College football will have a bit of a different feel to it next season with the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approving multiple new rules.
One of the approved rules is that coaches will have the option to use coaches-to-player helmet communication with one player on the field. The communication from the coach to the player will be turned off with 15 seconds remaining on the play clock or when the ball is snapped, whichever comes first, according to the NCAA.
Alabama football experimented with using the technology to communicate with its quarterbacks during spring practice.
“I think there’s a lot of reasons for it that I know can be positive.” Kalen DeBoer said when discussing being able to communicate with a player on the field. “I don’t know if it answers all the concerns that you might have when it comes to some of the things that people says it automatically fixes. Maybe sign stealing and things like that, because I think there’s other ways where it could go the other way just with being intentional and trying to get a call and being able to echo it through your defensive headset.”
College football will also have a two-minute warning with two minutes left in the second and fourth quarters.
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