What's New in Collegio Football 2003

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 screen
  • New 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

  • A 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

  • UCF 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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