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CFB Rivalry Finder

Posted by Neil on December 18, 2012

At the SR/College Football Play Index, we have a feature called the Rivalry Finder that you may not have seen before. Simply put, it will find the complete* history of head-to-games between any two schools.

(* = Within years both schools were classified as "major". To learn more about what that means, click here.)

So if you ever wanted to know how many times, say, Notre Dame and Alabama have faced off (and who won), just run this search in the Rivalry Finder:

Alabama versus Notre Dame

Alabama won 1 game and Notre Dame won 5 games.
Longest winning streak by Alabama: 1 game
Longest winning streak by Notre Dame: 4 games
Most points scored by Alabama: 28 (Oct 4, 1986)
Most points scored by Notre Dame: 37 (Nov 14, 1987)
Largest margin of victory by Alabama: +18 (Oct 4, 1986)
Largest margin of victory by Notre Dame: +31 (Nov 14, 1987)


G Date Day School Opponent Conf Pts Opp Diff W L T Streak Notes
1 Dec 31, 1973 Mon Alabama N Notre Dame Ind L 23 24 -1 0 1 0 L 1 Sugar Bowl (New Orleans, LA)
2 Jan 1, 1975 Wed Alabama N Notre Dame Ind L 11 13 -2 0 2 0 L 2 Orange Bowl (Miami, FL)
3 Nov 13, 1976 Sat Alabama @ Notre Dame Ind L 18 21 -3 0 3 0 L 3
4 Nov 15, 1980 Sat Alabama Notre Dame Ind L 0 7 -7 0 4 0 L 4 Birmingham, AL
5 Oct 4, 1986 Sat Alabama Notre Dame Ind W 28 10 18 1 4 0 W 1 Birmingham, AL
6 Nov 14, 1987 Sat Alabama @ Notre Dame Ind L 6 37 -31 1 5 0 L 1
Provided by Sports-Reference.com/CFB: View Original Table
Generated 12/18/2012.

Check it out as Bowl Season gets started!

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Add Your Blog Posts to PFR Player Pages

Posted by Neil on December 3, 2012

PFR Player Name Linker / Add your Site to our Player Newsfeeds

With the 2012 regular season drawing down to its final quarter, here's a reminder that we have newsfeeds on the PFR player pages, showing the latest player news from KFFL, injury reports and links to relevant PFR blog posts. If you have a blog or website with an RSS feed you can add your site to relevant player pages as well. Our Player Linker Tool will take your blog posts as you've written them and run them through a program and add links to PFR player pages where appropriate. So while you don't have the resource to create your own player pages for your site, you can treat us as your site's statistics partner, linking Eli Manning's name to our stats or any player all the way back to Y.A. Tittle and Otto Graham.

If the links then appear in your rss feed and you let us know to look for them, we'll pull them out of your feed and then link back to you from Eli's page, or Otto Graham's or whomever you link to.

If you help your users find our great content, we'll help our users find yours. And best of all it is all automated except for one click of an easy-to-install bookmarklet. Check the Player Newsfeeds page for details. This link share will also work for tables you share using the SHARE tooltip found above every stats table on the site.

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College Football Box Scores

Posted by Neil on November 13, 2012

Get the latest college football box scores by going to our Boxscore section of the site. The default view will be the most recent scores from the current season, but you can also find them for every year going back to the 2000 season.

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Automatic Player Linker Tutorial (Video)

Posted by Neil on November 9, 2012

Here's an updated video to describe the Sports-Reference Automatic Player Linker tools, which are now available for college football & basketball and hockey:

Also, here's the old tutorial video:

As always, if you want to be included in the program, just email me with the following information:

  • the name of your site to appear in the feed (at most 25 characters)
  • the url for your rss feed (must be a full feed)
  • a contact e-mail address
  • the url of an example page with our links in place

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Elo School Rater

Posted by Neil on November 7, 2012

Who has the greatest college football program ever? Check out the Elo School Rater to see how our users voted, and cast a few votes yourself!

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PI School Game Finder

Posted by Neil on October 27, 2012

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CFB Updates

Posted by Neil on October 4, 2012

A quick note about several updates that we added to SR/College Football this week:

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Our Apologies For the Very Annoying Ads You’ve Seen on our Site

Posted by admin on September 17, 2012

First, let me say the buck stops here and we apologize for the very annoying ads that have been running on some parts of the site over the last 4-5 days. The pages load and then a minute or two later you are blasted with audio that can't be muted. Very annoying. We've taken all of the steps we can to get them taken down short of foregoing all ad revenue. If you want to understand why this happens, please continue reading.

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CFB – Historical AP Polls & BCS Standings

Posted by Neil on September 17, 2012

In case you haven't seen this feature yet, we list Expanded Polls for every year. These pages contain the Associated Press Top 25 and BCS Standings for every week of the season in which they were released, so you can look at the progression of the polls as the season goes on (this is especially useful to track with historical seasons).

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Search Our College Football Data Using the CFB Play Index

Posted by Neil on September 15, 2012
The Play Index is the name we use to refer to SR/College Football's collection of top-notch research tools. Read below for more information on some of the applications we have made available to you. As always, if you have any suggestions or corrections, please fill out our feedback form.

Player Game Finder

School Game Finder

School Streak Finder

Search through school game logs spanning from 1869 to today for streaks that match your criteria. For example, you can find…

Rivalry Finder

Find all of the matchups between your favorite school and their biggest rival. For example, find matchups between…

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