If a player claims they are hurt and it halts the game, they have to sit out 15 snaps

Mtn_Guide said:

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Wearer of the Ring said:

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Clock can't stop til Ags are ahead.

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We would still be playing oklahoma

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Oklahoma?

ashley said:

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aggie813 said:

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The touchback rule if the offense fumbles into and out of the end zone.
Dumbest rule, it should remain offense ball at the spot of the fumble.
What makes the defense deserving of the ball at the 20 yard line because of this?

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I coached 40 yrs and never figured out how this could make sense to anyone.
Also I'd change the targeting rule, 99% of the time the player isn't targeting on purpose.

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Intent doesn't matter....surely you know that.

adopt the NFL clock rules no stopping for first downs

HoustonAg2106 said:

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Mtn_Guide said:

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Wearer of the Ring said:

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Clock can't stop til Ags are ahead.

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We would still be playing oklahoma

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Oklahoma?

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77-0

I think if a player gets medical staff onto the field to care for him, he can't come back that series.

bac said:

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HoustonAg2106 said:

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Mtn_Guide said:

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Wearer of the Ring said:

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Clock can't stop til Ags are ahead.

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We would still be playing oklahoma

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Oklahoma?

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77-0

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Gotcha, might have been more current to say Alabama and 59-0

This isn't an in game "rule" but I wish college football/NFL would adopt a more MLB style when it comes to the draft. I wish guys didn't have to declare and that players were just draft eligible. So that anyone who's eligible can be drafted and at that point decide if they want to sign with the team or return to college. What that does is give the player leverage in rookie contracts, as well as not having to jeopardize going undrafted and not being able to return to school. Puts more power in the hands of the players, who are the ones putting their bodies on the line.

No penalty may be enforced against Texas A&M.

Many moons ago PI was a spot foul. It was changed to 15 because way too many games were being determined by the refs making horrific PI calls that resulted in TD's that affected the game in a negative way. That was the days where refs caused way too any games to be incorrectly decided. A solution to bad officiating was to only allow a 15 yd penalty thereby minimizing the numerous bad calls.
Neither the pros nor the colleges have ever owned up to the problems of just plain old bad officiating and have attempted to make rules to alleviate the problem.

Dumbest rule in all of football is half the distance to the goal penalties. Offense can commit a personal foul and the resulting penalty is a foot.

The solution is to tack the full penalty on to the yards needed for first down. The offense isn't moved back but the full penalty is enforced for first down yardage.

This only solves the problem when the offense is backed up to its own endzone. Not sure how to solve when a defense commits a penalty when it is backed up to its own endzone. Could do the same....shorten yardage needed for the offense to make a first down . Problem here is that most of these are already goal to goal situations.

Only allow OL to be, at most, one yard beyond the line of scrimmage on a pass play (whether engaged with an opposing player or not).

The 3 yards (and beyond if you watch a BDF game) rule is just dumb.

Eliminate all kicking except for kick-offs. No more punts, field goal attempts, conversions, etc.

Ok, not serious but it would be interesting to watch a game where teams always had to go for it on 4th down.

What if they added the penalty yards to the penalized team's yards needed to get a first down on their next offensive series?

My main ***** about football is the gift they give to offenses about a QB throwing the ball away. To me it removes or at least minimizes one of the risks of dropping back and passing. The loss of significant yards.

I think it's the number one reason for pass happy offenses. The negatives just are overwhelmingly outweighed by the positives of passing.

if don't do that then do the other thing... which is allow contact between WRs and DBs 10 yards down the field.

HoustonAg2106 said:

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bac said:

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HoustonAg2106 said:

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Mtn_Guide said:

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Wearer of the Ring said:

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Clock can't stop til Ags are ahead.

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We would still be playing oklahoma

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Oklahoma?

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77-0

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Gotcha, might have been more current to say Alabama and 59-0

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Current or not, Oklahoma was worse. It could have been 100+ point differential had they really wanted it to be.

1. Review is timed to 1 minute max. If it is not clear that the call is different that the field officials made after 1 minute, the call on the field stands.

2. Targeting. I've accepted that its here to stay, but it needs to be uniformly called and all of the onus should not be on the one making the hit. In a whole lot of cases, targeting ends up being called because the ballcarrier tenses up and lowers their head in anticipation of the hit - that should not be a penalty on the defense.

3. Holding should actually be called!!!!!!!!!!!

4. PI should have to be absolutely egregious to be called a penalty. To many PI calls are absolute ticky-tack and should never be flagged as such. Let the game play, and let the defense play defense.

5. I like the idea of sitting out for a series if you go down for an injury. Would really slow down the "ooh, i have a mystery cramp with 1 minute left and the offense driving!" crap.

6. Would love to see the grounding penalty expanded to situations where the QB throws the ball halfway up the stands when nobody is covered. Always thought that was a crappy allowed rule - the defense does their job, but all the offense has to do is throw it out of bounds and only lose a down in the process.

7. Wouldn't mind seeing the clock rule go like NFL. Used to really like the fact that the clock stops in college after a 1st down, but games last too long anymore for a whole lot of reasons.

thebubbaisin said:

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HoustonAg2106 said:

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bac said:

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HoustonAg2106 said:

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Mtn_Guide said:

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Clock can't stop til Ags are ahead.

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We would still be playing oklahoma

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Oklahoma?

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77-0

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Gotcha, might have been more current to say Alabama and 59-0

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Current or not, Oklahoma was worse. It could have been 100+ point differential had they really wanted it to be.

