NCAA Football 09
49 Achievements
1000
15-20h
BCS Conference Invite
Get an invite to a BCS conference in single team Dynasty Mode.
25
How to unlock the BCS Conference Invite achievement in NCAA Football 09 - Definitive Guide
Start a season with TCU (They are in the MWC)and go undefeated, and win the National Championship. When you advance to the next season it should unlock. If not have a save right before the National Championship, reload, win, and see if it works. If not just keep reloading. This method only takes one season.
So I decided to try a different method. I chose Boise State as my Dynasty team, and simmed through a few seasons (without worrying if they went undefeated or made it to the National Championship game). After the second season (and about 10 minutes total time simming), the achievement popped.
Again I imagine the TCU method works, but if you lack the patience, try simming a few seasons with Boise State. You're liable to get the achievement in a much shorter time-span.
"Okay, so I tried Boise State, TCU, BYU, and ND. Simmed through at least 3 seasons with each, beating Big 12/Big 10 teams as appropriate, beating high ranked teams, going undefeated, winning NC, with many, many reloads for the NC game and NEVER got the invite. I was getting REAL frustrated and looked for answers online with little luck. Seems some people called out pure randomness and others claimed you must win NC and/or beat teams of the conference you expected to join, but none of this worked for me.
But then I got thinking and wondered if it wasn't a combo of these things that have to hit just right. But I think what is MOST critical is that the "Conference" has to first decide to kick a team. You can do whatever you want, but if the conference doesn't boot somebody, they won't ask you to join - and this maybe where some of the randomness comes in.
So this worked for me FIRST TIME - and is a complete nerf - but at this point I just wanted those last 25 gamerpoints! I edited TCU for a bunch of Superman stats, then went in and just destroyed Baylor (rating of 14 overall!). Loaded a new Dynasty as TCU, had to auto-reorder the depth chart and then put Big 12 teams (esp Baylor) on my schedule and just simmed the season. I went undefeated, Baylor unvictorious and immediately after accepting the contract extension, got the achievement and guess what, Big 12 wanted to boot Baylor and get me in. Definately happens before the "Proceed to off-season" prompt shows up.
I've put the roster in my locker, gamertag: Hammerdrake, roster file BCS. If it works for you, I'd love to hear it."
*Note: I'm not sure if the roster update is still available as I'd imagine most things server related with this game are shut down.
I did the edits myself and made sure Baylor went 0-12. With TCU I won every game in my first season and finished #5, then in season 2 I won all but 1 game and ended up winning the Fiesta Bowl at #9. Make a save before the national championship game and keep reloading if you don't get it first try.
Start a season with TCU (They are in the MWC)and go undefeated, and win the National Championship. When you advance to the next season it should unlock. If not have a save right before the National Championship, reload, win, and see if it works. If not just keep reloading. This method only takes one season. ***You can also try Hawaii but that method takes 4 undefeated seasons, instead of one season***
I tried Boise State, and it unlocked after three seasons. I went undefeated the first season, and won my bowl (not national championship, I was like a #4 rank). In year two, I simmed straight through, undefeated, and lost my bowl game. Year three was the same, undefeated and lost the bowl game. I let years 2 and 3 sim straight through, and I really didnt care if I went undefeated in those. After year three, I was invited to the Pac-10. Once the invite pops up, the achievement unlocks, and you don't have to accept the invite if you don't want to. The invite screen came up after I simmed the BCS Title game, before the off-season activities started.
Hope this helps out everyone getting frustrated with this achievement. Some have reported success with Hawai'i, but a 4-8 sim my first season made me try Boise State. Boise State seems like a solid enough team to just let them sim through, without needing to reload every time you lose. It is definately not necessary to go undefeated for 5+ seasons to receive an invite.