Why does the triple option not work in College Football anymore?

I've heard people say this before, but they never give a reason.

There has to be something good with the option when you have successful coaches like Meyer and Rodriguez use elements of it in their offense.

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I'd say the triple option is quite healthy, though not as popular with recruits (not an NFL highway for quarterbacks). Navy has used the PURE triple option to make 5 straight bowls with smaller, less athletic players (and defeat Notre Dame last year). The academy had only made a total of nine bowls between 1924 and 1996. In recent years, Ohio University, Air Force, and Navy have all used a pure triple option.

It will be very interesting to see what Paul Johnson does next year, having moved from Navy to Georgia Tech. I'll be watching the Yellow Jackets, hoping for more of the same. I miss the REAL Nebraska. I miss Tommie Frazier.

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It works; it just doesn't fit in too well with the spread offense, which many schools are going to now. The pocket passer in the spread offense may not be the same player you would want in an option oriented offense.

Also that is why you are seeing a little more of the two QB system coming back; one for the spread and one for the option; it gives the other team much more that they have to prepare for before a game.
The defense personnel has evolved to be bigger, stronger and faster than previous generations. The triple option can work if the offense have players that can execute well on each play. However, being that the defensive scheme has evolved as well, I believe it's easier to play a different offensive system and make more effective plays to gain yards, to offset the defense, and for trickery.
Really the Triple Option is rarely used now. The variation that Meyer and Rodriguez use is the spread option. Texas used it as well during Vince Young's career. Paul Johnson did use a Triple Option at Georgia Southern and at Navy but I will be surprised if you see that at Tech now. The Triple Option just isn't as dynamic as a spread option but can still be effective if you have the skill players to make it work.
It does, just watch a rematch of this year's Fiesta Bowl and you will see ho well it works in College Football.
It works it just takes a very good quarterback to use it effectively. The option is a considerable portion of West Virginia and Florida's ideal offense. It is evolving though, and now it is disguised, sending receivers in motion rather than using the traditional tailback. It's a good rushing play to use with the spread because it gives you even more options after you see how the defense reacts to the play and it gives fast/strong quarterbacks a good chance to gain yardage if the opportunity presents itself.

The real challenge rests with the offensive line, I believe. If the offense line doesn't hold long enough for the quarterback to make his initial read, pulling the ball from the fullback and falling into the option with the halfback won't be protected like it should. It's tough for an offensive line to create holes for the fullback while protecting for the potential option to the halfback. Honestly, I'm sure it will wear the oline down after a while, which is why I don't think they get as much credit as they deserve.

Really though, it's just how effective the quarterback is at making his reads. A solid defense can spy the quarterback, read the play well, and stop the triple option. Basically, it is just easier to stop than it is to run. And when you have teams adopting the spread offense like many teams are doing now, defenses are starting to pick up on it. Occassionally though, you will have a quarterback who appears to have been made for the option system. Those quarterbacks are 1 in 100.
It works, it's just executed in a different form than it was years ago. Watch WVU and you will see it from time to time. And, if WVU is smart, with Pat White, Noel Devine, and Steve Slaton coming, they should run those three out all the time. Gl to the defense that has to cover that.
Well, Meyer and Rodriguez dont use a TRIPLE option, which includes the fullback. They run a spread option, which requires the QB to read defensive ends and linebackers.

It's not that it doesn't work, it's just that if the defense ur playing against has all-american talent at every corner (USC, and yes, believe it or not Ohio State), those plays get blown up.

There's also so little margin for error, a bad toss from the QB could be a game-changing fumble. Also, teams that run the option tend to be poor passing teams, so if ur teams defense gives up a 14 or more points early, u could be out of the game quickly.
Unless you have best offensive tackles, then it may working again
The speed and agility of defenses is what stops the option. Defensive ends are becoming fast enough to stretch runs out the sidelines and good linebackers today have 4.5 speed.

West Virginia has three trememdous talents in White, Slaton, and Devine to run the spread option, but its pretty rare to get all of the pieces to fit as well as they do in West Virginia.

Lastly its not popular anymore to have your quarterback taking hits from the big and fast defensive players.