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Welcome to the new WikiProject College football! Our hope is to expand and improve Wikipedia's coverage of that sport we all love. This page and its subpages contain create a forum for coordinating our efforts. If you would like to help, please sign your name on the participants list below and look at the article list or talk page to see how you can help.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and Wikipedia:WikiProject/Best practices.

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WikiProject on College football

[edit] Scope

This project deals with that great institution which is college football. There is nothing else like it - the pagentry, the beauty, the love for your school, the 70,000 fans screaming in unison for the defense to make a stop.

This project is intended to help Wikipedia by creating and enhancing:

  • Team articles
  • Season articles
  • Rivalry articles
  • Anything else relating to college football

[edit] Family of WikiProjects

[edit] Related Wikiportals

[edit] Participants

For the list of active and inactive participants in this project, please see the participants list.

[edit] Structure

  • Please see Structure on the NFL WikiProject for examples

[edit] Goals

  • Organizational
    1. To create a set of standardized templates for coaches, teams, etc.
    2. To create subcategories for stubs and reclassify stubs into those subcategories.
    3. To categorize all college football articles by placing the WikiProject template at the top of the talk page, templates can be found further down the page.
    4. To find all college football stubs and label them.
    5. To categorize all college football articles into subcategories. (See discussion)
  • Articles
    1. Bring College football to featured article status.
    2. Work on 2006 NCAA Division I-A football season, and make it a resource for enthusiasts this fall.
    3. Create and implement a rating system for college football articles. Done: See Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Assessment
    4. To make Wikipedia one of the premier online resources on college football.
    5. Increase number of GAs within College Football.
  • Portal
    1. Obtain approval for a new Portal:College football and create that portal. Submitted proposal July 5, 2006: Wikipedia:Portal/Proposals#Proposal Portal created: Portal:College football
    2. Maintain it and bring it to Featured portal status.

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[edit] Lists

[edit] Articles

[edit] Wikipedia articles on College football

There are too many college football articles on Wikipedia to list them all. Some selected articles are:

Other articles can be found in:

[edit] New College football articles

Please feel free to list your new college football-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYK has a limit of 5 days for the creation of an article or the heavy expansion of it. Please remember to add {{persondata}} to the biographical articles you create. Also please remember to add {{WikiProject College football}} to the talk page of the article.

