a. At the suggestion of any off icial (including the video judge), the referee may request a review of any play within scope.
b. A head coach may request a review by taking a team timeout before the ball is next legally put in play.
1. After a review has been completed:
(a) If any on-field ruling is changed, the team is not charged with a timeout.
(b) If the on-field ruling is not changed, the timeout is charged and that team’s privilege to request a review is rev oked for the remainder of the game.
2. If the play review being requested is not reviewable (see Rule 12-1-2), the timeout is charged but the team retains the privilege to request a review.
3. A head coach may not request a review if their team’s timeouts are exhausted or not available for that half or in that extra period.
4. A request for a review shall be ignored when the privilege has been revoked or if the team’s timeouts are exhausted or not available.
5. A team may not challenge a ruling in which the game was stopped and a decision has already been made by the video judge. However, until the ball is ready for play, a team may challenge an aspect of the same play if that component of the play was not considered by the video judge as part of the initial review.
6. If a team challenges a specific ruling, but a different ruling is changed, the team is not charged with a timeout and does not lose its privilege to challenge.

a. A review can only be used for a play in which there is doubt about:
1. a score
2. the position of the ball in relation to the goal line
3. a change of team possession
4. a foul on the list of explicitly reviewable fouls (Rule 12-1-3) (a foul may be created or cancelled) 163
5. a disqualification
6. the status of the ball (e.g. live/dead, touched/untouched), including when and/or where the ball or a player is out of bounds or in an end zone, which player has possession of the ball, whether a pass is forward or backward, whether the ball was passed or fumbled or whether a forward pass is complete/incomplete
7. whether the player who caught or recovered a fumble was the fumbler
8. whether a fair catch signal was made or a player of the receiving team advanced after a fair catch signal (a foul may be created or cancelled)
9. the location of a player with regard to substitutions, illegal passes (including intentional grounding), illegal kicks and handing (a foul may be created or cancelled)
10. the location of the ball with respect to a first down
11. the down number within a series of downs or before the next series
12. clock status
13. any obvious errors that may have a significant impact on the outcome of the game
b. A review can equally be used to determine whether a reviewable action occurred or not.
c. While undertaking a review of a particular aspect of a play, other reviewable aspects may come under consideration. A review can consider any reviewable aspect of the play for which the game was stopped.

The following plays are explicitly reviewable and the video judge may create a foul when there is no call by the on-field officials or cancel a foul called by an on-field official:
a. A foul that normally carries a 15-yard penalty, including pass interference.
b. Any foul on a play anytime after the two-minute warning in the 4th quarter or during an extra period.
c. Player throwing a forward pass or making a forward handoff when the player’s entire body and the ball is or has been beyond the neutral zone or after a change of team possession.
d. Ball carrier beyond the neutral zone before ball kicked.
e. Blocking by a Team A player before they are eligible to touch the ball on an onside kick.
f. The number of players on the field for either team during a live ball or when there is a flag for illegal substitution
g. Illegal touching of a forward pass by an originally eligible receiver who has gone out of bounds or touching of a forward pass by an originally ineligible player.
h. A Team A player going out of bounds during a kick play and returning inbounds during the down, and whether such a player was blocked out of bounds.
i. Player who is out of bounds touching a free kick that had not been touched inbounds.
j. Forward pass that becomes illegal as a second forward pass after an on-field ruling of a backward pass is changed.

a. If a forward passer is ruled down or out of bounds prior to throwing a pass and the video judge has indisputable video evidence that the ball was released prior to the dead ball ruling, replay can rule on the immediate continuing action. If the pass is caught by either team, they are awarded possession at that spot with no advance. If the pass is incomplete, the down counts.
b. Fouls that carry 5-yard and 10-yard penalties are not enforced if the ruling is changed and they become dead-ball fouls.
c. Penalties for personal fouls and unsportsmanlike conduct fouls are always enforced, regardless of the outcome of a replay review.