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An overview of the rule changes for college football this season:
247sports.com
Players ejected for targeting are allowed to remain on the sideline.
I guess this is OK, as most of the targeting calls that I see aren't malicious.
Fighting, two unsportsmanlike conduct penalties, or flagrant personal fouls are ejection offenses.
Are there guidelines for what constitutes a "flagrant foul" in CFB, or is it up to the officials' discretion? Ejection seems reasonable for these offenses, assuming they aren't ticky-tack penalties in the first place.
Jersey numbers must be visible during warmups and a coach must be on the field during warmups.
Apparently the former is to prevent coaches from playing games during warmups to hide injured players. The latter, I don't know - it mostly affects kickers and punters warming up before the rest of the team comes out. I think the blurb in the link also says that a coach has to be on the field when the players come out for the coin toss - I think we sometimes send captains out on their own beforehand.
Defense can have 12+ men on the field until the ball is snapped.
Apparently this resulted from a game in which Auburn beat Alabama with a trick play because Bama got penalized for 12 men on the field. When does the defense get a flag for 12 men on the field under the old rules? I always assumed it was "if the extra guy didn't get off before the snap," so maybe this rule change is no big deal?
Defenders can't line up over the long snapper.
Not sure how they'll assess the "defensive players can't touch the long snapper until 1 second after the snap" part of this rule. Will we see reviews where they try to figure out if somebody touched the long snapper too soon?
No more than 2 players can have the same number.
I don't think this really affects us. I've noticed a few instances lately where two guys have the same number, but it's not super common.
Penalties at the end of the half can be carried over to the next half.
On the one hand, I like "starting clean" at the start of each half/overtime. On the other hand, I guess it's not fair that you can commit a penalty with no punishment at the end of the half.
Jurisdiction of officials extended to 90 minutes before kickoff.
Up from 60 minutes previously. So if you get into fights and stuff up to 90 minutes before kickoff, you can be flagged. I'd love to hear about a flag being thrown before the gates even open for a game. :-)
Some end-of-half clock stuff.
Another "Alabama lost to Auburn" rule change. If there's less than 3 seconds on the clock at the end of the half and the clock starts on the whistle after a penalty, the half is over. Apparently Auburn somehow got a snap off to kick a field goal in this situation with less than a second on the clock. I'm generally in favor of fewer "special case" rules, but I guess this one can eliminate some "home cooking" clock malfeasance by officials or clock operators.
Reviews should take less than 2 minutes.
They want to try to do replay reviews in under 2 minutes unless it's a complex or game-critical situation. I'm in favor of speeding up replays (and eliminating pointless ones).
Players can wear #0.
I never thought about this before. Do we have somebody wearing 0 for the first time this season?
More uniform violations.
You can't wear a vest or an "altered jersey" (velcro or other fasteners). I don't really know what issue this is addressing.
JRjr
The new rule changes in college football you need to know
These rules would have changed the outcomes of games in previous seasons.
247sports.com
Players ejected for targeting are allowed to remain on the sideline.
I guess this is OK, as most of the targeting calls that I see aren't malicious.
Fighting, two unsportsmanlike conduct penalties, or flagrant personal fouls are ejection offenses.
Are there guidelines for what constitutes a "flagrant foul" in CFB, or is it up to the officials' discretion? Ejection seems reasonable for these offenses, assuming they aren't ticky-tack penalties in the first place.
Jersey numbers must be visible during warmups and a coach must be on the field during warmups.
Apparently the former is to prevent coaches from playing games during warmups to hide injured players. The latter, I don't know - it mostly affects kickers and punters warming up before the rest of the team comes out. I think the blurb in the link also says that a coach has to be on the field when the players come out for the coin toss - I think we sometimes send captains out on their own beforehand.
Defense can have 12+ men on the field until the ball is snapped.
Apparently this resulted from a game in which Auburn beat Alabama with a trick play because Bama got penalized for 12 men on the field. When does the defense get a flag for 12 men on the field under the old rules? I always assumed it was "if the extra guy didn't get off before the snap," so maybe this rule change is no big deal?
Defenders can't line up over the long snapper.
Not sure how they'll assess the "defensive players can't touch the long snapper until 1 second after the snap" part of this rule. Will we see reviews where they try to figure out if somebody touched the long snapper too soon?
No more than 2 players can have the same number.
I don't think this really affects us. I've noticed a few instances lately where two guys have the same number, but it's not super common.
Penalties at the end of the half can be carried over to the next half.
On the one hand, I like "starting clean" at the start of each half/overtime. On the other hand, I guess it's not fair that you can commit a penalty with no punishment at the end of the half.
Jurisdiction of officials extended to 90 minutes before kickoff.
Up from 60 minutes previously. So if you get into fights and stuff up to 90 minutes before kickoff, you can be flagged. I'd love to hear about a flag being thrown before the gates even open for a game. :-)
Some end-of-half clock stuff.
Another "Alabama lost to Auburn" rule change. If there's less than 3 seconds on the clock at the end of the half and the clock starts on the whistle after a penalty, the half is over. Apparently Auburn somehow got a snap off to kick a field goal in this situation with less than a second on the clock. I'm generally in favor of fewer "special case" rules, but I guess this one can eliminate some "home cooking" clock malfeasance by officials or clock operators.
Reviews should take less than 2 minutes.
They want to try to do replay reviews in under 2 minutes unless it's a complex or game-critical situation. I'm in favor of speeding up replays (and eliminating pointless ones).
Players can wear #0.
I never thought about this before. Do we have somebody wearing 0 for the first time this season?
More uniform violations.
You can't wear a vest or an "altered jersey" (velcro or other fasteners). I don't really know what issue this is addressing.
JRjr
