Latest / Run After Cast: The College Football Podcast / 2026 CFB Rule Changes To Expect!
Transcript
- Aaron: Howdy howdy and welcome back to Run After Cast, the College Football Podcast. I'm your usual host, Aaron, joined by Ryan Ryan: Hey guys. Aaron: and Chandler. Chandler: How's it going, guys? Aaron: And this week we wanted to talk about the new rules that we'll be seeing in the 2026 season since we're a few weeks away, we're all excited, and before some of us blow our top when we see something happen on the field that we don't understand because the flag comes out, we want to get you prepared. But before we deep dive into those, we gotta take a trip over to the Reaction News team. What you got for us this week? Chandler: So just one piece of news again, you know, if you're getting your news here, you should probably subscribe to elsewhere to get news faster. Aaron: Yeah. Yeah. Chandler: but Jaden Daniels, the whole Jaden Daniels and Co., I've sure I'm sure everybody's seen it that's listening to it, but they filed a cease and desist letter for Jaden Daniels' name, image, and likeness to be revoked from LSU for the time being because they want his jersey retired and they want the Heisman Trophy. So If I'm fudging any of those details, I apologize, but I think that's the pretty much the extent of of the cease and desist. and it's still ongoing. I know Jaden Daniels has posted that he's, you know, focused on on the camp for the NFL and he's not wanting to like stir up anything too negative. He wants to solve it privately and all that kind of stuff, but crazy story nonetheless. Aaron: It is to me, it is one of those stories that like as you go into it, there's a little more justification to it. There's a lot in the background that does shine a worse light on LSU. However, the headline is brutal for Daniels here. It does feel like they saw this in the sports reporting world and they were like, got it. We can write you know. Daniel sues LSU for not honoring him. And it's it's very funny. Ryan: It's also weird, it's like he's like taking his legacy away. You go there to build one and you have all your stuff there, you have your Heisman there. Like they shouldn't retire his jersey. Shadur and Travis Hunter kinda got theirs like retired for no reason. You can't just keep handing these out. Joe Bruce hasn't retired. He was good. Like I really like Jan Daniels, but like there's certain guys that have retired. Cam Newton's probably deserves to be retired. But it's weird, it's probably like his mom. Is it? Chandler: Is Joe Burroughs not retired? I don't know. Some studio break? Aaron: Yeah, we'll get a news live update on existing information. We cut to our field reporter, Joe Burrow. Chandler: What if like crop me on like Holly Rosehead? Aaron: Yeah. Down in the field. Ryan: Smoking. Chandler: Has not been officially retired by LSU in a formal accelerator. interesting. Not worn. But no player has worn it since the departure. Ryan: See, but it's like their thing. Like I've heard Michael Chandler: Burrow Ryan: All right. Chandler: it sa it says Burrow mentioned that he was told the number would be retired from use. Aaron: that seems like an LSU special right now. Ryan: See, but it's a good thing. It's like Michael Irvin has talked about not having his jersey retired. The legacy lives on. Y'all have the O Block jersey at Ohio State. They have like the famous number seven at Louisiana at LSU that you know, you're the best player on the team, you get number seven. Michael Irvin's like, I'm not gonna retire my number, but I'm gonna choose you have it. You're only gonna wear my number if you're a dog. He let Des Bryant wear it. He let CeeDee Lamb wear it. They're really good. Your legacy kind of lives through your number. You're gonna remember yeah, Mike Orban. yeah, Jan Daniels is to be number five. Chandler: That's very true. Yeah, you do Aaron: I Chandler: remember the the two the twos, like the all those single digit numbers you can kinda just pick out on on team X. You just can start rattling off skill position players that were wearing those numbers that you remember. Aaron: I would say, on a personal opinion of mine, I don't think we should be retiring jersey numbers in college. I like in the pros, I get it. When you have an all-timer Hall of Fame career, one of the best to do it, you can retire their jersey. It feels like it's a celebration of a full career. College, you have so many kids coming in and out. Like I get honoring the players in themselves. Like we talked about the field markings this year. Some of those things to do that, but the Jersey numbers, even at a great exceptional college run, somebody a great all time player goes to the pros. Like you we don't know if they're gonna fizzle out in the pros. That doesn't undo the success that they had at college. But you have a lot more players coming through. You have people turning over. I do feel like the numbers kind of belong to the team and not the player in this scenario. But then it changes in the professional side. Chandler: Yeah, and I know a lot of teams, especially single digit numbers, you have to kinda earn those. And I know like at Ohio State, just as a familiar familiarity example, they go through if you're a single digit like Legend Bay was he wanted two. He got in, he was having misconduct stuff, he got and then he w went up to like forty six and he had to work his way back down to g earn that two j that number two jersey. So there's a lot of those kind of things that pe a lot of programs hold pride in those single digit numbers. Aaron: Yeah. Chandler: So Ryan: You gotta be a bad man to wear that number. Chandler: Yeah, Chris Carter. Aaron: But I feel like if if we retire it kinda it it limits what you got on the college field. And I like I said, I understand the premise behind it. I get it. I I don't want to take away the people that have had their jerseys retired or their numbers retired in college. It just to me feels like a little bit more on the individual side and less about the team. And I think when we're in college that perspective should be on the team. Ryan: I think there's a time and place for it though. Like Fernando Mendoza, go and retire his number. That's never happening ever again in Indiana. But Aaron: Yeah. Ryan: you go to like like Auburn, like we're gonna have another Cam Newton, sure, retire his jersey. You go to Ohio State, you can't retire number two. There's a million more receivers. You have a n best new best receiver every year. You can't retire Jeremiah Smith's number, even though he's the best wide receiver ever. Aaron: Yeah. Chandler: Yeah, and I do think I agree. I think you shouldn't retire jerseys in college, regardless. I mean there could be your one offs, but there's one offs in every rule. So I just think holistically, like you said, Aaron, I think at the NFL level is where you kind of tie a bow on their career and you just say, Hey, like you're a gold jacket player, here's your retired jersey, you're good. And I think unless like I I there was rumors, I don't know if it's true, that Jaden Daniels was negotiated when he was recruited on that that Jersey would be retired. It's kinda crazy if that was a real thing because he hadn't ever taken a snap before you say that. Aaron: Yeah. Chandler: So I don't know if that's true, but that would be a w the only kind of situation where I could see this coming down, but I don't know. That's just h hearsay. Yeah, of course. Yeah, not just he said so. Aaron: Yeah. And I feel like there would have to be paper trail for it to be like a legally binding part. So and that may be what he Ryan: Just like Aaron: has that provides why there's the lawsuit of like, he's got a really strong legal ground for this. Sure, he's got a good lawyer who would be advising him for that direction. So I don't want to judge Daniels too hard here. It just is a funny head. Chandler: Yes. Aaron: But other than that, it's been a pretty quiet week in college football. I feel like everybody's kinda batting down the hatches here, getting ready for seasons and nobody's talking too much. Unfortunately, it means we're not getting our fun coach interviews, talking trash, no no you know, shots being taken in Texas anymore. So you know, you're just gonna have to put up with s us, or you're gonna have to put up with us being your sports entertainment this week. So In the most entertaining and fun thing we could think of, we want to talk about rules. Chandler: Speaking of Texas. Aaron: here we go. Chandler: The line opened up, minus one and a half, Texas is way. I'm not giving free gambling advice, but smash the cover on Ohio State. Aaron: Call a gambling sport line if you have trouble with gambling. Chandler: Exactly. I don't I don't recommend it, but it's a pretty tasty looking line. Aaron: Yep. And if that trouble with gambling is you're betting on Texas. All the support line. So Ryan: Yeah. Well if you're having trouble gambling, you can call us and we'll help you. We can help you win. You won't have trouble Aaron: Yeah. Chandler: Ha ha Ryan: anymore. Chandler: Exactly. And is Aaron: Yeah, 'cause Chandler: Spence really good supporter of the show, he knows. He knows who to call. Aaron: Ha ha ha. Yeah, put it all on it, U and L V making the playoffs. Chandler: Mm. Ryan: I actually don't hate it. I think they're sleeper. Aaron: I I I'm I'm riding for Chandler: Yep, they're they're snoring. Aaron: No. Entering the world of new rules for 2026. I think the big one that we'll see make the biggest impact here is the targeting chain. We've talked about it briefly before in one of our earlier episodes, but we figured right before season, it's a good time to deep dive back into it, go back over these conversations, explain in a little more depth of like what's changing, how it's changing, and We can't say why it's changing because who knows why the NCAA does anything. But we can say what we think the impacts will be. The targeting change is the three strike rule. It is first is rest of the game, you're out. Then the second becomes rest of the game and first half of the second game, which is a big change because that can occur in the first half of a game. You sit out the rest of that first snap of the game you can get targeting. Sit the rest of the game and still lose the first half of the next game. Third penalty is out the game. One game suspension for next scheduled game. So pretty hefty. Big time change. Chandler: And I think the for the first strike, if it's like the last snap of the game, it still only applies to that game. I don't think it carryes over to the second game. Aaron: Yep. Yeah, it is a in the game rule, so yeah. Watch watch for some targeting maybe to happen at the very end of the game. A little yep. Chandler: Just head hunting in the last snap of the game, yeah. Ryan: No, I like the fact that you get like kind of a free one, like I'm only getting the rest of this game. I don't like the whole two game thing. That's terrible. You can do the first play of the game, you're out for two games. Like what if you do that in the Iron Bowl or the the game for a team up north in Ohio State? First play of the game. You're out of that game, you're out of the first playoff game or the Big Ten Championship. Or so the whole thing. That's terrible. Aaron: Well, I mean if you if you're on the Auburn side of the Auburn er Chandler: That would assume that you're on the third strike. Aaron: the Iron Bowl, that's the