There's a school down the interstate, Kenton, that does the full monty. Always goes for it on fourth down, onside kick every kickoff, goes for 2 points every touchdown.

I know it's only high school football, but it has worked really well for them. State champions in 2001 and 2002. State runner up in 2003 and 2011, in the playoffs and winning 7 games minimum (Ohio schools play 10 game seasons) almost every season.

Last year, 14-1 for the entire season, their only loss being the state championship game, losing 48-42 after giving up a touchdown with 31 seconds left to play. Looking back, went 11-2 in 2010 (lost in the regional finals), 10-2 in 2009 (lost in the regional semifinals), 7-3 in 2008 (failed to make playoffs), 7-3 in 2007 (failed to make playoffs), 5-5 in 2006 (failed to make playoffs), 7-4 in 2005 (lost in regional quarterfinals), 5-5 in 2004 (failed to make playoffs), 11-4 in 2003 (lost 12-0 in state title game), 13-2 in 2002 (won 45-13 in state title game), 15-0 in 2001 (won 40-13 in state title game).

So at least on the high school level, if you have the athletes to pull it off (and they have always had strong armed quarterbacks, fast as fuck receivers, and bulldozer running backs), you can do the whole "never punt, always onside kick, always go for 2" strategy. Last year, the fewest amount of points they scored all season, was a 24-17 win in week 1 over Coldwater, the Division V state runner up. The rest of the year, they won 40-7, 66-13, 34-7, 36-20 (against 8-3 team), 30-28 (against 10-4 team), 64-42, 70-33, 54-15, 52-32 (against 10-2 team), 74-22 (regional quarterfinal), 32-22 (regional semifinal), 30-28 (regional final), 36-6 (state semifinal), and wrapping it up with the 48-42 state final loss.

So I look forward to see what they can do with the "watered down" version of that theory on the college level of the game. The full go, balls to the wall, all out version has already been by far proven to work on the high school level.