Almost no-one knows the rule. Targeting" means that a player takes aim at an opponent for purposes of attacking with forcible contact that goes beyond making a legal tackle or a legal block or playing the ball. Some indicators of targeting include but are not limited to: a. Launch - a player leaving their feet to attack an opponent by an upward and forward thrust of the body to make forcible contact in the head or neck area. b. A crouch followed by an upward and forward thrust to attack with forcible contact at the head or neck area, even though one or both feet are still on the ground. c. Leading with helmet, shoulder, forearm, fist, hand or elbow to attack with forcible contact at the head or neck area. d. Lowering the head before attacking by initiating forcible contact with the crown of the helmet. ARTICLE 3. No player shall target and make forcible contact against an opponent with the crown of their helmet. ARTICLE 4. No player shall target and make forcible contact to the head or neck area of a defenseless opponent with the helmet, forearm, hand, fist, elbow or shoulder. This foul requires that there be at least one indicator of targeting: In short, helmet to helmet is not automatically targeting. And targeting can be lots of things which are not done using your helmet. And targeting can be also a hit which is not aimed to opponents head or neck area.

Targeting rules have been a part of college football for almost 10 years or around 10 years. Either these kids were never taught the right way to tackle or they don't care. Football is a high velocity impact sport. It is not a case of a rule being made just to make people not enjoy playing or viewing. I've been watching football since 1969. I stopped watching football partly because of the behavior of the athletes the other reason being the deliberate attempts to hurt people on the field. The rules are there to keep them healthy and safe. If you can't play by the rules then take up knitting

I love how the rest of the team pats the disqualified player on the helmet like he didn't do anything wrong.

From a rugby perspective, it's taught extremely early that head across the body and dropping the head is a sure fire way to get knocked out by a knee or contact. Football has for a long time utilised the helmet as part of tackling and that would have to be changed from the ground up. If I had the rule book, I'd ban any blind I.e any tackle where the eye level dips below the eyebrow. I'd ban diving twisting tackles for the same reason, the second you turn off from the target and can't see it the injury risk increases massively and lastly and most controversially, any launch of any kind. Gravity is a cruel mistress and if you can't blast someone without launching then that's a skill issue.

Offensive guys shouldn't be allowed to lower their helmets either. If it's so dangerous for defenders why isn't dangerous for the ball carrier. I don't agree with these rules. These guys have been trained to hit like this since peewee. I know something has to change but I think there are smarter ways to implement and judge these types of incidents.

the penn state/purdue ejection was another example of a proper application of the rule, the commentartors are fools for thinking a hit to the head can be justified in this case.

Playing hard is one thing, intentionally trying to injure someone is completely different.

What were the announcers talking about on # 11 1000% targeting

Athletes themselves complain about concussions. These calls are protective and if people don’t like them, that’s their own problem. Kids are taught from a young age to hit wrong. Everyone wants some big flashy hit and if you have a skilled offensive player, you won’t stop them. Can’t run without your legs. Stop the legs, stop the player. Teach them right, keep them safe, watch longer, healthier careers from great players. Quit complaining about a rule change and FOLLOW THE RULE. It’s not rocket science.

the penn state announcer was a joke, the defender is trying to get to the ball, yeah let me drive my head into the offensive player. They should consider hitting the team with a fine.

What gets me is all the "buddies" that come up and pat the guy who did the targeting telling him "Hey it's ok man" and it's NOT ok. Why are they not teaching basic tackling anymore in football, rather than "Go for the guy's head and see if you can concuss them enough to get them to drop the ball"? For almost all of these plays (except for the late hits) if the guy trying to make the tackle had simply put a shoulder pad into the other guy's midsection, they could have tackled them easily and completed the play. But no, they'd rather go out there head hunting. I'm glad college is cracking down on this but the penalties need to be more severe because the guys don't get it, and neither does their coaching staff. Second targeting penalty of the season should be an automatic disqualification from all sports participation for a calendar year - start doing that and I'll wager you'll see targeting become as rare as a penguin racing a peregrine falcon in the air. No one is going to risk being sat for an entire calendar year from all sports.

The Iowa-Kentucky play was never called for targeting, only KCI.

If the players can't play without targeting then they I've got no buisness being on a team Period.

Coaches needed to go back to basics and get these kids to tackle properly! Wrap up at the mid-section and drive with your body! Learnt that in god damn Pop Warner twenty years ago! Christ!

There needs to be a revision for intended vs unintentional. Some runners tuck and put their heads lower where the tacklers are being trained to hit.

