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What rule changes would you like to see in College Football?
1. Down by contact instead of down by ground.

Personally, I hate the “down by grounding” rule in college football. If the ground can’t cause a fumble, then it shouldn’t be able to down a player either. While I understand the rule is there for safety issues, nothing is more frustrating than watching a play whistled dead despite the fact that the defense did not actually stop the play.


2. Play a real overtime; a man's man type overtime.

I dislike college overtime immensely for two reasons. One, it almost completely eliminates special teams from the game (no kickoffs, only PATs and FGs). Two, if you are going to keep special teams out of it, at least start teams further back than the 25 yard line. I also dislike the “sudden death” format of the NFL. I’ve never been a fan of sudden death, mainly because I feel it places too much emphasis on offense (e.g. a great offense/horrible defense will probably beat a good offense/good defense if they win the coin toss). What I’d like to see instead is for both teams to play an extra “half quarter”. The clock would be set to 7 ½ minutes and a coin toss would decide possession. Other than the shortened time period, the OT period would be played exactly like regulation. If teams were still tied at the end of the first OT period, the team that lost the coin toss would receive the kick and a second “half quarter” would be played. If teams were tied at the end of the second OT, the game would enter sudden death.


3. Remove the half the distance to the goal.

Why should a team that commits defensive holding be penalized less at the 9 yard line (half the distance to the goal = 4.5 yards) than at the 11 yard line (10 yards). IMO, the ball should be placed on the goal line rather than half the distance to the goal.

4. Offensive and defensive pass interference treated the same

I don't like "spot foul" ruling for defensive pass interference because it assumes the ball would be caught. In addition, it also punishes defensive pass interference harsher than offensive pass interference. IMO, both fouls should be treated the same. For example:

- Offensive pass interference = 15 yards and loss of down
- Defensive pass interference = 15 yards and automatic first down
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RE: What rule changes would you like to see in College Football?
More gratuitous close ups of FEMALE cheerleaders during most of the telecasts.
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RE: What rule changes would you like to see in College Football?
I like the overtime system the way it is. Its much better than the NFL's overtime and its exciting. 1 play can make or break it. The only change I would make is to have teams go for 2 starting in the first ot.

My changes. Whats up with all these rules to speed up the game but the one rule that is slowing down the game hasn't been tested. How bout keeping a running clock after a first down if you stayed in bounds. So obvious its stupid we're talking about this. Starting up the game clock after a change of possession. WTF was they thinking.

I do like your idea of down by contact, and pass interference idea's for a stiffer penelty for the offensive team. I also like the NFL's rule on defensive pass interferense as a spot foul. How many times have we seen a deep ball that could've been caught on the 5 but the penelty only put that team on the 35.
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RE: What rule changes would you like to see in College Football?
UofL07 Wrote:1. Down by contact instead of down by ground.

2. Play a real overtime; a man's man type overtime.

3. Remove the half the distance to the goal.

4. Offensive and defensive pass interference treated the same

I disagree on #2 I think the college style OT works fine but I would agree it shouldn't start on the 25 I was thinking midfield myself. I disagree on #4 the pros have it right spot of the foul, you have to assume the player would have caught it if not for an illegal defensive play. As for #1 and #3 I couldn't agree with you more.
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RE: What rule changes would you like to see in College Football?
1. Go to the NFL style of you must be touched by a defender or defender causes you to go to the ground.

2. Sudden death OT and I would only have OT in bowl game/postseason games.

3. Pass Interference would be a spot penalty and if it is in the endzone the ball is placed on the 1 yard line.

4. The clock keeps moving on a 1st down. That would end the 4 hour games. Also if a player goes out of bound the clock will start back up once the ref signals the ball back in play. The clock in the last 5 minutes of a half or game will be dead until the ball is snapped if a player goes out of bounds.
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RE: What rule changes would you like to see in College Football?
UofL07 Wrote:3. Remove the half the distance to the goal.

Why should a team that commits defensive holding be penalized less at the 9 yard line (half the distance to the goal = 4.5 yards) than at the 11 yard line (10 yards). IMO, the ball should be placed on the goal line rather than half the distance to the goal.

I do not believe that is correct. If a penalty is 10 yards then a team would be penalized "half the distance" out to the 20 yard line; and a 5 yard penalty would be "half the distance" out to the 10 yard line, etc.
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RE: What rule changes would you like to see in College Football?
Fanatical Wrote:I do not believe that is correct. If a penalty is 10 yards then a team would be penalized "half the distance" out to the 20 yard line; and a 5 yard penalty would be "half the distance" out to the 10 yard line, etc.

http://www.footballbabble.com/football/penalties/

When a penalized team is near its own goal line and the penalty yardage is more than half of the distance to that goal line, then the yardage assessed is half the distance to the goal line.

