Running clock on first downs

[Knight&Day]

Hell, the pros can't hop from team to team to the extent college players can with the portal.

Meh. Players can end up playing for 2 or 3 diff NFL teams in the same season. Happens pretty regularly too.

Thankfully, CFB doesn’t do that. Not yet, anyway.

 

[Thiefery]

Speeding up baseball in a 162 game season makes sense. There are plenty of games and the season is like 9 months long. Speeding up the precious sacred game of football? Not great at all. We are only gifted 12-14 games of college football a year. A short 3.5 month of games to watch. We shouldn't be shortening this product.

well at least this way i won't have to figure out if my game is being shown on ESPN News, ESPN U, ESPN plus because the early game is still in the 3rd quarter

 

[SJ76]

Alot tougher to come back down 21 now
In Q4. Before it was very doable

Not sure if we see alot of those crazy comebacks

Beavers Ducks right @OregonDucks ??

How good was that thread

 

[jjc2009]

Gotta love how OD tacitly stated Oregon will never win an undefeated national title.

You caught that too huh.

 

[Illustrious Potentate]

I like it. Also need two feet in to be a catch and players needing to be touched down. And personally, I’d like to see all levels of football ban gloves for receivers. I wanna see how good them hands really are

 

[Knight&Day]

Also need two feet in to be a catch and players needing to be touched down.

Seconded.

 

[WhosYourDawggy]

Agreed, so many great finishes were because of the clock stoppage.

Will not apply in the last 2 minutes of each half.

I never knew the clock stopped longer than to allow the chains to get set. Shows how much I was paying attention.

It didn't. That is what they are referring to ... the 5-10 second, at most, stop while the chains are set. It will now keep running, while they are setting the sticks and getting ready for the next play.

They expect this to reduce the game by 7-10 plays, which reduces the number of plays per season by as few as 84 to as many 150 (7 or 10, 12 or 15 games). The idea is to reduce the number of plays to reduce the number of injuries as schedules expand.