{"id":177513,"date":"2025-09-29T11:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T11:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/177513\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T11:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T11:06:07","slug":"cfl-changes-will-have-ripple-effect-on-university-football-says-oua-president-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/177513\/","title":{"rendered":"CFL changes will have \u2018ripple effect\u2019 on university football says OUA president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those in charge of Canadian university football will be going over the structural and rule changes being made at the Canadian Football League with a fine-tooth comb.<\/p>\n<p>CFL Commissioner Stewart Johnston announced at a news conference last Monday that several changes will take effect at the start of the 2027 season.<\/p>\n<p>Among them are the shortening of the playing field from 110 yards to 100, end zones to be shortened from 20 yards to 15, and goal posts to be moved from the goal line to the back of the end zone.<\/p>\n<p>USPORTS issued a statement following the announcement, saying they will be engaging with their members and stakeholders about these changes and whether to adopt them in university football.<\/p>\n<p>President of Ontario University Athletics (OUA) Gord Grace tells myFM they will be discussing these changes in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2111\/files\/2025\/09\/092225-clip-4-grace-changes.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2111\/files\/2025\/09\/092225-clip-4-grace-changes.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Grace says shortening the regulation length of the field was something that really caught his eye.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2111\/files\/2025\/09\/092225-clip-1-grace-changes.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2111\/files\/2025\/09\/092225-clip-1-grace-changes.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Grace says the changes could be difficult on university football conferences in Canada.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2111\/files\/2025\/09\/092225-clip-2-grace-changes.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2111\/files\/2025\/09\/092225-clip-2-grace-changes.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the structural changes, the CFL is also changing how a \u2018rouge\u2019 is scored. A rouge is one point that is awarded to a team that kicks or punts the ball and lands out of the end zone or lands in the end zone and is not returned.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in 2027, that one point will be only awarded when a kicked or punted ball lands in the end zone and not returned.<\/p>\n<p>Grace says he understands why Johnston and the CFL\u2019s Board of Governors are making these changes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2111\/files\/2025\/09\/092225-clip-3-grace-changes.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/2111\/files\/2025\/09\/092225-clip-3-grace-changes.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Football fans across Canada have been divided over the announced changes in the CFL with many believing it will mirror closely with American football.<\/p>\n<p>Written by: Ken Hashizume<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Those in charge of Canadian university football will be going over the structural and rule changes being made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-177513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}