favorite playbook on ncaa

Hands down South Carolina's

I know that sounds weird but they have one of THE BEST formations you can have. In the Ace formation with two tight ends and two WR's, on the last page there are 3 plays where the tackle and tight end on each side spread out to the where the receivers are...it's pretty fricken awesome.

Florida's, but I run pretty much Ace and Power-I all game. I rarely go into the shotgun.

How do most of you pick plays?

I either go with one of Corso's picks or pick by type. I never try to go through all the different formations and variations.

UTAH - Pistol baby

MLB blitz or at least spy???

until someone runs a Cover 2 and you throw a pick 6...

If you like running out of the pistol, and you want about as many pistol sets as Florida has shotgun sets, go with NEVADA.

I like Air Force's playbook, because you can spread the field out of the shotgun, or you can go to the Flexbone and run option.

Florida's is nice every now and then, but I haven't used it in a while.

I've been playing with Michigan's lately, and it's alright.

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Do you know what a cover 2 is? The cover 2 is straight zone were the CB's cover the flats. It may not be a pick 6 as stated above but it will likely be shut down.

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Wrong.


Cover 2
In traditional Cover 2 schemes the free safety (FS) and strong safety (SS) have deep responsibilities, each guarding half of the field. The NFL's Kansas City Chiefs, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Buffalo Bills, Indianapolis Colts, Chicago Bears, and Detroit Lions run a variant of this defense called the Tampa 2.

Cover 2 can be run from any seven-man defensive fronts such as the 3-4 and the 4-3. (It is difficult to implement Cover 2 from an eight-in-the-box front, because the strong safety or someone replacing him is usually the eighth man.) Various "underneath" coverage played by cornerbacks and linebackers may also be implemented. For example, Cover 2 Man means 2 safeties have deep responsibility while the cornerbacks and linebackers follow their offensive assignment in one-on-one coverage. The NFL's San Diego Chargers inherited a base Cover 2 Man 3-4 from Wade Phillips. Cover 2 can also be paired with underneath zone schemes: Cover 2 Zone refers to 2 safeties with deep responsibility but now the CBs and LBs drop back into specific coverage zones where they defend passes only in their assigned area.

Teams that play Cover 2 shells usually subscribe to the "bend-but-don't-break" philosophy, preferring to keep offensive players in front of them for short gains while limiting long passes. This is in stark contrast to a more aggressive Cover 1 type scheme which leaves the offensive team's wide receivers in single man-to-man coverage with only one deep helper. By splitting the deep field between two defenders, the defense can drastically reduce the number of long gains.
The main weakness of the Cover 2 shell occurs in the middle of the field between the safeties. The safeties attempt to gain width upon the snap of the ball to cover any long passes to quick wide receivers down the sideline. This movement creates a natural hole between the safeties that can be attacked. By sending a receiver (usually a tight end) into the hole, the offense forces the safety to make a decision: play the vulnerable hole in the middle of the field or help out on the wide receiver. The quarterback reads the safety's decision and decides on the best matchup (i.e. which mismatch is better: TE vs S or WR vs CB).

You're thinking of a Cover 2 base defense where everyone underneath covers a zone.

There's a ton of variations and wrinkles. Zone-under, the CBs would cover the flats.

If the CB has a WR to his side, his first responsibility is to play the WR to give the S some help underneath in order to not leave the S on an island.