[kevkrom]

Although I do kinda like the first down tweak to the rule, as the ready to play signal generally takes 10-15 seconds to get ready for, so they still have time to get a player in and out.

This is the way I remember the NCAA rule anyway. If they're changing to this, then they changed away from the old rule within the last 6 years or so and are changing back now.

But the kickoff rule is absolutely STUPID.

100% agreed. Not only stupid, but patently unnecessary.

[MikefromOhio]

It's been at the snap for at least 20 years and probably longer.

It's just that teams now use that entire time that they are setting the ball and the chains, and then using the entire 25 second playclock on top of that. In the past, they didn't use all of that time.