CFB officiating looking at how to enforce quicker defensive substitutions

July 18, 2025

By Matt Zemek, UCLA Wire: Fans and commentators know that in contemporary college football, defenses try to slow-walk their substitutions so that the play clock will run down and the offense has to burn a timeout. College football supervisors of officiating are trying to make a necessary adjustment in 2025. Southeastern Conference supervisor of officials John McDaid, speaking at SEC media days, told Football Scoop about the adjusted approach to late or slow defensive substitutions:

“We go into what we call substitution mechanics,” McDaid said.

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College football officiating will try to enforce quicker defensive substitutions in 2025

Defenses slow-walking their substitutions to burn timeouts for the offensive team is something college football officials will try to address in 2025

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