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Just one, that obviously hasn't been listed already. Googling for a similar list is lame. I'll start with an easy one.


Knee down (or 2 hands or butt or whatever) = down in college, regardless if you're touched.

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Faceguarding is legal in the NFL

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instant replay--every play is reviewed in college while only the last two minutes are done the same way in the pros.

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Faceguarding is legal in the NFL

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I think you have it backwards

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On a pass completion, in college one foot must be in bounds regardless of any action by the defense. In the NFL, two feet must be down, but the pass will be ruled complete even if no feet are in bounds if in the judgment of the official the receiver would have gotten two feet in bounds but for a push from the defender.

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Faceguarding is legal in the NFL

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What is happening in your avatar?

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College hashmarks are wider, thus providing a more dramatic "wide side of the field".

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In the NFL, pass interference puts the ball at the spot of the foul (or the 1 yard line if it was in the endzone). In college, pass interference is a 15 yard penalty.

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Pass Interference (defense)

NFL: spot of foul, or 1-yard line if in endzone
NCAA: spot of foul, max 15 yards

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Can I list a bunch?

No 2 minute warning in college, there is in NFL.

Clock does not stop on first down in NFL, it does in college.

2 point conversion is from the 3 yard line in college, from the 2 yard line in NFL.

NFL has a 15 minute sudden death overtime, college OT works like innings in baseball from 25 yard line.

In college you are allowed to push a guy out of bounds if he's catching it. In NFL they can rule he would have come down in bounds and award the catch.

NFL replay the ref on the field makes the decision, in college a replay official in the booth makes it.

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Sure if you want to take all the fun out of it.

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In college a player on the team thats punting can be in the endzone and make contact with the ball and it not be ruled a touchback as long as the ball does not touch in the end zone.

In the NFL the punting team player cannot touch the end zone and still keep the ball from crossing into the endzone. If he does, its a touchback.

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In college a player on the team thats punting can be in the endzone and make contact with the ball and it not be ruled a touchback as long as the ball does not touch in the end zone.

In the NFL the punting team player cannot touch the end zone and still keep the ball from crossing into the endzone. If he does, its a touchback.

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This reminds me.

In college, once a punt has broken the plane it's a touchback, even if it's in the air. So if a guy jumps in the air into the endzone catches it and throws it back (think about saving balls in basketball) it's still a touchback. In the NFL it has to hit the ground or be touched by someone in the endzone.

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In college, the winner of the cointoss can defer and take the ball at the start of the second half. You cannot defer in the NFL, although you can in Madden.

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In NCAA football, a player is automatically down when a body part other than a hand or foot touches the ground. In NFL, a player has to be touched down if a body part other than a hand or foot touches the ground.

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25 vs 40 sec play clock

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In the NFL the clock stops on a sack (until they reset). In college it doesn't.

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The best players in the NFL get paid millions of dollars by their teams, and the best players in college football get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by boosters.

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In college, you have to have 4 players on each side of the ball when kicking off. In NFL, you can put all 10 on one side and create a clusterfuck on onsides kicks.

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In college, you have to have 4 players on each side of the ball when kicking off. In NFL, you can put all 10 on one side and create a clusterfuck on onsides kicks.

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unless im mistaken, this rule has changed this year. The NFL has a minimum per side now as well

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In college, you have to have 4 players on each side of the ball when kicking off. In NFL, you can put all 10 on one side and create a clusterfuck on onsides kicks.

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unless im mistaken, this rule has changed this year. The NFL has a minimum per side now as well

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Yeah, my bad I'm dumb dumb dumb

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Faceguarding is legal in the NFL

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I think you have it backwards

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I'm sure it just became legal in the NFL

If it's legal in college too, then my bad

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Horsecollar tackle only legal in college.

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there's something about kicking

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Horsecollar tackle only legal in college.

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Probably because Roy Williams didn't learn how to Roy Williams people until he got to the NFL.

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Can't a team in college call back to back timeouts? I know you can't in the NFL.

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In the NFL, the when a team makes a fair catch, they have the option to put the ball in play with a free kick from which they can score a field goal (known as a fair catch kick). In college this option doesn't exist.

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In college, the winner of the cointoss can defer and take the ball at the start of the second half. You cannot defer in the NFL, although you can in Madden.

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I'll have to take your word for this, but I want to point out that defering is not the same thing as choosing to kick (or choosing sides). Defering means letting the other team choose from all of the options so that you can choose in the second half. Choosing to kick means that the other team will receive, choose sides, and have the first choice (of everything) in the second half. Choosing sides means that the other team gets to choose to kick or receive, and then they get the first choice (of evferything) in the second half.

The way that it is in madden, and EA NCAA football is not the way it is done in any real football league (that I know of).

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Isn't there a difference regarding the goal line? I know absolutely nothing about college football. And really I don't even know exactly what the new NFL goal line rule is, but I know last year it was different from the college rule.

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Can the defense still return a 2-point try the other way for 2 points in college? Or did I just dream that?

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1 foot in bounds in college is a catch and u need 2 in pro.

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Can the defense still return a 2-point try the other way for 2 points in college? Or did I just dream that?

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Yes. Some FCS team won a game on a returned 2pt conversion recently.

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And really I don't even know exactly what the new NFL goal line rule is, but I know last year it was different from the college rule.

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The old rule said that the goal line "extended around the world". So if you dived at the pylon and the ball crossed the goalline outside of the pylon (ie out of bounds) it was still a TD.

Under the new rule, the ball must cross the goalline inside or directly over the pylon.

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And really I don't even know exactly what the new NFL goal line rule is, but I know last year it was different from the college rule.

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The old rule said that the goal line "extended around the world". So if you dived at the pylon and the ball crossed the goalline outside of the pylon (ie out of bounds) it was still a TD.

Under the new rule, the ball must cross the goalline inside or directly over the pylon.

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The funny thing is that apparently no one in the NFL knew this, and players always tried to sneak the ball inside the pylon even before the rule was changed.

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The funny thing is that apparently no one in the NFL knew this, and players always tried to sneak the ball inside the pylon even before the rule was changed.

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Probably because the old rule didn't make a lick of logical sense.

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you can't pay the players in college

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I could be wrong here, but isn't there a difference in lineman down the field? In college, you can have lineman downfield on a pass provided the reception is behind the line of scrimmage. In the pros, its a penalty to have lineman downfield on any pass play, regardless of where the pass is thrown.

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It used to college players could have their shirts untucked. Not sure if it still is.

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In the NFL you have to play one of your home games in a foreign country every 16 years. (Pending review in 2011).

In college you don't.

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you can't publicly pay the players in college

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