There needs to be a Targeting 1 and Targeting 2. 1 is simply more on the lines of incidental contact if making a football play or “bracing for impact” type of plays. Like the Penn state vs Purdue call is a great example. It wasn’t targeting in my book but if you call that it would be T1. He can remain in the game and treat it like an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. Two of those and you’re out. Targeting 1 could also be dropped to an unnecessary roughness call if there is sufficient evidence to do so. Targeting 2 is intentional like trying to take a player out. The OU-Nebraska hit is a great example. Setting up to hit the player. That’s an automatic ejection and possibly suspension. Now I will add a stipulation that if both players drop their crown of the helmets to brace for impact, BOTH players are assessed a Targeting 1 Foul, or a Targeting 2 (if intentional) and Targeting 1 for the offensive player (if crown is dropped). Offensive players could be assessed a targeting 1/2 foul if blocking.

Guy launches helmet to helmet for a vicious late hit on the side of a defenseless players brain, mike pereira basically says "use common sense, thats a bad call." Next clip, guy barely bops a guy in the chestpad, Mike Pereira says "oh yeah thats 100% targeting." What a clown

I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again if the ball carrier can drop his head and hit them in the helmet it’s on the ball carrier

I hope you will have the 2023 College Football Targeting Ejections uploaded soon.

Does Ole Miss ever have any games where one or more of them doesn’t actually get ejected? Seems to be a pattern.

Do you have this for 2021

1st video, you say text book targeting. That's how they teach it at Texas. When your called for targeting & you go off the field laughing you should miss at least 5 games and then maybe you will understand.

IMO I think the targeting call should also be called on offense. When any player lower the head prior to contact targeting should be called. I also think that face mask should be called against offense when running with the ball and stiff arm the head. Make it fair if it is going to be called.

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Never ceases to amaze how some of the idiot announcers will sit there and say “that doesn’t look like targeting to me” as replay shows it clearly is! Thank God those geniuses aren’t actually officials out on the field.

15 yard penalty, ejection & love Tennessee Volunteers Orange helmets.

I think we should start playing flag football. Played most of my life. Took a lot of hits as a quarterback and receiver. Delivered a lot as a safety. If you don't want to play the game. Be a cheerleader.

If you lead with your helmet thats what you deserve.i mean they teach you how to tackle starting in junior football

The Ole Miss/Texas Tech clip is used twice.

I guarantee this rule is covered over and over again in training. The coaches know the rule, the players know the rule. But they continue to do it despite all the training and warnings. Kinda makes you question their intent and integrity.

I’m glad one of the announcers said the truth and called this the worst rule in college football. Football is trans now and only titty bumping is allowed.

In the Tenn. v S. Carolina kerfuffle, if the South Carolina player had lifted his head would the Tenn. player have been guilty of targeting since he would have initiated contact with the crown of his helmet?

It's good that college football has the targeting rule

Football ain't the same when it comes to that rule

Where is the fsu lsu game with targeting on Jordan Travis?

The coaches are as much to blame as the player who committed the targeting. They don't appear to be doing anything to stop the players committing these offenses. To pat them on the back or head is ridiculous. They should all be kicked in the a**.

These announcers for their teams are absolutely despicable calling these plays I understand your announcing for your team and try to back them but saying that the obviously atrocious and disgusting hits are good hits is insane fire these guys these are kids out here shame on you for trying to justify when your players make obviously dirty and dangerous plays

I never understood this rule they taught me when i first started playing football was head on ball so I understand trying to break a habit that you been doing as a child is hard

The announcers ought to shut up since they know nothing about it at all.

Yeah....the Penn State player was trying to get to the ball BY TAKING THE HEAD OFF OF THE PURDUE PLAYER! This was an open-and-shut case of targeting. No 11 of Penn State DESERVED to be ejected.

They have to stop patting these guys on the head when they target

After a decade of that College Football's Targeting Rules. Those refs know which players will get DQ'ed. NO GAMES!!!

i have seen a lot of targeting calls that should have never been called, and have seen some that should have been call that weren't called, they need to redefined the rule.

and the targeter always laughs and thinks this dirty plan in comical

More I see of this, the more I think Canadian football with the five yards is safer. Or not allow guys to run before the ball is kicked.

I guess the Tennison ejection was so good, they had to show it twice.

I've never heard the term "targeting" in the NFL. Do they refer to the same thing as something else?

The offender's team and the announcers decry the player getting kicked out of the game but do not have concern for the injured player.

first time I seen the call against KY against Iowa and yes that should have been targeting and not happy with these other announcers calling Us buckeyes instead of Hawkeyes ugh This is the reason why I only listen to our own announcers

Whatever happened to, hit them low and hard? Take their legs out from under them?

when will they learn to NOT use the helmet as a weapon? I coached youth football and the first thing I did was teach the boys the proper way to tackle

12:00 Amazing how the offensive player can lower their head all they want

I don't care what Mike says #11 in white was never going for the ball, he went straight into the helmet then stood up & flexed never trying to get the ball. Even if he was going for the ball he still went into the head with the helmet.

