The NCAA Football Rules committee is making a recommendation to implement the “challenge rule” to college football. The National Championship game had a number of controversial calls, but none quit as obvious as Vince Young’s knee hitting the ground before he pitched the ball to his teammate.
This rule would allow an NCAA coach to call a timeout during the course of a game to challenge a call. If the call was correct, the team would be charged a normal timeout and lose their challenge for the rest of the game. If the call was incorrect, the team would retain their timeout and ability to challenge a future call. This would open the possibility to unlimited challenges.
This is just another step at making college football similar to the NFL. I believe it’s the right decision for college football. There are too many critical games that finish with questionable or wrong calls.
