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The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel has approved a rule to curtail faking injuries, which has been a hot-button topic in recent seasons. Starting with the 2025-26 college football season, if medical personnel enter the field to evaluate an injured player’s health after the ball is spotted for the next play, the offending team will be charged a timeout.
If the team is out of timeouts, they will instead by called for a 5-yard delay of game penalty. The proposal was first set out by the NCAA Football Rules Committee in February but required approval from the panel to be officially introduced. Conference offices would also have the right to take disciplinary action against players or schools who are found to have purposefully faked injuries.
“The committee identified the time period after the ball has been spotted as the most egregious violations of the injury timeout rule and is addressing the issue this way,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart, who serves as co-chair of the NCAA Rules Committee, said in a statement in February. “Having a set time frame of when the game is stopped for an injured player should hopefully help curtail the strategy of having players fake injuries.”
Allegedly faking injuries has become a popular practice for teams, especially as they go against tempo offenses. During a matchup between high-tempo Tennessee and Alabama, for example, the Tide got confused while sending in substitutions, leading to a defensive back simply flying to the ground moments before the snap to pause the game.
Last season, the SEC introduced fines for head coaches who…
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Author : Shehan Jeyarajah
Publish date : 2025-04-17 14:45:00
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