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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says the NFL could consider abolishing the extra point. Could college football ever do the same?
"It's never really crossed my mind," said Rogers Redding, the secretary-rules editor for the NCAA Football Rules Committee.
"It wouldn't be the end of the world, obviously. It has not been talked about on the committee for the five or six years I've been on it."
Goodell told the NFL Network that the league's competition committee could consider eliminating the PAT in order to add excitement.
"The extra point is almost automatic," Goodell said. "I believe we had five missed extra points this year out of 1,200 some odd (attempts). So it's a very small fraction of the play, and you want to add excitement with every play."
Goodell said one suggested proposal would be having a touchdown be worth seven points instead of six, with the potential for an extra play from scrimmage producing an eighth point. However, if the team failed on going for an eighth point, it would go back to six points.
It's debatable how often teams would take that extra-point option under Goodell's proposal. The NFL two-point conversion rate or attempt rate hasn't dramatically changed in the past decade despite an increase in offense.
NFL kickers converted 99.8 percent of their extra-point attempts in the regular season in 2013. The conversion rate has been high for a while. The rate was 98.1 percent in 2001.
In the college game, Football Bowl Subdivision kickers set a percentage record for the second straight season by converting 97.1 percent of their extra points. Seven years ago, college kickers were making 95.1 percent of PATs.
Sixty-two percent of FBS teams missed no more than one extra point this season. The two-point conversion rate for college football has been around 40 percent to 44 percent in recent seasons.
"Extra points aren't quite automatic in our game," Redding said. "They make far more kicks than they once did. But there's enough that it adds a little bit of drama. By allowing defenses to get the ball, it opens up the possibility where a kick gets blocked and it's returned the other way. Or once in a blue moon there's a safety. There's an element of excitement and surprise (to the extra point)."
In 1988, the NCAA made a rule change awarding teams two points for returning a failed extra point or two-point conversion. The change also brought in the obscure one-point safety rule. If a defensive player is tackled with the ball in his own end zone after an interception, fumble or blocked kick on a conversion try, the tackling team gets one point
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"It's never really crossed my mind," said Rogers Redding, the secretary-rules editor for the NCAA Football Rules Committee.
"It wouldn't be the end of the world, obviously. It has not been talked about on the committee for the five or six years I've been on it."
Goodell told the NFL Network that the league's competition committee could consider eliminating the PAT in order to add excitement.
"The extra point is almost automatic," Goodell said. "I believe we had five missed extra points this year out of 1,200 some odd (attempts). So it's a very small fraction of the play, and you want to add excitement with every play."
Goodell said one suggested proposal would be having a touchdown be worth seven points instead of six, with the potential for an extra play from scrimmage producing an eighth point. However, if the team failed on going for an eighth point, it would go back to six points.
It's debatable how often teams would take that extra-point option under Goodell's proposal. The NFL two-point conversion rate or attempt rate hasn't dramatically changed in the past decade despite an increase in offense.
NFL kickers converted 99.8 percent of their extra-point attempts in the regular season in 2013. The conversion rate has been high for a while. The rate was 98.1 percent in 2001.
In the college game, Football Bowl Subdivision kickers set a percentage record for the second straight season by converting 97.1 percent of their extra points. Seven years ago, college kickers were making 95.1 percent of PATs.
Sixty-two percent of FBS teams missed no more than one extra point this season. The two-point conversion rate for college football has been around 40 percent to 44 percent in recent seasons.
"Extra points aren't quite automatic in our game," Redding said. "They make far more kicks than they once did. But there's enough that it adds a little bit of drama. By allowing defenses to get the ball, it opens up the possibility where a kick gets blocked and it's returned the other way. Or once in a blue moon there's a safety. There's an element of excitement and surprise (to the extra point)."
In 1988, the NCAA made a rule change awarding teams two points for returning a failed extra point or two-point conversion. The change also brought in the obscure one-point safety rule. If a defensive player is tackled with the ball in his own end zone after an interception, fumble or blocked kick on a conversion try, the tackling team gets one point
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