Talk:College football

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Specification of stadia
In the article section Formation of the NCAA there is the following statement: Only two stadiums owned by U.S. colleges or universities—Papa John's Cardinal Stadium at the University of Louisville and FAU Stadium at Florida Atlantic University—consist entirely of chairback seating.

Is it not the case that Stanford Stadium should be added to these? It is my understanding that, since September 16 2006, it has met the criteria described. That is: it has provided 'chairback seating' for all spectators.Clrfr-2 (talk) 08:31, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Great Britain not England
I have edited the article where it says, England ot Great Britain, because it says that rugby football developed in England and Canada. Actually it developed in Great Britain. For instance the article says that american football was developed from mob football, and mentions Orkney. Well Orkney is in Scotland, not England. So a more accurate title would be Great Britain that includes Scotland, Wales, and England. Rugby was developed across Great Britain and Ireland. To claim it was just England is like saying that it was just developed in Rugby. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ScottishSusan (talk • contribs) 14:48, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Season
Should this article mention what time of year the regular season is, how many games are played, and who does the scheduling? &mdash;JerryFriedman (Talk) 17:52, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

First American College Football Game
The section about the first American college football game is internally inconsistent. It starts with the statement that, "The first intercollegiate football game played under the rules that would eventually become modern American football rules occurred between Princeton University and Rutgers University (which was called Rutgers College at the time) on November 6, 1869," and finishes with the comment that, "[a]n 1869 game of intercollegiate "football" between Rutgers and Princeton is often cited as the first intercollegiate American football game, however it was an unfamiliar ancestor of today's college football, as it was played under 6-year-old soccer-style Association rules."

I believe that Princeton-Rutgers started the series of intercollegiate games, that eventually grew into the NCAA, but that the rules borrowed from McGill University after their 1874 game with Harvard, are more properly considered the foundation of the "American" football game, as we know it. I think that the article can be amended to say both, without conflict. Svaihingen (talk) 23:36, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

History
The first three subsections under history are poorly organized and internally inconsistent. It is unclear what the first football game is, under the differing sets of criteria. I would suggest scrapping them altogether and starting from scratch. Publius97 (talk) 14:43, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Orphaned references in College football
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of College football's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "sfmg": From 1894 Stanford football team: Official results from  From 1891 Stanford football team: Results from  

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Article size / Split
At 146 kB, this article is quite long. The guidance at WP:SIZERULE suggests that articles over 100 kB of readable prose should be WP:SPLIT. The history section of this article is quite long, so I propose we WP:SPLIT the article and move most of the historical information into a new article called History of college football, while leaving a brief summary in place here. I wanted to give others advance warning so that folks have a chance to weigh in before I start any major editing. CUA 27 (talk) 02:00, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

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Canada
You are invited to join the discussion at to reach consensus on football at Canadian universities. —Bagumba (talk) 07:18, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

American football microstubs -- the worst of the worst
Wikipedia guidelines for more than a year have required all sports biographies to have at least one piece of WP:SIGCOV (not counting database entries such as NFL.com or Pro-Football-Reference.com). See WP:SPORTBASIC prong 5. In recent months, there have been efforts to draftify en masse sport substubs that do not comply with this requirement. E.g., pending RfC on cricket sub-stubs. Accordingly, we should prioritize improvement of American football biographies that could be targeted in a similar RfC. I have prepared a list of the "worst of the worst" in terms of non-compliance, which can be found at American football biography cleanup campaign. I encourage everyone to take on at least one of these articles (hopefully more) to expand and source. For any articles that you do improve with required SIGCOV, please apply strike coding on the list. Thanks for your help. Cbl62 (talk) 18:16, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

when was the oblong ball adopted?
All the early discussion indicates that a round ball was used, as in the statement related to 1874 play that "The games featured a round ball instead of a rugby-style oblong ball." So when did the rugby-style oblong ball become the norm? 2600:4040:250E:2000:B09A:83:E78F:8755 (talk) 02:16, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

Map updates
The maps need updating as they are out of date. Just in Alabama the FBS map is missing UAB and UNA is now in FCS and no longer in Division II 107.77.208.95 (talk) 21:42, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

Template for future non-conference schedules is obsolete and difficult to edit
Since most conferences will have a variable schedule for the future, I am putting this template here and in some of the team talk pages so fans can input their future schedules. The vertical format used for non-conference schedules was almost impossible to edit because there was no year included in the body of the table. This horizontal format shows all games in a given year in order. There is one template for teams with 8 mandatory conference games and one for teams with 9 mandatory conference games.

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Future opponents
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