Rule Change(s) I'd Like to See

[UnknownOrange]

Week 1 is in the books! One of the best sports times of the year, football is back!

However after watching a few different games this weekend there is one rule I would love to see changed and have frankly never understood why it's in place to begin with.

Why does the clock stop after a first down in college football? With games approaching the 4 hour mark, wouldn't this help shave some valuable minutes off the length of games?

There are plenty of rules that need a good hard look but this one really puzzles me

 

[upperdeck]

how much does it really add to a game.. it only stops for a few seconds while they mark the ball, at our pace it adds maybe 1-2 min a game.

changing a pass to be like a run would cut down more time.

 

[Chip]

Week 1 is in the books! One of the best sports times of the year, football is back!

However after watching a few different games this weekend there is one rule I would love to see changed and have frankly never understood why it's in place to begin with.

Why does the clock stop after a first down in college football? With games approaching the 4 hour mark, wouldn't this help shave some valuable minutes off the length of games?

There are plenty of rules that need a good hard look but this one really puzzles me

I think they should just do it inside of 2 minutes in the 2nd and 4th quarters. It would be college football's version of the 2 minute warning (which is also a random yet universally accepted rule).

They also need to start phasing down halftime. They don't need 20 minutes. I wouldn't go down to the NFL's 12 minutes either, but meet in the middle, 16 minutes.

There's no way to solve the amount of TV timeouts. Those who control the money...

 

[Frozen]

I think they should just do it inside of 2 minutes in the 2nd and 4th quarters. It would be college football's version of the 2 minute warning (which is also a random yet universally accepted rule).

They also need to start phasing down halftime. They don't need 20 minutes. I wouldn't go down to the NFL's 12 minutes either, but meet in the middle, 16 minutes.

The origins of the two minute warning make sense but in modern times there is no need for it other than to give a team an extra timeout for strategy purposes.

 

[UnknownOrange]

how much does it really add to a game.. it only stops for a few seconds while they mark the ball, at our pace it adds maybe 1-2 min a game.

Well theoretically if a team gets a first down the clock stops, and the 40 second play-clock begins to wind. If a team hikes the ball around 10 seconds that time adds up. How much does it add on a given game? I'm not sure. But can you tell me what the point of it is anyway? It's a first down. Teams get dozens of them a game. It's pointless

 

[upperdeck]

25 FD, some of those went out of bounds.. Give it 10 secs to reset(which is generous) 250/60 saves 4 minutes.

 

[DeGrozz]

I honestly think that the downtime is hurting live attendance more than broadcast football games. The NFL and College Football have turned 3 to 4 hour games with ~11 minutes of action into Nancy Grace for live sports -- which is why ratings are as good as ever (minus last year, which I believe is obviously due to election coverage stealing viewers). Add that to social media action and fantasy sports and football is a pretty good spectator sport from home.

 

[kuethstheman]

Well theoretically if a team gets a first down the clock stops, and the 40 second play-clock begins to wind. If a team hikes the ball around 10 seconds that time adds up. How much does it add on a given game? I'm not sure. But can you tell me what the point of it is anyway? It's a first down. Teams get dozens of them a game. It's pointless

I assume it's so that resetting the first down markers doesn't take away from playing time but just guessing.

I'm not sure what you mean about hiking the ball around 10 seconds. The clock restarts when the markers are in place, usually just a few seconds.

 

[UnknownOrange]

I assume it's so that resetting the first down markers doesn't take away from playing time but just guessing.

I'm not sure what you mean about hiking the ball around 10 seconds. The clock restarts when the markers are in place, usually just a few seconds.

Meaning if a team got a first down and waited 30 seconds to hike the ball each time. I guess it wouldn't shave a ton of time off the total time for the game ... it's just silly.

 

[Hoo's That]

Want to know why games are so long? Here you go: Back in the day before every game was televised, a 1:30 no-TV game and the noon TV game would both end at 3:30. One time I saw a group discussion on TV of how NFL games could be shortened. They went through the same litany of clock rules being discussed here. Of course, no one dared to mention the 800-pound gorilla sitting in the corner, cutting the number of commercials.

 

[orange_in_VA]

Want to know why games are so long? Here you go: Back in the day before every game was televised, a 1:30 no-TV game and the noon TV game would both end at 3:30. One time I saw a group discussion on TV of how NFL games could be shortened. They went through the same litany of clock rules being discussed here. Of course, no one dared to mention the 800-pound gorilla sitting in the corner, cutting the number of commercials.

Exactly. TV timeouts waste so much time. Pays for all those fat TV contracts the schools get. It's never going away

 

[CuseLegacy]

Want to know why games are so long? Here you go: Back in the day before every game was televised, a 1:30 no-TV game and the noon TV game would both end at 3:30. One time I saw a group discussion on TV of how NFL games could be shortened. They went through the same litany of clock rules being discussed here. Of course, no one dared to mention the 800-pound gorilla sitting in the corner, cutting the number of commercials.

Or cut the talking heads at half time and just show all the commercials for 20 minutes.

 

[MSOrange]

Week 1 is in the books! One of the best sports times of the year, football is back!

However after watching a few different games this weekend there is one rule I would love to see changed and have frankly never understood why it's in place to begin with.

Why does the clock stop after a first down in college football? With games approaching the 4 hour mark, wouldn't this help shave some valuable minutes off the length of games?

There are plenty of rules that need a good hard look but this one really puzzles me

I know it extends games but I've always liked the clock stopping after first downs. The main reason is we've been down so much the past 15 years, it was the one thing that kinda gave me a little hope.

 

[upperdeck]

nothing slows the game down more than the constant tv timeouts. I would rather a longer halftime or quarter break, than punt / Time out / Turn over / Time out / Score / Time out / Punt / Time out. on to quarter 2.. Never a Time out after a turnover would be my rule.. nothing like creating energy and having to wait 4-5 min to run a play.