PHOENIX (AP) — Two weeks into the college football season, fans have seen a lot of players ejected for targeting. That doesn't mean the penalty is being emphasized by referees.
"There just happened to be more in fan-interest games," NCAA coordinator of officials Rogers Redding said. "Just from an overall, big picture, it's not that much different from last year."
He's right.
Through the first two weeks of the 2014 season, there were 14 targeting penalties in 158 games in the Football Bowl Subdivision, according statistics kept by the NCAA's officials. This season, there have been 19 in 163 FBS games.