Wikipedia:WikiProject College football

Welcome to WikiProject College football! Our mission is to continually expand and improve Wikipedia's coverage of college football. This page and its subpages contain a forum for coordinating editors' efforts and building and maintaining quality and coherent style across all college football articles. If you would like to help, sign your name on the project participants list, visit our project's talk page, and check out the lists of requested tasks and articles in need of attention to see how you can help. Or give one of the participants listed below a shout if you have a question or need some direction.

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Scope
As stated above, this project covers all aspects of college football including articles about college football history, the programs and traditions of individual schools, college football rivalries, notable games, awards, rankings and championship systems, and overviews of seasons on a national, conference, and individual team basis. Articles regarding the stadiums and venues, mascots, fight songs, and other pageantry that support college football teams or events are also included in the project. Biography articles for college football coaches, players, and other notable contributors such as journalists and sportscasters fall within the scope of this project. In many cases, such biography articles will also fall under the scope of WikiProject National Football League or other sports-related projects. In addition, articles that cover American football concepts and strategies that underwent significant development within the crucible of college football, such as touchdown, two-point conversion, or option offense, also fall under the purview of this project.

This project is limited to college football in the United States under the umbrella of the NCAA and the NAIA. At present, college football in Canada is organized under WikiProject Canadian football&mdash;however, there are some colleges that participate in both Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) and NAIA football. No other organized effort exists for non-American college football. If a need develops, a task force for British college football may be created. This project also does not cover junior college football, sprint football, or club teams. See WP:CFBTEAMS for more detail.

At present, effort is concentrated in the following areas (examples in parentheses):


 * Team articles (e.g. Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football)
 * History articles (History of American football, Maryland Terrapins football under Jim Tatum (1947–1955))
 * Seasons articles:
 * National (2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season)
 * Conference (2009 Big Ten Conference football season)
 * Team (2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team)
 * Rivalry articles (Michigan–Ohio State football rivalry)
 * Bowl games (Rose Bowl Game, 2006 Chick-fil-A Bowl)
 * Championships and rankings (AP Poll, 2006 NCAA Division I FBS football rankings, College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS)
 * Awards (Heisman Trophy, List of Heisman Trophy winners, 2009 College Football All-America Team, Big East Conference football awards)
 * Stadiums and venues (TCF Bank Stadium, Forbes Field)
 * Pageantry
 * Mascots (Ramblin' Wreck, Sparty)
 * Marching bands (Fightin' Texas Aggie Band)
 * Fight songs (The Victors)
 * Other (Aggie Bonfire)
 * Biographies:
 * Players (Doc Blanchard, Tate Forcier, Jim Thorpe)
 * Coaches (Bobby Dodd, Skip Holtz, Clark Shaughnessy)
 * Media figures (Chris Fowler, Grantland Rice)
 * Key terms, concepts, and strategies (touchdown, option offense)
 * Various lists of information:
 * Seasons by program (List of Appalachian State Mountaineers football seasons)
 * Bowl games by program (List of Connecticut Huskies bowl games)
 * Head coaches by program (List of Alabama Crimson Tide head football coaches)
 * NFL draftees by program (List of Texas Tech Red Raiders in the NFL Draft)
 * Conference champions (List of Atlantic Coast Conference football champions)
 * Records (List of college football coaches with 200 wins)
 * Statistical leaders by program (Mississippi State Bulldogs football statistical leaders) How-To Format

Goals

 * Organizational
 * 1) Create a set of standardized templates and article formats for coaches, teams, etc.
 * 2) Tag all college football articles, images, and other elements by placing the WikiProject College football template at the top of their talk pages.
 * 3) Categorize all college football articles into subcategories.
 * 4) Create subcategories for stubs and reclassify stubs into those subcategories.
 * 5) Find all college football stubs and label them.
 * Content
 * 1) Make Wikipedia one of the premier online resources on college football.
 * 2) Bring College football to featured article status.
 * 3) Keep 2024 NCAA Division I FBS football season and related articles up to date, and maintain them as a reliable resource for enthusiasts during the season.
 * 4) Increase number of good articles and featured articles within the project.
 * Portal
 * 1) Maintain Portal:College football and bring it to featured portal status.

Family of WikiProjects

 * WikiProject American football is our parent project.
 * WikiProject Sports is our grandparent.
 * WikiProject National Football League is our rich uncle.
 * WikiProject Canadian football is our not-quite-so-rich uncle who is always trying to get us to do things we shouldn't do.
 * WikiProject Arena Football League is another uncle who never goes outside.
 * WikiProject College Basketball is our brother.
 * WikiProject College baseball is our little brother who's finally starting to come into his own, though he knows his older brothers still run the show.
 * WikiProject Football (soccer) is an ex-wife who kept our last name. We sometimes get each other's mail and we're listed next to each other in the phone book.
 * WikiProject Rugby union and WikiProject Rugby league are our long-lost cousins who suddenly show up out of nowhere at our family reunions.
 * WikiProject Australian rules football is our distant relative from Down Under.
 * WikiProject Marching band lives across the street and they always seem to be having a party.
 * WikiProject Universities is our Godfather.

