There's some novelty to this college football season. Players transfer to new teams, teams in new leagues, four leagues vying for the top four bids and a new 12 team playoff. But in the game itself, there's some updates too for the first time. Schools in the F BS classification can use in helmet communication. Put the coaches play calls right into the ears of their players. A single player on each team will be designated with a green dot sticker on their helmet. It's the quarterback on offense and whichever defensive player relays their signals. They'd be able to hear coaches in the sidelines until 15 seconds remaining on the play clock. It's a new option for teams this season after being experimented with, for ball games last year and it could realistically replace play calling through hand signals. We got an early look at it in action during the Nebraska UTP game right here on Fox 54. He can talk all the way up to the 15 2nd mark. So they're making, of course, there's some fun with having new Gadgets. You might have seen Western Kentucky equipment manager, Cole Snyder's post on Twitter showing off how he's charging his team's helmets ahead of the Hilltoppers game at Alabama. But things didn't go perfectly for the new technology, lengthy conversation with the Kentucky sideline. There might be an issue with the Coms during the WKU Alabama game. We had a six minute delay between the opening kickoff and the first play from scrimmage because the Hilltoppers headsets weren't working. Alabama head coach, Ken De Boer cleared it all up afterwards. It wasn't in helmet communication. It was actually that their headsets went down and the rules state that when the opponent's headsets go down, you have to take yours down too. Nick Sheridan play collar up in the booth actually had to come down, then theirs went down a second time. And so it was kind of a back and forth. I thought our staff did a great job because that's something you don't practice, you know, just, uh, in all my years, I've never had it happen to where we had to put our headphones down because of someone else's. Bamma didn't seem to need any extra help communicating in their 63 to nothing win. So you might not talk about helmet communication very much this season unless it becomes a problem for teams. Regardless. It's one of the many new features of this era of college football.