NCAA rule change: No stopped clock after first down

[UOducksTK1]

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Dumb.

[UOducksTK1]

Other rules:
-Teams be prohibited from calling consecutive timeouts
-Penalties at the end of the first and third quarter being enforced on the first play of the next quarter.

[wepto]

So we get less football and more ads. Great.

[pezsez1]

The one bright spot is this should help to prevent games running over into the start of Oregon's games (and other western teams) which seems to happen pretty much all the time now.

[OregonFan4Life]

Other rules:
-Teams be prohibited from calling consecutive timeouts
-Penalties at the end of the first and third quarter being enforced on the first play of the next quarter.

That’s not good for Miami…

[OregonFan4Life]

I’m personally ok with this rule, as a father of two young kids I understand why college football games can seem too long, especially when they’re in the middle of the day. They can go about 4 hours and that’s simply too long.

Now if only they changed the rule about when a player is down to be like the NFL too. Hate seeing a player accidentally trip or slip and the play is over.

[dthomas=ddixon]

So we get less football and more ads. Great.

This is what bothers me so much about these changes. The solution for shortening games is obvious: less commercials. Ad revenue runs the sport though so we’re going to fundamentally change it for the sake of a few more minutes of ads.


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[greenyellow]

They really needed to address the length of reviews and commercial breaks than take away first down stoppages. Hopefully this is a short-lived rule.

[droop10]

It still stops in the last 2 minutes of halves. I think I'm ok with the rule. I don't see the need to stop it after every single first down. I think a good compromise would have been the last 4 minutes of halves, kind of similar to the rule in the NFL involving going out of bounds in the last 4 minutes. But this isn't the end of the world. I think we'll hardly notice the difference. I think they projected 7 fewer plays per game? One rule I've always wanted changed is the down by contact rule. I hate that a player diving for the ball with nobody around him is considered down, versus being able to get back up and take it into the end zone. That rule drives me nuts, and I'm not sure the reason for it? Player safety?

[wlduck]

We beat OSU and probably Washington this year under these rules.

[dthomas=ddixon]

We beat OSU and probably Washington this year under these rules.

And lose to wazzu and UNC.


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[whosyourwally]

We beat OSU and probably Washington this year under these rules.

And lose to wazzu and UNC.


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I’d take that trade.


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[StevensTechU]

Keep going until we get to a 3 hour game.