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ACC To Give Instant Replay a Try

At a recent winter conference meeting in Florida, Atlantic Coast Conference faculty representatives unanimously approved a plan proposed by the league's athletic directors to try instant replay for the 2005 football season.

Instant replay has been a staple in the NFL since 1999 and was introduced to college football last year on a similar experimental basis in the Big Ten. The success of the Big Ten's model led the ACC's athletic directors to research and propose using the system in the ACC.

The ACC decided to bring a non-human element into officiating in Hopes of enhancing the quality of officiating as well as the fairness of play, ACC commissioner John Swofford told The Washington Post.

Under the Big Ten's system, a technical advisor sits in the press box and pages the on-field officials if video evidence proved a call questionable.

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