Nick Saban discusses how much college football has changed when it comes to offense, which he said is for the good.

“Tennessee got in what looked like an I-formation last week on the goal-line and our players actually did not know what to do”

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— Trey Wallace (@TreyWallace_) October 21, 2022

I'm a huge fan of I-football. That's what we use to run when I was coaching HS ball. I think watching Manderino crush linebackers was my favorite time in Cal football. It's so versatile, plus you can get very creative, we would run tons of counters, tosses, then TE screens, also could do some option, like veer. The two key plays in it though was always the ISO (just lead your fb up to the mike backer and power it straight ahead, plus power like Saban said really effective off the corner. Also the fact nobody is running I football, Cal could have a really good pick of the litter in recruiting.

Agree. But I'm old and we used it while coaching high school in the 90s anytime we got inside the 20.

I much prefer the empty backfield options: pass right, left, straight, or a hard hitting reverse.

I'm partial to the empty backfield, swiss cheese Oline to befuddle defenses and low percentage throws to the sidelines.

Haha. We must be getting really old when kids today don't know what an I formation is.

When I think of the I formation, I always think of SC under McKay in the '60's, w/OJ carrying the ball.

I miss fullbacks