To initiate the process, a conference will submit a request to the NCAA national coordinator of officials to review video of the play. If the coordinator of officials rules the call to have been obviously incorrect, it would be overturned, and the player would be cleared to play in the first half of the next game.
The committee also instituted a review process for teams accused of faking injuries to stop the clock and banned blocking below the waist outside the tackle box on scrimmage plays.
If a team is judged to have faked injuries to stop the clock, punishment would be up to a school’s conference.
Additionally, a runner who fakes a slide to simulate giving himself up will be ruled down at the spot, and defensive holding will always carry an automatic first down along with a 10-yard penalty.
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