Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Season-by-season lists format
 | This page in a nutshell: The list of team seasons article should look like the List of Texas Tech Red Raiders football seasons article. Here are the columns broken down below for you to see. |
Formating
editHeader
editSeasons
editSeasons should link to individual team's season using the established naming convention "<Year> <School> <Nickname> football team".
- Example: [[2005 Texas Longhorns football team|2005]]
Head coach
editHead coaches should be listed across multiple seasons. Interim head coaches should be included and labeled with "(Interim)"
Conference
editAthletic conferences should be listed for every season for championship seasons (conference champions or conference championship game winners). Colored for conference winners, conference championship game winners, and division winners (whichever is highest: Conference winner/Championship game champion > Division champion)
Season results
editSeason results encompasses multiple entries and helps with extra space for listing citations
Final standings
editFinal standings should only span multiple seasons if the team was in neither a conference or a conference with divisions.
Conference
editShould include final conference standings. If independent, multiple span cleared columns should indicate there was not even an option for conference standings. If the team is in a conference with divisions, should still include standings for all teams. The winner of the conference (outright or co-champion) should be filled with color (whichever is highest: Conference winner/Championship game champion > Division champion)
Division
editShould include final conference division standings. If independent or in conference without divisions, multiple span cleared columns should indicate there was not even an option for conference division standings. Division winners should be colored and labeled with final standing. Only division winners should have this entry colored. If the team is selected to play in conference championship game and wins, this box should still remain with the separate division color, not conference championship color.
Wins & Losses
editSimple: just include the number of games won/lost
Ties
editShould include this note:
{{#tag:ref|[[Overtime (sports)|Overtime]] rules in [[college football]] were introduced in 1996, making ties impossible in the period since.<ref>{{cite news | first = Kelly | last = Whiteside | title = Overtime system still excites coaches | url = http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/2006-08-24-overtime_x.htm | work = USA Today | date = August 25, 2006 | accessdate = 2008-09-29 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5k7ueRNcj | archivedate=2009-09-28 }}</ref>|group="A"}}
All games that were played before 1996 should have a "0" if there were no tied games. Starting with the 1997 season, a span of cleared columns should indicate that there was not even an option for a tie game.
Bowl result
editBowl game appearances should read like this:
- Wins: '''Won'' [[<Year> <bowl game name>|<Sponsor> <bowl game name>]] against [[Opposing team season|Opposing team name]], Higher score–lower score^
- Losses: '''Lost'' [[<Year> <bowl game name>|<Sponsor> <bowl game name>]] to [[Opposing team season|Opposing team name]], Higher score–lower score^
- Ties: '''Tied'' [[<Year> <bowl game name>|<Sponsor> <bowl game name>]] with [[Opposing team season|Opposing team name]], Score–score^
Final poll
editAP
editThe AP poll began in 1937. All prior seasons should have blank spanning columns. Seasons when a team did not rank in the poll should have an em dash. Do not include RV (receiving votes), if you didn't make it, ya didn't make it.
USA Today Coaches'
editThe Coaches poll began in 1950. All prior seasons should have blank spanning columns. Seasons when a team did not rank in the poll should have an em dash. Do not include RV (receiving votes), if you didn't make it, ya didn't make it.
Team name
editThe first line after the header should include the team name in this format: <University name> <team monkier>. If a team changed their name (school name or moniker) a separating line should span all rows to show a "clean start." If team colors changed too, this is a good time to incorporate those into the table.
Current season
editAlthough the a current season can not officially include all the seasons stats, until the season is over (final polls are released) an In progress keeps the current season accessible from this list but prevents it from screwing with the final standing statistics. Only include the season, head coach, and conference, all other information falls into the In progress strip.
Footer
editThe footer should include all regular season games totaled between wins, losses, and ties. Separate the bowl games and give a total number of appearances to the side. Finally, include all games below these two acting as an answer to the "addition problem" above.
Example Table
edit| Conference champions† | Conference co-champions‡ | Division co-champions♦ | Bowl game berth^ | Shared standing T |
- ^ Overtime rules in college football were introduced in 1996, making ties impossible in the period since.[7]
- ^ The Big 12 Conference introduced divisional play in its first year in 1996; the divisional winners advance to the Big 12 Championship Game to determine the conference champion.[8]
- ^ Oklahoma, Texas, Texas Tech all finished the season with identical 7–1 conference records, creating a three-way-tie for the South division championship. Under Big 12 tiebreaker rules, ties are normally broken by head-to-head matchups but this case was unique as Texas beat Oklahoma 45–35, Oklahoma beat Texas Tech 65–21, and Texas Tech beat Texas 39–33 which made breaking the three-way tie impossible using head-to-head games. According to Big 12 rules, the fifth tie-breaker dictated that the team with the highest BCS Ranking, released on November 30 of that year, would represent the South Division in the championship game. Coaches, journalists and computer rankings, which are the major components of the BCS ranking formula, decided the division representative. During the final week of the Big 12 regular season, Oklahoma defeated a ranked Oklahoma State team and Texas defeated an unranked Texas A&M team, delivering a higher computer rating to Oklahoma and influencing BCS voters.[9][10]
- ^ a b "Texas Tech Yearly Totals". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
- ^ "Texas Tech Historical Data". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
- ^ "Texas Tech Championships". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
- ^ "Football Record Book" (PDF). Big 12 Conference. Retrieved 2009-12-02.
- ^ "Texas Tech Bowl History". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
- ^ "Texas Tech In the Polls". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
- ^ Whiteside, Kelly (August 25, 2006). "Overtime system still excites coaches". USA Today. Archived from the original on 2009-09-28. Retrieved 2008-09-29.
- ^ "Tiebreaker Procedures". Big 12 Conference. Retrieved 2009-12-11.
- ^ Weiss, Dick. "Sooners win Big 12 South thanks to BCS computers:". New York Daily News. Retrieved 2009-12-15.
- ^ George, Brandon. "Big 12 commissioner says it's been a tough week:". The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved 2009-12-15.