Template talk:Infobox college football team

New template
This is what I came up with on my first attempt. I hope it satisfies most of the requests. Still working on an issue with the color boxes. Let me know what you think.--NMajdan &bull;talk 21:43, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * No I haven't. Looks good. Some suggestions: Center the Italicized headers? Or push them out a little more? Also, maybe add a Conference Record under Team Records? Perhaps Conference Titles shouldn't just be a number, since then you could specify what conference(s) it was? ie, 2 Big 12, 5 Big 8, etc? Also, maybe a field for starting year of football? Or number of years (less useful). But really, it does look good. I've see the same color problem on other templates too. -- MECU ≈ talk 22:36, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the comments Mecu. I moved the italicized headers over a little more. I can still move it more or just center it. I think conference titles should be a number because win I visit more athletic sites, thats how they list it. But technically, anything can go there. Its not like that field invalidates any number or has some isnumber function attached to it. I will add the starting year for football as well. Also, I moved your comment to the template talk page as well so we can switch this conversation to the proper place.--NMajdan &bull;talk 22:44, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * (edit conflict) I like the over-all look and there are only a few things I would add/change. First, I'd have Capacity and Surface be sub-headings under stadium if they are used with each on it's own line. Second, the all-time win percentage doesn't show up even though it's filled in on your example . Third, the fight song probably needs a link field like the coach and mascot have (could probably also use a second or alternative mascot field for teams with two, like the Sooners or Texas). Fourth, the image at the top does not appear to be centered, but that may also be my screen or the fact that the image is an odd number of pixels wide. Otherwise, great job on this and I can't wait until it's ready to go. z4ns4tsu \talk 22:43, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I fixed the percentage issue and the fight song link. Still debating whether we should give capacity and field type its own heading. I kinda like the way it is, which is the same as it was on the Penn State infobox. I may add some 'Free' labels and values tomorrow so anybody can add some additional information as they see fit whether it be an additional mascot, fight song, etc.--NMajdan &bull;talk 22:48, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Ah, this is wonderful. However, maybe we should have the title that links to the athletic department's page (i.e. Michigan Wolverines)? However, for the most part, this is great - I have no complaints, though some Universities have more than one mascot or fight song - I see however, that this is being adressed. -- Nomader Talk 02:48, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Comments
Looks good so far. I would make the following changes- First off, we need a field for offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator. We also need a field for rivals and perhaps rivalry games (can be combined to one field?). Should "City" be in the infobox? How are we dealing with co-conference champs? There should be something like Conference Titles = 5 (3 shared) or something like that. "All-Americans" is a tricky subject. Only consensus all-americans? First team all-americans? Are we including second team? Third team? Freshmen? Honorable mention? According to what organizations? There are dozens of organizations that release their own AA lists and some go all the way to third team. We need to decide if we are only going with AP All-Americans or what. If someone gets AA honors 4 years does that only count towards one on that list or does it count 4 times? The way "All-Americans" is worded I would say only counted once, if it said "All-American Titles" then I would agree to count them 4 times. Same can be said for "Heisman winners" vs. "Heisman trophies". I have seen several infoboxes include "BCS Record" underneath Bowl Record as well, not sure if we want to include that. Should other awards be included in the "Awards" section? How about Maxwell, Bednarick, Groza, etc.? Those are my preliminary thoughts, I'll probably have more to add later. VegaDark 00:20, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Wow, I fear that to include all of your suggestions would make the infobox incredibly long (for an infobox) and complex. We need to get more feedback from other people. For instance, I think just the head coach is enough on this infobox since the OC and DC are on the yearly team infobox. I'm also not a fan of having rivalries in an infobox. If that needs to be a section fine, but what are other people's feeling on this? Adding rival teams in one thing but I'm definitely against adding rivalry games as I feel this would be too long. However, I will add a "free" field where it can be made anything. So it could be a rivalry field, or an additional mascot/fight song field. You raise a good point on All American. I guess we should only include Consensus as it would be the easiest to get compared to getting all First Team, Second Team, etc. I chose not to include BCS because its only been around for several years and there's no telling how long is will exist. I felt the proper ground was covered by the National Title field and the Bowl Games field. Also, including every single award on this infobox will, once again, I feel make it too long. As you can tell, my personal preference is to only have vital information to a program in an infobox and any other information should be in the article itself.--NMajdan &bull;talk 15:24, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Perhaps the best idea would be to simply list the number of school-recognized All-Americans. Schools aren't going to list people who were chosen for the Bob's Groceries AA list on their list of All-Americans.  Consensus AA seems a bit too limiting, and I know not all schools even list who were considered consensus AA vs. non-consensus. VegaDark 01:05, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * One other note- The "Colorhex" fields don't seem to be working, as they aren't showing up. VegaDark 05:04, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, for some reason on the example above the hex codes are not working. However, I went ahead and inserted the template on the Oklahoma Sooners football page and the color boxes came out fine.--NMajdan &bull;talk 16:19, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Ready for primetime?
So is this template ready to be inserted into the appropriate articles? Any other changes? I've already put it on the Oklahoma Sooners football and the UCF Golden Knights football articles so you can see it in a live environment there if you wish.--NMajdan &bull;talk 16:22, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I think it is good except for one final thing: There used to be non-postseason bowls so "Bowl record" could or could not include that. I think it should be "Postseason Bowl Record".  See Mirage Bowl for where I am coming from. Other than that I think It's good to go. VegaDark 19:15, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Done.--NMajdan &bull;talk 19:22, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Go here to see what pages the infobox has been placed on.--NMajdan &bull;talk 16:55, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Division
Is there any reason why the division (DI, DII, etc.) is not included in this template and required? --ElKevbo 02:45, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Anyone? --ElKevbo 00:52, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Can't think of one but you can get the division by clicking on the conference. But I see not reason why it couldn't be added.↔<span style="font:bold 11px Verdana,sans-serif;">NMajdan &bull;<span style="font:9px Verdana,sans-serif; color:#000;">talk 12:09, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Can't disagree with that at all. If you want to insert it I'd recommend one of two "places".  Either right by the conference or somehow worked in between the team name / current season section and the "head coach".  I'll be happy to explain why i think that if you want. Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat  12:29, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Wire National Titles
I think we should rephrase this as "wire" is usually reserved for the newswire polls (Associated Press, USAToday's Coaches, or perhaps the old New York Times rankings). The problem I see is that many schools claim championships that are not always from a newswire. For instance, Alabama claims 13 championships but was only voted #1 by the AP 6 times and only 5 times by the Coaches - the others are a variety of smaller polls or retrodictive computer rankings. Richard Billingsley's College Football Research Center (now part of the BCS) only recognizes Alabama as concensus champion 5 times, meanwhile a school like Auburn only claims 1 title despite being Billingsley's concensus champion 3 times. And this argument isnt specific to Alabama/Auburn - I just picked them as they are rivals and represent the two extremes of my argument. Many schools claim more titles than are generally 'recognized' (USC, Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State, etc all have 'disputed' titles). Perhaps the infobox should just read "Claimed National Titles" or something of that nature to denote we are only showing the number of titles the school chooses to recognize/claim. If I do not see any objections I will make this change in the next week - just revert if you don't like but please respond here as to why. --otduff t/c 02:27, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I can't even begin to remember how many times this has come up. You might want to check the archives of the college football WikiProject's talk page. I do know that each time it has been discussed there is a huge row. z4ns4tsu \talk 19:14, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Well I just looked at the talk page and see no mention of this infobox and no discussion of use of the term 'claimed national title' versus 'wire national title'. Is there something I am missing here? --otduff t/c 06:38, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Nevermind, after looking through the archives I saw some discussion from Dec 2006. I don't really see where they reached a concensus to use 'wire' but I will just change the pages I see to only reflect AP or UPI polls from all infoboxes and will point people here so they can read the archive if they disagree. There is also limited discussion here but not specific to the infobox. --otduff t/c 07:12, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Width
This template is a bit wider than most infoboxes on Wikipedia, would there be any objection to shrinking it a bit? From say 30em to 25em? I realize it will cause some text wrapping for longer entries, but that is already the case even at 30em for some schools and data. You can see a preview of the narrower infobox for Auburn and Oklahoma at User:Autiger/Sandbox. Thanks. <span style="font-family:arial, sans; color:#EF6521">AU <span style="color: #000063; font-family:arial, sans">Tiger » <span style="font-family:arial, sans; font-size:x-small">talk 15:47, 12 October 2007 (UTC)


