re: 225 Magazine article celebrating the new DJ in stadium. WE DONT WANT THIS!

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Basically same commercial time with less actual football action time and less total real time for games is giving the unchanged commercial times more weight.

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That is a fair point and seems to be legit based on the data in that Athletic article.

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Problem was there, but they just made it more obvious with this change not less like they were hoping.

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So something else I read in The Athletic (a companion article to the one I posted above) - apparently the clock changes weren’t really driven by TV windows, at least according to conference commissioners.

Supposedly the real purpose of the clock changes was actually to reduce the number of plays in each game. I guess one of the things people have used to oppose the 12-team playoff is the fact that teams will be playing more games. If you remove 6-7 plays per game over the course of a 12-game regular season, that’s 72-84 less plays on each side of the ball. Which basically allows the NCAA to sidestep any player safety criticism.

Maybe this is common knowledge, but it was news to me. I was under the impression that this was all about fitting games into TV windows.