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Redshirt, in United States college athletics, is a delay or suspension of an athlete's participation in order to lengthen their period of eligibility.Typically, a student's athletic eligibility in a given sport is four seasons, aligning with the four years of academic classes typically required to earn a bachelor's degree at an American college or university.
Here is the NCAA's "redshirt" rule for college football 12.8.3.1.6 Exception: In football, a student-athlete representing a Division I institution may compete in up to four contests in a season ...
Redshirting originated as a term for a similar activity but occurring in college sports rather than kindergarten, where a redshirt was "a high-school or college athlete kept out of varsity competition for one year to develop skills and extend eligibility" and originated "from the red shirts worn in practice by such athletes". The term is an ...
In football, for instance, a player can play in up to four regular-season games and still use his redshirt season (the NCAA recently updated this rule to exempt all postseason competition from the ...
Current NCAA eligibility rules permit an athlete to play four full seasons in a five-year span and grants them the ability to play a portion of a fifth season by using a “redshirt.”
A successful two-point conversion would tie the game and likely force overtime. In very rare and risky instances, a trailing team who scored a touchdown, and as a result is down by 1 point, may attempt a two-point conversion to gamble on a win and avoid overtime (or, under NCAA or NFHS rules, a subsequent overtime period).
Some parents assume that their child is not ready for kindergarten, so they wait an additional year before enrolling, a process known as redshirting.
The NCAA Football Rules Committee determines the playing rules for Division I (both Bowl and Championship Subdivisions), II, and III games (the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) is a separate organization, but uses the NCAA rules). A pass is ruled complete if one of the receiver's feet is inbounds at the time of the catch.