Template talk:Infobox NCAA football yearly game

Game Name

 * Not all games are presenting sponsors, some are title sponsors that have the sponsor's name listed first. 71.140.102.206 (talk) 16:11, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

I agree. It is not the Fiesta Bowl presented by Tostitos, but the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. All but the Rose Bowl are the same way. Bcspro (talk) 17:21, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Perhaps you could more the Sponser link to before the bowl name. (e.g. 2009 Fiesta Bowl. Bcspro (talk) 02:55, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Terrific suggestion. It appears that you (Bcspro) already made the appropriate edit. I will go back in and add an optional subheading to the heading in case people would like to add a "presented by" (or anything else for that matter) as a subheading. I was actually kind of bummed because it was taking up the space for the subheading (and 2 subheadings is too much I felt) so thanks for the excellent suggestion, guys. This is the first one I had created, so any other suggestions you may have are greatly appreciated. Cardsplayer4life (talk) 11:00, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, I made 2 changes. First, on the change that was made, it was slightly messing up if there was no sponsor present, so I added a simple if/then statement to display it slightly differently if there was a sponsor filled in or not. Second, I added a parameter called "Optional Subheader" which will display below the header if filled in. Hopefully this is everything for now. I encourage more suggestions if anyone has any. Cardsplayer4life (talk) 11:35, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I also just changed the parameter name of "Sponsor" to "Title Sponsor" to make more clear for people what it is. I updated all pages that have transcluded the template so far. Cardsplayer4life (talk) 20:12, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Odds
See the WT:CFB discussion before modifying or discussing here. Thanks much, Group29 (talk) 02:58, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Uniform parameter
Would it be possible to put an optional uniform parameter into the template, so an image showing the teams' uniforms (like done for a lot of teams' individual pages) could be added? I've even started doing some teams' bowl uniforms and I think it'd be a valuable addition to the pages. Obviously, it'd be incredibly difficult to fill in all of the bowls, so the parameter should be optional. --Kevin W. 01:53, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Anyone? --Kevin W. 03:09, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

NAIA Use?
We're using this template at 2011 NAIA Football National Championship, and unfortunately the "Coaches Poll" link goes to Coaches' Poll (NCAA) and it should go to NAIA Coaches' Poll. Can we make this a parameter or otherwise find a work-around, rather than having to make a new template for NAIA games?--Paul McDonald (talk) 03:41, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Infobox parameters: Start Time and Official Webpage
Please consider adding "Start Time" and "Official Webpage" to the Infobox because they are at-a-glance pieces of information that many users may find pertinent to any given game.

Bamerrell (talk) 12:55, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I'll leave this to another user to close, but I don't see any consensus for this change, or any indication that these are important. You may want to post here to establish consensus first. Vacation nine 16:53, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the template. Consider leaving a message at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football asking for comments (and if there is an agreement that they should be there one of the users there will be able to add it themselves. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 23:00, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

Game name field pointing to disambig
Hi. Pages using this template points to disambig as in the case of 2009 United Bowl. The Game Name field is not wikilinked but shows up as a link to disambig page United Bowl. The documentation states that this parameter should not be wikilinked. So, is there a way to fix this? (to either remove the resulting link or point it to the correct article). Thanks. -SJ Defender (talk) 02:53, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
 * SJ Defender, fixed using the undocumented game link parameter. Frietjes (talk) 23:46, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
 * This parameter really needs to be documented. I've been disambiguating Camellia Bowl (e.g. on 2015 Camellia Bowl) and this is at least the second time I've run into this linking issue and had to go digging for the solution.
 * Also, is there a way to specify no link? I didn't see a good way to handle this on Camellia Bowl (1948), so I used a self-referential link for the time being. Nick Number (talk) 14:35, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Nick Number, this template is really for games which are part of a series with a parent article. I fixed your example by using Infobox college football game instead.  this template is just a frontend for that template, and Infobox college football game is more flexible. Frietjes (talk) 18:25, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
 * |game link= really does need to be documented. I struggled with 1973 Camellia Bowl for several minutes before finding this thread. Narky Blert (talk) 14:59, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Extend YYYY / NCAA level logic
A question about extending the date range of what seems to be existing logic. See:
 * 2020 College Football Playoff National Championship which points to 2019 NCAA Division I FBS football season; I presume this is via  and FBS/FCS logic.
 * 2020 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game which points to 2019 NCAA Division I FCS football season re same.

However around 1978, we seem to lose FBS/FCS context. See here where links start to point to "YYYY college football season":
 * 1978 Rose Bowl and  which points to 1977 college football season ("bad/DAB")
 * 1979 Rose Bowl and  which points to 1978 NCAA Division I-A football season ("good")

Here is a clean YYYY+FBS/FCS/IA/IAA/etc mapping Template:NCAA football season navbox. If you can do this, it would help take some pressure off of the YYYY DAB pages.

Cheers, UW Dawgs (talk) 05:33, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
 * UW Dawgs, I think I fixed it. Frietjes (talk) 17:20, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Amazing, I spot-checked the "top level" of NCAA (Pre-divisional/University/I/I-A/FBS) via Template:Rose Bowl navbox and everything looked great!
 * Then I checked the "second level" of NCAA (Pre-divisional/College/I/I-AA/FCS) and there might be issues. At 1964 Tangerine Bowl (1964 UMass Redmen football team vs 1964 UMass Redmen football team), all three articles point to this game being "College" (1964 NCAA College Division football season). However, the   link on 1964 Tangerine Bowl points to "University" (1964 NCAA University Division football season) rather than 1964 NCAA College Division football season.
 * That's worth a second look, but your recent change is already a significant improvement. UW Dawgs (talk) 18:07, 6 June 2021 (UTC)