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Systems Analyst: The Pistol, Pro-Style, and Triple Option Offenses

By Robert Mays at

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As Chuck Klosterman explained Thursday on Grantland, NFL coaches have left much of the extreme offensive innovation to their college counterparts in recent years. Disparate talent levels and resources have encouraged creativity in college football, and defensive ends that don’t look like this have allowed those innovations to be successful.

With the college football season fast approaching its conference-season stride, here are a few of the other notable offensive philosophies dotting the landscape.

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