Template talk:CFB standings end

Division (Co-)Champions
Just a thought: the template ought to include a way to designate Division (Co-)Champions in 12+-team leagues. E.g., last night, Central Michigan won. The win clinches no worse than a share of the MAC West Championship. However, they have not yet clinched a berth in the title game (they would need to win the division title outright for that). I don't see where the template has a way to express that. MrArticleOne (talk) 13:18, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Do they get an award, plaque, or trophy as a divisional co-champion? If not, then I don't think it's worth adding the info. Only one team can play in the conference title game. Once a division champ is determined, I think it would be preferred to add the tie-breaker info into the "special-note" field. JohnnyPolo24 (talk) 14:11, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't follow the MAC closely, so I e-mailed the SID at CMU, and he said that the MAC recognizes Divisional Co-Champions, but no plaques or trophies are awarded until the end of the season (so they were not given anything last night). Of course, that's just one league, but I suspect you'd find that's the standard practice. MrArticleOne (talk) 21:36, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
 * ACC does this too, incidentally. Mackensen (talk) 15:25, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Non-AQ representative
There should be a field for the non-AQ league team that gets an automatic bid to the BCS. Right now the 2009 Mountain West football standings shows TCU as receiving an "at-large" bid. But that is inaccurate because they did not receive an at-large bid. They received the bid for the highest ranked team from the MWC, WAC, MAC, C-USA, or Sun Belt. See Official BCS Selection Rules #3 for an explanation. —23:34, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Pre-1936 Standings w/o AP Poll
The AP Poll began in 1926. Using this template for 1925 and prior seasons renders the "AP Poll" text below the standings. Is there a means or syntax either suppress or provide alternate text in these cases where the reference is nonsensical and confusing? Pasadena91 (talk) 15:51, 29 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Pasadena91, good call here. You mean 1936  for the year the AP Poll began.  At any rate, it would be nice to have a way to suppress that poll text.  That's possible in Template:CFB Yearly Record End, but I think the code for this template needs to be tweaked to do the same thing here.  Jweiss11 (talk) 05:17, 1 July 2010 (UTC)


 * What interesting timing. I just came in here while on a mission to update the conf standings related to historical Nebraska seasons and ran into this same problem, fancy finding this discussion going on at nearly the same time. I'd like to see a null option for the polls link as well. Fjbfour (talk) 09:18, 1 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Since I created this template then maybe I should look into that. :) JohnnyPolo24 (talk) 13:04, 2 July 2010 (UTC)


 * I believe that should work, but let me know if it still needs to be tweeked. JohnnyPolo24 (talk) 13:17, 2 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Can you review Template:1916 PCC football standings? I made the change to include 'no-poll=', but the 'Rankings from AP Poll' string remains hard-coded at the bottom of the layout.  Thank you.  Pasadena91 (talk) 14:46, 2 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Done. Although you had added the no-poll parameter, you didn't add anything into it. You can put anything into that field: "yes", "no", "lol", "brb" – it really doesn't matter – though preferably something that makes sense for future editors. As long as the field has something in it then it won't display the poll source or the date of the last update. JohnnyPolo24 (talk) 13:27, 6 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Fantastic, thanks very much. This new attribute is also useful in suppressing the poll field when no teams in the standings are ranked, making the poll reference irrelevant.  I appreciate the fast response, too. Fjbfour (talk) 18:21, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

FCS Conferences?
While the FCS conferences typically have standings templates, it would be nice to be able to convert them to this standardized format. It would, however, require some modification of the options (particularly in Template:CFB Standings End) to support FCS-specific parameters like a national champion and playoff qualifiers (auto and at-large). I can try to tackle this, but I don't have a lot of experience with template modification and worry about mucking things up or having to eventually give up. Is anyone with more experience willing to take a look and see if we can implement it, perhaps with some sort of FBS/FCS flag to turn on different sets of parameters? Thanks. WildCowboy (talk) 16:27, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Independent in the BCS
There should be a parameter that would address an Independent participating in the BCS, as Notre Dame did last year. You can't really have a champion of the Independents Ben (talk) 01:28, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Division III playoffs
Could someone please add a field for Division III playoff participant? It could be just like the D-II one, but for D-III. Something like this would be perfect:
 * D-III-playoff-participant

Thanks MorrisS (talk) 09:12, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Nevermind, I took care of itMorrisS (talk) 09:17, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

update AP Poll linking behavior
etc Looking for some implementation feedback. Context here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football/Archive 18

I started down the AutoWikiBrowser path to deep link the AP Poll to the YYYY football rankings page, but the "AP Poll" text/link isn't consistently present, so I cannot perform an AWB search and replace. And it's ~10 conf templates x ~80 years of edits. So hoping you can assist with some options.

Goal is to get each AP Poll link to point to our YYYY rankings page: Category:College football rankings (1936~1977) and Category:NCAA Division I FBS football rankings (1978~present)

Main issues:
 * 1) The AP Poll is supported from 1936 onward.
 * 2) The YYYY ranking page naming convention varies by year range, as shown in the above cats
 * 3) Also need to account for I-AA/FCS (Category:NCAA Division I FCS football rankings), Div II, and Div III (don't link to the I/I-A/FBS page)

Thoughts? UW Dawgs (talk) 18:48, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
 * UW Dawgs, so, for example, you want links like  in Template:2016 SEC football standings instead of the generic one currently in Template:1936 SEC football standings?  we could have a year and division parameter and then determine the link from there, or, just continue adding poll parameters with the link.  if it's approx 800 pages, then some sort of semi-automated edits is probably feasible.  we could have a tracking category to find all uses without poll if that would make it easier to find/fix them all. Frietjes (talk) 14:33, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's it. UW Dawgs (talk) 14:52, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

# as key for College Football Playoff champion
Is the  parameter working as expected?

I see:

Template:2015 Southeastern Conference football standings which renders of a row of: No. 1 Alabama x$#^ 7–1 14–1

But there is no "#" char in the key.

Similarly, Template:2016 Atlantic Coast Conference football standings renders: No. 1 Clemson xy$# 7–1 14–1

Without a "#" char in the key.

Circling back after leaving this sitting for two weeks. Apologies if I missed a specific callout. UW Dawgs (talk) 05:53, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
 * 2001 Miami Hurricanes football team / Template:2001 Big East Conference football standings has a similar issue in the format of the key, re "– BCS National Champion" UW Dawgs (talk) 05:56, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
 * UW Dawgs, should work now (the # was being parsed as an ordered list item, which was then removed by "unbulleted list"). Frietjes (talk) 16:07, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Looks good, thank you. # and * are always tricky... UW Dawgs (talk) 17:24, 24 February 2021 (UTC)