 * It's been several days and no comments so I'm shrinking the width a bit. If it causes major problems someplace, it can go back. <span style="font-family:arial, sans; color:#EF6521">AU <span style="color: #000063; font-family:arial, sans">Tiger » <span style="font-family:arial, sans; font-size:x-small">talk 04:46, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Logo for current season
This template pulls from the current sport-related template. It looks odd seeing a soccer ball there. Oh well, that's a general template and soccer/football is common worldwide sport. -Fnlayson (talk) 06:23, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Independent teams
Is it possible that the conference fields could be optional? Simply putting 'Independent' in there causes the template to link to a dab page, which is sub-optimal. Thanks. --AndrewHowse (talk) 18:06, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Can you please give an example? It appears to be working fine on Notre Dame Fighting Irish football. You can set the template to link to whatever article you want. You can have it say Independent but then link to Superman if you wanted.↔<span style="font:bold 11px Verdana,sans-serif;">NMajdan &bull;<span style="font:9px Verdana,sans-serif; color:#000;">talk 19:25, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Linking to NCAA Division I-A independent schools will help, thanks. UW-Milwaukee Panther Football was just linked to the dab page Independent. Cheers. --AndrewHowse (talk) 19:34, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Not a current event
Can someone more familiar with this template or template syntax in general please remove the current event icon/text? The sport is not in season nor close to beginning again so it's not a current event, IMHO. --ElKevbo (talk) 20:52, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Given the lack of discussion in the week+ since I posted this question, I went ahead and removed the icon myself. --ElKevbo (talk) 22:41, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Mascot link
The mascot link seems to be missing or broken. Could someone please correct. Thanks. -- Absolon S. Kent (talk) 20:36, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

