After plenty of negative feedback, the NCAA is changing how it reviews targeting.

The NCAA Football Rules Committee concluded its four-day conference in Orlando and approved changes to the instant-replay process, most notably with targeting penalties.

The NCAA stated that “the committee voted to expand the authority of the instant replay official, requiring them to review all aspects of targeting fouls. Additionally, the instant replay official will be able to stop the game and create a targeting foul in situations where an egregious action has occurred.”

After several players were admittedly ejected for an incorrect interpretation of the rule, the added replay official review from the press box is an effort to eliminate that.

There aren’t, however, any changes expected to the punishment for targeting, which still states that a player is ejected and suspended for the first half of the next scheduled game.

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The committee also approved a motion to allow use of electronic devices to be used in the press box or locker room — but not the sidelines or on the field — during games.

Here were some of the other player safety rule changes approved by the committee:

  • Rules dealing with low blocks were adjusted to prohibit a player who leaves the tackle box from blocking below the waist toward the initial position of the ball
  • Rules pertaining to a defenseless player will include a ball carrier who has clearly given himself up by sliding feet first
  • Deliberate tripping of the ball carrier (with the leg) was approved as a foul

The approved changes will still be subjected to the Playing Rules Oversight Panel on March 8. If approved, the changes would be implemented in the 2016 season.