last game of the season for you, so Ryan: Okay, well you don't say it. But like we were playing Albert George last year when we were Aaron: Okay. Ryan: gonna about to be up seventeen nothing. And they were letting him go down the field and Kai And Lee, our best corner, best man to man corner in the SC, he accidentally touched someone's face 'cause he blitzed. Touched his face a little when they tackled him, called targeting. He has lived his entire life to play that game. Be in that moment? Nope. No more Georgia game for you, buddy. You're done. You know, and he was he was very upset on the silent line. He was freaking out, crying, you know, I would be too. I played my entire life to go play an at home Auburn Georgia game, the oldest rivalry in the South. And you're taking me out of the game? I accidentally touched your face, you know. Chandler: Hey, I mean, sh don't helmet the helmet. It's pretty simple. Aaron: Yeah. And I do wish with these rule changes, because I actually I think this is a rule going forward is not bad for targeting. I just wish Chandler: Mm mm. Aaron: we could have further clarification and some some outline to protect defensive players in the targeting rule while this was getting implemented. Because right now targeting does feel like If the official thinks it's too much contact to the head, and we'll be like, well, they kinda they kind of meet the markers of a defenseless player. We're seeing two to three signs. Like that can be it, but we still aren't taking into account, we talked about this in the early episode, that offensive players are not necessarily making it easy. The onus of the safety of the offensive player is put on the defensive player. And now the defensive player is even being punished harder for that. I think in our first discussion we brought up Dak Jackson Dart as like a core representation of like an offensive player who lowers his head with the shoulder to make an impact during a run. And then I think that flag comes out looser because he's a quarterback. And I think once they're beyond the line of scrimmage, they need to be treated as every other player. If the offensive player is lowering their head, lowering the crown of their helmet, then it needs to be either an offsetting penalty. It needs to not have the game suspension. But I mean, there's clear targeting. If we have a launch, if we have the top of the helmet contact to the helmet with forcible contact, and I would like to see forcible defined, that that's something that it's like, that's a flag. That's fine. There's there's plenty of targeting that should absolutely be targeting. It's unsafe. It's damaging to players. We shouldn't condone it. But at the same time, if we have incidental contact. to the helmet and they call it because the offensive player is hit, head rocks back a little bit harder than you think it did, on review, but it meets the standard. They have to enforce it. It feels bad. Chandler: I think it's just like you said though, you were you're kinda mentioning it, the the box checking going through. If there it's such a broad stated rule when you really dig into it. Like there are clear cut like launching, head or neck, all that kind of stuff, defenseless players. But like the more you read into it and the more you see these things un unfold on game days, it just really is like think it is or I think it's not. So I mean there really should be like we should be able to hear, like okay, here's your three boxes. Like did he launch? Yes or no? Did he have helmet helmet contact? Yes or no? Was he defenseless? Was he starting a slide? Was he doing whatever? Like yes or no? And then if you if it's a situation where like as you said, like with a offensive player, on the flip side of that, when they start their slide, but you're already coming in for a hit, I mean the defensive player has no idea if you're gonna like initiate contact, if you're gonna try to bail out of contact. I mean he's just gonna hit you. Like that's that's what they do. So if he's if you don't know if he's gonna start a slide and you hit and he lowers his helmet when he's sliding, then like the path is just it was created from the offensive player. So it can go both ways. It's it's a Aaron: Yeah. And that to me, it feels like there should be that wiggle room to say it's an incidental. And I I think a comparable penalty that we can talk about is when we get like roughing the passer, where that becomes a very subjective when like Chandler: Yes. Aaron: a defensive player's in motion for tackle, hands on the quarterback when he throws the ball, and it's like, well, he didn't take enough of his weight off the quarterback. do we have a scale out there? Like, are we checking? Like, Chandler: Yeah. Aaron: you know, is the player actively trying to brace his hands down. And it's like, I think those are those things that then people get upset about. As fans, we don't want to see it because on review, when it slows down, we can look at it and say, okay. And I feel like that should be something, these kind of subjective ones, I'm glad targeting can be picked up. But those kind of ones like roughing the passer should also be allowed to be picked up. And it's something that it's like, okay, we see the defensive player making a attempt. And if the offensive player put himself time wise in this path, because throwing the ball late, sliding late, going out of bounds very late is something that once the defensive player's in motion, you're asking them to give up all leverage for something they don't know will happen or not, which is like, you know, are they gonna have to bring their head back up? That's elevating the body. And every defensive coach is gonna say, get low. Hit low. Like, so if they're planning to do what they're taught and the offensive player makes an adjustment that they can't necessarily see, react in time, you know, their body's doing what it's trained to do, then it's the entire thing falls on the defensive player. And I think that is something that we have to start adjusting, that the offensive players are responsible for their own well being as well. Ryan: The roughing you're passing one, that's what we need a rule change up. Like, Aaron: Absolutely. Ryan: I understand we need to protect quarterbacks. Like, you're playing Georgia and you're your D-line gets shoved down and grazes the guy's ankle. Below the knee is roughing the passer now. You know? But like you're saying, I think we need tighter rules for targeting. Head to head, whatever. Cause it used to be you had to lunge with the top crown of your helmet. Then it head to head contact. Now it is any forcible contact. You could hit them with your pelvis in their head. And if it's forcible, it's targeting. Just anything the head. Shoulder to the head. But I think, yeah, linebacker meeting a running back in a hole, like an Oklahoma drill, you're just head to head. Don't call that. You know? You're squared up. But you have a a receiver run across the middle and they just blend his brain up, you know, that should be targeting. I think it's very clear sometimes. And I think if it's iffy, Aaron: yeah. Ryan: it's not like If the player's fine and it's iffy, don't call it. Like they call it way too often, it's way too subjective. Aaron: And I would I would also be okay with right now, as rules is written, it's like, okay, we need three indicators for it to be thrown as targeting, be called targeting. I think if you have like if we have three indicators right now, and then we said five is an objection, because that's a clear, obvious like launch, head to head, crown of the helmet, forcible contact. If that goes down the list and checks the boxes, then to me that should be an ejection. That should hit this box. But Ryan: Yeah, let's do like flagrants in basketball. You know, flagrant one, two, and three, how bad was it? If they're truly defenseless, I think that should be the main thing. If they're really defenseless, you should be gone for sure. If it's like mutual Aaron: Absolutely. Ryan: contact, offense, defense, maybe a little something, but don't make it that bad. Make it like half the game. Yeah, give some Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Chandler: Yeah, it's like fifteen yards or something. You don't have to eject them, just give a fifteen yard penalty. Yeah. Aaron: Yeah, yeah, keep keep the penalty, just not the objection. Because absolutely, I agree. If a if a receiver's coming down with the ball and eyes aren't even in the direction of the defender and the defender leaps crown of the helmet to hit them in the head, that's targeting. Like that's don't even don't even send it to the booth for review. Get him out of here. Like that's dangerous. If it's, you know, shoulder down ball on both sides, then hey, that's football. And We can get it, but don't take a guy out the game. That's it's tough. Now, I do agree with the multiple violation. I like the incremental because we've seen some of those players that are targeting machines. Like it is like, okay, if they're in the game, you can count a quarter or two while they'll be playing because they are gonna hit somebody wrong. And those are the guys that are dangerous for the sport. And w we should have this. Chandler: The guy from Clemson, Ryan: Yeah. Aaron: Yep. Ryan: The some with an S. Skolsky? Skolsky? Aaron: Yep, the one with the linebacker collar. Yeah. Chandler: Sisowski or Sizowski or S yeah, Skolsky yep. Aaron: And he is the same one I was thinking of. He is like my prime example of it. Of like You Ryan: Let's just ban that guy from football. Aaron: know what I mean? Like it was he I would say he played more old school. But unfortunately the rules are as written now, and he hit with his head every time. but so does Cam Scattaboo. So it is something that you know, we we do have to have a a eye on it. Now, one important thing about this that I did want to make sure we highlight, second and third offense can be reviewed on conference initiation after the game, if it's targeting or not. I think this is weird to have in there. I think it gets political. I think it gets something where it's like, well, Ohio State's probably gonna have theirs overturned, but a smaller school might not. You know, Georgia's gonna have theirs overturned every time because they've got the right guy there probably calling every 15 minutes dealing with it. Yep, and money's a huge part. I don't think there should be I I think targeting needs a second eye on the field, but I don't think it should be from the, you know, upstate officiating crew. If they have this in place, they want to make this change, pay a team on Saturdays to go sit. In a remote location, neutral team, that they're trained in targeting, and that's it. Every targeting call goes to them for review. They make the check boxes, they mark it, it's finalized. But they also are hypercritical, whether it's targeting or not. And they are the official statement on it. Because I think we we can say that different officiating crews that we've seen. seem to sometimes have a little bit different definition of how rules should be enforced. I think they need to have a specialty group that it's one day a week. Not there's you know, a couple times that targeting's gonna come up a weekend. You can pay a a group of people to go sit in a room and take care of it. We we can't keep pretending like the NCAA doesn't have the money to deal with these things. Chandler: Let's get bunch of