New CFB rules address fake injuries, transfer portal disrupts spring games

It's a new trend in college football, Power 4 Conference teams skipping their annual spring football game

in favor of a fan appreciation day or other activities. The reasons vary, but allowing other teams to get a look at the talent coaches have developed is a big factor

With the transfer portal movement and skyrocketing NIL payments, rival teams poaching players has become a big concern

That's the reason Nebraska coach Matt Rule dropped the Huskers' very popular spring game

That said, schools like Michigan, Texas A&M, Washington, Colorado, and others will stand on tradition this weekend for now

Speaking of the portal, former Tennessee quarterback Nico Iamaleava is said to be close to a deal with UCLA

but not for the $4 million per year he wanted from the Vols

Quarterback movement is drawing all the headlines in this spring portal. Gio Lopez is leaving South Alabama to go play for Bill Belichick at North Carolina

And two other big name players are moving on. Star running back Jaden Ott is leaving the Cal Bears for Oklahoma

And the main backup last season at Notre Dame quarterback Steve Angeli has also entered the portal

Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian was in Washington DC last week to lobby Congress on NIL legislation Hoping lawmakers can put guardrails in place to prevent something like the Tennessee dispute from happening again He also lost one of his star linemen to the portal on Friday This is what we created right We created this environment that

this was going to come to a head at some point. It was just a matter of which school was it going

to happen with first. And so why were we in D.C. this week? This is a prime example to try to

minimize some of these situations that just occurred. Thursday, the NCAA handed down some

on-field rule changes to eliminate the growing problem of players faking injuries to either

slow down an opponent or earn an extra timeout. The rulebook now states, if medical personnel

enter the field to evaluate an injured player after the ball is spotted by officials for the

next play, that player's team will be charged to timeout. If the team doesn't have any timeouts

remaining a five-yard delay of game penalty will be assessed. There's also a new rule regarding

timeouts in overtime to avoid multiple stoppages and speed up the game. Each team will have just

one timeout during the third overtime and beyond until the game ends. Lots of changes on and off

the field for teams to adjust to but there are 128 days until the first kickoff of the season

For Straight Arrow News, I'm Chris Francis. Thank you