RFC on "National titles" field
See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football for a request for comment on the national title field in this template. &mdash; Scientizzle 20:24, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Hall of Fame Field
Any way we can add a field for College Football Hall of Fame members?-PassionoftheDamon (talk) 01:47, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Uniform diagram
Hi, I'm attempting to place a diagram of the current team uniform on the infobox, similar to the ones found on the pages for NFL franchises (see Pittsburgh Steelers, Dallas Cowboys, or any other NFL franchise article for an example). I have added a basic template for it, but I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing, so if someone could help me out by preferably making it an optional addition, I'd appreciate it!CH52584 (talk) 02:04, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * The consensus to add that content to the infobox should be obtained first, and then someone with the know-how can do it providing the consensus to do so is reached. - &#10032; <strong style="letter-spacing:1px;font-family:Verdana">ALLST☆R &#10032; echo 02:09, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't mind seeing it in there as well, and I can help out with coding it, assuming consensus. What is the general timeframe given for objections to be raised before consensus is assumed, Allstar? Cardsplayer4life (talk) 05:40, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
 * No timeline really, just generally if it hasn't moved in one direction or another after a few days, go with whatcha got. I support the uniform inclusion as well. So it seems we have a consensus. I'd give it a couple more days though. - &#10032; <strong style="letter-spacing:1px;font-family:Verdana">ALLST☆R &#10032; echo 05:53, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I've already started creating some images, and have already uploaded several. I'm working on the SEC right now, and have added several to articles (though not in the infobox) for Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Vanderbilt, and have started working on Arkansas, LSU, and Ole Miss. CH52584 (talk) 01:51, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Let's also please keep in mind that there was an ongoing discussion about use of college sports team logos. I don't know what the outcome of that discussion was or if it's even still ongoing, but we don't want to run into any copyright issues. - &#10032; <strong style="letter-spacing:1px;font-family:Verdana">ALLST☆R &#10032; echo 02:03, 14 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Can someone make the uniform field conditional, so that it does not appear (along with the stray code) if there is nothing entered for it? Strikehold (talk) 13:02, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I did that but was quickly reverted by - ALLST✰R &#09660; echo wuz here @ 21:18, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Current season link
Instead of manually showing and hiding the current season link every August and January, respectively, I would prefer to code some ParserFunctions there to automatically handle that. Zzyzx11 (talk) 22:56, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Can we get the Current Season Link updated? It is still turned off. Jm2gm (talk) 06:05, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Not a very elegant solution, but I made it to where if the month is either January, September, October, November or December, it will show the current season link. Obviously, I know that sometimes football starts in late August and is always over by January 8, but taking those factors into account needs a bit more coding that I am willing to put it right now. We just have to make sure all articles that use this template have accurate CurrentSeason parameters.↔<span style="font:bold 11px Verdana,sans-serif;">NMajdan &bull;<span style="font:9px Verdana,sans-serif; color:#000;">talk 13:40, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Except, as you mentioned, polls and camps start up in August, so it should just be turned on in August. Actually, you could make an argument that spring games for teams constitute the current season. IMO, this should be turned on permanently and managed by the article editors. CrazyPaco (talk) 21:50, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