doctors out there when it happens. Run their vitals. they're good. No targeting. Aaron: Yeah. Yeah. But it it is something that it's like, this feels like you you can mail in your send a fax over to have it dealt with. We have technology. Chandler: Yeah, exactly. Text one Aaron: Like there shouldn't be like a lengthy review process. It can just be done in the moment. That way, if it's not targeting, it doesn't swing the game or not. But it'll feel really bad if it's a third, like you know, fourth down drive into the game. You know, the pass is missed, but they call targeting. And it's like, well, we get another shot, first down, new set of downs for it. And then afterwards, the officiating team for the NCAA is like, turns out it really wasn't targeting. We didn't notice he hit him with his foot first or something like that. Whatever, whatever dumb excuse that comes up, then it's like, well, it still swung the game. Like that call still made a change, and now the call shouldn't have been made. I feel like fans aren't going to react to that well. The teams aren't going to react to that well. So why not just have it one and done with a specialty group? Ryan: Yeah, I don't think we should appeal. We've seen our court system. They just let everything slide, kinda just do whatever they want. Chandler: I will shamelessly plug this in here right now while we have our viewers fresh attention. since we're talking about rule changes this episode, I will throw a teaser out that sometime, probably early on next offseason, after football wraps up, we'll be having an official SEC ref on the show to talk about his time as an SEC ref and some of the things that he's experienced during his time. So, between now and then, plenty of time to ponder up questions and comments and all these kind of different things that you see throughout the year, or questions on rules that you want to ask, that'll be a perfect time to do it. Aaron: Yeah, and please send them in because I know I'm very excited for this conversation because I don't get to see a lot where people sit down with refs and really get into this. So I want to dive into some of these questions that I haven't really heard answered before. I'm sure they have been. I just haven't seen them. So if you have anything like that, feel free, send it over. We want to get as much information out of this as possible. So looking forward to it. But back to our seasonal rule changes here. next up we have the OPI change, which offensive pass interference is being reduced from a 15 yard penalty to a 10 yard penalty. And this really feels like their explanation is because of vibes. They're like, we want to keep 15 yard penalties to unsportsmanlike conduct and personal foul. And it's like, well, you still have TPI. That is up to a fifteen yard penalty. It's still a spot foul, but it's up to fifteen yards. It's like, well, should DPI be reduced to ten yards? nobody's asking for that. So I don't think anybody was asking Chandler: think it Ryan: This doesn't Aaron: OPI. Chandler: Promotes the promotes the offense to keep getting accurate. I mean if you if you're a little handsy, I mean ten yards is a lot. I mean, but the difference between ten to fifteen yards is l is a whole lot. So Aaron: Yeah. Yeah. Chandler: it it doesn't seem like much, but I mean it's a definitely an offensive favoring rule now with with offensive pass interference. That's that's good. Ryan: Yeah, and this seems like a subtle rule, but this is actually one of the ones I'm the the least fan of. When the ball goes in the air, the offense and defensive player are exactly the same on paper. You have the same chance at the ball. So why is one of them going to be in more trouble than the other one when you have the same chance at the ball? And most of the time they just do not call offensive pass interference. They don't call push offs unless you're Jeremiah Smith in the Oregon game. They don't do it. Give them Aaron: Yeah. Ryan: it has to be fair. If you really have a fair shot and you're the same, you have to have the same repercussions. Chandler: I'm fine dropping D P out of ten as well. I mean let the boys play. Aaron: Yeah. Yeah. Ryan: Yeah, but it needs to be the same. Whatever it is, fifteen ten? I like fifteen. It was fine. Just keep it they Aaron: Yeah. I I Ryan: have to be the same though. Chandler: And I don't like very tangent. I don't like when you have a pass interference in the end zone, how it comes up so far. I don't like that either. Let's just keep it all the same. If it's if ten yards across the board, let's do ten yards across the board. If you're inside the ten yard line, just go half the distance to goal. I I don't like the spot on the two. Like no, just let's just streamline the whole thing. You heard it here first. Aaron: I mean, it's another thing where it's like, we're making a change, but we're not addressing the root cause. Like we're not clarifying pass interference because I do think, like holding, there's pass interference on every play in college football. But it's like, yeah, some Chandler: Yeah, at some point in the route, for sure. Aaron: somebody's tugging, somebody's pulling, somebody's shoving off. Like, and we either have the we're letting them play mentality, which some officiating crews have, or we have the this is gonna be a four and a half hour game. And that is something where it's like we don't see where's the official check marks for pass interference here of like, well, what constitutes a shove off? Do we need to have something on that? I don't necessarily need more rules, but if we're gonna be changing rules, some clarification never hurts. And I think when it comes to pass interference, I think the way it is is fine. I think it does make sense. I'd like to see just some some what's a shove off. Where do we officially get a tug? When we change the player's facing, maybe we call that a tug. But if you know you're just holding his arm, they're always holding hands. Like they're always tugging. That's part of coverage. So either clarify or keep things the same. Ryan: Yeah, but you are now saying and giving the offensive player the advantage. You're saying they have an advantage Aaron: A hundred percent. Ryan: and you're giving them an advantage rather than keeping them the same. Keep the same. Aaron: And they're already far more less likely to get the flag thrown anyway. So Ryan: Yeah, they don't even do it. They don't even call the defensive one half the time. It that's the more random Aaron: Yeah. Ryan: thing. Just be more clear, guys, you know. Either Chandler: But it's also a situation of like you want it to like you can have an offsetting penalty as well. Like if they're both equally grabbing, pulling, tugging, like when they go up and they're both arm locked, like we can't just call that a DPI every time. Like we can Aaron: Yeah. Chandler: we can we can cross what's the what what am I looking for? We can they can they can offset. They can offset Aaron: Examine? Yep. Chandler: each other. Ryan: sup. Chandler: And w we just move on without a day, it's incomplet. Whatever. Like it doesn't always have to be a DPI. Aaron: Once once again, it could be another thing where we have modern technology. As soon as the flag is thrown, you can have a crew that checks it and then says, actually, and before the ref announces it, they send it over and say, Looks like both players were equally committed to tugging, shove off, like we're gonna call this one offset, pick up the flag. Like and the ref carries that forward, game doesn't need to stop. you know, maybe an extra three, four seconds. But I there's just part of me that the modern way we're handling these things feels like we haven't left the 1950s. Like it's like, well, we just have to wait for the train to arrive. Like it's it's there. We can monitor in real time. We can have everything caught, roll back, examine. call it we have communications from location to field. We can just pay people more. To pay the officiating crews more. We should have teams that are backing it up and confirming calls. And that way it doesn't feel like calls are so swingy. Because then it's like, okay, yeah, we've reviewed it, but how many times have we watched a flag for DPI get thrown? The Talking head that they call in whoever, whoever, whatever Matt's up to, and they call him in and they go, like, hey, what do you see on this? And he goes, I would like to say that I'm looking at this, I'm not seeing a lot of contact, I'm not seeing a lot here. I'm seeing both players equally involved. This one doesn't really feel like this one's gonna be pass interference. And then they come in and they're like, pass interference. And he's Yeah, I guess now that I'm looking at it, it's pass Chandler: Yeah. Aaron: interference. And you're like, Well, if if we can't agree. at this point then it's probably questionable. Like it just to me it always feels very funny. Chandler: But what's insane is all of that happens before the call on the field happens, like you said. So like they have time to be like, I actually got it wrong. Like pick the flag up. Like they have that they've already replayed it three times and this Aaron: That's exactly it. Like we have time. Yeah. Chandler: they've already called in a guy that's sitting on his couch in Oklahoma to like review it as well. Wherever Aaron: Yeah. Yeah. Ryan: Birmingham. It's Birmingham. Chandler: wherever it is. Aaron: So but we can't do it officially. Yeah, it's Ryan: What? Aaron: it's crazy. He's like, hold on, my DoorDash is here. I have time to go grab that, Chandler: Yeah. Aaron: come back, tell you it wasn't targeting, and then it is. And it's like we could have that as a like an official part of the game, and I think people would feel much better about it. We'd have less teams making excuses for why they lost in the forums afterwards. Like it's it it's fine. We have the money, we have the tax. I mean, it's not fantasy land. We can just do it and then for all the money, for all the stuff, it'd feel better. Chandler: Yeah, they're already doing everything but reviewing it. Like they're already Aaron: Yeah. Chandler: the the replay is already happening, regardless of what the call happens. Like just look at and be like, nah, I was wrong. Aaron: Like Yeah. And I don't want to disparage a ref on the field. They're in real time at eye level looking Chandler: Correct. Aaron: through three, four people at what's going on. I feel like this would take the heat off of them. Like that that would say, like, hey, Chandler: Exactly. 