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NCAA college football conference MAC today announced it has collaborated with Apple to provide its 13 teams with iPads for video replay during the 2025 season.

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Coaches are receiving iPad Pro models with the M4 chip and iPad Air models with the M3 chip, with DVSport's 360 Rewind app installed for video replay. The app allows for coaches and players to make in-game adjustments on the fly.

"For today's student-athletes, iPad feels second nature, making it a perfect fit on college football gamedays," said Scott Brodrick, an iPad product marketing manager at Apple. "With its advanced display, powerful performance, fast connectivity, all-day battery, and the intuitiveness of iPadOS, it helps coaches and players make adjustments in real-time."

A trio of other college football conferences already started using iPads for video replay during the 2024 season, including the SEC, ACC, and Big Ten, following NCAA rule changes permitting the use of video replay technology on the sidelines.

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Posted by calcotron

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Posted on 9/26/25 at 2:53 pm to TigerGman

Huh? We have this at the high school. I figured every SEC team did too.

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Posted by LSshoe

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Posted on 10/3/25 at 9:22 pm to calcotron

I think the difference is they're iPads(TM) instead of Surfaces(TM). Maybe it's just the NFL I've seen before, but they all have Surface tablets with very prominent Microsoft logos. I'd suspect in that case Microsoft is not only providing the devices, but paying to have them there. Not sure Apple is paying a MAC team to use iPads, but I'd all but guarantee they're giving them away for the sake of marketing. They'll use it as a proving ground of sorts, and yeah, they'll likely be gunning for big name schools soon. And I suspect you'll see players and coaches holding their iPads with prominent Apple logos on the sidelines of your favorite teams soon.

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Posted by Spankum

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Posted on 10/5/25 at 11:24 pm to TigerGman

I would like to think these coaches already have an iPad if they need one considering that they make millions of dollars per year each.