If a proposed new rule had been in effect last October, former Utah safety Marquise Blair would have missed all of the next game after receiving his second targeting penalty of the football season.
Then again, a more thorough review of each call may have kept Blair from being penalized at all.
The NCAA Football Rules Committee is proposing a harsher, more progressive penalty for targeting, while suggesting that in-game reviews apply higher standards to the call. Any penalty that comes with an ejection would have to be “confirmed,” beyond a judgment that the call “stands” and is not overturned.