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Welcome to WikiProject College football! Our hope is to expand and improve Wikipedia's coverage of the collegiate version of American Football. This page and its subpages contain a forum for coordinating editors' efforts and creating a coherent style across all college football articles. If you would like to help, sign your name on the participants list below and check out the article list, talk page, or list of requested tasks to see how you can help.
For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and Wikipedia:WikiProject/Best practices.
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[edit] Scope
As mentioned above, this project covers all aspects of college football. Past and current project include articles about the college football traditions of individual schools, college football rivalries, notable games, and overviews of seasons on a national and school-by-school basis. In addition, key articles covering subject-specific terms like touchdown, field goal, or two-point conversion also fall under the purview of this project. Articles regarding the pageantry, other events, or mascots that support college football teams or events are also included in the project.
Articles about individual players are also included in the aegis of the project, though in most cases, the player's article will primarily fall under Wikiproject National Football League. A player notable enough for inclusion in the project usually, but not always, goes on to a National Football League career, and thus is also covered under that project.
This project is limited to college football in the United States under the umbrella of the NCAA and the NAIA. At present, no organized effort exists for non-American college football. If a need develops, a task force for Canadian college football or British college football may be created.
At present, most effort is concentrated in the following areas:
- Team articles (such as Virginia Tech Hokies football)
- Season articles (2006 Oklahoma Sooners football team)
- Rivalry articles (Army-Navy Game)
- Bowl games (2006 Chick-fil-A Bowl)
- Key terms (Touchdown, Defense (American football))
- Mascots (Sparty)
- Pageantry (Aggie Bonfire)
- Players (Elmer Gedeon)
[edit] 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.
[edit] Family of WikiProjects
- WikiProject American football is our parent project.
- WikiProject Sports is our grandparent.
- WikiProject National Football League is our rich uncle.
- WikiProject College Basketball is our brother.
- WikiProject College baseball is our often ignored little brother.
- WikiProject Football (soccer) is the cousin you sometimes see at family reunions.
- WikiProject Rugby union and WikiProject Rugby league are the long-lost cousins who suddenly show up out of nowhere.
- WikiProject AFL is our distant relative from Down Under.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Marching band lives across the street.
[edit] Structure
- Please see Structure on the NFL WikiProject for examples
[edit] Goals
- Organizational
- To create a set of standardized templates for coaches, teams, etc.
- To create subcategories for stubs and reclassify stubs into those subcategories.
- 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.
- To find all college football stubs and label them.
- To categorize all college football articles into subcategories. (See discussion)
- Articles
- Bring College football to featured article status.
- Work on 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season, and make it a resource for enthusiasts this fall.
- To make Wikipedia one of the premier online resources on college football.
- Increase number of GAs and FAs within College Football.
- Portal
- Maintain Portal:College football and bring it to Featured portal status.
[edit] Other subpages
- Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Naming Conventions addresses some article naming conventions, with discussion leading to it on talk page
[edit] Lists
- List of black college football classics
- List of NCAA college football rivalry games
- List of college bowl games
- List of NCAA Division I FBS football programs
- List of NCAA Division I FCS football programs
- List of NCAA Division II football programs
- List of NCAA Division III football programs
- List of NAIA football programs
- List of current NCAA Division I FBS football coaches
- List of Division I schools that have never sponsored football
- List of defunct Division I football teams
[edit] Articles
[edit] Wikipedia articles on College football
There are too many college football articles on Wikipedia to list them all. Below are categories that contain college football-related articles:
[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... |
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Fran Schwenk | June 2, 2008 by (Paul McDonald) | ...That coach Schwenk coached for 21 years at Doane College in Crete, Nebraska and accumulated 114 wins during his tenure. |
Willie J. Slater | May 27, 2008 by (Paul McDonald) | ...That Willie Slater is the current coach at Tuskegee University and sports a record of 21-3 after two seasons, including the 2007 Black College National Champions? |
1892 Wyoming Seminary vs. Mansfield State Normal football game | May 21, 2008 by (Paul McDonald) | ...that the first night football game was played in 1892 and ended after 20 minutes as a scoreless tie? |
