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NFL Games Already Over
Posted on 10/19/25 at 3:02 pm
Posted on 10/19/25 at 3:02 pm
College football so needs to learn from the NFL. Getting college games finished in three hours would be so nice.
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Posted on 10/19/25 at 3:04 pm to CatholicLSUDude
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College football so needs to learn from the NFL. Getting college games finished in three hours would be so nice.
Shorter halftimes and not every timeout/commercial is 3 and a half minutes long. But the NCAA won’t do that because all that really matters to people is Ad $
Posted on 10/19/25 at 3:05 pm to CatholicLSUDude
Saturdays are hard to watch with all the stoppages.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 3:08 pm to cajuntiger1010
The new two minute timeout stoppage is a complete momentum killer with it being almost a 4 minute timeout. It feels so incredibly long.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 3:23 pm to CatholicLSUDude
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College football
Acts like you only want to watch 1 game and makes a 4 hour spectacle of it.
SEC on CBS started this spectacle nonsense years ago, blocking out the entire afternoon, stretching a single game from lunch to dinner with so many commercials stacked upon each other they became defacto in-game Intermissions.
The worst: staying with the game during a Coaches timeout and then after its over, going to an immediate TV timeout. 10 minutes later, the game resumes.
This post was edited on 10/19/25 at 3:23 pm
Posted on 10/19/25 at 3:46 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
It seems college has more commercial breaks and the breaks last longer.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 3:55 pm to Allthatfades
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It seems college has more commercial breaks and the breaks last longer.
And there’s less football. They changed the clock rules a few years ago to “shorten the game” but then did what everybody knew they would do and added more commercials.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 4:11 pm to Allthatfades
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It seems college has more commercial breaks and the breaks last longer.
College football games have a timeout format of 3-4-3-4 (three TV timeouts in the first and 3rd quarters, and four in the second and fourth quarters), or 4-4-4-4 (four TV timeouts in every quarter). These timeouts range from around 2-3 (usually 3) minutes depending on the situation, meaning that some games may spend 48 minutes in commercial breaks alone. In comparison with college football, the NFL requires 16 TV timeouts per game, but each break can not exceed two minutes, meaning that most NFL games likely spend a maximum of 32 minutes in TV timeouts.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 5:20 pm to Dawgsontop34
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Shorter halftimes and not every timeout/commercial is 3 and a half minutes long.
They also start on time. A 12pm game will start at latest 12:03 or something around that
College games actually kickoff 10 to sometimes even 20 min after their listed TV time
Posted on 10/19/25 at 5:47 pm to CatholicLSUDude
This is not far-fetched and probably been victim to it....
A touchdown (not-so-instant replay to review it) > tv timeout > extra point > tv timeout > kickoff....tv timeout > one play (a team calls a timeout) > then we go to tv timeout...
Once the game resumes, it feels like the teams just came back out of the locker room.after the reset.
Today's CFB game has little flow to it. Remember that? Momentum and flow?
A touchdown (not-so-instant replay to review it) > tv timeout > extra point > tv timeout > kickoff....tv timeout > one play (a team calls a timeout) > then we go to tv timeout...
Once the game resumes, it feels like the teams just came back out of the locker room.after the reset.
Today's CFB game has little flow to it. Remember that? Momentum and flow?
Posted on 10/19/25 at 6:00 pm to Dawgsontop34
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The new two minute timeout stoppage is a complete momentum killer with it being almost a 4 minute timeout. It feels so incredibly long.
The introduction of a 2 minute warning was so unnecessary at the collegiate level. Also, it always serves to help out a team who is down a possession late in the game. I never understood having a rule that is structurally advantageous for one team over another in a common game scenario. I dislike it for the same reasons at the NFL level but it’s even more ludicrous in college b/c they unilaterally decided to add a stoppage of the clock to show insurance commercials.
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