The game plan: developing a system (Creating an offensive philosophy / Joe Paterno - Adapting offense to personnel / John McKay - Implementing the multi-flex system / Joe Restic - Using the spread offense / Bob Devaney - Communicating the plan / Jack Bicknell and San Timer) - Attacking the defense (Running the no-huddle / Chan Gailey - Gaining a pre-snap advantage / Hayden Fry and Bill Snyder - Creating the pass-run bind / George DeLeone - Scoring through the double eagle / Homer Smith - Passing to set up the run - Al Molde and Marty Higgins - Running to pass / Ted Tollner) - The running game: building backfield excellence (Drilling for error-free execution / Homer Rice - Perfecting the quarterback fakes / George Chaump) - Running the wing-T (Integrating the wing-T / Harold "Tubby" Raymond.
Face-lifting the wing-T / Harold Raymond and Ted Kempski) - Running from the I (Featuring the fullback in the I / Dick Sheridan - Shifting in the I / Tom Nugent - Developing an I series / Tom Osborne - Running the option from the I / Dave Triplett - Winning with basic schemes / Pete Schmidt - Incorporating the sprint draw / Don Christensen and Howard Ross) - Running the wishbone (Teaching the triple option / Emory Bellard - Adding to the triple option / Charlie Taaffe - Training the wishbone quarterback / Pepper Rodgers - Blocking the wishbone / Jimmy Sharpe) Running the veer (Changing from wishbone to veer / Fred Akers - Attacking gaps with the veer / Don Morton, Ross Hjelseth, and Pat Simmers.
Adapting the veer / Bill Yeoman - Adding the whirlybird for the big play / Bo Rein - Blocking the perimeter for the veer / Larry Zierlein) - Running an option offense (The option package / Eddie Crowder - Four options for more yards / Jim Carlen - The essential dive option / Doug Carter - The freeze option game / Dick MacPherson - The I option package / Jimmy Satterfield) - The passing game: establishing a passing scheme (The pass protection system / Homer Smith - The multidimensional passing game / Steve Logan - The flare-flood offense / Mike White and Roger Theder - The diversified pass attack / Larry Smith and Linde Infante - The quick passing game / Billy Joe) - Passing from sets and formations (Passing from the wishbone / Fisher DeBerry - Passing to complement the veer / Bill Yeoman.
Passing with bootleg action / Frank Kush - Building a passing series from basic sets / Larry Kehres - Passing from a one-back set / Bob Griffin - Attacking with an H back / Joe Tiller and Larry Korpitz) - Keeping the defense on edge (Using motion in the passing game / Darrell "Mouse" Davis - Adjusting pass patterns / LaVell Edwards - Spreading the defense / Jim Wacker - Passing to win / Steve Spurrier - Striking with a strong-side screen / Darryl Rogers) - Incorporating play action (Adding the action pass / Herb Deromedi - Moving the pocket / Rich Brooks - Inserting the play-action pass / Gary Moeller) - Creating quality quarterback play (Establishing quarterback consistency / Sam Rutigliano - Drilling for quarterback improvement / Dave Arslanian.
Training quarterbacks to read coverages / Steve Axman - Developing the winning quarterback / Bill Snyder) - Protecting the passer (Breaking down pass protection techniques / Merv Johnson - Defending the passer / Don Powell - Blocking for the drop-back pass / Jack Little - Building effective pass protection / Jack Bicknell, Mike Maser, and Vince Martino - Training for multiple-pass protection / Kent Stephenson) - Down and distance decisions: gaining key yardage (Play calling on third down / Pokey Allen - Beating the clock / Marv Levy - Executing in the four critical zones / Paul "Bear" Bryant - Moving the chains / Grant Teaff - Gaining the most important yard / Bruce Snyder) - Dominating the red zone (Passing at the goal line / Denny Stolz - Putting it in the end zone / Jim Tressel and Jim Bollman - Executing in the red zone / Gary Pinkel and Mike Dunbar - Scoring inside the 20 / Dal Shealy - Coaching for goal line success / Lee J. Tressel).