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With the NFL dramatically changing kickoffs, college football might ultimately do the same.
On Tuesday, NFL owners passed a guideline to embrace a kickoff design that was very first released in the XFL. Gamers from the kicking group will line up at the challenger’s 40-yard line, while gamers from the getting group will begin with the 35.
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Georgia head coach Kirby Smart, who’s on the sport’s guidelines committee, thinks the NFL/XFL kickoff might be “the design” for the college video game.
“They understand what they desire. They understand what they’re attempting to do,” he informed press reporters“And they’re going to get it right, and after that ideally we can check out it ourselves, if the kickoff is not part of our video game.”
In an effort to make the video game more secure, authorities at the NFL and college levels have actually included different guidelines to kickoffs that have actually rendered the play practically unimportant. At both levelsthe variety of touchbacks increased with kickers more quickly booting the ball deep and r