'Cause they can make mistakes. Aaron: they can. They can I'd rather them throw the flag on a penalty that did happen that's questionable than not throw it and somebody get away with something egregious. Chandler: Agree. Agree. Ryan: I will say this brings up a lot Aaron: we got an Auburn story. Ryan: of this kinda this brings up a lot Aaron: Hmm. Ryan: of risky things 'cause it's like every time they think there could be something, they can throw a flag and just go review for anything. Anything that happened on the field. You can look at up any Chandler: Y yeah, I mean some reps already do that. Ryan: play every game and something is going on that you didn't see that you can call, and it gives them a lot of leverage that they can just Birmingham calls in, no, Ala Pimmer didn't convert on fourth down, throw a you threw a flag, right? And they just go review and see anything on the field that someone did. It it's it makes it a little scummy. Chandler: Yeah, that's true. Aaron: Now now I would say I would say though that also comes back to the NCAA. That's not on the officiating crew. That comes down to training and their program. Because like I said, I I don't think they pay the officiating crews a whole lot of money for the amount of work and pressure that they're under. they whatever it is, it's not enough to get me to do it. But it is something that it's like you should say, Hey, you know, even though we have this review. It can only be reviewed if the flag has been thrown on the field and then teach the officiating crews to throw on, you know, egregious violations, things that you can clearly see happen, not not overthrow flags to extend games and make more commercial breaks happen. None of us want that. But if that is happening, it's up to the NCAA to correct. Like it's not Chandler: It's fair. Aaron: it is something that it's like it it does open that door. But I do feel like it kinda gets shoved back off of them in that where it's like, I'd rather have the game called fair than Chandler: Yeah. Aaron: at that point, you know, worry about an extra flag or two being thrown. Chandler: in like a perfect utopia it would work. Like it would be like, Aaron: Yeah. Yeah. Chandler: yeah, like it just call the games like you normally would and then if we just so happen to review it and you got it wrong, like you got it wrong. But like don't just conservatively throw out the fr flags. And like Ryan said, I think that's where the road would go, especially in more down to the wire Aaron: I I I do agree. Chandler: games, 'cause like Yeah, like maybe you have like an ACC refing crew for like an SEC game, but you can't tell me like they're not some somebody has some kind of tie to that school somehow, some way. So I can see where it definitely would leave to the the gray area kind of situations of like, we're just gonna conservatively throw a flag on every play. Twenty yard plus throw, just throw a flag out there just in case. But I mean I do think there could be a happy balance of like just call everything exactly the same. I know it can't happen, but call everything exactly like you're doing. And if you miss a call that you threw, it gets overturned. If it was a good call, Aaron: Yeah. Chandler: it was a good call. Aaron: And I mean, you could also, like, not to punish the officiating crews, but it's like, hey, you throw too many that you miss, you know, you're getting penalized as we penalize the players and we penalize the the coaches and things like that. it is something that it's like they could yeah, yeah. It's sit out like the Chandler: Yeah, two games sit out. Aaron: sideline judge is just sitting on the bench with his helmet off. he has to go to the locker room. Yeah. But it is Chandler: Yeah. You're going to the chain gang, pal. Aaron: something that it is like, there's a solution. There's a middle ground that we can come to and it's up to the NCAA to figure it out, but we can't keep pretending that we don't have high definition footage available immediately. Chandler: Yeah, agree. Aaron: But another one that I do think will be hot button here for us is the changes to the unsportsmanlike rule. And so they they're modernizing it is what they called it. And the verbiage here is the rules committee is satisfied with the sound judgment that the officials are demonstrating and evaluating unsportsmanlike conduct. And in order to update and rule and stay in pace with the modern game, the Unsports and Light Conduct rule is being adjusted to ensure that officials will continue to use gun judgment and penalizing, actions that interfere with orderly game administration, taunting actions that are directed at an opponent, and abusive, threatening, or celebratory actions that are demeaning to the game or an opponent. And the list of automatics are any form of gun violence, including brandishing a weapon. The slashing of the throat and nose wipe signal for first downs. So a that and this is now fifteen yards. player removing their helmet. Yeah. Chandler: We're getting soft. We're getting soft. Ryan: I hate Aaron: It Ryan: it. Bring back two thousand two Miami or whatever. They were so aggressive Aaron: Yeah. Ryan: on the field, I loved it. Aaron: A player removing their helmet after the ball is dead, dead ball contact vowels, and after the ball is dead using forcible contact to push or pull an opponent off of everyone. Chandler: Agree with that one. Aaron: yeah. Yeah. The Ryan: Yeah. Leave the helmet on. Aaron: helmet on, don't hit people after the ball's dead. those are fine. But the keeping adding celebrations to this to me is it brings up What we saw in the pros not too long ago when Amon Ra did the headstand and he got fined for it. And next week the NFL was using it their promotional material, where it's like, these are college kids playing a game. This is we aren't dressed in suits in the stands. Like this feels pearl clutchy to me that like if you wipe your nose into a first down, what now is this a firearm now? Like you can't do the bow first down. It doesn't matter. Like I just feel like this is a little overboard on like pretending to have this super clean image as a sport where half of us drink while watching it, probably over half. Like we're screaming. Chandler: Yeah, it's not golf. Like what are we doing here? Aaron: Yeah. Like Chandler: And again, Ryan: Yeah, it's Chandler: like we're there's Ryan: stupid. Chandler: so many rules that we're trying to modernize with the NFL and we're trying to do all these different things to kinda get these players ready for the NFL. And just little things are being tweaked to get us like a step closer to the NFL, especially with NIL. And it's just it doesn't need to happen. Like it the we don't have to have some clean cut image of like we're like a Sunday at the Masters going through and like everybody has to like golf clap in the stands and and and sync and like there's like a three second timer to do so when a play happens. Like it's it's college football. I mean, like you said, the tailgating, the rowdiness It's sh it's it's part of the atmosphere. You can't just keep taking away like celebrations are just a thing. It's in the NFL. So I it's weird. Aaron: Yeah, to me, it's just part of this that I think it gets under my skin a little bit is we'll be watching that. And a guy might do the little first down fifteen yards and they'll be like, Well, anybody with a parlay on penalty yards is gonna be happy here, brought to you by sports betting app. We'll be right back after your favorite liquor commercial, and for either one of those things that are causing you issue, check out prescription drugs. Like that's Chandler: Yeah. Aaron: what we're watching. Like we're gonna pretend that a player doing this is gonna actually hurt somebody. Like they're having fun out there. Yeah, I mean, Chandler: There's bigger fish to fry. Yeah, I agree. Aaron: like, as long as they're keeping their junk off the screen, they're keeping everything where they're not actively hitting anybody, they're not hurting anybody, we don't need to clutch our pearls here. Like Chandler: Yeah, like I mean I agree with like the fights. Like the f like fights, like Aaron: Yeah. Chandler: at some point I mean just like it was just be like hockey. Like you let fight a little bit and then break up, then then throw a flag. Exactly. But like Aaron: Yeah, a little a little bit. Two swings. Chandler: there's it's just they're just being petty with it. I mean, i if you're gonna add that Aaron: It is it feels petty. Chandler: in, just give like a slap on the wrist first if it has to be in there, but like an automatic, like your heat of the moment, first down celebration, like to put your team in good spot and then like, fifteen yards, back that thing up. Like that's I don't know. Stupid. Aaron: It it gets me extra because right before that, right before this in their in the official memo is the offensive pass interference where they're like, we want to keep this 15 yard reserved for serious infractions like unsportsmanlike and Chandler: But celebrating. Yeah. Aaron: personal fouls. And it's like this is as equal to them. It's like that's OPI is far less egregious than that. I to me it just Chandler: Petty. Aaron: cut it out. Like, we're good. Let be rowdy. like imagine Georgia fans if they're like dog barking is now considered like Chandler: Yeah. Aaron: o over the line. There's so many things that the fans do in the stadiums to celebrate that I feel like now is the you know similar chop here now violence? Like, is that is that something that it's like we can't have that on TV? We can we can stop it. Yeah. Chandler: Yeah, the Notre Dame logo. Aaron: So yeah, this one this one it got to me. It really it really upset me in terms of like we gotta we gotta stop pretending we're gentlemen because we're not we're guys that like watching, you know, slightly younger men throw Chandler: Ha ha. Aaron: around a football and hit each other hard. Ryan: Yeah, but it's so stupid though. Like you're all excited, you win the rip. You should get to do whatever you want. As long as you're Aaron: You Yeah. Ryan: not hurting someone. And maybe like sure. No no sexual stuff, you know, like Jameis and Williams impregnating the end zone. That's probably not cool. anything else? Yeah. Chandler: Yeah, or like flicking somebody off. Like there's there's some lines that you cannot cross, but I mean Aaron: Yeah. Chandler: like Ryan: Don't say the N word or flick anyone off. You know, you should be able to do whatever else you want. Yeah. Chandler: Those are your three criteria. Aaron: Yeah. I I agree. Like I it Chandler: Teal's three s three steps to to a non penalty. Aaron: Like I I don't think Ryan: You wanna do a fake gun thing first down? Sure, I'm I'm an old westerner. Go ahead. You know? Aaron: We have multiple mascots do Chandler: Mm. Aaron: it on the sideline. Like it's i it to me, they're not Ryan: What? Aaron: activating side like they're not inciting violence. They're not gonna sh actively shoot somebody, you know, unless they're Aaron Hernandez. But it is something that's like Chandler: Ha. Ryan: Ha ha ha. Aaron: it is fine. Like it's just young guys being young guys. Chandler: What if he's in the mascot costume? Aaron: Yeah. Then run. Ryan: Okay, okay. I invented a new one. By the way, I'm Native American, so this is bad. If they even say the bow and arrow is bad, you can do this. You go like like a featherhead Chandler: Ha ha Ryan: down, you know, instead of the bow and arrow. And then everyone knows you're time with the bow and arrow. Aaron: Yeah, it's just to me it is it's Chandler: It's like sign language. Yeah. Aaron: like who doesn't like Ryan: like standing on business like what's his face did? Chandler: Who Ryan: d DK Metcalf did that. Because he Chandler: Yeah. Ryan: they were getting mad cause he would say stuff, so he just started sign languaging all of his stuff. And then they Chandler: Yeah. Ryan: would bring an interpreter to the games to make sure he wasn't saying anything bad. Cause he kept getting fined. He kept getting fined. Just don't find him. Who cares? You le you're losing. Let me dance. Aaron: That's very funny. I really appreciate that. Chandler: It's just so petty. It's just so petty. It's so petty. It's so petty. Aaron: Yeah. But even like in the Yeah, in the NFL, like I could even see it. You're a professional at