All-time record

 * What?: under the current template design, the Template:Winning percentage causes an error when it tries to process references (or more generally, non-numeral characters), unless they're enclosed in or tags, which render said references not visible on the individual team pages.
 * Proposal: add an OPTIONAL all-time record reference/notes/etc. field
 * Other possible fixes: Find a way to adjust the ATWins, ATTies, and ATLosses inputs to Template:Winning percentage or adjust the percentage template itself to ignore characters within angled brackets.
 * Potential code (I don't edit templates often, so feel free to fix my error[s]):

|-  | All-time record | –

Comments/suggestions/action?  CB.. .(ö)  22:22, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Allowing four school colors
Can we add the option for four school colors? Maryland has four official school colors, and the infobox will only show two. Especially since they've started featuring uni combinations in all four colors (for better or worse), the infobox should probably display that information. Here are references for the colors:


 * | School Traditions
 * | UMD Web-design Guidelines with official hex-values

acomas (talk) 16:46, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
 * up to four colors are now supported (see Maryland Terrapins football). Frietjes (talk) 23:52, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

Multiple stadiums?
This template doesn't work well with schools that might have multiple official stadiums, as Arkansas has, and as Alabama has had in the past. It is possible to add an additional "Stadium1" parameter (and Stadiumbuilt1 and Stadiumcapacity1, etc.) to handle that situation? -Jhortman (talk) 02:12, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I added stadiums. Frietjes (talk) 23:51, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

How do you mark dead links in WebsiteURL?
Typically, one tries to repair a broken link by adding Dead link or webarchive after a dead external link. However, this template renders brackets [] around the value of WebsiteURL. As a result, things render incorrectly if you mark a dead link inside this template. See the examples to the right.

Most infoboxes are compatible with Dead link and webarchive, but this one is not. How should someone repair a broken link?

Thanks Blevintron (talk) 17:44, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I added website which takes the entire URL, so |website = www.olemisssports.com/football will work now. Frietjes (talk) 23:37, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

White box around image
Why is there a white box around the image? Nearly no other American college sports infobox templates templates have this. --ben_b (talk) 01:54, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
 * that is now easy to remove, just remove the "border: #aaa 1px solid" from the "imagestyle" statement. Frietjes (talk) 23:36, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

Logo
Why is the logo on the left?  Zappa  O  Mati   20:20, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I believe that was due to the addition of a helmet image (which would have been optionally to the right). I updated the code base to use infobox, and fixed several bugs. Frietjes (talk) 23:24, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

One additional free value?
Can we add a third value for teams to add information?74.76.57.171 (talk) 02:25, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

removing conference entry year from conf article link
Currently we support:
 * ConferenceDisplay= SEC (1932–present)
 * ConferenceLink  = Southeastern Conference

Which renders as:

Conference SEC (1932–present)

Appending the parenthetical to the conference link doesn't read very well (we're not linking to "SEC" with some "1932–present" context) and is becoming more inconsistent with how years are inline-linked to year-specific articles (CFB seasons, team season, conf years, etc) elsewhere in the infobox.

So could we support something, like:
 * ConferenceDisplay= SEC
 * ConferenceFirstYear= 1932
 * ConferenceLink  = Southeastern Conference

Which would check for ConferenceFirstYear and conditionally render as follows (or as-is if ConferenceFirstYear doesn't exist):

Conference SEC (1932–present)

This would delink the year range from the conf name and also follow our existing "| FirstYear" naming convention. Cheers to the prior good work of the template keepers! UW Dawgs (talk) 16:40, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

removed Division string from example
Was bold and removed the "Division" string from both the example and rendered content.