Please place newest articles on the top

Article Created On (by) Did You Know...
List of undefeated Division I football teams December 5, 2006 (Jayron32)
2006 Boise State Broncos football team Created on 2006-12-05 Dale Arnett ...that the Broncos, which will be only the second team outside the Bowl Championship Series to participate in a BCS bowl game, returned more starters from 2005 than any other team in NCAA Division I-A football? — DYK on December 8, 2006 with returning starters only
Glass Bowl Game Created on 2006-12-03 (Errorlesss)
2006 Virginia Tech Hokies football team 2006-11-30 by BigDT Virginia Tech finished the regular season leading the nation in total defense, scoring defense, and pass defense. [1] This was the second year in a row that defensive coordinator Bud Foster's unit had led the nation in total defense.
Vanderbilt Commodores football Created on 2006-11-28 PhilipR ...that under first-year coach Dan McGugin, the 1904 Vanderbilt squad won its nine games by an aggregate score of 474 to four? [2]
1998 Tennessee Volunteers football team Created on 2006-11-15 CJC47 ...that the 1998 Tennessee team was the first national title winner under the BCS?
{{NCAA DI-A Conferences}} Created on 2006-11-15 Z4ns4tsu also {{NCAA DI-AA Conferences}}, {{NCAA DII Conferences}}, {{NCAA DIII Conferences}}, and {{NAIA Football Conferences}}
Chauncey Washington Created on 2006-11-07 Bobak (Interesting story, but I know it would get shot down as being not interesting enough for all the people in Europe or whatever...but you folks can enjoy it!)
Eddie McAshan Created on 2006-11-06 Excaliburhorn ..Eddie was the first African-American player at Georgia Tech, was the first African-American quarterback to start at a major southeastern university, and would eventually sit out his final game in a limousine with Jesse Jackson?
Blair Cherry Created on 2006-11-02 Mishatx ..that former University of Texas football coach Blair Cherry was the first high-school coach in Texas history to lead his team to 3 straight state championships? DYK on 7 November 2006
1989 Miami Hurricanes football team Created on 2006-10-27 PassionoftheDamon
1991 Miami Hurricanes football team Created on 2006-10-27 PassionoftheDamon
Florida State Seminoles football Created on 2006-10-27 PassionoftheDamon
Javarris James Created on 2006-10-27 PassionoftheDamon
1987 Miami Hurricanes football team Created on 2006-10-26 PassionoftheDamon ...that the Oklahoma Sooners only lost three games between 1985 and 1987, but all of those losses came at the hands of the Miami Hurricanes?
1983 Miami Hurricanes football team Created on 2006-10-26 PassionoftheDamon ...that the 1983 Miami Hurricanes were only the second national champion to have more yards passing than rushing?
World's Largest Texas Flag Created on 2006-10-18 Mishatx .... that the World's Largest Texas Flag (pictured), measuring 75 feet by 125 feet, is unfurled on the field by members of Alpha Phi Omega before Texas Longhorn football games? DYK on 20 October 2006
Sunflower Showdown Created on 2006-10-04 Kgwo1972 ...that the Sunflower Showdown, the series of athletic contests between Kansas State University and the University of Kansas, dates back to a dispute over the location of the state university in the 1860s? DYK on October 16, 2006.
2006 Auburn Tigers football team Created on 2006-10-11 (AUTiger)
Glasnost Bowl Created on 2006-10-09 (Bobak) ..that the 1989 Glasnost Bowl was an attempt to schedule an American college football game in Soviet Russia at Moscow's Dynamo Stadium? DYK on October 20, 2006.
Tennessee Volunteers football Created on 2006-10-08 (Davis Lee) ...that Neyland Stadium, the stadium of the University of Tennessee Volunteers in Knoxville, Tennessee, is the largest football stadium in the South with an official capacity of 104,079 seats?
Bearcat Stadium Created on 2006-09-26 User:Americasroof ...that Bearcat Stadium, the stadium of Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, is the oldest stadium of any NCAA Division II school, having been originally opened in 1917?
Bernie Moore Created on 2006-09-24 (Sampo Torgo) ...that besides being a legendary track & field coach at LSU with 12 SEC titles and a national championship, and having LSU's track stadium named after him, Moore also coached the football team for 13 years, winning SEC and (unclaimed) national titles in 1935 & 1936?
Giles Pellerin Created on September 19, 2006 (Bobak) ...that Giles Pellerin, known as the Super Fan, attended 797 consecutive USC football games over a period of 73 years before passing away outside the Rose Bowl, the same location he saw his first game? DYK on September 22, 2006.
Earthquake Game Created on September 9, 2006 (Seancp) ...that during the 1988 LSU vs. Auburn game the LSU crowd reaction after a touchdown registered as an earthquake on a seismograph in the geologogy department building?
Charles Thompson (football) Created on 8 September 2006 (Bobak) ...that three years after nationally reported cocaine-related downfall as the quarterback of the Oklahoma Sooners, Charles Thompson managed to win a national championship with Central State University? DYK on September 12, 2006.
2006 Tennessee Volunteers football team Created on 5 September 2006 (User:fsufanizzle)
Boise State Broncos football Created on 1 September 2006 (User:Sigep 252) ...The Broncos are the fourth-most successful 1-A college football program in the 2000's? Their record of 63-13 is topped by only Texas, Oklahoma and Miami (FL).
2006 Miami RedHawks football team Created on 31 August 2006 (09er)
Black Coaches Association Created on 30 August 2006 (Bobak) ...that the lightning that postponed the 2000 Black Coaches Association Classic struck ESPN Broadcaster Lee Corso's rental car? DYK on September 1, 2006.
2006 Florida State Seminoles football team Created on 26 August 2006 (PassionoftheDamon)
Hawaii Warriors football Created on 25 August 2006 (User:Sigep 252) Former Atlanta Falcons head coach and current Hawaii defensive coordinator Jerry Glanville was succeeded in Atlanta by current Hawaii head coach June Jones?
2006 Miami Hurricanes football team Created on 25 August 2006
Miami RedHawks football Created on 16 August 2006 (09er)
Guy Lowman Created on 12 August 2006 (Kgwo1972) ...that Guy Lowman coached football at the University of Alabama, coached basketball at Indiana University and the University of Missouri, and coached both sports at Kansas State University and the University of Wisconsin?
Stu Holcomb Created on 12 August 2006 (09er)
Oklahoma Sooners football Created on 7 August 2006 (NMajdan)

