Timing Rule Changes

[UNALions]

The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel has approved three new rules recommended by the Football Rules Committee last month, including keeping the clock running after first downs except for the last two minutes of each half; no consecutive timeouts by a team; and penalties at the end of the first and third quarters carrying over to the next quarter, eliminating untimed downs in those instances.

https://www.ncaa.org/news/2023/4/21/...ions-i-ii.aspx

[ctrabs74]

The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel has approved three new rules recommended by the Football Rules Committee last month, including keeping the clock running after first downs except for the last two minutes of each half; no consecutive timeouts by a team; and penalties at the end of the first and third quarters carrying over to the next quarter, eliminating untimed downs in those instances.

https://www.ncaa.org/news/2023/4/21/...ions-i-ii.aspx

I just find it interesting that the new timing rules are not applicable to D3. But, as someone who works security/access management at TCU football games, it's good to see that the games will be shorter at the upper levels (FBS, FCS, D2). When those games drag on and on, especially in Fort Worth on a mid-September day, it gets to be a beating.