So the prior example of:
 * ConfDivision    = Western Division (1992–present)

which rendered (and wrapped) as:

Division Western Division (1992–present)

Is now displayed as:
 * ConfDivision    = Western (1992–present)

and which renders (and no longer wraps) as:

Division Western (1992–present)

This change is consistent with how we already pipe "SEC" to Southeastern Conference which both lessens the text duplication and likelihood of wrapping within the infobox. UW Dawgs (talk) 17:04, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

deprecate Athletic Director
For the lay of the land, we display AD info on:
 * A List of NCAA Division I athletic directors
 * Navboxes by conference: Category:NCAA Division I athletic director by conference navigational boxes
 * And AD articles for ~30% of Division I ADs

While the current AD doesn't semm like a critical property of the historical article on football team (Alabama Crimson Tide football), both this template and Template:Infobox NCAA fencing school prominently display the AD info atop the infobox via:
 * AthlDirectorDisp =
 * AthlDirectorLink =

The other college templates (Category:American college sports infobox templates) do not suport AD display, including:
 * Template:Infobox college basketball team
 * Template:Infobox college rowing team
 * Template:Infobox college ski team
 * Template:Infobox college soccer team
 * Template:Infobox college softball team
 * Template:Infobox college swim team
 * Template:Infobox college tennis team
 * Template:Infobox college track and field team
 * Template:Infobox college track and field
 * Template:Infobox college volleyball team
 * Template:Infobox college wrestling team

As these sport articles may include 100+ years of history, displaying the most recent AD may not be very relevant. And the AD data is inconsistently maintained right now.

I see two competing options.
 * 1) Remove AD from the football and fencing templates, as the current AD isn't directly relevant to the historcal 19xx-present football article.  That said, football articles (Alabama Crimson Tide football) drive significant exposure for any AD updates, rather than just dsplaying within the general athletics article (Alabama Crimson Tide).
 * 2) Keep AD in this template and extend support throughout Category:American college sports infobox templates for consistency and visibilty.  If we did this, ideally the AD info should be moved to Wiki Data to make global updates trivial via a centralizied location.

Thoughts? UW Dawgs (talk) 17:59, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Personally, I'd like to see the AD field in most, if not all, college athletic team navboxes. Mainly basketball and football, but without the AD, the athletic depts. wouldn't be anything they are today. I !vote for option 2. Corkythe hornetfan  (ping me) 18:31, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Option 2, per what Corky said. Ejgreen77 (talk) 04:17, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Option 2 sounds like a great solution --Zach Pepsin (talk) 20:11, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

You're invited...
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football, regarding the issue of whether or not to include the school colors into this infobox. In order to keep the discussion together and in one place, please comment there. Thanks, Corky  23:15, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Wrapped win percentage transclusions
I noticed that this template was triggering errors in its own docs. The Parameter names example-driven samples were causing transclusions of Winning percentage with arguments like  (which decodes to  ), causing errors in its   expressions.

So I just wrapped all three in, to discard the output if it triggers an error. -- FeRDNYC (talk) 10:42, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

AllAmericans parameter
The | AllAmericans    = 28 parameter renders as "Consensus All-Americans 28".

Multiple issues:
 * 1) It is presumed per this documentation that the count (28) will render via Template:American college football All-Americans, however that data is stale to ~2014.
 * 2) Therefore, editors have removed this template from the infobox and are inserting inline integers which are occasionally paired with a citation
 * 3) Because the parameter is named "AllAmericans," that inline integer is often not the consensus number (unanimous, 1st team, 2nd team, HM, non-NCAA approved selectors, etc which results in inflated counts).

Can we do some of the following:
 * Rename the parameter as "ConcAllAmericans" (or similar) which fits in the existing padding prior to the left of " =" for readibility while editing. Renaming as "ConsensusAllAmericans" would be wider than the existing padding for the longest parameter. That makes the ("consensus") render context of the parameter more overt to an editor
 * Decide if we want to annually update the template data which is easily sourced (see http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2018/awards.pdf)
 * And if not, deprecate Template:American college football All-Americans since usage is erroneous for most (large) schools
 * And possibly hardcode the ref parameter/citation behavior. While somewhat against WP:INFOBOXCITE, if we don't include date context in some manner, the day after AA teams are announced there will be editors immediately swapping the "out-of-date" template with an inline a count.

