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NCAA FB games too long?
- Thread starter PAC MAN
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Yes. Eliminate the clock stoppage after a first down until the final 2 minutes of the half and game and implement the NFL review process. Done.
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Then keep the old rules during the final 2 or 5 minutes of the half or game.
No way. Keep it like it is but just have the game clock run 10% faster than normal time as defined by the international atomic time standard.
Is it really more football when the games are simply longer? They're still 60 minutes.
No. To me its being at the game a little longer or being able to watch the game just a little bit longer. However, it comes a point where it just detracts from the sport in general, IMO.
plays per game -- is that what we mean by "more football"?
Can we just call it incomplete passes as that's what it essentially is?
I'm not sure. We'd have to see the numbers, but there's rarely more than one "down it to stop the clock" during an NFL game
Incomplete passes stop the clock. It's no coincidence that spread teams like Baylor or Texas Tech average the longest game times.
Gotcha now, sorry, missed where you were going for a moment there
I wouldn't be opposed to some tweaks here and there. The Rose Bowl was great but damn, it seemed to last a year.
Replay/reviews seem to drag on way too long. I appreciate the desire to get the call correct,but it has to become more efficient.
If the score had been reversed, it would have been just right.
It started too late.
Medford M.
Well-Known Member
Rose Bowl was an ordeal and not just because USC defense played like ****.
Cutting down on the number of commercials would help.
I agree but good luck with that. There are too many damn timeouts period. That would piss me off as a player, you cool down.
The game times definitely should come down. The NFL actually needs to end their games before 3.5 hours because of tv contracts, but even their average game time had been rapidly climbing. No game should ever take more than that, yet we see 4+ hour games multiple times a year at the college level. In terms of long term viability for the sport, this is an issue.
Agreed about the time being a long term issue. I hardly watched other teams play this recent year because I don't have the time to watch others play. Next season, it's going to be the Buffs only in football. That's why basketball games are becoming attractive and I might be getting back into hockey since they are about 2 1/2 hours each.
And baseball games are three hours long.
For the Rose Bowl, I watched the first 3:15 at a bar Downtown. Drove home to South Denver and still caught almost the entire 4th quarter. That's a bit excessive.
I don't understand the review rules anymore. Without knowing better, it just seems like the refs are checking themselves on every 50/50 play at this point. Start there.
I don't understand the review rules anymore. Without knowing better, it just seems like the refs are checking themselves on every 50/50 play at this point. Start there.