that point. There is expectation. These are college kids. And like I I do think there's plenty of I love a first down celebration. I I think it's great. Yeah. Chandler: Yeah. I mean it's the same game though. Like NFL in college, like like I know National Football League, whatever, it's the same game. Like Aaron: It is. And it is something like if they want to be that badanic in the NFL, that's the NFL. I don't think they should be. But it's it's the same thing when a guy gets a sack and he gets up and you know gives a little shimmy in the back. Love it. Like I'm here for it. That's not taunting to me. That's part of the game. You should be able to talk trash. You should be able to Ryan: Yeah, let him taunt. Aaron: say whatever you want to the other team is part of the game. It's part of playing. Yeah. Yeah, like Chandler: Kick him and give a little bit. Ryan: Okay, you shouldn't be able to spit on if you're not harming them, spitting on them, that's technically Aaron: Yeah, it was fit it got him. Ryan: biological terrorism or whatever they say. That's not good. You shouldn't be able to kick them or spit on them Chandler: here we go. Bring out the rules expert. Ryan: or say anything like the N-word, but you should be able to taunt as much as you want. As much as you want. Aaron: Yeah. And now, like I I do think like stepping over people, things like that, because it is Ryan: That's mine! Aaron: something where it's it is like doing anything Ryan: Yeah. Aaron: that could like inhibit somebody getting up or anything that could po potentially cause injury, I could see c drawing a line there. I don't or delay game. Yeah. Like if you just want Ryan: See, but but that's part of See, but that's part of the game. Chandler: You're okay, little fellow. Aaron: a shimmy, it's fine. Ryan: They've gotta keep their cool though. You know, you step over a guy and he gets mad swings on you, call a flag on that guy. He's now harming you, Chandler: Exactly. Aaron: Yeah. Ryan: you know? It's part of the game. You gotta keep your cool. They're losing, you know? Taunt up. Let not get mad. See how hard it Aaron: I mean Ryan: is. Chandler: Like a guy at Alabama kicking the ball and storming off the field. Ryan: Yeah, Malachi Moore, you're Aaron: Yeah. Ryan: a sore loser, you know, throw a fifteen yard flag. Aaron: I will I'll believe it when a coach throwing a headset down and the biggest fit of rage and smashing that thing to pieces gets treated the same way. Like throw the flag on him because it's like those are the same level of stuff that they're trying to keep the kids from doing. Chandler: See, and I think like that is almost more flag worthy because like they're Aaron: Yeah. Chandler: the head coaches, they're the face of their organization, like they're the people that Aaron: The adult. Yeah. Chandler: are supposed to be like cool, calm, and collected. I understand things get h hot and heated, but they're not on the field. Like they're Aaron: Yeah. Chandler: the players are the ones that are having this emotion play in and play out. And sure they are on the sideline too. I understand the argument both sides. But they should be able to hone their emotions a lot better than the players. Aaron: Yeah, they're not young kids. Ryan: But it is your it is your coach, your players, your team. The refs should not be able to govern the culture of your team. Your own coach should be able to be like, this is what we're gonna go invoke on the field. This is who we're gonna present ourselves as. The ref should not be able to limit unless it's something really egregious, they shouldn't be able to limit how you and your team act. That is part of your team's culture. If you decide to be like Georgia and you're going to shoot. Like as an animation after your thing, you're just emoting or you're saying bad stuff 'cause you go to Georgia. You know, that's part of your culture. Y'all are mean fans, you know, and you go to a nice school, like you go to Illinois, they just don't know how big a jumbotron is or something. It's like let have fun, you know? Aaron: Yeah, i I mean like what's next? Do we ban touchdown celebrations because it you know, it's unbecoming? Like, Chandler: Not too happy. Aaron: yeah, too you're you're enjoying the game Ryan: That's like that's stupid. Aaron: that you're playing, your children's game that we we're paying you to play. Yeah. Chandler: They're paying you millions of dollars to play. Aaron: Like don't have fun doing it. And yeah, it's just to me it's Yeah. Like don't smile. Don't look like you're having fun. Chandler: No. We're gonna pay you to play it, but let's lay off those celebrations. No. Ryan: Yeah. Yeah. I w I won my rep. I scored. Let me let me dance a little. Let me taunt. Do better. Chandler: No yeah. Everybody tape their mouth shut. We don't want to see it. Close your eyes. When you score, put the ball on the ground, walk to the sidelines like you're supposed to. Aaron: Yeah. If it upsets you, stop watching sports. Watch the news. Watch C SPAN. Chandler: Exactly. Yeah. Ryan: The The only people that's upsetting is the other Chandler: Go watch the history channel. Ryan: team and they should just not let you win. Don't let him win and he won't dance. Be better. Aaron: Yeah. So yeah. Ryan: Win the game. Chandler: I can make you dance, I can make you look silly. Ryan: yeah, Brock Boyd. Brock Boyd mentioned. Chandler: Jersey coming soon. Aaron: So next up we have the fair catch kick rule, which we also talked about. this one, yeah, Chandler: Two went viral on this one. Aaron: this one this one did well for us. but just to read the rules as written, because I'm gonna I'm gonna admit here, I'm gonna self self admit that I just I've read the rules. I still don't quite know how this works. Chandler: Let's have Tele explain it. He was the one that went viral. Aaron: y yeah. Ryan: I believe you get a fair catch, and from the spot of the fair catch, you get a free kick, which is an it is an unblocked field goal attempt. So essentially a kickoff from the spot, but you get to try to make it through the uprights. They cannot block it. I have seen this a couple times the NFL. Of course, Bill Belichick's the guy that used it. We'll probably see it at UNC. is Aaron: Ha ha ha. Ryan: that about is that about right? I talked about this a long Chandler: Sums it up. Ryan: time ago. Aaron: I still don't know. I'm gonna read through the rules that they released and somebody smarter than me, I I will always admit I was born stupid, and this is one of those things that confirms it. But to get it off or to not to get it off, to kick it off here Chandler: Get it off. Aaron: we have to trigger the fair catch kick, a fair catch of the opponent's scrimmage kick or free kick must be completed. Makes sense. Gotta kick it, gotta finish it. Fair catching. Following the fair catch or awarded fair catch, the ball should be put in play by a snap by the receiving team at the spot of the catch if the ball is caught. Optionally, the ball may be put in play by a fair catch kick by the receiving team at the spot of the catch. So we're in fair catch kick territory. So basically, as Teal said, where they catch it, where it's where it's dead, that's where this is starting. The selection for a fair catch kick must come from the head coach before the dead ball is ready for play, and the decision is irrevocable. Following the ready for play, there is no option of selecting a fair catch kick, which I thought that was an important distinction that they have to call this. They can only do this. There's no trick play involved. There's no misdirection. If they say we're doing a fair catch kick, they're doing it. So this is one of those instances that it's like, okay, this is clear cut. This is only what it can be. Chandler: See like Ryan: See, this is kind of insane. This is kind Aaron: yeah. Ryan: of insane. A lot of kickers can kick the ball a lot farther with a full run-up. So you get a full unblocked run-up. So say someone punts with like two seconds left in the second quarter, right before halftime, and you fare catch it on your 40, then that would be what, 70 yards? Like, that is a possible make now. You catch on your Aaron: Yeah. Ryan: own 40. You kick a 70 yard free kick unblocked with a Full run up. You know, three more points before half time. I I hope to see this used a little. It's a little bit weird 'cause it might skew some games if if this gets used Aaron: Yeah. Ryan: a lot. Aaron: And what we'll see. I do think this is a very instance thing because like, you know, offenses are probably gonna have to adjust to saying like, well, if we got two seconds on the clock, we'll find a way to run it out. instead of kicking it. But I do agree that in all the positions that we've seen, you know, develop talent wise over the years, kickers are a different breed. Like It is something that like kickers twenty years ago and now, like, these kids got some boots on Like they come out looking like the only ones that are their own age. you know, they look they look like children, and then that kid boots it, you know, across the field where it'll be like this is a sixty yard attempt, and it's got another fifteen yards left in it, like it's not even near the crossbar. Like those that's crazy to me to see. So it is something. Yeah. Chandler: Especially Jaden Fielding. It's impressive. Aaron: There's so many impressive kickers now that it does feel like if you get a free attempt to do this, like there's not a lot of spots on the field that they'd miss from. if you got a good kicker. Now, Ohio State, I don't think this rule affects you guys at all. they the punt would have to land and your guys is twenty. Ryan: that would be a thirty yarder. I believe Jaden Field he missed a twenty seven, right Hash? Yeah, so it'd be it'd actually be Chandler: Sure did, right hash. Yep. Multiple. Ryan: too long. A little too long. Aaron: Yeah, okay, yeah. So we'll have to get in the we'll have to be in the the tin yard. Chandler: It's similar if they're ru Ryan: Yeah, Chandler: yeah. Ryan: but there's guys banging eighty yarders right now. You know? You can bang an eighty yard free free catch kick. You know, our offense last year, if we had a kicker, but the same offense, let's hit some free kicks, you know, we'd have a few more points on the board. Which don't let the offen Chandler: Maybe yeah, maybe you got a O T against Kentucky. Ryan: Okay. He lost that game on purpose because they're along his buyout use any other game. Missouri game, we missed five field goals and we win it overtime and lost. But that was the best Heisman running running back, Ahmad Hardy, remember? Heisman finalist. Heisman favorite. He wasn't a finalist because Chandler: Yeah. He had to get nerfed. Ryan: he sucked. Okay. Like calm down. Chandler: Yeah, we're gonna to cut that. Gonna Aaron: Hm. Chandler: gonna have to cut that. Ryan: Ha ha ha. Aaron: Well, to get us back out of the Auburn world and into the fair catch kick, we'll pick back up with the rules of if the fair catch is selected by the receiving team, the ball is put in play at the spot of the catch or the succeeding spot after penalties. So important distinction there, but yeah, where the ball ends, where it is. If the catch is in this side zone, the ball is transferred to the nearest hash mark. There is no option for team A to otherwise relocate the ball. I assume team A is the receiving team here. they don't really they just used the term team