Thanks, UW Dawgs (talk) 02:55, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Updating the template annually doesn't seem like it'd be much of a problem. I do think the citation is important though, as there are inconsistencies between the NCAA's counts and schools' own counts. Lizard  (talk) 03:32, 19 December 2018 (UTC)


 * I am interested in starting some of the fix. Specifically, ongoing render of concensus selections seems appropriate (vs changing to unanimous or 1st/2nd+/HM+/etc) and concensus can be cited per above. So renaming the parameter and updating the documentation would be positive step, as it helps to clarify intent to editors. Can you provide some feedback on changing the parameter name ala "| ConcAllAmericans =" (and potentially "" if/as necessary)? Am happy to do the AWB/manual part. UW Dawgs (talk) 03:11, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
 * UW Dawgs, the alternative syntax is easy, just add like [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3AInfobox_NCAA_football_school%2Fsandbox&type=revision&diff=879646308&oldid=879645827 this]. not sure if you are asking for any other changes at this time (e.g., using a data template). Frietjes (talk) 15:24, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

NatlFinalist parameter / scope, help text
re the NatlFinalist: A number denoting how many times national finalist followed by year(s) if any parameter and documentation which was created in October 2012 including via this edit.

I don't see any discussion on the Talk page and can think of a few ways the "NatlFinalist" parameter could be interpreted. Explicitly, the 1989 Fiesta Bowl #1 vs #3 pairing does not align with my view of reasonable usage of the paramter as seen on West Virginia Mountaineers football. So I'd like to generate some discussion, align on the definition, and then update the parameter documentation.

Based on these articles:
 * Bowl Coalition (1992–1994)
 * Bowl Alliance (1995–1997)
 * BCS National Championship Game (1998–2013)
 * College Football Playoff National Championship (2014–present)

using 1998 onward which paired a #1 and #2 (including re Coaches Trophy automatically awarded to the game winner) might be reasonable, though still not as clean as the FCS playoff champsionship game which actually pairs two finalists. UW Dawgs (talk) 22:59, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

deprecate "otherstaff" parameter
An initial discussion of the relavance of non-coaching staff on CFB team articles: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football

Led to a decision to deprecate the "otherstaff" parameter: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football

I have cleaned FBS and FCS articles of "otherstaff" (but not Div II, III, NAIA, etc as FCS had trivial usage). So we don't need a tracking category in my view. Is this something you can assist with? Cheers, UW Dawgs (talk) 23:50, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
 * UW Dawgs, I removed it from the list of valid parameters, so it will show up in Category:Pages using infobox NCAA football school with unknown parameters (so far only 7 articles). we can probably remove it completely shortly.  Frietjes (talk) 15:45, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you. UW Dawgs (talk) 19:48, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

Requested move 3 February 2020
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 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: moved (non-admin closure)  NNADI GOOD LUCK  ( Talk &#124; Contribs ) 21:30, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Template:Infobox NCAA football school → Template:Infobox college football team – This template should be renamed as it's not NCAA-specific and its naming should match analogous infobox templates for other sports, e.g. Template:Infobox college baseball team and Template:Infobox college basketball team. Jweiss11 (talk) 20:02, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Support. 1900 Michigan Wolverines football team and 1896 Lafayette football team are examples of articles that correctly use the template for seasons that occurred before the NCAA even existed. The template is clearly about college football teams, not just NCAA football teams. Ostealthy (talk) 22:06, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Support per nom and Ostealthy. Infobox is not NCAA-specific and I assume the user that named the template assumed "NCAA football" = "college football", which is not true. PCN02WPS  ( talk  &#124;  contribs ) 02:35, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Support move per above. Let's get this consistent with the other sports.  O.N.R.  (talk) 09:32, 4 February 2020 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. <b style="color:red">Please do not modify it.</b> Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

"Nickname " rendering inline within Infobox
This edit made today without an edit summary (or sandbox?) changed Website and Nickname behavior. At this moment, some articles (even after null edits to purge) are rendering "Nickname	" inline within the infobox, while other articles render do not rendering those strings at all. Ex:

Infobox rendering "Nickname	": Outfitter	Nike Nickname Website	usctrojans.com
 * USC Trojans football

Outfitter	Under Armour Nickname Website	auburntigers.com
 * Auburn Tigers football

Infobox not rendering that param/value: Outfitter	Nike Website	Rolltide.com
 * Alabama Crimson Tide football

Outfitter	Under Armour (as of 2017) Website	UCLABruins.com
 * UCLA Bruins football

Rollback? Cheers, UW Dawgs (talk) 20:40, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
 * UW Dawgs, I fixed the bad missing parameter logic, but would also be in favor of rolling it back. Frietjes (talk) 21:57, 28 October 2020 (UTC)