Coaching Football:Top Endover and Unbalanced Schemes for every Offense

This article looks at some concepts at the college level from Unbalanced formations. Several teams will be looked at including Oregon, Iowa State, UCLA, Nebraska and more. You see teams take advantage if they get numbers they like to a side, or run passes to the weak side if teams over rotate in the secondary. You will both gap and zone runs in this article.

An example of an over rotation is below. 2 things you can run vs that in the pass game is wheel out of the backfield or bootleg away from the unbalanced side. Both are shown below.

Unbalanced Power

Tackle over, with twins to the side. Run power and take advantage of #s to the strong side.

Vanderbilt

Endover 4x1 formation. Unbalanced Jet motion to the Boundary RPO Great design attacking the 3 man surface to the boundary. The Het motion holds the CB.

Oregon Counter

Oregon goes unbalanced bunch. They get a 3 man surface and run counter to the weak side.