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WikiProject College football
Overview Project page talk College football Portal talk Participants talk Active editors Project category talk Departments Assessment (log) talk Peer review talk Article alerts talk Newsletter talk Style and content guides Style guide talk Templates talk Image use talk Notability talk Reliable sources talk Vacated victories talk Master team table talk Team articles talk Yearly team pages format talk Coaching trees talk Major vs small college compendium talk External resources Archived yearbooks talk Official guides talk Media guide errors talk Lists of pages needing help To do list talk Cleanup listing talk Deletion reviews talk Unreferenced BLPs talk Campaigns Season articles campaign talk The Perfect Season talk CFHOF article improvement talk Coach articles campaign talk Current season articles 2023 NCAA D-I FBS season talk 2023–24 bowl games talk 2023 FBS rankings talk 2023 NCAA D-I FCS season talk 2023 FCS rankings talk 2023 NCAA D-II season talk 2023 D-II rankings talk 2023 NCAA D-III season talk 2023 D-III rankings talk 2023 NAIA season talk 2023 NAIA rankings talk Current article checklists talk Tools Project banner talk {{subst:CFBwelcome-project}} talk Photos on Commons Userboxes Project userbox talk NCAA teams talk
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Welcome to the new WikiProject College football! Our hope is to expand and improve Wikipedia's coverage of that sport we all love. This page and its subpages contain create a forum for coordinating our efforts. If you would like to help, please sign your name on the participants list below and look at the article list or talk page to see how you can help.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and Wikipedia:WikiProject/Best practices.

WikiProject on College football

This project deals with that great institution which is college football. There is nothing else like it - the pagentry, the beauty, the love for your school, the 70,000 fans screaming in unison for the defense to make a stop.

This project is intended to help Wikipedia by creating and enhancing:

• Team articles
• Season articles
• Rivalry articles
• Anything else relating to college football

• WikiProject Sports is our parent project.
• WikiProject American football for general football strategy articles.
• WikiProject National Football League is our rich uncle.
• WikiProject College Basketball is our brother.
• WikiProject Football (soccer) is the cousin you sometimes see at family reunions.

• This project helps maintain Portal:College football
• Please see also Portal:American football

This is a list of Wikipedians who are committed to this WikiProject. Please, feel free to join by clicking the "edit" link to the right, and signing your name to the list in alphabetical order with {{subst:User0|Your username}}. Please consider adding {{User WikiProject CFB}} to your user page to let others know of your involvement in the project.

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23. gonknet (talk)
24. IanManka (talk)
25. Jayron32 (talk)
26. Jcam (talk)
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• Please see Structure on the NFL WikiProject for examples

• Yearly team pages format

• Organizational

1. 1. To create a set of standardized templates for coaches, teams, etc.
   2. To create subcategories for stubs and reclassify stubs into those subcategories.
   3. To categorize all college football articles by placing the WikiProject template at the top of the talk page, templates can be found further down the page.
   4. To find all college football stubs and label them.
   5. To categorize all college football articles into subcategories. (See discussion)

• Articles

1. 1. Bring College football to featured article status.
   2. Work on 2006 NCAA Division I-A football season, and make it a resource for enthusiasts this fall.
   3. Create and implement a rating system for college football articles. Done: See Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Assessment
   4. To make Wikipedia one of the premier online resources on college football.
   5. Increase number of GAs within College Football.

• Portal

1. 1. Obtain approval for a new Portal:College football and create that portal. Submitted proposal July 5, 2006: Wikipedia:Portal/Proposals#Proposal Portal created: Portal:College football
   2. Maintain it and bring it to Featured portal status.

• List of NCAA college football rivalry games
• List of college bowl games
• List of NCAA Division I-A football programs
• List of NCAA Division I-AA football programs
• List of NCAA Division II football programs
• List of NCAA Division III football programs
• List of Division I schools that have never sponsored football
• List of defunct Division I football teams

Wikipedia articles on College football

There are too many college football articles on Wikipedia to list them all. Some selected articles are:

• College football
• Vince Young - GA
• Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium - GA

Other articles can be found in:

• Category:College football
  • Category:College football awards
  • Category:College football bowls
  • Category:College football coaches
  • Category:College Football Hall of Fame
  • Category:NCAA Division I Football Conference Title Games
  • Category:NCAA Division I-A Conferences
  • Category:Notable college football games
  • Category:College football players
  • Category:College football rivalries
  • Category:College football rivalry trophies
  • Category:College football seasons
  • Category:College football teams
  • Category:College football venues
  • Category:Notable college football games

New College football articles

Please feel free to list your new college football-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYK has a limit of 5 days for the creation of an article or the heavy expansion of it. Please remember to add {{persondata}} to the biographical articles you create. Also please remember to add {{WikiProject College football}} to the talk page of the article.

Please place newest articles on the top

College football articles needing help

Please feel free to ask for help from your fellow college football fans here (newer articles at the top, please).

• College GameDay - needs work
• List of 100 point games - Not wikified, introduction not encyclopedic, needs to WP:CITE
• List of schools by Bowl appearances - I know that more than 31 schools have played in bowl games ... considering that we have 26 bowls

Notable football schools that do not have separate athletics pages

Please add to this list any schools with notable football programs that do not currently have an athletics page or have little or no football coverage on their athletics page

• Please see: Wikipedia:WikiProject_College_football/MasterTeamTable

• Georgia Tech - pretty much a fancier and more detailed version than the actual college site, still needs grammar work (still a stub)
• Grambling State
• Maryland - currently working on a site so please help me out
• Miami University (Ohio)
• Mississippi
• Virginia Tech - added Virginia Tech Hokies, but it needs expansion
• William & Mary
• Penn State - Created article.
• Tennessee

Articles needing Photographs

Photographs

• File:NCAAFootball.JPG can be used on banners instead of the NFL ball

Miscellaneous

• Create coaches template for schools similar to {{SoonersCoach}}, {{GoldenHurricanesCoach}} and {{LonghornsCoach}}.
  • Please check the Master Team Table for existance or preformed named template for a school. No need to list here when complete.
• The old Mirage Bowl (college football) needs an article. Many notable teams played in this Tokyo-based game, including Notre Dame and USC (alas, not against each other...). I would put it together but I need to leave the office for the weekend; I put it to one of you skilled gentlemen! --Bobak 23:04, 25 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Articles

Lists

• 2005 NCAA Division I-A football rankings - Promoted to Featured on 8/4/2006

These external resources are very helpful as a source of information about college football (please do NOT copy their material and always remember to cite your sources):

• http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/
• http://nationalchamps.net/

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