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John McDaid, the Southeastern Conference's coordinator of officials, outlined a number of the sport's new rules for the coming season, but the onset of "defensive false starts" comes, he said, after a 100 years of that expected discipline on the offensive side of the ball.

McDaid explained how the defensive false start, which officially will be termed defensive delay of game, will work:

"The definition of a false start has forever been action that simulates the snap," McDaid told reporters Tuesday in Atlanta at the SEC's annual media bonanza. "That's standard, action that simulates the snap is now put on the defense as well, and the officials are being asked to judge defensive movement in that light.

"This is action that has now been written into the rules, codified that it's illegal, it's what we call delay of game defense. This is not a false start on the offense. The defense cannot simulate action of a snap for the purpose of trying to get his opponent to move prior to the snap."