A. They didn't say receiving or kicking team, which I felt was a little Ryan: Yeah, it seems Aaron: weird. Ryan: seems like kinda simple, you know? Seems very old school though. Let's get the kicker more involved, you know. If you fair catch it, you can go out there where you caught it and try to try to kick it through the uprights, you know. We won't try to block you. It seems very, very old school. Chandler: But like realistically you're only using this if like it's like a time running down, like you have no other time on the clock except to try to do this. Like any other situation, you're gonna have your offense go and like try to score. Aaron: Yeah. Ac we're we're gonna get a into that it right here where they do clarify. first up they have the play clock set to twenty-five seconds, game clock starts when the ball is legally kicked. so they they just go for it. if the fair catch occurs as time expires in the half, the team is allowed to make a fair catch kick a fair catch kick as an untimed down. So it is something that like if the kick the ball up high, it's bleeding clock, during that catch process, the time goes down to zero zero, they can still attempt to kick the ball, which I think is important. It Chandler: That'd be a crazy way to win. Aaron: would be crazy. Ryan: That's good. That's good. Alabama? You don't need a second now. You don't need a second now. We can run it back with zero seconds. Chandler: Nope. Yep. Here comes Auburn. Yep. Here comes this is gonna be Auburn's gonna be the Auburn's gonna be the team to use this. And they're gonna win Aaron: Yeah. Chandler: a game off it. And it's gonna be it's gonna be the Ryan: We can run it back with zero seconds. Chandler: the fair catch kick rule like miracle of fair catch kick or something. It's gonna like s some kind of yeah, it's gonna happen. Ryan: Yeah, Alabama. We need zero seconds. But imagine that Vanderbilt Alabama game where Malachi Moore kicked the football. Like how mad he'd be. He has to go stand out there and watch a guy kick a seventy yard bomb over his head and he's not on a block it. Like he would just be freaking out on the field. He'd Aaron: Yeah. Ryan: probably slam his helmet, get an unsports and like penalty. Deserves one. Chandler: Move you up fifteen. Fifty five yarder. Aaron: Yeah, get another Ryan: Mm. Aaron: shot. the fair catch kick line for the kicking team is the most forward point of the spot of the fair catch or awarded fair catch or the succeeding spot after penalty. So I assume by kicking team they mean the actual kicking team and not the one doing the fair catch kick. I think they're still the receiving team at this point. Chandler: Correct. Yeah. Aaron: So the fair catch kick line for the receiving team is the yard line ten yards in advance of the kicking team's fair catch kick. So I guess never mind. That undid that. so it would not make sense to have ten yards forward. Yeah. So it looks like there's yeah. Ryan: Yeah, they have to s there's a barrier. Yeah, it's like on a kickoff. On a kickoff how they're ten yards down, it'd be like that. Aaron: So I don't know if that means that it's not allowed to be blocked, but it does look like there's a buffer that they're not just up on the line when they're doing it. Ryan: Yeah, the one in the NFL, they have to stay behind the line. But maybe ev Aaron: interesting. Ryan: even if they have even if they're allowed to come, that's an extra ten yard buffer. You could get a full run up with a ten yard buffer. Aaron: Yeah. 'Cause yeah, the the other part is the formation requirements of the fair kick fair catch kick will follow the free kick rules. the kick must be a field goal place kick with a holder, no tee, or a drop kick. And if the kick passes over the crossbar through the upright, a field goal is scored. Three points are awarded to the kicking team. So nothing new there. If the fair catch kick is unsuccessful, all rules pertaining to scrimmage kicks and the next play provisions of an unsuccessful field goal apply. the receiving team may return the kick if it is possessed in the field of play or caught in the end zone. If the unsuccessful kick is untouched by the receivers, then they will take over and snap the ball at the previous spot or the spot of the kick or 20-yard line in according with so basically everything else stays the same with this. It's just those fair catch kicks. it will be somebody's gonna use them because it's a new rule and they're gonna line up and they're gonna try it. I just don't see it happening that frequently because like I said, I think offenses will adjust to block bleed and do everything they can avoid to do a scenario that would give it a s add an advantageous spot. Like just boot it to the end zone if you can. Ryan: I hope to see this week one. But yeah, you're right. If you're Chandler: I ha Ryan: two seconds and like you're pinned back, don't punt. Just try to run around for a second and then get rid of the ball. Something just in the half. Chandler: I predict that there will be under five usages of this this year. Aaron: Yeah, yeah. Because I mean, it's insane. Like that it would line up, that they'd punt the ball away. And any time like the only time I could see this really being an applicable go for it is in a scenario that they're punting in under ten seconds. Because if it's over ten seconds, you're still gonna make a play to try to get a better opportunity for a field goal. But y maybe somebody'll be swayed at like fifteen second mark, maybe a coach takes the gamble saying like we can try to go forward, but this ten yard buffer is the best chance we're gonna get. So the fifteen yards we gain may not be as valuable as being able to do a kick with a with a full run up. Ryan: Yeah, I hope to see this week Aaron: So Ryan: one. Aaron: I don't think it'll be a week one thing. I feel like Ryan: No, but like it's an easy fix though. You just punt it out of bounds. You know, they can't they can't fair catch Aaron: Well, but Ryan: it. Aaron: it does say that if what did it say the play at the spot of Ryan: If they caught it with zero seconds. Aaron: the catch or the succeeding spot after penalties. So I don't know if that if you're motioning Yeah, there's no Okay, yeah, that's right. It's Chandler: Well that's there's no penalty on punning. It's only it's only kickoff, yeah. Ryan: No pay, you can just punt it out of bounds. Aaron: only kickoff that I was thinking, like, okay, if there's a penalty, maybe that undoes it. So yeah. Yeah, I guess why wouldn't you just punt it out of bounds? I feel like that's Probably why we don't see it in the pros that often either, that yeah, you just hunt it. Just get rid of it. So Ryan: You're very niche. I hope to see it though. Aaron: I'd like to see it explained. I y Chandler: What yeah, punter's just gonna forget and be like, man, they're gonna lose then. Aaron: you know how the Chees Its explanation of overtime rules comes on every time and it looks like Chandler: Mm-hmm. Aaron: bowling graphics. it should th we need this for a fair catch. If it comes up, I what would be the best company to sponsor Ryan: Us Aaron: the Ryan: Us Yeah. Aaron: yeah, the rack explanation, we've already proved that we're incapable. so Ryan: I have a TikTok. There is a TikTok that we've made and it's pinned on the top of our TikTok. It's done well. Don't know how that's the Aaron: Yeah. It has done well. Chandler: Sure is. Ryan: one that decided to, but fair catch kick. Aaron: So yeah, I I would like to see that. I'd like to make sure they clarify exactly how that goes. I think, yeah, Chandler, you're right. I think we see it sub five times. And I think we see it. This feels like a UTEP scenario. Like this is one of those like, we got nothing to lose team, so let's go for it. Yeah. Chandler: The mining the mighty miners. Aaron: This feels Ryan: Ooh. Aaron: like just it's fine. We're gonna go. We're just gonna do what we can. I feel like it's it's a pretty I like the fact that it is something that the head coach has to say, like, we're doing this. which Kirby Smart'll find a way to say he's doing it and be like, I didn't actually say that. I said fair catch lick, and then they'll let him get away with it. But Yeah. That the clap. Ryan: Yeah, I was clapping. Yeah, some guy yeah, like I some crappy G five game. yeah, I'm outsmarting you, I'm gonna use the fair catch kick. Aaron: Yeah. And I do feel like if there was if it was more swingy, we'd see it all the time in the NFL. We don't see it. So therefore it is something that it's like it'll be very situational. Very situational. But college can sometimes get rowdy, so NFL tends to be a little more buttoned up. So bear catch kick, we'll celebrate Ag us as soon as it happens. We'll all we'll all be very excited to watch that replay. And I'll probably still be a little confused. So, next up for rule changes, we've got the numbering exemptions, scrimmage kick formations. They talk about how the intent was originally to make it like less confusing to or make it so players didn't have to change their jerseys. And then they're like, now it's hard. Defensive players have a hard time knowing who's eligible and who's not. So they just tightened up the numbers. So five players in line wearing jumpers. Fifty is through seventy-nine, two may have fewer than five linemen, number fifty through seventy-nine, some nitty-gritty stuff, you know, something that I didn't really notice to begin with. So I'm sure there's some real freaks out there that do pay attention, know this right off the top of their head. That's awesome. but yeah, number changes, number clarifications. Ryan: If you yeah if you were in a situation where you could get the ball, you have to have a certain number, or you have to go over the intercom and declare that player eligible. Rob Gronkowski was gonna wear number sixty nine, but they would require him every single play, they would have to go over the intercom and say, Number sixty nine is eligible. Every single play for every game ever. Like Aaron: I'm surprised that stopped him. Like that doesn't feel like a barrier to him. That feels like a plus. like I feel like you tell Gronk that. Yeah. You point Ryan: Yeah, I feel like the team though I think he he would think it's hilarious. this is just right on the intercom. Like, Aaron: up every time. There's ooh, ooh, ooh. Ryan: Yeah. But the the team was probably like, Bill Bellich, Gronk, Gronk, I can't hear that the whole game. Our fans Aaron: Yeah. Ryan: are gonna kill me. Aaron: So yeah, yeah, that that's that. Next up is a big one. We got an additional replay challenge for teams here. So we have our normal two, same rules apply. However, if you succeed and you still have a remaining timeout, succeeding one grants you a third. So you can use it, but it still requires to have a timeout. Same rules apply. So instead but you start with two, you do have to succeed, that grants you a third. I don't know how much of this is necessary. I I don't recall really anything in the past couple seasons where a team ran through both challenges and were like, golly, if we only had a third. so but we got I can't really see it hurting anything. I can't see it helping too much. You know, maybe we see a couple more challenges thrown that we wouldn't have seen thrown. previously, just as the gamble. But losing a timeout, still losing a timeout. Like the penalty still applies, but you know, overall you got a third if you need it. So Ryan: I mean