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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/Telencephalon on 2025-08-24 13:20:23+00:00.
Both KSU and ISU utilized 12 personnel in some really fun and creative ways in the CFB 2025 inaugural. 12 Personnel has seen a steady uptick over the past few seasons. Big guys that are genuine threats to catch the ball have always been valuable, but with the current landscape featuring defensive coordinators trying to live in 2 high shells whenever possible, fitting an extra gap from deep becomes challenging.
Furthermore, offenses have been experimenting more and more with setting the formation into the boundary (FIB). This simply means you are putting the strength of your offense (where the most players are) towards the sideline, rather than to the field rand open space. But why? FIB tends to break a lot of defensive rules and most DCs only have so many ways to match up with condensed formations.
So ISU starts the season in 12 pp YY FIB running super counter! Notice that they shift into this as well, forcing a check from the defense and further limiting the ways in which they can respond.
Now the tone is set, and there are a lot of purple jerseys hanging around the line of scrimmage. With safeties adding themselves at the faintest whiff of run action, how does ISU lighten the box?
RPO that crashing safety! Bang RPO from 12p double wing quads FIB
18 comes flying down and Becht dutifully chucks it into the space the safety is vacating.
And now the coup de grace! It looks like bog standard Y off doubles the very next play, but ISU is still in 12p and that is the TE over at X receiver at the bottom of the screen. K state is sending 5 with man coverage behind. Becht knows he has man because of how K state is aligning to the TE at X and bringing down a safety for the sniffer when he motions across the formation. He confirms man post snap and then drops it perfectly on the slot fade.
Really nice scheme and sequencing, showing how you can still pass very effectively out of 12p by understanding how formation and personnel can force specific mismatches.