NCAA approves blanket waiver excluding postseason competition from 4-game redshirt rule
NCAA Football players are applicable to redshirt and preserve a season if they play in four games or less. However, in the past, postseason games have counted toward that total. On Tuesday, the NCAA announced it intends to change this rule.
“The Division I FBS and FCS Oversight Committees approved a blanket waiver for the upcoming season that excludes postseason participation (conference championship game, bowl game, FCS tournament and College Football Playoff games) from the limit of four contests a football student-athlete may participate in without using a season of competition,” the statement read.
“Rationale for approval includes the recent adoption of the notification-of-transfer window and the necessity of accelerated discussions and decisions for student-athletes and coaches regarding future participation opportunities and the potential impact of student-athletes opting out of participation in postseason competition.”
This change is perhaps the largest in college football’s redshirt rules since the COVID-19 pandemic when players affected by the outbreak were granted an additional year of eligibility. The 2023 campaign was the final season college football players were eligible for a COVID year.
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The four-game eligibility rule began in 2017 when the American Football Coaches Association suggested a modification to the eligibility guidelines for the sport. The proposal eliminated medical redshirts and allowed players to retain their redshirt status unless they participated in more than four games in a season.
The NCAA placed this rule into effect in the 2018 college football season. Now, the organization has pivoted again on its redshirt standards.
Tony Petitti shows off new Big Ten replay center
Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti has helped oversee the addition of a new centralized replay center that’s going to be where all of the conference’s replays are determined.
In a new video, Petitti showed off the league’s replay center. Eight different monitors are clearly visible behind him as he speaks in the video as well as several other monitors. It’s similar to the replay center that the SEC has used in Birmingham in recent years.
You can watch the video of Tony Petitti showing off the new Big Ten replay center, here:
“It all comes down to people having to make decisions, sometimes very difficult, very close decisions,” Tony Petitti can be heard saying in the video. “Our job in this replay center is to provide a technology, the speed, the looks, the ability to make great decisions as quickly as possible.”
On3’s Dan Morrison also contributed to this article.