NCAA issues change to targeting penalty for 2026 season
By Zachary Neel, Ducks Wire••USA Today
The NCAA has announced that the targeting penalty will change in the 2026 season, with offenders no longer being suspended for their first foul.
The NCAA is making an alteration to a major rule going into the 2026 college football season. On Thursday, the governing body announced that going forward, the targeting penalty will carry a differe…