If you've watched college football in 2024, you may have noticed a new rules emphasis this season. Officials are cracking down more and more on celebrations in which players pretend to brandish guns and other weapons, freely giving out 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalties.
“There’s a list of automatic unsportsmanlike conduct fouls. One of them in our rule book is simulating firing of a weapon,” Steve Shaw, the NCAA’s national coordinator of officials, told the AP's Pete Iacobelli on Oct. 8. “That’s not really a judgement call.”
