Goofs

In the final play of the final game, the top of Flat-top's helmet right above his face mask says Riddell. When he runs after Blake, the top says AIR.

During the final drive in the last game against Texas, on third down, Blake drops back to pass, and Flattop drops back to cover. A second later, Flattop hits Blake as Blake overthrows Sargie.

On the opening kickoff against Texas, the PA announcer says the ball was caught on the 6 yard line. It is then returned for a TD and the PA announcer says it was a 96 yard return. The ball would have to have been caught on the 4 yard line or it would have been a 94 yard return.

On the two point conversion at the end of the game, Manu blocks a guy behind Paul Blake, only to come from the front and block for Blake again seconds later.

At try-outs, the name on Krimm's helmet is completely unreadable before he hits the sled. After the hit, Krimm's name is in perfect block letters.

At the conclusion of the game with Kansas, Number 93 of the Jayhawks runs into Lucy well after the field goal attempt. This would draw a roughing the kicker foul. Since this is on the last play of the game, and since on both the college and pros, no game can end on a defensive penalty, the offensive team have been given an extra down.The rule states that the down would occur even if there is no time left on the clock. The play would have resulted in a 15 yard penalty. The ball is on the 17 yard line. The penalty will be half the distance and placed at the 8 1/2 yard line. Also keep in mind when the Texas State kicker kicked the defensive player in the nuts, that could have been unsportsmanlike conduct penalty/15 yards and possible ejection.

At the end of the final game, TSU President Purcell (Fred Thompson) fires Dean Elias (Larry Miller) on the football field. In real life, he could not do that. He would have to call a board of review to strip him of his tenure. If the board approved, then he could formally dismiss him.

At halftime of the final game several of the players including Blake have their shoulder pads off. Anyone who has ever played football knows how ridiculously hard it is to take pads off and put them back on. No player would take their pads off at halftime.

In one of the scenes when the team is at practice before the first game of the season it's shown that the temperature is cold outside showing the players are wrapped up in blankets and seen warming there hands football tryouts are always held in the late spring summer and most definitely wouldn't be held during cold months..

In the scenes when the backup QB Popki is calling signals to Blake for the next play from the sidelines that is almost impossible no coach or team personnel would ever call hand signal to quarterbacks for the other team to see play signals are called to players in the microphones in there helmets or they have a playsheet on there forearms to see and call in the huddle..

When Blake leaves campus with Edison, they turn left out of the parking lot onto a road. That particular road, which runs beside the library, is one-way in the opposite direction. At the time of filming, the road was one-way as shown. The traffic flow was reversed some time after the film was released.

During the try-out scene, a gym back partially covers the "NT" (for North Texas) in the middle of the gym floor. The school in the movie is TSU (Texas State University).

When Featherstone catches the touchdown pass, he doesn't actually cross the goal line.

In the last game of the season if u look closely flattop is clearly way over the line of scrimmage and offsides on almost every sack he made on Blake which would have been called immediately had this been a real game..

When Texas State scores the second touchdown versus Texas, the announcer immediately says it makes the score 21-14. The score would have made it 21-13 with the point after kick still to come.

In almost every sack that Flatop made on Blake he was well over the line of scrimmage on every snap which would have immediately been called in real life..

It would be almost medically impossible to make a team play defense and offense old school iron man football the players would either pass out from exhaustion from constantly playing every single down or injury's would wipe out the entire roster with no replacements worse case scenario the season would be forfeited until the roster can be filled.

Late in the Kansas game, the announcer says "under a minute to play", but as the play unfolds you can see there is over 2 minutes still to play.

When the prison guard fires his shotgun into the air, the discharge is heard before his finger pulls the trigger.

When Gennero and Rig are drawing up the offense and defense on the chalkboard, the offense are "X"s and the defense are "O"s. In football coaching, offensive players are "O"s and defensive players are "X"s.

When Krimm knocks Coach Rig off of the sled, he takes an incorrect angle at the point of contact, causing the sled to turn improperly. A seasoned player like Krimm should know how to square up and make proper contact with the sled.

When Krimm delivers his lecture on supernovae, he says a supernova "jacks up a star's luminosity to about ten-to-the-forty-fifth power joules." In the sentence, he hugely accentuates the number ten while he demures the forty-fifth power. Anyone with a basic understanding of scientific notation would know that the forty-fifth power is much more meaningful than the ten and accentuate that.

In the game against the Miners, Blake, acting as the holder on a placekick, spins the laces towards the kicker. The laces are always spun to face away from the kicker.