One of the data points I'm closely tracking this year is kickoff return value. College football made a kickoff rule change this offseason with player safety in mind, allowing a team to elect to fair catch a kickoff received inside its own 25-yard line and have it counted as a touchback, giving its offense the ball at its own 25-yard line on the ensuing possession. We'll want a full season's worth of data in the books before we reach any major conclusions about the impact of this rule change, but we do have a solid number of results thus far from which to draw some initial conclusions.
FEI Week 3 Ratings and Kickoff Return Value
