Clocks will no longer stop after 1st downs except during final 2 minutes of a half

[white65]

This is a change no one was asking for.

My guess is that they're hoping to stop the players from complaining about not getting paid any of the millions made watching them play. Especially with the playoff expanding soon.

It's a tiny step but making 12 games into the equivalent plays of 11 gives them some coverage when the Lawyers come calling.

 

[DaddyChad]

Let’s have less football and more commercials. Just stupid.

Misspelled $tupid.

 

[LowKey]

Heupel is a devious man. He will find a way to get two touchdowns on one drive out of this.

I heard that he once won a game of Connect 4 in 3 moves.

 

[StickMan]

12 minutes per possession isn’t going to remotely happen.

I guess we're watching a different sport. I watch a lot of Army games because my wife is a West Point grad, and since they never throw, they routinely chew up 12 minute drives with the CURRENT rules. I saw Alabama possess the ball for an entire quarter once against Florida with the CURRENT rules. Maybe you're saying teams won't average 12 minutes per possession. No, they won't, but it will happen more than you think.

 

[Carl Pickens]

Kind of. The games are too damn long as it is.

Then watch the NFL….

 

[GAVol]

I guess we're watching a different sport. I watch a lot of Army games because my wife is a West Point grad, and since they never throw, they routinely chew up 12 minute drives with the CURRENT rules. I saw Alabama possess the ball for an entire quarter once against Florida with the CURRENT rules. Maybe you're saying teams won't average 12 minutes per possession. No, they won't, but it will happen more than you think.

Who knows? Maybe teams will figure out how to chew more clock and every game will be a tractor pull, but I really don't think so. I think if they had gone with the full NFL clock rules, it definitely would have made end of half drives look a lot different.

 

[BDP!]

I personally hate the new rule. College football seasons go by fast anyway, why would I want to speed that up? Fans plan their entire weekends around these games, many times arriving on Friday and leaving on Sunday.