Guides and resources

 * Style guide: overview of style of common types of articles in the project
 * Naming conventions: addresses some article naming conventions, with discussion leading to it on talk page
 * Templates: commonly used templates for college football articles
 * Images: sets guidelines and offers suggestions for images (photos, maps, logos, etc.) related to college football
 * Notability: a comprehensive essay covering notability of organizations, teams, coaches, players, events, and other subjects related to the project
 * Game summaries: Tips and guidelines for writing game summaries either as stand-alone articles or integrated into season or other articles.
 * Reliable sources: guidelines about what does and does not constitute a reliable source in the world of college football teams and related topics
 * Vacated victories: guidelines on reporting vacated victories

Structure and format
See the following sub pages for information on article structures. If you would like to comment on the recommended format for an article type, please do so on the talk page for that article type's subpage.

Article formats

 * Team article format
 * Yearly team season article format

List formats

 * Team season-by-season lists
 * Statistical leaders by team How-To Format

New college football articles
Please feel free to list your new college football-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). By listing them here, we invite other editors to help expand and improve these new articles. New articles that have an interesting or unusual fact can also be nominated (within 7 days of creation/heavy expansion) for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. Please remember to add WikiProject College football to the talk page of the article.

Please place newest articles on the top

Articles in need of attention
Please feel free to ask for help from your fellow college football fans here (newer articles at the top, please).
 * Malone Stadium - This article need to be updates, there is not much information about this article. The stadium at UL-Monroe has lots of history and a new scoreboard was installed. The stadium also plans to get a new athletic complex built. Much more information would be great! WillAndersULM (talk) 01:06, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Dynasty (sports) College football sections need a lot of cleanup and citations (note that in the context of this article that means citation not of championships or stats, but that a team has been called a dynasty by a reliable source). Also probably needs some correction; are Yale's 1874 to 1909 "championships" considered D-I FBS (or even NCAA?). Ideally this would be rewritten into prose (rather than list) discussion of college football dynasties.
 * Blue-Gray Football Classic- Needs some dressing up, and I don't think it's templated/categorized properly for this project. I'm on a small wikibreak, but I keep hearing this game referenced on sportstalk radio lately ('tis the season), so punting to here... Cake (talk) 20:22, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Open deletion discussions

 * WikiProject Deletion sorting/American football

Deletion review history

 * WikiProject Deletion sorting/American football/archive – dates back to September 2007

Articles and pages requested to be moved
Open

General

 * NCAA transfer portal - 2018 debut of a new College transfer protocol for CFB athletes.
 * Name, Image and Likeness - 2021 debut of a new Amateurism in the NCAA protocol for CFB athletes.

Games

 * List of black college football classics, many games listed here need articles

Players and coaches

 * J. C. "Dog" Anderson, All-Southern halfback for the 1903 Cumberland Bulldogs, chosen alongside John J. Tigert. The C might stand for 'Chad.'

Historically significant teams without articles
Project editors have established and maintained articles for all 131 current NCAA Division I FBS football programs. However, many lower division and defunct college football programs remain without standalone articles. For example, the following schools made important contributions to the sport, but do not currently have football articles:


 * Saint John's College Platypus football


 * World War II-era military service training programs
 * Georgia Pre-Flight Skycrackers football
 * Saint Mary's Pre-Flight Air Devils football

College football content
As of August 2016, over 38,000 articles and lists and more than 18,000 images, categories, templates and other support elements have been identified within the scope of WikiProject College football; see here. As such, there are too many college football articles on Wikipedia to list them all here. Below are categories that contain college football-related articles:

Category trees

 * Category:College football (Recent changes)
 * Category:WikiProject College football (Recent changes)

Related Wikiportals
The College football Wikiproject currently maintains Portal:College football and assists on an as-needed basis in the maintenance of Portal:American football. Editors are encouraged to submit and nominate content on both portals. Portal:College football/Selected Content/Nominations provides an overview of scheduled content and examples of what qualifies to be featured content. In addition, important college football events should be added to the College Football News section of the portal, which is also maintained by project members.

Participants
Here is a list of College Football Wikiproject members, together with some of their interests. To join the group simply add yourself to the WikiProject College football/Participant List, being sure to maintain alphabetical order.