I swear football has become so pathetic they're making sissies out of these guys. Dick Butkus probably laughs hysterically at these new rules

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“On the previous play, there was a foul on the play… targeting… number 95 will be disqualified from the game for being a fuckin savage”

Do you have 2023?

Football is slowly becoming a gentleman's sport. Pretty soon, they'll have to shake hands and ASK to hit their opponent. Man...

Good way to wind up like Marc Buinocotte.

I have request for you. Can you do College Football targeting ejection 2023 video please?

Why can the running back lower his head and lead with the crown of the helmet? When the rules first came out both offense and defense were abide by those rules.

Get off the field…what happened to the requirement that disqualified players must leave “the field” which by definition includes the sideline????

The rules are the rules guys you break the rules you’re out of the game. Hey coaches stop feeding your players steroids

The Cooper Dejean play didn’t have targeting.

Damn good rule. Maybe instead of sending them off they should just be made to tackle without pads and a helmet like every rugby player on the planet.

Did I do that. Not me. I did nothing wrong

I watched three videos tonight of brutal tackles in the NFL from the 1970s .they were crushing train wrecks . I watched very closely for the lowering of their helmets and not one used their helmet. They were arm and body tackles. I played high school football then . You hit hard with your shoulder and wraped them up with your arms. There were times a hit sounded like the crack of a rifle which got the attention of the whole stadium. I don't get the concept of the helmet tackle at the head other than these cooking class majors are trying to injure the ball carrier .

What does targeting mean?

6:13 looked like he was just going for the ball to me 🤷‍♀️

I am pro targeting. My favorite plays are targeting. The rule is lame and it’s ruining football.

Some QBs seem to like serving up the sewey sauce to their receivers.

So they need to midgets on d fence so they don't accidentally hit head to head bs

The Ten - S Car should have been called against offense. Defensive player wasnt even moving. Runner lowered his head and lead with crown of helmet. Some of these should have never been called or called against offense.

Has there ever a call called back?

How to ruin college football 101.

Why does it take refs so long to decide after a review?

Commentary number 11 Penn State the ball is dead no need for that targeting

My family lost a definite Superbowl winner in 91 due to targeting. It was swept under the rug. Nothing was ever done about it. My auntie passed away before they ever did anything to make change. 😕

Targeting calls are so funny... Can you imagine these refs reffing a boxing match.

Football is a game celebrated for its violence and played by violent men. Then we try to pretend that the violence doesn't exist by instituting these rules.

The Penn State commentator is ridiculous, he is obviously not qualified to comment.

I will never understand how teammates can high five they after a Targeting foul, you just cost the team 15 yards & got kicked out of the game. What is there to Congratulate someone about.

#13 for Mississippi needs to be banned for life

It's missing the TXST-Southern Miss targeting call with TXST #12 Tory Spears that was nowhere even close to targeting. It's just great football being played.

You know the rule and still doing against it... That is dumb..

What game are the refs watching? Their 10 feet away with a clear targeting call and the booth has to initiate a replay? Good grief, those refs suck!

So, we are playing foag footvall now?

the penn state call was laughable

If you don’t want any helmet to helmet contact….then just don’t let them use helmets! I mean some of these calls are just BS! I mean it’s football for christs sake!

#21 at 15:22. how the hell is he a football player? that guy has to be over 400 lbs.

The rules don’t work. Players collide at different angles and heights that rules can’t account for. I think Targeting is pretty obvious. The player makes an effort to target, when a normal tackle would otherwise be made.

All of these clowns smiling and joking as they get ejected. You just let your team down, what are you smirking about?

this would have been a 5 star video had we not had to sit through the reviews...

Is there anyone that likes this rule?!? Football has been neutered

idk why players even do that, quit trying to kill or hurt them. like come on

I hate Texas A&M but that first clip was the weakest targeting call I've seen in a while. Refs also shouldn't be throwing flags after they look at the slow replay on the jumbotron. Your job is to call shit as it happens at normal speed on the field.

1st one wasn't.

im sorry but the Tennesse player lowered his helmet as well. Football has become a joke

I have always hated targeting bc its like what is a defender supposed to do. your not supposed to lead with ur helmet but its physically impossible to do so

Wtf we got helmets for??? Football is a rough sport, that’s part of the game. Let me play. Idk a single real fan, especially SEC, that doesn’t like watching somebody get laid tf out