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Crackdown on Players Faking Injuries, Tweak to Video Review Verbiage Among Changes in College Game (Copy)
The NCAA targets injury feigning to maintain game pace and limits overtime timeouts, allowing only one per team after two extra periods, the National Football Foundation said.
- The National Football Foundation announced changes for the 2025 season, including penalties for players feigning injuries, reduced overtime timeouts, and updated video review language.
- Amid growing concerns over clock manipulation, the NCAA Football Rules Committee explained that recent rule adjustments include standardizing penalties for simulated injuries at the snap.
- Under the new rules, referees will announce a call is `upheld` following video reviews instead of saying `confirmed` or `stands`.
- In overtime, teams still have one timeout in the first two periods, with only one additional timeout allowed for the rest of the game, according to the NCAA.
- Additionally, officials announced that simulating firearm actions is an automatic unsportsmanlike foul, and defensive players within one yard of scrimmage must avoid abrupt snap simulations.
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Crackdown on players faking injuries, tweak to video review verbiage among changes in college game (copy)
Officials will be cracking down on college football players who feign injuries, the number of overtime timeouts will be reduced and referees will use different verbiage when announcing the results of video reviews.
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Crackdown on players faking injuries, tweak to video review verbiage among changes in college game
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Crackdown on players faking injuries, tweak to video review verbiage among changes in college game - The Morning Sun
Officials will be cracking down on college football players who feign injuries, the number of overtime timeouts will be reduced and referees will use different verbiage when announcing the results of video reviews. Those are among the changes for the 2025 season, the National Football Foundation announced Wednesday in its annual summary of rules changes. Combatting the practice of players faking injuries to stop the game clock was an offseason p…
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