Herbstreit and cohort don’t even know the basic rules

Only way it's not a legal play is if it was a pass.

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he must love his job.

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...and the money that comes with it.

Offense can have no more than 7.

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Herbstreit and cohort don’t even know the basic rules

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yea, I screamed at the TV when Herbie said that. Clueless.

Refs missed the call. RT was uncovered and therefore an ineligible receiver. Didn’t report as “eligible”. Would have bumped them out of FG range.

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Refs missed the call. RT was uncovered and therefore an ineligible receiver. Didn’t report as “eligible”. Would have bumped them out of FG range.

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That’s not how it works in CFB. A player with jersey number between 50-79 is never an eligible receiver, and cannot become an eligible receiver unless they switch their jersey number. So there’s no such thing as “reporting as eligible” in college football. You would have to report an actual number change.

CFB rules do not require the end-man to wear an eligible number. They simply say that for a player on the LOS to be an eligible receiver they must A) be at the end of the LOS (uncovered) and B) wear a number other than 50-79.

So a tackle can be the end-man on the LOS, he just can’t go downfield or touch a forward pass.

NFL rules are different, and I believe require a restricted number to report as eligible every time they line up on the end of the LOS.

Also as mentioned in this thread, the rules do not require exactly 7 players in the LOS. They require no more than 4 players in the backfield.

I always thought the limit was on how many players the offense could have in the backfield; a team can have no more than four players in the backfield. Thus the offense could have eight or even nine players on the line.

Not true. You can have as many as 10 on the line of scrimmage. However, you can have no more than 4 in the backfield.

That’s why the network has a retired rules official on standby.