u/CBailey94

I've always envied teams able to execute the Flexbone offense year-in and year-out. We all know the Military Academies deploy this scheme yearly, but I rather focus on the don himself. Many seasons ago you got to see Paul Johnson as this stoic, Greek-like statue pacing back-and-forth on the sidelines calling plays he'd been using since the 80's at Hawaii. Back then and now, he was a bit of a Greek philosopher spreading his knowledge and stories of Flexbone old to a variety of campuses and coaches. If you were visiting Atlanta and did not have the luxury of a bye week or offseason prior, you were in for one helluva ballgame as this offense would grind you down to the bone of a lemon pepper wing. It was methodical, brutal but also beautiful when executed correctly. And, if your defense somehow had the discipline and patience to stop the run, you had to then stop the well-timed, inevitable 6-yard pass to literal giants (Calvin Johnson, Demaryius Thomas (RIP!), Stephen Hill and Darren Waller). The offense was in a way an odyssey and oddity for the previous P4 conferences as the run-and-shoot esque passing concepts and the motion after motion to grind out 3-yard runs would eventually lead to a break in the opponents soul and journey. Inspired, I've created 4 option playbooks ranging from traditional to more modern. Enjoy!

All Flex Offense: Only under-center Flexbone formations for purist sickos who don't want to see 4 WR's on the field.

FlexDOOM Offense: A variety of formations from Flexbone, Pistol and Gun to create a very diverse run game and not sweat when your QB's passing is abysmal.

Coastal Carolina 2020 Offense: This offense can't really be replicated correctly in CFB27, but I've made something close to it after grinding out years of film. It's my favorite playbook to make and easiest to execute.

PISTON Offense: You want to go hyper-speed running the option out of the Pistol and Gun with a few passing concepts to annoy the opponent? This is the offense for you. It was inspired by Sac State's "Go-Go" last year.

Option Offenses with tips and notes

Find all of these and more under my PSN tag: wolfsocks999

Last year, I was about 5 beers and 3 whiskeys deep into watching the snore of Ohio State vs. Wisconsin 2025. During the dominating defensive performance by Ohio State, I started to pay less attention to Caleb Downs & Friends and more attention to Wisconsin's pedestrian offense. At some point I started to get a wee bit nostalgic about the Wisconsin of "old" and a lot more pissed off about the Wisconsin of new. How the Badgers pre-Fickell era had a very recognizable identity of a dominate, corn, cheese and Culvers-fed offensive line, having game-managing QB play (besides Russell), winning New Year's bowl games and a very robust run game (with a lot of motions and shifts before it went in vogue). I also reminisced on the running backs of yesteryear like Ron Dayne, P.J. Hill (!!!!), John Clay, Montee Ball, James White, Melvin Gordon and Jonathan Taylor. This school played bully ball, and besides 2011 when they had their best QB (imo), they lived and died by the run. I miss it, and you do too. I'm tired of all this passing AND running from the shotgun on 3rd & Goal RPO nonsense. You want to run the ball up the gut for three yards and a cloud of dust? Well, I got the playbooks for you. You want to put out 21-, 22- and 23-personnel? Well, I got the playbooks for you. You want to handcuff an awful QB who keeps crying about passing opportunities? Well, I got the playbooks for you. Turn your brain off, run the ball until your eyes bleed and your opponent puts 8 whimps in the box and squeeze in a little play-action to keep the defense honest.

Barn Fire/BADDDGER Offenses

Find all of these and more under my PSN tag: wolfsocks999

After creating and testing a few of my custom playbooks, I'm finally ready to share with you all my flagship playbook: The Promotion (Pro-Style Motion) Offense. As an X's & O's/film junkie, I've watched and studied several offenses and the hundreds of variations of them with eventually landing on the Shanahan and McVay offenses as my favorites to bring into CFB video games. There's very few under-center, motion-heavy offenses in the college football landscape in 2026 to my knowledge which makes their iterations fun to use. In CFB27, the devs have added a bevy of new under-center formations to help build this playbook and make it more so resemble real life. I took my time selecting through literally thousands of plays and hundreds of formations that were based on Shanahan/McVay's key principals and made an offense close to what I think they'd run at the college level; Shanahan's is filled with a ton of motions, play-actions and 5-route passing plays; McVay's is filled with lots of 11- and 13-personnel that features motions and plenty of deep dig routes amongst other things. I also took on their philosophy of marrying the run and pass game to the nth degree in my other custom playbooks sans homage playbooks (coming soon).

Promotion Offense (Shanahan):

Singleback

Bunch X Nasty

Deuce Close

Tight Y-Off

Tight Y-Off Flex

U-Off

U-Off Trips

Wing

Wing Close

Wing Slot

Wing Tight U

I-Form

Slot

Tight

Y-Off

Y-Off Close

Strong I

Wing

Y-Off Close

Pistol

Weak Z Close

Gun

Bunch Spread Nasty

Bunch X Nasty

Bunch Y-Flex

Deuce Close

Doubles Y-Off Close

Empty Chips Tight

Empty Ace Trio

Normal Y-Off

Normal Y-Off WK

Split Twins Offset

Split Y-Off

Spread Y-Flex

Tight Open

Tight Y-Off

Trey Open

Trips Y-Flex

Trips X Nasty Off WK

U-Off Flex

U-Off Stack

Y-Off Trio Close

Promotion 2 Offense (McVay):

Singleback

Bunch TE

Bunch X Nasty

Deuce Close

Tight Y-Off

Tight Y-Off Flex

Toad X Nasty

Wing

Wing Close

Wing Stack

Wing Pair

Wing Tight

Wing Tight U

Wing Tight Left

Wing Tight Z

Y-Trip Close

Y-Trip

I-Form

Close

Pistol

Trips

Tight Y Flex

Gun

Bunch STR Offset

Bunch Spread Nasty

Bunch Wide

Doubles Y-Off

Empty Base Flex

Empty Chips Nasty

Empty Bunch Open

Flanker Close WK

Normal Y-Off Close

Normal Y-Off Close WK

Split Y-Flex

Spread Y-Flex WK

Tight Slots

Tight Slots HB WK

Trio Y-Flex

Trips TE

Trips HB WK

Wing Trio WK

Find all of these and more under my PSN tag: wolfsocks999