Template:Infobox college football single game/doc

The Bestest Game Ever
The Bestest Game Ever
Conference game
South Carolina Gamecocks	Clemson Tigers
(11-1)	(12-0)
SEC	ACC
0	8
Head coach: ; Steve Spurrier	Head coach: ; Charlie Weis
Date	January 1, 2000
Season	2006
Stadium	Rose Bowl
Location	Pasadena, CA
National anthem	Jimi Hendrix
Referee	John Bible
Halftime show	Grambling State Marching Band
Attendance	89,000
United States TV coverage
Network	ESPN
Announcers	Bob Barry, Sr.
Nielsen ratings	18.9
International TV coverage
Network	TSN
Announcers	Jose Jesus

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Infobox college football single game.
It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template employs intricate features of template syntax.

You are encouraged to familiarise yourself with its setup and parser functions before editing the template. If your edit causes unexpected problems, please undo it quickly, as this template may appear on a large number of pages.
You can conduct experiments, and should test all major changes, in either , the general template sandbox, or your user space before changing anything here.

This template is to be used on articles about individual college football (American football) games. For yearly or recurring games, please use Template:Infobox NCAA football yearly game.

Usage

Complete

{{Infobox college football single game
|name=
|year=
|type=
|image=
|date=
|stadium=
|city=
|visitor_name_short=
|visitor_nickname=
|home_name_short=
|home_nickname=
|visitor_record=
|visitor_conference=
|home_record=
|home_conference=
|visitor_coach=
|home_coach=
|visitor_1q=
|visitor_2q=
|visitor_3q=
|visitor_4q=
|visitor_ot=
|visitor_2ot=
|visitor_3ot=
|visitor_4ot=
|visitor_5ot=
|visitor_6ot=
|visitor_7ot=
|visitor_8ot=
|visitor_9ot=
|home_1q=
|home_2q=
|home_3q=
|home_4q=
|home_ot=
|home_2ot=
|home_3ot=
|home_4ot=
|home_5ot=
|home_6ot=
|home_7ot=
|home_8ot=
|home_9ot=
|visitor_rank_AP=
|visitor_rank_coaches=
|visitor_rank_BCS=
|home_rank_AP=
|home_rank_coaches=
|home_rank_BCS=
|MVP=
|odds=
|anthem=
|referee=
|halftime=
|attendance=
|us_network=
|us_announcers=
|ratings=
|intl_network=
|intl_announcers=
}}

Additional

Below are the new fields that were not present in the old design in case you are just wanting to update the old design.

|City=
|Image=
|MVP=
|Odds=
|Anthem=
|Referee=
|Halftime=
|Attendance=
|US Network=
|US Announces=
|Ratings=
|Intl Network=
|Intl Announcers=

Parameters

Mandatory

Name

The name of the game the article is about. Can simply be the teams played or the commercial name of the game or the reason the game is significant.

2007 Oklahoma Sooners vs. Texas Longhorns, or 2007 Red River Rivalry, or Highest scoring game in history, etc.

Year: The year in which the season took place (not the year the game took place although these may often be the same)

Date

The date the game took place.

2007-12-31 or December 31, 2007

Stadium

The stadium where the game took place

[[Cotton Bowl (stadium)|Cotton Bowl]]

City

The location where the game took place. The parameter is titled city, but please enter city and state

[[Dallas, TX]]

Visitor Name Short and Home Name Short: The short name of the teams competing in the game. University of Oklahoma would be Oklahoma, Louisiana State University would be LSU. This is used to create link to the team's specific article page.

Visitor Nickname and Home Nickname: The nickname or mascot of the school. USC would be Trojans, and Nebraska would be Cornhuskers.

Visitor Coach and Home Coach

The head coach of the teams competing in the game.

[[Brian Kelly (coach)|Brian Kelly]]

Visitor_1-11 and Home_1-11: The scores by quarter of the competing teams. 1 through 4 are for the regulation four quarters; 5 through 11 are for overtime quarters.

