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Collegio Football 2003, covering the
2002-2003
college football season, contains hundreds
of enhancements, expansions, and refinements, all meant to make your experience
with Collegio Football even more informative and enjoyable.
Executive Summary of What's New:
NEW Conference
Composite Schedule screen (Interactive and Customizable),
NEW TV
Listings screen, NEW
TV network broadcast detail (including ESPN GamePlan (tm) details),
NEW data
export file formats (7 in all for MS Office users),
NEW assistant
coach data, NEW
expanded lineup of team and web portal WebLinks,
NEW Spell
Checker and Thesaurus, NEW
expanded Current Polls data, New
team historic attendance graphs,
NEW Returning Stats Leaders screens, and
MUCH MORE...read
on below for details on these and still more new features and data.
New Historical Data
- New Conference National Championships
and Team National
Championships screens
New complete first round NFL
Draft listings for 1936 to 1969 (formerly only displayed 1st
and 2nd overall picks for those years)
Historic box scores now accessible
from the Historic Matchups screenNew award: Rimington Trophy
presented to the Nation's Outstanding Center
Newly completed team game results
histories
for 7 teams
formerly with only partial results histories:
Akron: 1891
Ball State: 1924
Buffalo: 1894
Central Michigan: 1896
Louisiana Tech: 1901
Louisiana-Lafayette: 1902
Louisiana-Monroe: 1931
MTSU: 1911
Northern Illinois: 1899
New Current Season Data
- New interactive and customizable Conference
Composite Schedule screens for all 13 conferences
- Newly extended Writers' and Coaches'
Poll listings now rank all teams receiving votes (not just Top 25)
New Week-to-Week change column on
the Current Polls screen for quick assessment
of who's rising and who's falling (and by how much)
New Subtotal column on BCS Screen
to help assess Quality Win Points calculations
Game Scores for completed games now
shown on Kickoff Countdown screen (updated with
each Weekly Statistics Datafile import)
More Detailed TV
Listings
- New TV Listings screen
for a quick picture of what games are on what stations are what times
- New ESPN GamePlan (tm) TV listing
designations optionally allows DirecTV (tm)
customers who subscribe to ESPN GamePlan (tm) to quickly know which
satellite channel to turn to for which game
- New split-coverage and
regional-coverage TV denotations for ABC (tm)
and Fox Sports Net (tm)
New Data Handling
Capabilities
- Additional data export file formats - users with
Microsoft Office (tm) installed on their PCs can now export Collegio
Football data to 6 new popular file formats:
Microsoft Word (*.doc)¹
Microsoft Excel (*.xls)²
Lotus 1-2-3 (*.wk4)²
Quattro Pro (*.wq1)²
Microsoft Works Spreadsheet (*.wks)²
XML Spreadsheet (*.xml)³
¹ Requires Microsoft Word 97 or higher
installed
² Requires Microsoft Excel 97 or higher installed
³ Requires Microsoft Excel 2002/XP or higher installed
- All users can now export to the Microsoft Access
(*.mdb) file format
- New Spell Checker (with optional auto
correction) and Thesaurus have been added to the User Notes rich
text word processor
- New True rich text format Windows
Clipboard copy feature (formerly just plain text was copied from
most rich text screens like SophoScoop)
- New font size control on Box Scores
screens allows user to customize to personal taste
New 'My Stats' folder
holds all your data exports (for most systems, Windows 98 and
higher; located under the 'My Documents' folder)
Data export capability added to
Historic Coaches screen
New Web/Internet
Features
new Las Vegas game lines
WebLink has been added to both the
Head-to-Head Matchup screen and the This Week's Games
screen
A new player injury status
reports WebLink has been added to the
Head-to-Head Matchup screen
New Team Recruiting WebLinks
let you know who'll be attending which school next season
New Yahoo! (tm) Team WebLinks
give you access to even more weekly coverage of any team
Updated Yahoo! (tm) Broadcast Team
WebLinks allow to you listen both to live and
archived game broadcasts via the Internet
Additional Web Portal WebLinks
[NBC (tm), Yahoo! (tm) and more] have been added to the Web menu on
the Main screen
New Ticket Office E-Mail Links
allow you to communicate directly via e-mail with
many ticket offices
New NCAA Graduation Report WebLinks
provide detailed information on how any team is performing in the
classroom
New Player and Team
Details
- New team-by-team listings of the
1,000+ assistant coaches in NCAA Division I-A
allow you to find out who is coaching what positions at
what school
- New team Returning Stats Leaders
screen has been added to the Team Info tab
on the Team Properties screen
- New listings of Offensive an
Defensive Coordinators' Alma Maters and graduation years
have been added to the Coaches screen
- Press Box Phone Number(s)
can now be found under the SID contact info on the Team Properties
screen
- New historic year-by-year attendance
graphs have been added to the Stadiums screen
(with home opponents listings)
- Dozens of Fight Song lyrics added
- the program now features lyrics for all
teams that have a fight song
Team Name Updates and
Conference Moves
- Newly adjusted/updated team names:
Central Florida
now UCF
Brigham Young now BYU
Kent now Kent State
North Carolina St. now North Carolina State
Texas Christian now TCU
leaves the ranks of the I-A
Independents and joins the MAC's East Division
Bowling Green moves to the MAC's
West Division
Misc.
- New optional shading for currently sorted
column on any screen (a la
Windows XP's Windows Explorer)
- New Quick Links shortcuts on Main
screen for easy access to most popular current and historic
data
And Much More...
Be sure to download and
install the program and then explore all the nooks and
crannies of Collegio Football 2003 firsthand to witness the hundreds of other
new enhancements and refinements.
Feedback
As always we value your feedback on Collegio Football, so be sure to
e-mail us your feedback to let
us know what you think of the new version as well as what new features and
data we should be working on for future versions of the program.
Thanks and enjoy!
-Collegio Football Development Team
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