I like it. It almost seems like you would have one though and you get to keep using it until you like mess up and like don't get it right. But then I guess like you miss one and then you get to do that. So I actually th I don't think it's that bad. If you if you're getting right, let keep doing it. You know, it's like whatever. Aaron: Yeah. I mean, I just don't want to see it all the time. I don't want the games to be any longer. But Ryan: Yeah. Aaron: one extra challenge, fine. Alright, cool. It Ryan: Mm-hmm. Aaron: 'cause if they are getting it wrong, it is something that can like help, you know, offset bad calls. So cool. I'm here for it. And kinda I would say the last of the big changes here would be the play clock following a replay review after the two minute timeout. I'll just read the verbiage here, short paragraph. throughout the game, the play clock is set to 25 seconds following an instant replay review. Now, after the two minute timeout in the second and fourth quarters, when the replay official stops the game for review, the play clock will be frozen at that point. And if the ruling is upheld, it will be restarted following the review when the ball is made ready for play by the referee's signal. If the play clock displays less than 10 seconds when it's frozen, it will be reset to 10 seconds and started when the ball is made ready for the play at the referee signal. This prevents the offense from running additional time off the clock if the game is stopped for a replay we review with less than 25 seconds. I have no problem with this. I think this is fine. I actually think it's a great Ryan: That just seems so niche. Aaron: change. I mean, it but yeah, it it is one Chandler: But it's had to have happen to to make this a rule. Aaron: of those very like, let's say you're up, you You're up three. you got the offense on the field, the booth initiates a replay for targeting or something like that. and when it came back, it would be reset. So if the clock is running, that's free time for them to burn off the clock. That isn't something that the coach has put made part of their clock management strategy that is given to the offensive team by the officiating crew who had to do a review. Now it's just saying when we come back. Whenever that review was started, that's the time that was on the clock. So it just picks right back up. No additional time is burned. Chandler: Fifth it should have already been a rule. Ryan: Did you say at the two minute Did you say at the two minute timeout or within the two minute? Okay, I was Aaron: Within the two minute timeout. So Ryan: about to say, the fact that like you would have to get a flag on the play at the two minute that the clock would already Aaron: yeah, yeah. Ryan: be stopped, I was like, that's like never happening. Yeah. Aaron: No, this is specifically second and fourth quarter post two minute that everything like that, that review clock is now adjusted. Ryan: Yeah. I like that. Don't let run the run the plays down, you know, you only have Aaron: Absolutely. Ryan: two minutes. Aaron: Yeah. And I I don't disagree with saying that like it does reset to ten seconds. Like if they blow it on a two. I don't know a referee that would. Like it feels like if they were initiating review. They would have already. but it is something that it like you gotta give them at least a couple seconds to get set and be ready. So I don't have a problem with that. I actually like this change. I think it's cool. I think it I I think it makes sense and it'll feel better. Chandler: It's very pro player, I like it. Aaron: Yeah. Ryan: Yeah. Approved. Aaron: Yeah. So yeah. Or rack approved, rack stamp it. Ryan: we should have a counter. never mind, I'm editing. If I wasn't editing, we should have had a counter how many Aaron: Ha ha ha. Ryan: we accepted and how many we rejected. Chandler: You can still do it. Aaron: Hey. Ryan: I don't know how to do all that. Aaron: Some of us even put our our team selections, took the time to make sure that that was visible. You can make a counter. No, you don't have to. It's work. I've done editing for years. Don't worry about it. it's one. The counters to one. Fans. Keep track on your own. Chandler: No, we have a couple, I think. Aaron: yeah. So the last couple, just to to round us out here, you've taken up enough of your day already with rules. so Technology, coach to coach player communications, D two, D three schools can now use headsets. So same they just get D one, same thing that's happening in D one can happen in D two, D three. No big change for us. helmet, Ryan: I was kidding, sorry. Aaron: helmet attachments, guardian caps, safe ours, as long as they meet the helmet and they are the same color and design, they can be used. So that's fine. Yeah. Ryan: Mm. Question. What about the AI meta helmet? Ryan Aaron: Well Ryan: Williams got caught using one for a few plays in a game last year. He came in with it Chandler: You probably can't use it. Ryan: and I didn't think you were ought to use it. Chandler: Yeah, you probably cannot. Aaron: No, it does it they do say it has to meet the standards of other helmets and whatever that is. I assuming AI helmet I can't even imagine that helping though. An AI helmet Yeah. Yeah Ryan: Jarvis Jarvis what cover is he in? Chandler: Jarvis, catch the ball for me. Ryan: Jarvis, is this guy pussing Chandler: Yeah, that's true. I could Ryan: me? Is this guy Aaron: Yeah. Ryan: in Plus Covid on me, Jarvis? Aaron: How how long do I have before I get absolutely rocked? And by the time Ryan: Jovis. Aaron: it responds, you're on the ground. Ryan: Jovis, identify the mic for me. Aaron: Yeah. So yeah. Cool. Guardian caps, all that stuff. and you know, I'm gonna I'll I'll have a quick yeah, here bugging on the guardian caps. They're fine. They look just as dumb as helmets. They're they're they're okay. Let the players not have bleeding brains. Yeah, I'll admit it doesn't look cooler that they're wearing it, but it's fine. You know, put the guys on the line with it. You know, they're already wearing attachments on their legs, arms, everything else. Like, I don't care if their head's slightly bigger. Next up we have the altered jersey exception. They allow a second jersey to be worn concurrently by a player as long as it meets all jersey requirements. Best and altered jerseys with zippers, velcro clasps and fasteners are not allowed. They now may wear a second jersey with a plastic zipper in the underarm seam not to exceed 15 inches. So Allows them to change quickly, but they can't be fully alterable for quick change. Ryan: Yeah, 'cause it was funny before they'd have to wear like a triple XL and slide it over and take it off. So it just makes it easier for those kickoff guys. Aaron: I will kinda miss it. I like the little kickoff drapes. you know, they're out here looking like you guys in the gym. it's something where I I like a oversized shirt on the kickoff teams there. So I don't mind this at all. It's fine. Let it go through. and last but certainly not relevantly least, we have the NCAA Division I uniform rules changes, which up Two two commercial or nonprofit trademark logos are allowed on the jersey with conference approval. One additional commercial or non-profit trademark logo is allowed during the conference championship or postseason bowl and playoff competition. Logos may not exceed four square inches. One commercial logo may not exceed four square inches. wait, one commercial logo not to exceed four square inches is permitted on the helmet. This mark and placement must be consistent across the entire team. So just in time we got some rules changed here. Ryan: Wait, so can you have two on the jersey and one on the helmet? Chandler: So I think it's the same. Aaron: It says one commercial logo, i it doesn't say one additional. Ryan: 'Cause originally said two on the jersey up to s four square inches, and then one on the helmet. And three Yeah, Chandler: Well, two on the jersey for bowl games in postseason. Ryan: no no. Th you get one extra, three. Two standard. Yeah. Aaron: No, it is so two standard and then one extra in bowl games, and then one commercial logo is allowed on the helmet. So I do think we are saying in a in a regular season three, post season four. Chandler: Interesting. Ryan: Yeah, so I don't know if two total where one could be on the helmet and one could be on the jersey or both of them could be on the jersey. Or if you can have four tot four in the playoffs? Holy holy moly. Quattro. Aaron: Which Chandler: Don't like it. Aaron: I don't know if this is also including things like, you know, our awards and stuff like that for the nonprofit groups. Chandler: See, that's fine. Aaron: that's fine. absolutely. Hey, I am completely anti putting logos on these jerseys. Like, get rid of this. I think if it's a non profit organizational thing, that's fine, especially if it's honoring a player legacy. Hundred percent on board for that. The monster logo. You we have a four inch monster plastered right here, like a face tattoo for a player, like come on now. Chandler: I just I I understand the point of the jerseys and obviously Ohio State has chase now, so I'm not I'm not saying I don't support it because I'm all for bringing more money in to these players and paying players and you know all this stuff. You know, keep keep the money coming in, keep the good players coming. So that's fine and great. But I think there has to be a limit on that, and maybe I'm just being hypocritical because I like one but not two. I don't know. I think Aaron: I'm Chandler: once you get to a certain point, it's like we're looking at a Nasgar hood or a soccer jersey or something, Aaron: Yeah. Chandler: we have a hundred and forty Aaron: I I'm glad. Ryan: I would say it would be funny. It would be funny. Some crappy school gets Chandler: This won't look good. Ryan: a ton of NIL money because they have 50 things on them. Would be hilarious. Yeah, but I don't think. Aaron: It is Chandler: Yeah. So I think I got stung by a bee but it has a bunch of marks all over Ryan: Yeah, Aaron: Yeah. Ryan: but I don't think like if you have your thing, like every once in a while you'll have like your player something happen that you'll have like his name or something. I think that would not count, right? Because that's not an ad. But get ready to see Chandler: No, yeah. Ryan: a Yellowwood on Auburn's jersey. I can't wait. But every Aaron: Yeah. Ryan: sport does this. MLB does it, NBA does it. You know, they all have w like one, I think. So two might be a little much. But eventually three what do they say? Aaron: I hate it. It's it's cheap. Chandler: See one's okay, but yeah. Ryan: Two's a party, three's a crowd? You know, I don't want a crowded Chandler: Yeah. Ryan: jersey. Aaron: I just I I like the looks of the team jerseys. I like Chandler: Me too. Ryan: Same. Aaron: unblemished. Hey, sponsor whatever you want in the stadium. But I'll say my brain goes into anarchy mode here and I'm like, get Pornhub on the phone. We're gonna get them a team logo on a jersey. Like there where's the barrier of what are we gonna throw? Adult pen diapers? Are we gonna put that on a team? Like when does it start to be a little silly and do we lose? We can't w you know, wipe our nose and indicate a first down, but we can put whatever logo we want. It's like, you know, local strip club thrown on there. Like it to me it's something that it's where's the line? Why is it okay