According to Battista, of the 1,267 extra points attempted last season, only five missed the target. That's a conversion rate of 99.6 percent.

NFL.com's Dan Hanzus wrote that kickers made 83 percent of their field goals between 40 and 49 yards. That would seem to strike a happy medium between making an extra point a little harder but not unfairly difficult.

Hanzus added that coaches would have a tougher decision in deciding whether to kick a 42-yard field goal for the extra point or attempt the two-point conversion, thus adding a little more strategy to the game. It's easy to imagine situations in inclement weather where trying a two-pointer would be safer than going for the extra point.

Peter King of Sports Illustrated noted that the two-point conversion would remain at the same distance it is currently at:

The change would be to make the line of scrimmage for point after kick attempts the 25 yard line. This would effectively make the kick 42 yards.

The significance is that statically, 40 yards is where the odds of success drop somewhere south of automatic.

Back on the 60s, the success rate for PAT was about 75%. Now it's close enough to 100% that it's not worth discussing.

Moving it back might make the coaches think a little harder about going for a 2 point conversion, thus bringing a little more drama to the game.

Bad weather excluded, as it is now, the PAT is just a waste of time. They might as well just make the Touchdown worth 7 points, with the option to run a play to score the 8th.

Kickers would object of course...

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I thought the plan was TD = automatic 7, if you opt to go for two you can get 8 if you make it or lose one (net 6 pts) if the attempt fails?

USC 49, Hawaii 36. At the beginning of the night, Hawaii time, it looked like the story from the islands was going to be USC's bizarre and unexplained decision to go for two following each of its first three touchdowns en route to the expected blowout: The Trojans scored the first three times they touched the ball, on extended drives of 79, 73 and 69 yards, and coach Lane Kiffin seemed hell-bent on cementing his USC debut in the sports wing of the Unprintable Name Hall of Fame by eschewing the conventional PAT on all of them, for no apparent reason other than he can.

In an ideal world, I think it'd be nice if we could increase the defense's chance of blocking an extra kick slightly, like 1-2%. I wish there was a slim chance of a block, especially on those big game tying extra points at the end of a game. But I'm not sure there's any rule change you could do that would work but be subtle enough.