Talk:List of 100-point games in college football

Tables?
I think the tables are unnecessary. A simple bulleted list is sufficient.--BillFlis 22:11, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok. There was a complaint that this page wasn't "wikified" so I was trying to correct this. It is a lot of work but I do think tables look better, but that is just my opinion.--NMajdan &bull;talk 11:43, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Does anybody else have an opinion on to "wikify" this page or have an opinion on tables vs lists?--NMajdan &bull;talk 13:54, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Perhaps combining it all into one table, instead of a bunch of little tables? -- MECU ≈ talk 16:26, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I kept the little tables that way you would still be able to link to the specific school via the TOC. I used the same concept here.--NMajdan &bull;talk 16:38, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't know if those TOC links are entirely useful. Wikipedia needs to come up with a way to link to items within a large table like that. Perhaps we could use the HTML code with links with the # like that?

  -- MECU ≈ talk 17:55, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * That sounds like a hard way of doing it.--NMajdan &bull;talk 18:00, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I say we go with a bulleted list, because personally I think it looks simple, clean, and uncluttered. Bornagain4 20:42, 13 July 2006 (UTC)


 * To me, the obvious way to wikify it would be to make links from the school names to the most relevant article (football program > athletics page > school page) about each school. If we ever get to the point where any of these games have their own article, then we could link to that as well.  As far as format, I like the idea of either a simple bulleted list. Johntex\talk 19:30, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Intro
I tried to wikify the introduction. Comments? John 17:32, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Layout and Question
I think the layout looks good--it's nice to see everything grouped by school

QUESITON: What about 100-point games before there was an NCAA? Specifically, College of Emporia Football defeated Pittsburg State University in 1910 by a score of 107 to 0. When I get more info on the game, I'll want to make an article about it because of C of E's use of the forward pass to win so big... but I've gotta get the sources compiled first.--Paul McDonald (talk) 18:50, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Some issues
First: two tables. It appears that the top one is for games since 1930. Unless I'm mistaken, this seems like a somewhat arbitrary date. Since the table is now sortable by date, why not roll those into the main table? That way, if a reader wants to see the most recent 100-point games, they can sort it by reverse chronological order. The fact that these have been rare since 1930 is already mentioned in the text.

Second, the name of the article seems imprecise to me. These aren't strictly 100-point games, but games in which one side scores at least 100 points. A 51-49 game would technically be a 100-point game, and I am sure there are many, many of those. It might be hard to word it accurately and concisely though.

Last, these aren't all "NCAA college football" games. The NCAA wasn't founded until 1906 (as the IAAUS).

Does any one have an issue with making changes to address these? Strikehold (talk) 01:23, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

I agree, there is no reason this should be limited to NCAA games. Just take NCAA out of the title, there wasn't an NCAA for some of these games, and I see no reason that a 100 point game is less noteworthy if it is NJCAA or NAIA.--RLent (talk) 14:26, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Support I'll be bold and take care of that right now. It might be worthwhile to note junior college games separately, as they are outside the college football project...--Paul McDonald (talk) 17:57, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Table length
As more scores are added the table is getting quite long. What are the ideas on dividing it - a table for games involving current Division I teams and a table for teams in other divisions? Having just one table is an advantage for sorting. Ozzie42 (talk) 22:16, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

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Error in one of the dates, and why there are so many of these games in the 1910s
Newspapers of that era 'ranked' teams by the number of points scored in a season. Week-by-week they'd publish a list of teams sorted by total points scored.

Also, the date of the 1916 Oklahoma vs. Southwestern Oklahoma State 140-0 game is currently listed in the table as Oct/16. This is incorrect. The game was played on Oct/7, the same day as Georgia Tech's 222-0 win over Cumberland. The game's Oct/7 date can be verified at www.jhowell.net/cf/scores/ScoresIndex.htm or by looking at any major newspaper's Oct/8/1916 edition.