for the organizations to make money and do something that I think is putting a a mark on the sport, but the players can't celebrate and taunt each other. Chandler: Yeah. Ryan: If you can't if you can't make a gun celebration, can you get a gun sponsor so you just like have one on your shirt? Aaron: I was gonna say is that do we have, you know, a Glocker? Chandler: Yeah, there's definitely a lot of a a lot of fine lines you can walk. Like it's it's like and especially if like the Well, Aaron: Yeah, and I don't like that they're not clarified here. Chandler: here's the thing too, that's a good point, because like I'm not trying to be like the the like I don't even know what to s like the the father of like the Debbie Downer of this situation, but like there's also like younger people watching this. So like you don't want some random company sponsoring it that's like I don't want my like kids seeing like that company or being aware of that like sponsor just because they paid them twenty million dollars a year like going through. So like there is definitely like some weirdness to it. Aaron: Well, and also do the logos have to match the team aesthetic? Like y you know, Ohio State, red and white, can you have a bright green logo? It's gonna look terrible. Like Chandler: Yeah. Aaron: it is something that Ryan: Blue Chase logo. Aaron: Yeah. it is something that I do feel like we have looks. We have these you know, a whiteout game is Penn State gonna have their logos on their jerseys during their whiteout game? Like is this something where we're kind of losing plot a little bit and right now they're four inch patches, which isn't huge, but it's not a small amount of real estate that we're now talking for and on the helmet. I I just think it's like you can doll up the stadium however you want. You can put as many ads back there as you want. You can do the whole green screen digitally Chandler: Especially Illinois. Aaron: added in that soccer does around the barrier. No problem. But how long until you are no longer the Ohio State Buckeyes, you're the Chase Bank Buckeyes. like i I don't wanna see that. I don't wanna see those things on the logo. Chandler: No, yeah. I a hundred percent agree. Ryan: Well see, I think it is up to the school to maintain their tradition. That it's like Chandler: Of course, yeah. Ryan: I'm like Aaron: Yeah. Ryan: I love our traditional jerseys. I'm not going to cover them up and make them look all gaudy with all these logos on them. But some crappy school Chandler: But money is the root of all evil. Aaron: But by doing that, you put yourself at a disadvantage. Chandler: Money is the root of all evil and I think it's there's a price for everything no matter who you are and what you believe in, especially in that kind of industry, and it will happen. Aaron: I would have liked to see the NCE Ryan: It will happen. Aaron: double A come down hard on this. I I would have liked them to say, like, listen, you got away with it this year. Next year, mm-mm, we ain't doing that no more. But I don't like that nothing like they have the official rule release. And they do not clarify that. It doesn't say, you know, no gambling act. Are we gonna see more? You know, Chandler: Hm prize picks. Aaron: it's like you can't escape it. And I do think as a player If I buy the jersey, I hope they don't have them on there. Like I don't wanna see that on the piece of merch that I'm gonna own. I i it to me cheap. It's gaudy. Get out of here with it. So Ryan: thing is I don't think the NCA knows how bad it's gonna be. So like everything, I think they're putting in their head some sort of restriction by only letting you do a few. And then when people start getting these bad sponsors or doing too much on their uniforms, whatever, then they're going to double down and make tighter restrictions like they do on everything. Aaron: yeah, it's gonna be reactionary, but we're still gonna have one season of a team that we get to make fun of forever. Dear Lord, don't let it be Mississippi State. Ryan: Yeah, and it probably won't and it probably won't be this year. They'll probably do some this year. Someone takes it way too far the next year and then they shut it Aaron: Yeah. Ryan: down. Chandler: Well it's just like NIL. Aaron: Because like next year we'll get six inch patches and that'll be the one Pornhub sponsors somebody. And then it'll be FSU. They need the money. But like I said, whatever it is, Mississippi State, Jeff Levy, the entire team, please hear my prayers here. Please, please do not pick an embarrassing sponsor that I have to live with as a fan and hear about from these two for the rest of my life because y'all want him money. Pick a cool sponsor. Chandler: like NIL though, I mean like the NCAA was like, okay, well if they get paid. I'm all for it. But fast forward what is it, like five plus years now in NIL and it's just like we're like, whoa, we never thought it would get this far. Well like what'd you expect if there's no guidelines? This is the same kind of it's the same thing that's gonna happen. Aaron: And that's that's kind of like there's no exactly, exactly without clear cut guidelines to say like, hey, this Chandler: It's same thing. Aaron: is the this is the limit. Here's what we're doing precautionary. Yeah. Chandler: Because this is still four NIL. It's like we're not gonna fix the NIL problems with our little bill 'cause it's probably not gonna get passed. We're just gonna add to Let's give them more sponsors. Aaron: Yeah. And like it's gonna be there's gonna be teams that aren't competitive, aren't looking to be super competitive, that are just gonna accept whatever deal they get because it's free money. Like, we'll just throw something on there and it'll be it'll be crazy. And like I s I Ryan, I think you're right. I think this year it stays tame. We are starting with monster. Like let's let's get that to where it's like, okay, we're starting a little hyped up. and it's like how far does that tumble? Is this you know, international companies? Is this something like can we have a Chinese company come in and buy a a patch and things like that? Not that there's an issue, but is it something where it's like, is this with no rules, anything can happen? And political organizations purchase a sponsorship. I I just think that it's crazy that they wrote the patch dimensions, the numbers and everything like that with no additional like, hey, nothing pornographic. Nothing Chandler: Yeah, just be smart, guys. Ryan: Again, Aaron: yeah. Ryan: again, it's on the school. It's a bad look on the school if you take like a Aaron: Absolutely. Ryan: bad sponsor like that, but then yeah, money money talk. Someone's gonna do it. I do think though, if I was monster and I got with the big twelve and I was hearing a sponsor of me, I would have made them switch to that logo that's the monster thing with the twelve over it. Every single jersey where the big twelve logo is would have to be that logo if I was the monster. Aaron: I'd be fine with it. Chandler: How many schools have gotten a sponsorship? Aaron: That I don't know. I don't know. That's a good question. If Chandler: So far. Aaron: a fan out there knows, let us know. Do some research. you know, we have the Raction News Desk, but oftentimes we're lifting instead of doing research. So Chandler: I just the only two I've like heard of that are like team specific are Ohio State and Notre Dame. But I I'm sure there's more. I mean somewhere. There's gotta be more. Aaron: Yeah. Yeah. it feels like the floodgates are opening though, so I'm sure even by now we've had some. But it is going to be every team. Chandler: I do s I I will say that the the Ohio State one, like I don't I d I don't I don't like it being taken away from like the traditional logo of Ohio State, but like it doesn't look horrible. Like it's just a silver chrome, like matches the same chrome on their jerseys of the Chase logo. And it's right above the Nike Aaron: Yeah. Chandler: thing. So it doesn't l it doesn't like aesthetically not match. So like they at least matched it up well. But like still, I mean It is what it is. it's just more NIL money that the teams are going be playing with and I mean they ha they're gonna have now seventeen million dollars, another extra year to play to play with with so Aaron: Yeah, i it's like that also feels like it's just gonna make things worse because we have more money to give out and w like we're still in the wild west. It's just like, you know, the gold's been found in California now. So it's like we're gonna go out even farther west. And we'll see. I I'm not gonna say I'm optimistic that this goes in a cool direction. I will say I'm optimistic Chandler: It's not going to Aaron: for the bits. I think we are gonna get some great jokes. Some incredible memes. Some team is going to make a terrible decision and they will be known for that for the rest of their history. And I can't wait. And like I said, please just don't let it be Mississippi State. But that's it. That's our big changes coming in the 2026 season. So I wouldn't say anything earth shattering, targeting being the closest to it. Like that could be a big change over. I'm not necessarily upset with the changes. I just wish we had for clarification. So we'll have to see how these all implement. We'll have to keep a fair kick catch or fair catch kick counter running throughout the season. See if Chandler's right on the money with five. I feel like it could be. And we will wait till the end of the season to see who ended up picking the worst team sponsor. So maybe that'll be a rack punishment that whoever the worst team spons that comes up will have to wear it on like a piece of merch for the show. but that is gonna wrap up these rules and our episode. So I want thank everybody out here for tuning in, for listening to us ramble on about rules for over an hour. sorry, Ryan, for editing this, for it being a long one, but we got into it, covered what we needed to. For all of you out there following us on social media and commenting, liking, hanging out, all that's helped. That helps us grow so much, gets it out there. So thank you. We appreciate it. boys, you got an update on streaming on Twitch. Chandler: yeah, definitely come over and check it out. I can't guarantee what kind of content you're gonna see. It's gonna it might be a rough ride of viewing wise because especially last night we had a little bit of technical difficulties for about a half hour. I was streaming and no audio was coming out of my mic. But other than that, you know, come over there and at the very least, make fun of the non togetherness of our software. And it has been a good time. Aaron: I'll say it's been fun. And y'all learn it. Yeah, like streams do not go smooth for the first couple times because the OBS will sometimes make changes on you, and you have to figure out what changed, and you only know after you hit start. So it is a fun time. They are having fun. Chandler: But nonetheless, come over and follow. Aaron: They're funny. Check them out. Follow it, support it. We appreciate it so much. But we'll be back next week where we'll get to announce who was the closest in their AP prediction. We'll have a little bit of discussion on that coming out. And of course, we'll be talking about the one and only topic we talk about here, college football, as we all get more and more excited as the days get closer and closer to kickoff. So until next time.