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Starting today, the site will be updated on a weekly basis with 2010 statistics and results. I meant to have this in place last week, but a few roadblocks prevented me from doing so. Please let us know if anything looks amiss by posting a comment here or by filling out our feedback form.

OK, I’ve gotta toot our own vuvuzela for a second here: I just found out that the Sports-Reference family of sites has been named to TIME Magazine‘s list of the 50 Best Websites for 2010! It’s a great honor for us, and a thrill to know that our users get so much enjoyment & utility out of the sites. Here’s to being your favorite sports stats destination for many years to come…

Just a short post to let you know that the site was updated this morning with statistics for 400+ all-time greats (e.g., Glenn Davis, Roger Staubach, and Herschel Walker). Also, we should be adding partial rosters and statistics for many pre-2000 schools in the coming months. At first we will not have complete coverage for these years, but rest assured that one of our long-term goals will be to fill in the gaps in our data.

When you want to know what happened in a given college football season, the Years Index is the place to look. We have every CFB season on the site going back to 1869, and from the years portal you can access all of them. Click any year to find:

• Weekly AP Poll results for the season (see also: Expanded Polls)
• Season award winners
• All-America teams
• Individual stat leaders for seasons 2000 or later (see also: Expanded Leaders)
• A combined Schedule/Results page for every major school
• Season standings
• Bowl Game results
• Expanded individual stats: Passing ▪ Rushing ▪ Receiving ▪ Kicking ▪ Punting ▪ Scoring
• All major schools’ coaches

The Schools Index is your one-stop destination for info about any “major” school in the last 141 years. On the main portal you’ll find a table with 289 major schools, and:

• Their range of seasons played
• Their all-time overall W-L-T record and W%
• Their all-time bowl record & W%
• Their all-time Simple Rating System score and its Strength of Schedule component
• Their AP poll appearances
• Their conference championship totals

On the individual school pages, we also have year-by-year records and SRS scores, along with conference affiliations, AP poll rankings, bowl appearances, and (nearly complete) coaching histories.

Click on any of the seasons in the school’s yearly results table, and you’ll go to their team that year. For seasons from 2000-09, these pages will include complete passing, rushing, receiving, scoring, special teams, and defensive stats; for the team’s game scores, click “Schedule and Results“.

At the moment, clicking on years prior to 2000 will send you directly to the schedule/results page, but we plan on adding a great deal of historical individual stats to the pages of older teams in the near future. Also, once the 2010 season begins, check back with us because we will be generating current-season school pages, updated weekly with in-season stats and scores.

Thanks for checking out the new College Football @ S-R, and as always, let us know if you have corrections, questions, or comments via our feedback form.

I am pleased to announce the launch of College Football at Sports-Reference.com, the latest addition to the Sports Reference family of web sites. We have had plans to launch a college football site for quite some time, but for one reason or another we always ran into roadblocks, most of them data-related. However, we now have a college football database that we believe to be second-to-none. Let me tell you a little bit about what the site does (and does not) have:

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