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2024 FCS Postseason Games Won’t Count Toward 4-Game Redshirt Rule
For the second straight season, games in the FCS playoffs, the Celebration Bowl, and the SWAC Championship won’t count toward the four-game redshirt rule.
HERO Sports confirmed this news today.
“At the request of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision and Championship Subdivision Oversight Committees, NCAA staff approved a blanket waiver request in football (FBS/FCS) to exempt postseason participation [conference championship game, bowl game, College Football Playoff contest(s), NCAA Division I Football Championship] from the limit of four contests a student-athlete may participate in without using a season of competition.”
The waiver was approved yesterday, Aug. 26.
The four-game redshirt rule was implemented in 2018, which allows players to play up to four games without burning their redshirt. From 2018-22, FCS postseason games counted toward the four games. Now, they will not.
An example of this is a true freshman playing in four or fewer games during the regular season, and then being able to play in the postseason and still maintain his redshirt, making him a redshirt freshman the next year.
Another example could be a fourth-year senior who hasn’t redshirted yet. Let’s say he has missed most of his senior year due to injury. He could return late in the year, play in four or fewer regular-season games, and then keep playing in the postseason and not burn that season toward his years of eligibility, allowing him to redshirt and return as a redshirt senior.
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