Therefore, if a player commits a penalty (normally) worth five yards, but the penalty takes place on his 4 yard line, the penalty yardage assessed is two yards. Sometimes, but not always, these penalties are an automatic first down.


What I am saying is this:

if the defense commits a 10 yard penalty inside their own 10 yard line or if it commits a 15 yard penalty inside their own 15 yard line, I'd like to see the ball placed on the goal line rather than half the distance to the goal.

If the offense commits a 10 yard penalty inside their own 10 yard line or if it commits a 15 yard penalty inside their own 15 yard line, I'd like to see the ball placed on the goal line rather than half the distance to the goal.
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RE: What rule changes would you like to see in College Football?
Thought of another one I'd like to see, though it would require an act of Congress to force it to happen.

5. Even home/Away scheduling.

Teams would be required to schedule one away/neutral site game for every home game they play. This would end the policy of big schools scheduling 8 home games a season and would help solve many of the scheduling problems in D-I football.
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RE: What rule changes would you like to see in College Football?
1.) Allow endzone celebrations.
2.) Allow players to put whatever they want on the back of their jersey.
"He Hate Me" or "Big Baller"
3.) No player is allowed to get a Haircut ever. Let it Fro!
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KnightLight Wrote:More gratuitous close ups of FEMALE cheerleaders during most of the telecasts.

Tighter and smaller clothing
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RE: What rule changes would you like to see in College Football?
I don't like OT at all. ther were 5 ties when they put rule & now there are over 20 OT games.
Coaches play for OT now & takes the presure off the coach & puts it on the players.
Players are getting hurt in OT & it's unneccessary.
My favorite is when team A Kicks extra point instead going for the win with 2-point conversion.
5 OT latter, after 3 kids get hurt, team A has to go for 2 to get the win.
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RE: What rule changes would you like to see in College Football?
I always thought pass interference in college was wrong. as Maize and others stated, it should be a spot foul. Why should a badly beaten DB be allowed to drag a receiver down, blatently, and have it only be a 15 yarder? Never made sense to me.

and why is spiking the ball to stop the clock not intentional grounding?

I would also like to see a rule permitting the defensive line to bull rush the announcing crew and throw Corso out and over the stadium seats.
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RE: What rule changes would you like to see in College Football?
Out of bounds kick off penalty that puts ball on 40 is too harsh.Maybe 30 or 35?
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Mandatory stomping on the opponents 50 yard line before the game.
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RE: What rule changes would you like to see in College Football?
pitt83 Wrote:and why is spiking the ball to stop the clock not intentional grounding?

I've always wondered that too truth be told.
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RE: What rule changes would you like to see in College Football?
It should be, in my opinion. They should be penalized, which serves the purpose of stopping the clock. But I don't think they should be allowed to do it without losing some field position in return for the extra time...
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RE: What rule changes would you like to see in College Football?
pitt83 Wrote:I always thought pass interference in college was wrong. as Maize and others stated, it should be a spot foul. Why should a badly beaten DB be allowed to drag a receiver down, blatently, and have it only be a 15 yarder? Never made sense to me.

and why is spiking the ball to stop the clock not intentional grounding?

I would also like to see a rule permitting the defensive line to bull rush the announcing crew and throw Corso out and over the stadium seats.

The reason spiking the ball is not intentional grounding is because they are not doing it to avoid a sack. The team that grounds the ball is penalized, they lose a down.
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RE: What rule changes would you like to see in College Football?
No. They not grounding the ball to avoid a sack. They're grounding the ball to avoid a loss.

They should be able to stop the clock. But they should pay for it in yardage...
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RE: What rule changes would you like to see in College Football?
bitcruncher Wrote:No. They not grounding the ball to avoid a sack. They're grounding the ball to avoid a loss.

They should be able to stop the clock. But they should pay for it in yardage...

So you are saying that you think spiking the ball to stop the clock should be a penalty? How many yards to you think they should lose?
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paintcan Wrote:Out of bounds kick off penalty that puts ball on 40 is too harsh.Maybe 30 or 35?

Well I think the reason they went with the 40 yard line was so teams would not intentionally kick the ball out of bounds to avoid a dangerous return guy.

Hell I would much rather kick the ball out of bounds every time if the penalty was only to 30 yard line. That way you would not have to be concerned about a good return guy taking one to the house on you.
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