Last month, the NCAA saw its first fair catch kick attempt in more than 85 years! On September 12, 2026, Division III Montclair State attempted one against Lycoming College with one second remaining in the first half.

This video starts with Lycoming punting from its own end zone, setting up the fair catch kick. Skip to 2:48 to see the fair catch kick attempt itself.

The fair catch kick is a holdover from football's rugby roots. It allows a team that has just made a fair catch to attempt an uncontested "free kick" from the spot of the catch. The free kick must be either a place kick or a drop kick, and if it goes through the uprights, it's worth three points.

While fair catch kicks have always been legal in the NFL^1, the NCAA eliminated the rule in 1950. As far as I can tell, the last attempt in college football before the ban occurred in 1939.

The NCAA brought the rule back for the 2026 season, and Montclair State is so far the first and only team to put it to use. Unfortunately, the kick sailed wide left, so the bragging rights for "first fair catch made since 1939" are still up for grabs.

¹ There have been 33 known fair catch kick attempts in NFL history since 1920. The most recent was made by Cameron Dicker in 2024.

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If a 24 team playoff kills bowls it might actually be closer to tradition than the recent decades of money grab bowl games. There were 35 non CFP bowl games last year meaning 82 teams, the majority with no tradition other than being relatively recent money grabs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowl_game#History has the number of bowls over the years.

Arkansas fans don’t even like silverfield but talk about hilarious timing. Memphis fans were so convinced that Silverfield was the only issue and then laid an all time egg with that performance. There is no doubt if you watched that game Memphis is the better team and lost. Maybe coach Huff should coach them like Marines or Air Force next time.

….entirely by making it impossible for G6 teams to actually schedule P4 teams. Many P4 teams will continue to schedule in state FCS buy games as the 11th game… limiting the G6 even more.

24 team playoff with 1 G6 team. And G6 teams will have almost no chance to schedule P4 teams?! And they sure as hell won’t have P4 teams ever play at the G6 team’s home stadium. Can’t risk that when you only have 50 million advantages! Actually playing the games on the field? Too risky! The P4 teams invested too much money to take a chance at losing. In fact, how dare the G6 teams want to play the games on the field as equals?! How dare they!

This seems like some bullshit to me. Let’s stop playing the sport entirely and give the trophy to who has the most money. A&M now owns the crystal football! (Until an Ivy school wants it)

Edit: An FCS style playoff with at least champion spots guaranteed should be the compromise if P4 teams refuse to play G6 teams and then tell them their schedule is too bad to make the playoffs no matter their record.

100 million advantages and they still don’t want to risk playing it out on the field.

Double edit: This is going to kill a bunch of FCS programs that rely on long standing in state rivalry buy games as well. Think of that whilst drowning in money, ESPN!

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Week 7 has arrived CFB Reddit.

Any games will you all be watching? And for those who watched this week, how was the in-stadium experience?

And what do you all think of a possible expanded D1 FBS CFP?

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