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They could have done that before the end of the 3rd had they wanted to. Hate on Stoops all you want, but he was merciful on us that day - basically ran one play and told his guys to go down at first contact from about the middle of the 3rd on.

Change to Ground CAN cause fumble. Can't hold on to the ball, too bad. Eliminate ton of reviews.

gotta shorten the game

The targeting rules need to be looked at. Are there times where someone is playing recklessly and trying to seriously injure someone? Yes. But 90% of the time (based on my non scientific watching of football games) it doesn't really look "malicious" enough to warrant being ejected. Its all way too inconsistent.

Also, what exactly is a defenseless player? Per the NCAA....

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Defenseless player - a player not in position to defend himself.

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No. Freaking. Way.

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ashley said:

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aggie813 said:

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The touchback rule if the offense fumbles into and out of the end zone.
Dumbest rule, it should remain offense ball at the spot of the fumble.
What makes the defense deserving of the ball at the 20 yard line because of this?

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I coached 40 yrs and never figured out how this could make sense to anyone.
Also I'd change the targeting rule, 99% of the time the player isn't targeting on purpose.

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Intent doesn't matter....surely you know that.

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That's my point.

I don't like the rule where a team's attempted extra point is blocked and returned for a TD, but it's only two points. Makes no sense to me. If it were an interception returned it would be a TD.

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Change the college rule from 1 foot inbounds to the NFL rule of 2 feet for a catch.

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I think college has that one right. If it only takes one foot out in order to be "out of bounds", then I think you are "in bounds" until one foot is out. Therefore, one foot in, with control of the ball, is not yet "out of bounds".

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Eliminate FOREVER the 15 yard penalty for "excessive celebration!"


Make football fun again!


Quit penalizing 19 and 20 year old kids for being excited about scoring a touchdown in front a 75,000 fans and a tv audience of a billion people or so!

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This this and this

It's college football

All the unsportsmanlike penalties and unnecessary roughness called for excessive celebration and late hits ect has gotten way outta control

aggiehawg said:

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I don't like the rule where a team's attempted extra point is blocked and returned for a TD, but it's only two points. Makes no sense to me. If it were an interception returned it would be a TD.

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Why should the defense be awarded 6 points when the offense can only be awarded 2?

Enforce intentional grounding on the spike to stop the clock.

Make roughing the passer only when it's more than 3 steps

Aggie said:

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Padre_Island_Ag said:

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Eliminate FOREVER the 15 yard penalty for "excessive celebration!"


Make football fun again!


Quit penalizing 19 and 20 year old kids for being excited about scoring a touchdown in front a 75,000 fans and a tv audience of a billion people or so!

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This this and this

It's college football

All the unsportsmanlike penalties and unnecessary roughness called for excessive celebration and late hits ect has gotten way outta control

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Blame Miami a/k/a "Thug U" for those rules. After they embarrassed the hell out of the hapless horns in the Cotton Bowl, those rules became Draconian.

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My main ***** about football is the gift they give to offenses about a QB throwing the ball away. To me it removes or at least minimizes one of the risks of dropping back and passing. The loss of significant yards.

I think it's the number one reason for pass happy offenses. The negatives just are overwhelmingly outweighed by the positives of passing.

if don't do that then do the other thing... which is allow contact between WRs and DBs 10 yards down the field.

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Then the DB would just tackle the WR.

1. Go back to the old intentional grounding rule that racked 5 yards into the spot of the foul; what kind of foul is it if you just get the ball wherever the sack would have been? Might as well ground every time to avoid a sack and hope they don't call it because the penalty is the same as the sack

2. do away with being able to throw the ball away when outside the pocket
3. Get rid of ejection for targeting, or only eject a player for targeting if it is not the team's first targeting penalty that game
4. For half the distance, If the full penalty would result in a first down then enforce only half the distance but the offense gets a first down; so if it's 3rd and 3 from the four and the defense jumps offsides move the ball to the two but the offense gets a first down

5. Said above by others; change offense fumbling out of endzone rule
6. Make pass interference challengeable if it is called

Humorous Username said:

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What if they added the penalty yards to the penalized team's yards needed to get a first down on their next offensive series?

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Works for me.

I would add a rule that terminates any official that doesn't call holding. Call it until it goes away!

I would not change the one foot in, two feet in rule for a pass reception.

In college, you MUST have one foot in bounds. It is totally objective, which takes away any subjective bias. If you are knocked out of bounds before you get that one foot down it is incomplete

In the pros, you must come down with two feet in, EXCEPT that if, in the judgment of the official, you WOULD HAVE come down inbounds except for a hit, then i.t is a completion. This rule is too subjective, IMO.

Agree that interference calls should be reviewable.

Agree that the touchback rule for a fumble into and out of the end zone should be changed.

With regard to the excessive celebration rule, do any of you remember the Miami teams of the nineties? For the most part it was a choreographed dance routine in the end zone. Ridiculous, low life and no discipline. As the saying does, if you score, act like you've been there before. Added about 5 minutes to the game each time before the officials could get them off the field and end the commercial. These rules were clearly aimed at Miami's conduct. Shame on Dennis Erickson and Jimmy Johnson.

I would go with some ot the XFL rules. For instance, no fair catch rule, and no penalty for interfering with the catch. Also, make punts a free ball, like a kickoff.

Transfer rule applied to coaches.

...not really, but it would be amusing.