"Pro Style" vs "Spread" The Battle for the FUTURE of college football

In the 2000s the Spread offense started to takeover college football and in it's way was the Pro style offenses of the time creating one of the most important rivalry in college football.

[@Xbusk]

Such a great and well put together and thought out video! Props

[@TrashMonkeySports]

Thank you.

[@7kingztrading494]

The Spread is easier to teach, and because you don't have the elite speed at every position like you do in the NFL it creates lots of holes in the defense... which makes it a perfect offense to run in college. But in the NFL you have to manipulate the LBs or it's going to being very difficult to throw the ball. So play action is very important in the NFL. You can execute play action out of the Gun, but it's way more effective when the QB turns his back to the defense...and turning his back allows for your O-Line to show run, before dropping into pass blocking. So the Pro style offense works in college and the pros, while the spread is pretty much a college offense. And I mean, both coaches took their philosophies to the NFL and one went to a Super Bowl...the other didn't last long enough to buy a house.😂

[@djsmiley410]

Yeah the flexbone offensive is basically a spread pro offense you can still still run pro style but add some spread concepts in it too

[@TrashMonkeySports]

My point was the old school triple option isn't really around anymore in D I and i felt a similar thing was happening to the "Pro Style" offenses I grew up watching. Obviously I could have conveyed that in a better way. We still see the triple option throughout the college game but it's taken on a different form as most of CFB is operated out of the gun now. So the main point was the Spread offense that operates almost exclusively out of the gun had taken over and the I formation and the under center power running approach was quickly going extinct.

[@zach9672]

It’s not. Not even close.

[@Gillespie28]

@@zach9672you can operate it like one though if you choose too