Rules+: Referees Earning Our Stripes

This episode covers more than meets the eye about provisions regarding scoring from chapter 9 of the Rogers Redding Study Guide to NCAA Football Rules, including sticky situations at the goal line, when the ball is loose behind or beyond the goal line, safeties vs. touchbacks, and some special rules governing tries.

Here's the 8th in a series of 12 pre-season episodes covering highlights from each of the 12 chapters of the Rogers Redding Study Guide to NCAA Football Rules. Chapter 8 covers major fouls: principally those with 15-yard penalties, but also illegal batting and kicking fouls.

This episode is the 7th in a series of 12 episodes covering highlights from each of the 12 chapters of The Rogers Redding Study Guide to NCAA Football Rules. Chapter 7 covers starting and stopping the game clock and the play clock, as well as general principles of the NCAA tie-breaking procedure involving extra periods.

With this episode I reach the halfway point in my 12-week series to prepare for the 2024 football season by reviewing the 12 chapters of the Rogers Redding Study Guide to NCAA Football Rules. It's easy for us to feel comfortable about our knowledge of the running game because that 's what we see so much of, but the Redding guide never fails to alert us to stuff we didn't know we don't know!

This episode is the 5th in a series of 12 episodes covering highlights from the each of the 12 chapters of the The Rogers Redding Study Guide to NCAA Football Rules. Chapter 5 covers the passing game, which includes a few obscure twists that are worth our study time.

My pre-season preparation highlighting topics from the Rogers Redding study guide continues with this episode reviewing chapter 4, concerning scrimmage requirements.

Continuing pre-season preparation based on The Rogers Redding Study Guide for NCAA Football Rules, I review illustrative topics about free and scrimmage kicks from chapter 3, including complications from illegal touching, illegal blocks by the kicking team, and fouls by the opponent of a team that scores a touchdown during a kicking down.

Continuing pre-season preparation based on the Rogers Redding Study Guide for NCAA Football Rules, I review recent rules changes revisited in chapter 2, looking for trends in rules evolution.

The Rules+ podcast resumes 2024 with 12 initial weekly episodes based on the "phases of the game" covered in the 12 chapters of The Redding Study Guide to NCAA Football Rules. Referee Michael Barrett, long-tenured moderator of the Rules Plus program of the Austin Football Officials Association, leads a weekly deep dive into the complex collection of the rules of the game we love.

After tying up some loose ends from the discussion in the last episode of Personal Foul vs. Unsportsmanlike Conduct, I look at the rules tweaks that the NCAA must make for extra periods.