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Know the Enemy: Previewing the Air Force Offense

Related Topics: Triple option

In a remix of 2007, Cal heads down to Fort Worth to take on Air Force. Air Force, unlike their name, runs the ball a lot. They are air adverse when it comes to football, taking the service academy route of eat, sleep, OPTION, repeat. The real reason for this is that the option is the ultimate equalizer. For a school that can't recruit massive human beings, due to them not being able to make the standards for the Air Force, they have to play in an offense that doesn't rely on size. The triple option does that through blocking schemes and taking advantage of the fact that nobody uses it anymore.