Welcome to the Film Room. First, learn the ground rules about this place: No eating, drinking, talking or sleeping. And no cell phones. This is a weekly analysis of one big play, series, scheme or idea from the weekend’s slew of college games and deciphering what it means going forward.
The meeting with the game officials was awkward, but North Texas special teams coordinator Marty Biagi needed to do two things: 1) make sure his now-famous trick play idea was completely legal and 2) prevent an inadvertent whistle from ruining the whole thing.
So, a few minutes before North Texas’s game against Arkansas kicked off, Biagi met with the men in black-and-white stripes.