Option football in 2023
Two programs with deep, historic connections to option football are seeing their relationship to the philosophy evolve in 2023.
This has been a fascinating season in college football for a lesser remarked feature of the season, the role of option football.
Jamey Chadwell has Liberty running new-school option in creative ways that will likely see him promoted again to a top job, USC and other schools are mixing in new ways to run RPOs, but there’s still another trend bubbling under the surface worth a look.
Nebraska is running the option again…and Army is running it very differently. These two traditional bastions of the option have been prominently involved in the scheme’s battle for a place in modern college football in two very different fashions.