Wiki143: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 Wikipedia:WikiProject Canadian football—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, Tom Harmon], 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 the premier online resource 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

Alerts, new articles, open issues

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 Template:Tl to the talk page of the article.

Please place newest articles on the top

Article	Created on	Did You Know...
Tommy Suggs	30 Oct 2024

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).

Open deletion discussions

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/American football

Deletion review history

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/American football/archive – dates back to September 2007

Articles and pages requested to be moved

Open

Requests

General

• An article focused on the extreme danger of the early game, calls for banning the sport, resulting rule changes, the forward pass, Teddy Roosevelt's involvement, etc. Expansion of section here: History of American football#Violence and controversy (1905)

Games

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

Teams

Mid-Atlantic

Delaware State's last remaining season article redlinks, seasons leading up to and during the tenure of Al Lavan. Relevant to events that happened during a number of these seasons.

• 1996 Delaware State Hornets football team
• 1997 Delaware State Hornets football team
• 1998 Delaware State Hornets football team
• 1999 Delaware State Hornets football team
• 2000 Delaware State Hornets football team
• 2001 Delaware State Hornets football team
• 2002 Delaware State Hornets football team
• 2003 Delaware State Hornets football team
• 2004 Delaware State Hornets football team
• 2005 Delaware State Hornets football team
• 2006 Delaware State Hornets football team
• 2009 Delaware State Hornets football team

Northwest

• Portland University's Portland University football team won the Oregon Intercollegiate Football Association conference championship in 1894, beating both Oregon and Oregon State.

• 1903 University of Puget Sound football team https://www.pugetsound.edu/stories/how-undefeated-football-team-helped-save-university-puget-sound

Gonzaga's last remaining season article redlinks, seasons contemporary with the local Northwest Conference (1908–1925) teams that they joined in the 1920s:

• 1897 Gonzaga Blue and White football team
• 1908 Gonzaga Blue and White football team
• 1909 Gonzaga Blue and White football team
• 1910 Gonzaga Blue and White football team
• 1911 Gonzaga Blue and White football team
• 1912 Gonzaga Blue and White football team
• 1913 Gonzaga Blue and White football team
• 1914 Gonzaga Blue and White football team
• 1915 Gonzaga Blue and White football team
• 1916 Gonzaga Blue and White football team
• 1917 Gonzaga Blue and White football team

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.'
• Ed Thorp, Rose Bowl referee etc., namesake of Ed Thorp Memorial Trophy
• Eric Moran, former Washington Huskies/Houston Oilers/LA Express player, died 31 Oct 2020 or 1 Nov 2020 in Pleasanton, California. Need reference for death.

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
• Whitman Fighting Missionaries football - "Big Six" Northwest Conference (1908–1925) member alongside Washington, Oregon, Idaho, WAC, OAC.

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 College football not found

• Category:WikiProject College football (Recent changes)

WikiProject College football

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.

Recognized content

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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 Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Participant List, being sure to maintain alphabetical order.

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External links

• WikiProject College football on Facebook