[edit] College football articles needing help

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Collaboration of the Month

Please feel free to ask for help from your fellow college football fans here (newer articles at the top, please).

I brought the list up to 100 schools. There's more on the talk page if you want to format them for the article.

[edit] Requests

[edit] Notable football schools that do not have separate athletics pages

Please add to this list any schools with notable football programs that do not currently have an athletics page or have little or no football coverage on their athletics page

[edit] Articles needing Photographs

[edit] Photographs

  • can be used on banners instead of the NFL ball

[edit] Miscellaneous

  • Create coaches template for schools similar to {{SoonersCoach}}, {{GoldenHurricanesCoach}} and {{LonghornsCoach}}.
    • Please check the Master Team Table for existence or preformed named template for a school. No need to list here when complete.
    • Shouldn't there be a way to systematically screen-scrape a list of coaches from some comprehensive source and output it as MediaWiki markup in the form of the template we want? - PhilipR 19:48, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
  • The old Mirage Bowl (college football) needs an article. Many notable teams played in this Tokyo-based game, including Notre Dame and USC (alas, not against each other...). I would put it together but I need to leave the office for the weekend; I put it to one of you skilled gentlemen! --Bobak 23:04, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
  • The articles on Division I, Division II and [[[Division III]] should be renamed as NCAA Division I etc. and disambiguation pages set up. Division I is too vague, as NUMEROUS different definitions applied. I did clean up these articles some, but some additional work needs to be done, such as adding "independent" teams to the pages. I may get to this, or someone else can if they do so before I get a chance. --Jayron32 20:17, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
  • I suggest someone should create an Michigan vs. Ohio State game 2006 article. This game is considered to be one of the greatest games ever and should be added to Wikipedia. I can give a first hand account of what happened outside of the stadium and what famous people went there. Spongefan 19:56, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
    • This probably shouldn't occur on the project page, so if much more discussion occurs on this topic, please move it to the project talk page. However, I disagree that this article should be created. We're 2 days after and people are saying it's the greatest game ever? I'd like to see some cite, and even still, I would call it overblown hype. They could be a big part of each of their respective season page, but until we know how the season ends (what bowl games they get), I don't think it should be created. Maybe even parts of a rivalry page since it's been called the greatest rivalry. But a single game that's not a bowl game as the greatest ever? Over hype.--MECU≈talk 23:19, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
      • Actually, several games considered among the greatest ever weren't bowl games. Take Nebraska-Oklahoma 1971, or Texas-Arkansas 1969. Still, I do agree with most of MECU's point. — Dale Arnett 01:05, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

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Hi, and welcome to the College football Wikiproject! We are a group of editors who love college football and work to improve Wikipedia's coverage of this sport.

There are a variety of interesting things to do within the project; you're free to participate however much—or little—you like:

If you have any ideas you would like to share or if there is any way your fellow college football fans can help you, please feel free to ask on the project talk page.

 Welcome users who have joined the project - please look at their talk page history and make sure that they have not already been welcomed

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