After the first week of college football’s 2016 season, we are stuck asking the same question we ask at some point every fall:
Why are college kickers so bad?
We’ve grown so accustomed to college football’s otherwise insanely high level of play we aren’t even surprised anymore when someone like Todd Gurley takes the NFL by storm as a rookie.
But the gap between college kickers and those in the NFL remains as big as their difference in pay.
Whereas NFL kickers made a 20-yard extra point so automatic (99.3 percent made in 2014) that the league decided to move the attempt back 13 yards starting last season, a week doesn’t go by in college football without a missed extra point or other chip shot impacting the outcome of a game.