The USFL will officially get underway this week, with the latest incarnation of the league kicking off its inaugural season with a Saturday game against the New Jersey General and the Birmingham Stallions. As is always expected in these smaller leagues, there is an expectation that the game will look different in certain significant ways, in one form or another.
One of the interesting experiments the USFL is conducting is by (finally) incorporating technology into the process of ball placement, though not without significant human input. Technically, we already saw this, as they did play a preseason game, but for the first time in an official football game, the USFL will use chips in the footballs to help them take distance measurements.