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A college football news roundup that includes UGA saving money in case players start getting paid and the targeting rule is still the same for the 2017 season.

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There is an epidemic sweeping social media that has to stop and it is this: calling someone the GOAT with a goat emoji. It happens all the time and is way overused. This past weekend, a college baseball team’s Twitter account used it with one of their pitchers who had pitched 21 straight scoreless innings. Sure, that is great, but using the goat emoji and calling him the greatest of all time is way overboard. Let’s all stop this right now.

In college football news, Alabama linebacker Reuben Foster was sent home from the NFL Combine after an incident, FSU running back Dalvin Cook is confident he’s the best back in the upcoming draft, and we take a look at some storylines for spring practices for Ohio State and Texas. Here are some other newsworthy notes in the latest college football news roundup.

Ready and Prepared – Count Georgia as one program that will be ready if players ever started to get paid.

The Bulldogs have saved $32 million if that is ever the case.

“There are a lot of assumptions that people are making, that this revenue stream is going to be there forever,” athletics director Greg McGarity said. “If we end up having to pay student-athletes down the road, where is that money going to come from? … There are a lot of unknowns, and what this allows us to do, and the right way, is to have a buffer there that allows us to cover the unexpected.”

Rule Changes! – Next season, players will not be allowed to jump over the line of scrimmage on a field goal attempt, robbing us of highlights such as Zach Cunningham going over the top.

That is one change, but a change that didn’t happen is to the targeting rule, quite possibly the most talked about rule in the game.

“We came to the conclusion our rule is doing what we wanted it to do and that’s changing player behavior and that the work we did a year ago giving the replay official the opportunity to review the play in its totality is getting us to where we want to be in that rule, and felt that another year of experience with that same rule was the right direction to go to continue to put the emphasis on the fact that targeting is not something we want in the game,” said South Dakota coach and chairman of the rules committee Bob Nielson.

A Switch? – The quarterback play by Auburn’s John Franklin III was not pretty last season, and at times, it seemed that the coaching staff didn’t trust him to put the ball in the air.

That is not what was expected from the JUCO transfer, and definitely a problem.

This spring, with Franklin being likely the fourth-string quarterback for the Tigers, he is started to see some reps at wide receiver.

That’s good for head coach Gus Malzahn, because if he were ever to put Franklin under center again, Tigers fans might riot.

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