The game is changed, permanently

The game of the Twentieth Century has changed forever. It is a 21st Century game now. Softer and gentler era

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Softer and gentler era

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God forbid we don't ask kids to go out there and kill themselves for our entertainment.

Yes a new era for football. Like basketball has become a 3 point contest, football is about rpo.

Permanently? I imagine people said we would never see the option again when the Veer and Wishbone went away. Yet it still exists. Auburn made a championship game playing a variation of the T formation, which is as “old” and “out of date” as it gets.

Eventually, as the majority of defenses adjust and speed players become the most in-demand, lower-tier teams will go the opposite way and start playing other systems to gain an advantage with the players available to them. Remember, it was lower-tier teams that brought these offenses to the FBS and popularized the spread first. It was mid-tier FBS teams like UF (they were at the time), West VA, Houston, Oklahoma St and Texas Tech that popularized them before larger programs switched. Eventually, the opposite will happen and the cycle will start over. This isn’t a straight line.

All that said, there are enough big programs playing this way that the game has changed for the time being. However, that isn’t an excuse for not knowing assignments, not executing the basics and not dominating overmatched opponents. Right now, these are the difference in LSU not winning by two scores over Texas and rolling NWST for the entire game instead of one half.