri DB's dipped their gloves in butter. lol  Both QB's actually made a number of bad decisions and had some bad throws but it seemed that every bad throw by Jason Wade (Iowa) resulted in a pass deflection while every bad throw by Maty Mauk (Missouri) resulted in an INT.  Mauk would throw 4 picks in the game total.

GG Mustard

Yeah, that leaping one by your LB in the first half was the one that killed me. The others, OK, whatever, bad decisions. Can't get too mad about that, even if the bounces weren't going my way. That linebacker though... I swear, i was throwing the ball 20 yards downfield and he just Superman-ed the hell out of it LOL.

GG though. Let's run it back in Columbia next year.

Michigan State scores 21 points from the 4:37-4:19 mark in the 1st quarter and cruises to a 38-10 win at UCLA. MSU forced 6 turnovers is a dominant defensive performance. 

gg ken. i think that's the first time i've got you in NCAA

FYI, the week advances tonight.  Not sure if Nebraska/Georgia Tech had any luck reconnecting.

Steel, you may as well advance now. I just don't think EDJ and I can connect. I just played against someone else in another dynasty last night without any problems.

truth_n_babylon wrote:Steel, you may as well advance now. I just don't think  EDJ and I can connect. I just played against someone else in another dynasty last night without any problems.

Ok, well you gus have until tonight anyway because I can't access the Dynasty Wire site from work anyway so I won't be advancing until later.  I'll be heading tot eh gym when i get home some the advance won't be until late tonight.