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Ummm.... I see literally dozens of national news articles from the AP, ESPN, and CBS Sports if you click a link, scroll down, and click another. I didn't think I needed to link them all individually since I figured that would be excessive and people could find them themselves, but since you insist...
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whatsoever. they'd have seen that every ACU football season gets a ton of coverage, well above the notability threshold. Let's just close this and stop wasting everybody's time, please. There really needs to be more done about editors who waste people's time with multiple frivolous AfDs like this.
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says "Routine events such as sports matches, film premieres, press conferences etc. may be better covered as part of another article." Nobody is saying each individual game of the season is notable. Rather, we're covering them as part of another, larger article, which is exactly what
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Abilene Christian football seasons, as well as most FCS seasons in recent memory. See the precedent established
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