George Allen (Cumberland) | May 21, 2008 by (Paul McDonald) | ...That George Allen was the head coach for the Cumberland Bulldogs on the losing end of the worst loss in college football history, a 222-0 loss against Georgia Institute of Technology? |
Homer Woodson Hargiss | May 21, 2008 by (Paul McDonald) | ...That Coach Hargiss regularly used the forward pass as early as 1910, is credited with inventing the huddle and may have also invented the halfback option? |
Fred T. Farrier | May 21, 2008 by (Paul McDonald) | ...that Coach Farrier is the head coach at Kentucky State University? |
Steve Fanara | May 15, 2008 by (Paul McDonald) | ... That Coach Fanara was recently named the head coach at Howard Payne University after being defensive coordinator at the school? |
Geno DeMarco | May 9, 2008 by (Paul McDonald) | ... That Geno DeMarco has been the head coach at Geneva College since 1993, and should achieve his 100th head coaching victory in 2008? |
Notre Dame-USC rivalry | April 26, 2008 (Tedmoseby) | ...that Knute Rockne recommended Howard Jones for the USC coaching position? |
Fred Smalls | April 16, 2008 (Red Deadeye) | ...that Smalls played in the NFL and AFL? |
Chris Beatty | April 16, 2008 (Red Deadeye) | ...that Beatty was one of the most successful high school coaches ever? |
Chevis Jackson | March 31, 2008 (Red Deadeye) | ...that Jackson played in all 12 games as a true freshman? |
Richard Peters (football coach) | March 25, 2008 by (Paul McDonald) | ..That Richard Peters coached for 19 years at Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas, and achieved a lifetime coaching record of 129 wins, 42 losses, and 3 ties? |
Erik Raeburn | March 23, 2008 by (Paul McDonald) | ..That Erik Raeburn was recently named the head coach of the Wabash College Little Giants after several successful seasons at Coe College? |
Ellis Lankster | March 21, 2008 | ...that Lankster is a JUCO? |
Scooter Berry | March 21, 2008 | ...that he is related to a former WVU recruit, Jason Gwaltney? |
J.T. Thomas | March 20, 2008 | ...that he took medical redshirt in 2006? |
Edwin R. Taber | March 17, 2008 by (Paul McDonald) | ... that he was the first head coach of Wabash College? |
Cody Hawkins | March 14, 2008 by (MECU≈talk) |
... Cody Hawkins, the starting quarterback for the 2007 Colorado Buffaloes football team, is the son of the team's head coach, Dan Hawkins? |
Andrew Frank Schoeppel | March 13, 2008 (Paul McDonald) | ...that before he was governor of Kansas, he was the football coach at Fort Hays State University and an honorable mention All-American for Walter Camp? |
Jeff Mullen | March 12, 2008 (Red Deadeye) | ...that Mullen was a coach at Hawaii, Ohio, and Wake Forest before WVU? |
Holiday Bowl 1984 | March 10, 2008 by blahblah5555 | ...that Brigham Young University was the last mid-major team to win the National Championship. |
Jake High | March 10, 2008 by Paulmcdonald | ...that his single season of coaching at New York University resulted in his lifetime coaching record of 0-8 and being outscored 241 points to zero may make him the worst performing college football coach in history? |
2008 USF Bulls football team | March 4, 2008 by crambone | |
2002 Arkansas Razorbacks football team | February 29, 2008 by Brandonrush | |
Marc Magro | February 27, 2008 | ...that he has been on the team since 2003? |
Frank Hawkins | February 23, 2008 | ...he scored 39 touchdowns in four years at the University of Nevada, Reno and played in Super Bowl XVIII? |
South Alabama Jaguars football | February 22, 2008 by (Seancp) | ...that South Alabama will begin playing college football on September 5, 2009? |
2008 Arizona State Sun Devils football team | February 21, 2008 by (Rocketmaniac) | |
MacArthur Trophy | February 17, 2008 by (Seancp) | ...the MacArthur Trophy has been awarded annually since 1959? |
Ralph Hawkins | February 15, 2008 by (dlfreem) | ...Hawkins was a member of the 1955 Maryland Terrapins Orange Bowl team? |
Rick Sherrod | February 12, 2008 | ...that Sherrod played in the NFL and AFL? |
Brandon Hogan | February 10, 2008 | ...that Hogan was listed as a corner on the team's roster, but played receiver? |
2007 Air Force Falcons football team | February 7, 2008 (Adsms) | |
Penn State-West Virginia rivalry | February 5, 2008 | ...that the rivalry ended in 1992 |
[edit] College football articles needing help
Please feel free to ask for help from your fellow college football fans here (newer articles at the top, please).
- 1940 Rose Bowl - Needs expansion.
- Brandon Saine - Needs some expansion
- Jim Tressel - Question on relevance to article of YSU booster controversy.
- Paul Petrino - needs major information/referencing help.
- Houston Cougars football
- 2007 Arizona State Sun Devils football team - needed for full Top 25 coverage
- 2007 Cincinnati Bearcats football team - needed for full Top 25 coverage -- needs content
- 2007 Kentucky Wildcats football team - needed for full Top 25 coverage
- 2007 UCLA Bruins football team - needed for full Top 25 coverage -- needs content
- 2007 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team - needed for full Top 25 coverage
- 2007 Wisconsin Badgers football team - needs roster
- College GameDay - needs work
- List of 100 point games - Not wikified, introduction not encyclopedic, needs to WP:CITE
- List of schools by Bowl appearances - I know that more than 31 schools have played in bowl games ... considering that we have 26 bowls
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- I brought the list up to 100 schools. There's more on the talk page if you want to format them for the article.