Optional

Type

The type of game it was. Use one of the parameters below:

nc = Non-Conference Game

c = Conference Game

bg = Bowl Game

ccg = Conference Championship Game

ncg = National Championship Game

Division

For non-Division I games

Image

The image representing the game the article is about. Be sure to follow Wikipedia's image guidelines and non-free image policy.

Example.png

Visitor AP, Visitor Coaches, Visitor BCS and Home AP, Home Coaches, Home BCS: The AP, Coaches and BCS rankings of the competing teams, if applicable. These rankings should be accurate for the week before the teams played, not the week after or the end of the season.

MVP

The MVP(s) of the game. Only applicable for post-season games (conference championship, national championship, or bowl game).

[[John Doe]] (offense)<br/>[[Jim Doe]] (defense)

Odds

The odds/point spread of the game. Be sure to cite source.

WLSU favored by 2.5 points

Anthem: The person/group who sang the national anthem prior to the game.

Referee: The referee(s) for the game.

Halftime: The person/group/etc that performed during halftime of the game.

Attendance: The official attendance of the game.

US Network

The network that aired the game in the United States.

[[ESPN on ABC|ABC]]

US Announcers: The announcers for the game on the US network.

Ratings: The Nielsen ratings of the game.

Intl Network: The network that aired the game outside the United States.

Intl Announcers: The announcers for the game on the international network.

Examples

{{Infobox college football single game
 |name=The Bestest Game Ever
 |date=January 1, 2000
 |year=2006
 |image=Example-serious.jpg
 |visitor_school=University of South Carolina
 |visitor_name_short=South Carolina
 |visitor_nickname=Gamecocks
 |visitor_record=11-1
 |visitor_conference=[[Southeastern Conference|SEC]]
 |visitor_rank_AP =
 |visitor_rank_coaches =
 |visitor_rank_BCS =
 |visitor_coach=[[Steve Spurrier]]
 |visitor_1q=0
 |visitor_2q=0
 |visitor_3q=0
 |visitor_4q=0
 |visitor_ot=0
 |visitor_2ot=0
 |visitor_3ot=0
 |home_school=Clemson University
 |home_name_short=Clemson
 |home_nickname=Tigers
 |home_record=12-0
 |home_conference=[[Atlantic Coast Conference|ACC]]
 |home_rank_AP =1
 |home_rank_coaches =1
 |home_rank_BCS =1
 |home_coach=[[Charlie Weis]]
 |home_1q=0
 |home_2q=0
 |home_3q=0
 |home_4q=0
 |home_ot=0
 |home_2ot=0
 |home_3ot=8
 |type=c
 |stadium=[[Rose Bowl (stadium)|Rose Bowl]]
 |MVP=test
 |referee=John Bible
 |us_network=ESPN
 |attendance=89,000
 |city=Pasadena, CA
 |halftime=Grambling State Marching Band
 |anthem=[[Jimi Hendrix]]
 |us_announcers=Bob Barry, Sr.
 |ratings=18.9
 |intl_network=[[The Sports Network|TSN]]
 |intl_announcers=Jose Jesus
}}

Changes

This template was created as a replacement for a prior version that was deleted. It was designed to use as many of the same parameter names as possible to ease the transition, but there are some differences. This template used to be used at the top of game articles but was nominated for TfD for violations of MoS. This new design makes it a normal Infobox and also deprecates {{Infobox CollegeFB Bowl}} which was used to individual bowl games. This template is a combination of the old design and the Bowl template.

Parameter	Old template	New template
Visitor Total	Used for input of total score for the teams	New template uses parser functions to automatically add scores; these variables have been removed
Home Total	Used for input of total score for the teams
Type	Manually entered the type of game	Now has certain codes for the types of games which are used elsewhere in the template (i.e. using c does not allow the use of MVPs)
Image	Not in original template; taken from Bowl game template	Added to deprecate Bowl game template; also note City is a required field
MVP
Odds
Anthem
Referee
Halftime
Attendance
City
US Network	Not in original template; taken from Bowl game template; formerly called Network and Announcers	Added to deprecate Bowl game template; also note the addition of US before the name; this is to allow the future addition of international broadcast information
US Announcers
Ratings	Not present in the old templates
Intl Network
Intl Announcers