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Hello,I added the requested citations to the Stadium section and a link to the USF 2006 Football Media Guide in the external links section.

Thank you,Kizarvexis02:39, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It seems to me the most common name of this subject would beUSF Bulls football. Shall I move to rename? --SwissCelt21:27, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The name as it currently stands abides by thecollege football naming convention set forth byWikiProject College football. I prefer USF myself, but I think the current redirect should suffice. --Littledrummrboy15:54, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The name should be changed. According to USF's own naming conventions, it should either be called "University of South Florida Bulls" or "USF Bulls" as "South Florida Bulls" is explicitly forbidden (See the Southern Cal comment in the above link for another example). Here is the exact text of USF's policy "When referring to the University please be aware of the following policy regarding usage. First references to the school and its intercollegiate athletics program should always be the University of South Florida. The only secondary reference used should be USF or Bulls. Please refrain from using South Florida, S. Florida, South Fla. or any other similar combination."—Precedingunsigned comment added by24.44.149.221 (talk)01:43, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The 2007 South Florida Bulls have their own page, I think their should be one for the 2006 South Florida Bulls as well. This page should remain as a page to describe the team as a whole only, including it's history and such. This way this page can be linked to describe the bulls and pages for separate years can be made. --BaRiMzI19:42, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. I'm replacing the info box with one that's not season-specific. I'll save the infobox as it currently stands here for reference if someone should choose to start the 2006 football season. --Littledrummrboy15:56, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I propose a move toSouth Florida Bulls as it is currently being used as a redirect to this page. It was originally used as a redirect to USF but I changed it to this page as it makes more sense. Now that it redirects here, it seems only right thatSouth Florida Bulls would be the page for the bulls instead of South Florida Bulls football.--BaRiMzI01:32, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No. There are other athletic teams that use the name "South Florida Bulls." As much as many USF students think so, we do have other teams apart from football.Mike H.I did "That's hot" first!03:09, 9 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Relevant deletion discussion atWikipedia:Files_for_deletion/2011_December_30#File:USFBULLS.png.--GrapedApe (talk)17:27, 2 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

@Ajgreenfelder andMjs32193:

There is an ongoing dispute on the handling of the2016 South Florida Bulls football team team. Specifically, 2016 USF finished with a 7–1 record in the East, as did 2016 Temple. Temple participated in the2016 American Athletic Conference Football Championship Game.

Generally, excepting the Mountain West conference, the divison "tie-breaker" is scoped narrowly to CG participation. So when Team A and Team B are tied with identical conference records, both are divisions co-champions and the tiebreaker determines (only) which team advances to the CG.

This East Division co-championship (or sole championship) content exists in multiple locations and I'm sure we agree that it should reflect identical content in all of them:

• South Florida Bulls football[1],[2]
• 2016 South Florida Bulls football team[3],[4]
• Template:2016 American Athletic Conference football standings[5],[6]
• List of South Florida Bulls football seasons

I've done this rules/co-championship/Media Guide type search before today, but never wrote it up. The2019 USF Media Guide, pg 191 of PDF does not clarify. The2019 American Media Guide, pg 71 of PDF does not clarify. The prior year's2015 Football Tiebreaking Procedures includes:

Divisional Champions
The divisional champions will be the teams from each division with the highest winning percentage in all conference games – both divisional and non-divisional. In the event of atwo-team tie within a division, the head-to-head winner between the tied teams will be thechampionship game representative.

And the subsequent2017 America Football Handbook Football Administration, pg 28 says:

• FA - 5.1.1TWO TEAM TIE FOR THE DIVISION CHAMPIONSHIP
• FA - 5.1.2MULTIPLE TEAM TIE FOR THE DIVISION CHAMPIONSHIP

So net, this reads like 2016 is a co-championship to me, due to the multiple rule references to ties within a division or ties for the division champsion (ie, a tied championship which is a co-championship). This "co-championship" view is also seen in similar The American team articles with tiesin other seasons). What say you?UW Dawgs (talk)23:54, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, division champions are awarded to the regular season champ/champs. As we have always handled it, regular season champions can have a tie and co-champions. The media guide seems to reflect that as well.Mjs32193 (talk)00:47, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If the American Athletic Conference does not specifically recognize a team as a co-division champion, then it should not be reflected here, even if there is nothing specifically against such a motion from the conference.

The teams that compete in the championship game are the division champions. Since a team plays each team in their division, there will never be co-division champions, as a tiebreaker will always exist. Perhaps this is why there is nothing from the conference explicitly stating that there are no co-division champions,as it is implied by the scheduling.Ajgreenfelder (talk)01:43, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This needs to be brought up and discussed by WikiProject College football before any further changes are made because this decision could effect hundreds of articles and would be a change to how things are currently handled.Mjs32193 (talk)02:11, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Most, if not all, conferences with divisions appears to recognize co-divisional champions with tie-breakers determining which co-champion advances to the conference championship game. Based on what UW Dawgs has provided above, it seems the American Athletic Conference is no exception. I can't tell you how many times I have had to revert IPs and newbies sniping away co-championships that lost a tie breaker at high-profile articles likeNick Saban,Urban Meyer, andJim Harbaugh.Jweiss11 (talk)03:37, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Just by reading the text, I think you can make an argument either way. In the Pac-12, the wording is equally wobbly, but biggest argument is their table that shows "T1" for teams tied in their division for 1st.[7] That, and I remember Pac-12 officials speaking in the past about co-champions. All things being equal, I'd just assume AAC has co-champs too.—Bagumba (talk)06:56, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It seems pretty clear by this article -http://theamerican.org/news/2019/11/30/football-navy-beats-houston-to-tie-for-first-in-west-division.aspx - that the American does not recognize co-division champions for football. They clearly state that Navy ties for 1st place, but they do not identify them as co-division champions. You can also see this on the conference's standings page -http://theamerican.org/standings.aspx?standings=58 - where they clearly identify the team that clinched the division, yet make no mention of any co-division champion. This makes sense given the division scheduling and the regular season division tiebreaker.Ajgreenfelder (talk)19:05, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Done - All four locations reflect above consensus.UW Dawgs (talk)01:07, 11 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I’m guessing that this is already done but as you copy and pasted above it says that the tie breaker would go to the team that if the tied teams played the winner would get and in this case temple had beaten USF that season so they were given the tie breaker. But I may be wrong.Anonymous Editor100 (talk)01:12, 13 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The link at the beginning of the article to the college represented by the South Florida Bulls is titled University of West Florida. The South Florida Bulls are the mascots of the University of South Florida (USF), located in Tampa, not the University of West Florida, located in Pensacola.205.178.33.93 (talk)16:48, 27 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Scrolling further down this article was totally fucked with by someone from UCF lol.205.178.33.93 (talk)16:50, 27 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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