- Big Ten Conference- More lists then actual content, some of it copyvio. I'm doing what I can, but a lot of help is needed here.
- 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...
[edit] Articles & Pages being considered for deletion
Open
Resolved
- Chris Jessie at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chris Jessie (2007-12-27 –) No consensus
- {{Infobox CollegeFB Bowl}} - link Deleted
- 1906 Auburn Tigers football team at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1906 Auburn Tigers football team Kept
- Mike Gottsch at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mike Gottsch Kept
- Hoover J. Wright at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hoover J. Wright Kept
- Oscar Dahlene at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oscar Dahlene Kept
- Sam B. Taylor at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sam B. Taylor Kept
[edit] Requests
[edit] CFB FAC Team
Their have been a few CFB FAC that have failed from lack of support. I would like to set up a team so we could review potential FAC before they become official FAC. Then we, as a team of CFB editors, can go and give support to the article. With over 100 editors, this should not be a hard task. Please respond here and/or my talkpage for any comments/questions. PGPirate 20:37, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
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- JKBrooks85 (talk) 22:15, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
- Johntex\talk 22:54, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Black college football classics
A list currently exists at List of black college football classics, but, as is evident from the abundance of red in the article, many of the classics do not yet have articles.
[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
- Please see: Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/MasterTeamTable
- Delaware State- No athletics or football page
- William & Mary
- Carlisle Indian Industrial School - No athletics or football page
- Syracuse Orange - probably warrants its own football page
- Cincinnati Bearcats - barely any football information
[edit] Schools with no football page
- Arkansas State
- Ball State
- Baylor
- Cincinnati
- Colorado State
- Connecticut
- Idaho
- Louisiana Tech
- Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns
- Louisiana-Monroe
- Marshall
- Memphis
- Missouri
- New Mexico State
- Rice
- San Diego State
- San José State
- SMU
- Syracuse
- Toledo
- Troy
- Tulane
- Tulsa
- UAB
- Utah
- Utah State
- UTEP
- Western Kentucky
- Wyoming
[edit] Articles needing Photographs
- Need photo for Steve Slaton, Ray Rice, maybe Patrick White, Todd Boeckman, Brandon Saine, and Malcolm Jenkins.
[edit] Photographs
- Image:NCAAFootball.jpg can be used on banners
[edit] Articles needing sources
- Down (American football) — Added December 16, 2007
- Ole Miss Rebels football - Added December 16, 2007
- Ole Miss Rebels - Added December 16, 2007
[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 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)
- 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)
[edit] Recognized content
Article | Promoted | Main Page |
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Jim Thorpe | 5/12/04 | 8/8/07 |
Aggie Bonfire | 9/5/07 | 12/22/07 |
2005 Texas Longhorn football team | 9/8/07 | |
History of American football | 9/19/07 | 2/3/08 |
Ramblin' Wreck | 9/24/07 | |
2006 Chick-fil-A Bowl | 12/7/07 | 12/31/07 |
2007 ACC Championship Game | 2/10/08 | |
2008 Orange Bowl | 2/21/08 | |
Tyrone Wheatley | 3/12/08 | |
2005 ACC Championship Game | 5/2/08 |
- ACC football championship games — Promoted to Featured on 5/24/2008
- 2005 NCAA Division I-A football rankings — Promoted to Featured on 8/4/2006
- 2006 NCAA Division I FBS football rankings — Promoted to Featured on 3/11/2007
- Lists of Michigan Wolverines football receiving leaders — Promoted to Featured on 12/17/2007
- Lists of Michigan Wolverines football passing leaders — Promoted to Featured on 12/28/2007
- Lists of Michigan Wolverines football rushing leaders — Promoted to Featured on 12/28/2007
- Iowa Hawkeyes football seasons — Promoted to Featured on 1/30/2008
- East Carolina Pirates football seasons — Promoted to Featured on 3/4/2008
- List of Heisman Trophy winners — Promoted to Featured on 3/17/2008
- Virginia Tech bowl games — Promoted to Featured on 3/20/2008
- List of East Carolina Pirates head football coaches — Promoted to Featured on 4/28/2008
- List of Atlantic Coast Conference football champions — Promoted to Featured on 5/9/2008
- Appalachian State Mountaineers football seasons — Promoted to Featured on 5/18/2008
- List of East Carolina Pirates in the NFL Draft - Promoted to Featured on 5/21/2008
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[edit] 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.
[edit] Resources
These external resources are very helpful as a source of information about college football (please do NOT copy their material and always remember to cite your sources):
- http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/
- http://nationalchamps.net/
- Year-by-Year Final Coaches' Polls (American Football Coaches Association)
- Collegio Football, a PC based application filled with NCAA Div-1 Football stats and history. Available each season usually by about week 4.