Template:Infobox college football bowl season/doc

Usage

Blank with all fields listed (for example of how to fill in, see last section below):

{{Infobox college football bowl season
| season                = 
| image                 = 
| image_caption         = 
| regular_season        = 
| number_of_bowls       = 
| all_star_games        = 
| bowl_start            = 
| bowl_end              = 
| championship_bowl     = 
| championship_location = 
| champions             = 
| bowl_challenge_cup    = 
| conference1           = 
| conference1_teams     = 
| conference1_wins      = 
| conference1_losses    = 
| conference1_ties      = 
| conference1_ap_poll   = 

<!-- the above 6 fields are repeated for conferences 2 through 11 -->

| conference12          = 
| conference12_teams    = 
| conference12_wins     = 
| conference12_losses   = 
| conference12_ties     = 
| conference12_ap_poll  = 
| Note                  =
}}

Parameters

* denotes a required field

Parameter	Explanation	Example
season*	The year of regular season play. For the 2007–08 bowl season, enter 2007 here.	2007
image	An image for the season. Follow Wikipedia guidelines.	[[File:Example.png|200px]]
image_caption	A caption for the image, if provided.	Descriptive text
regular_season	The dates of the first and last games of the regular season.	{{start date|2007|08|25}} – {{end date|2007|12|08}}
number_of_bowls	The total number of postseason bowls for the season.	28
all_star_games	The number of all star games for the season.	4
bowl_start	The date of the first bowl game of the season.	{{Start date|2007|12|15}}
bowl_end	The date of the last bowl played of the season	{{End date|2008|01|07}}
championship_bowl	Name of the championship game. Likely won't be used much prior to the 1992 Bowl Coalition games.	[[2008 BCS Championship Game]]
championship_location	Name of the stadium hosting the National Championship game and the city/state where it is located. (can use <br /> for line between stadium and city) Like the championship_bowl field, this likely won't be used much prior to the 1992 games.	[[Louisiana Superdome]],<br />[[New Orleans, Louisiana]]
champions	Name of the team that won the National Championship. If it was split, say that.	[[2007 LSU Tigers football team|LSU Tigers]]
bowl_challenge_cup	The conference that is the winner of the Bowl Challenge Cup (was established in 2001 according to article, so will only be used for years after that).	[[Southeastern Conference|SEC]]
conference(1-12)	Name of a football conference. Up to 12 conference names can be listed.	[[Atlantic Coast Conference|ACC]]
conference(1-12)_teams	Number of teams representing conference number N in bowl games. (Note: recommended to list conferences based on number of teams playing in bowls, highest to lowest.)	8
conference(1-12)_wins	Number of wins in bowl games for conference number N. Do not leave blank if zero.	3
conference(1-12)_losses	Number of losses in bowl games for conference number N. Do not leave blank if zero.	4
conference(1-12)_ties	Number of ties in bowl games for conference number N. Should only be used for pre-1996 bowls (as overtime has been used since then). Leave blank unless non-zero.	1
conference(1-12)_ap_poll	Number of ranked teams in the AP Poll from conference number N, based on the final AP Poll of the season. Timing of the final AP Poll has varied; since 1968 (and in 1965) it's after bowls are completed; else it was at the end of the regular season. Leave blank if the final AP Poll hasn't been released yet.	2
Note	Optional explanatory note to be displayed after the list of conferences. Should rarely be used.	ACC and Mountain West had a no-contest

Note: Wins + Losses + Ties don't need to equal the total number of teams; this is an expected condition when a bowl season is active and not all bowl games have been played.

Example

Here is an example of one that is filled in. Only the first 11 conference numbers are filled in, but you could also have a twelfth conference if there were indeed 12 conferences to list.

Note: Generally conferences are ordered with the highest number of bowl representatives at the top and the lowest number of bowl representatives at the bottom.

2005–06 NCAA football bowl games
File:Bad Title Example.png Bowl games played per state.
Season	2005
Regular season	September 1–December 3
Number of bowls	28
All-star games	4
Bowl games	December 20, 2005 – January 4, 2006
National Championship	2006 Rose Bowl
Location of Championship	Rose Bowl Stadium, Pasadena, California
Champions	Texas Longhorns
Bowl Challenge Cup winner	(tie) Big 12 and ACC

{{Infobox college football bowl season
| season                = 2005
| image                 = [[File:Bad Title Example.png|200px]]
| image_caption         = Bowl games played per state.
| regular_season        = September 1–December 3
| number_of_bowls       = 28
| all_star_games        = 4
| bowl_start            = December 20, 2005
| bowl_end              = <br />January 4, 2006
| championship_bowl     = [[2006 Rose Bowl]]
| championship_location = [[Rose Bowl (stadium)|Rose Bowl Stadium]],<br />[[Pasadena, California]]
| champions             = [[2005 Texas Longhorn football team|Texas Longhorns]]
| bowl_challenge_cup    = ''(tie)'' [[Big 12 Conference|Big 12]] and [[Atlantic Coast Conference|ACC]]
| conference1           = [[Atlantic Coast Conference|ACC]]
| conference1_teams     = 8
| conference1_wins      = 5
| conference1_losses    = 3
| conference1_ap_poll   = 5
| conference2           = [[Big 12 Conference|Big 12]]
| conference2_teams     = 8
| conference2_wins      = 5
| conference2_losses    = 3
| conference2_ap_poll   = 4
| conference3           = [[Big Ten Conference|Big Ten]]
| conference3_teams     = 7
| conference3_wins      = 3
| conference3_losses    = 4
| conference3_ap_poll   = 3
| conference4           = [[Southeastern Conference|SEC]]
| conference4_teams     = 6
| conference4_wins      = 3
| conference4_losses    = 3
| conference4_ap_poll   = 5
| conference5           = [[Conference USA]]
| conference5_teams     = 6
| conference5_wins      = 3
| conference5_losses    = 3
| conference5_ap_poll   = 0
| conference6           = [[Pacific-10 Conference|Pac-10]]
| conference6_teams     = 5
| conference6_wins      = 3
| conference6_losses    = 2
| conference6_ap_poll   = 4
| conference7           = [[Mountain West Conference|Mountain West]]
| conference7_teams     = 4
| conference7_wins      = 2
| conference7_losses    = 2
| conference7_ap_poll   = 1
| conference8           = [[Big East Conference (1979–2013)|Big East]]
| conference8_teams     = 4
| conference8_wins      = 1
| conference8_losses    = 3
| conference8_ap_poll   = 2
| conference9           = [[Western Athletic Conference|WAC]]
| conference9_teams     = 3
| conference9_wins      = 1
| conference9_losses    = 2
| conference9_ap_poll   = 0
| conference10          = [[NCAA Division I-FBS independent schools|Independents]]
| conference10_teams    = 0
| conference10_wins     = 0
| conference10_losses   = 0
| conference10_ap_poll  = 0
| conference11          = [[Mid-American Conference|MAC]]
| conference11_teams    = 2
| conference11_wins     = 1
| conference11_losses   = 1
| conference11_ap_poll  = 1
| conference12          = [[Sun Belt Conference|Sun Belt]]
| conference12_teams    = 1
| conference12_wins     = 0
| conference12_losses   = 1
| conference12_ap_poll  = 0
}}