re: College Football needs to make defensive pass interference a spot foul

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If you keep it at 15, somebody is going to get screwed by it.
If you make it a spot foul, somebody is going to get screwed by it.
If you let the officials decide each call on the basis of intent or egregiousness, then that's a can of really yucky worms.

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Agreed. I've gone back and forth on this one myself, but I like the way it is currently. A guy getting blatantly interfered with on a 50 yard bomb that likely would have been caught would certainly seem to warrant more than a 15 yard penalty. But this is offset by it being a 15 yard penalty for passes under 15 yards. And also by how much more it sucks to give a team 50 yards on a call that refs will often get wrong (just because it's an inherently difficult call to make).