I thought the game clock stops on first downs?

[jpac]

When THunt made the first down where everyone was expecting him to spike he ball (HCSS making the spike motion from the sidelines), the game clock never stopped. The next play just continued, but the clock keep going. Or did my eyes deceive me?

 

[Chris02M]

it stopped for a couple ticks as the chains only needed to move 2 yards

 

[rrlbees]

I thought the clock stopped when going out of bounds. BC pass play in their last FG drive we pushed the guy out and the clock didn't stop. Is there a difference between getting pushed out and just running out of bounds?

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[retro44]

I thought the clock stopped when going out of bounds. BC pass play in their last FG drive we pushed the guy out and the clock didn't stop. Is there a difference between getting pushed out and just running out of bounds?

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it now stops under two minutes in both halves,otherwise it starts back up when the ball is set. sometimes the refs let it go

 

[OburgCuse]

it now stops under two minutes in both halves,otherwise it starts back up when the ball is set. sometimes the refs let it go

Ok thanks, I was wondering this too and was pissed that we had to use our first timeout in that situation. I knew they let it run for most of game now on out of bounds play to speed up the game but was thinking it was like last 5 minutes of half or something not the last 2.

 

[CuseCuse]

I thought the clock stopped when going out of bounds. BC pass play in their last FG drive we pushed the guy out and the clock didn't stop. Is there a difference between getting pushed out and just running out of bounds?

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I saw that too. We had about 2:28 on the clock when he got pushed out of bounds and then once they spotted the ball the ref gave the start the clock signal and 20 seconds went off the clock until BC made the field goal. It ended up helping us by not giving them anytime to score. But as far as I am aware the clock should have been stopped.

 

[retro44]

It was done to speed up the games a few years back. Notice when Alvin caught that pass to give us 1st. and goal the clock did stop with .08 seconds left which gave us time to set up the throw back play.

 

[rocklloyd]

Clock stopped, but only for a few seconds to reset chains.

 

[upperdeck]

what bothers me is there is no set way they get the ball marked for play.. sometimes they do it and start the clock in 3-5 secs, other times they take 10-15 secs.