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NCAA To Try Centralized Replay

College football replay is headed to where professional sports has already gone: Collaborative replay with people weighing in from a command center.

The NCAA Football Rules Committee on Thursday voted to allow conferences to experiment with people offsite assisting in making all replay decisions in 2016. Conferences will have the choice to potentially pool their best replay officials in one central location to help the replay official at the stadium.

The SEC proposed the experimental rule after its coaches demanded collaborative replay, and national officiating coordinator Rogers Redding said he expects the SEC will use it in 2016. Redding declined to say which other conferences will experiment. The ACC and Big 12 said they will evaluate the rule to determine if they will do the experiment next season.

The experiment could allow replay to become more consistent if the same small number of high-qualified replay officials weigh in on decisions. They could provide advice on better angles to look at or interpretations of the rule. A lack of training in replay has been a roadblock toward consistency.

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