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What’s This? A Sensible Schedule? Surely You Jest?

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Well, the NCAA is doing something that makes sense, for a change.

The FBS Oversight Committee has recommended changes to the football regular season schedule, the NCAA announced Thursday. Under the proposal, the season would be standardized to 14 weeks, beginning with what is currently Week 0 and ending the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

In other words, December 4th would be the start of the playoffs, then December 11th the quarterfinals, and the 18th the semis, with the national championship on New Year’s Day.

That is, given:

  • Conferences abandon conference championship games.
  • The playoffs don’t expand to a field of 64 or something.

At this point, anything’s possible, but I’d be surprised if something the NCAA is suggesting isn’t blown up by conference override.

Anyway, I don’t see Mickey agreeing with any of this. It is cutting out weeks of additional ad revenue into January, and that isn’t including the proposed vision of expansion that could take this into the week before the Super Bowl or something.

Let’s see if it sticks (note: it won’t).

College Football Rules Changes for 2026

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Another year, another set of proposed changes. Some, for the better. Some, for the stranger.

Summary of changes:

  • The first targeting penalty called on a player in a season will NOT result in any next-game disqualification or suspension. If they accrue a second, they sit out the first half of the next game. A conference or team can appeal disqualification for the second offense…which I guess implies that someone will review the targeting penalty outside the game itself and determine if it was warranted in the first place. Sounds a little too-little, too-late, to me.
  • Players wear leg coverings from the top of the shoe to the bottom of the pants, in unison with the uniform. Players would have to sit one play at least to rectify the situation. In other words, the legs need to be covered from head to toe, which should eliminate players wearing the short shorts. Kind of makes sense, given they’re exposing their kneecaps and it’s stupid to play a contact sport that way.
We wear short shorts!
  • Now here’s an interesting one, if someone can please explain to me what this is in the comments, I’d appreciate it, because it sounds bizarre, although I have heard of it before:

Under a new proposal, a team could choose to attempt a fair catch kick after a completed or awarded fair catch. The kick would be a field goal place kick with a holder (no tee) or a drop kick from the spot where the returner caught the ball.

Here’s the rest:

  • On punts where jersey number exceptions (players who do not wear numbers 50-79) are used, the snapper and two adjacent linemen on either side who are lined up in (or touching) the tackle box are ineligible receivers by position and become exceptions to the numbering rule when the snapper takes his position. This makes it clear which players are eligible and ineligible receivers in the formation.
  • While the subcommittee is comfortable with the administration of unsportsmanlike conduct penalties, the group recommended clarifying the rule to give on-field officials guidance to align with the current game. Officials would focus on unsportsmanlike conduct where someone taunts an opponent; actions that interfere with game administration; and celebrations found demeaning to the game or opponent.
  • Offensive pass interference penalties would be 10 yards. Currently, the penalty for offensive pass interference is 15 yards.

Great. That means that Georgia will have five fewer yards for offensive pass interference penalties should we play Texas again. Glad to know.

Boom’s Not Done

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More from the recent NCAA changes that included removing CBD from banned substances also included this:

https://twitter.com/grahamcoffeydc/status/1805946613740736979?s=46

As you can read in this article, the relaxing of the rules allows for the following:

The NCAA Division I Council on Tuesday approved a rule change that will allow all football staff members to provide coaching instruction during practice and games, a change that removes some restrictions on the NCAA’s previous maximum of 11 “countable” coaches.

The rule is meant to address the large staffs some of the bigger programs hire with ambiguous titles such as “quality control” coaches, analysts, directors of player personnel and player development.

Instead of the gray area that existed before, which for many schools was a compliance nightmare, those staff members will now be allowed to provide hands-on instruction. The rule isn’t intended to be a green light for head coaches to hire 12 new assistants. Instead, the idea is to modernize the rule and allow for scenarios such as when fired head coaches are recycled onto other staffs in the guise of a “quality control” coach who previously might have ignored the rule to provide instruction.

More headsets, more coaches…and no more “quality control” labels? What will they be called now? Something tells me Kirby knew this was coming…but what it does mean is that we still have the chance to witness more classic Muschamp sideline and coaching antics in his remaining days at Georgia.