re: College football no longer stopping clock on first downs.

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Players who go out with injury cannot return to the game until the next possession. This will disincentivize faking injuries.

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Except it will encourage players to stay in the game when possibly hurt. So if your Qb gets the wind knocked out of him he should be out till the next series? That aint happening.

All this does is make way for more commercials. They aren't going to shorten the length of games. They should have gotten rid of so many fricking commercials instead of taking away precious football snaps

Good college games are way to long

Got to pay some bills.

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Not a fan of this. And also, what’s with all the shortening the game crap? Baseball I can understand; it’s a slow paced sport as it is. But why would I want to shorten something g that I look forward to year round?

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College football has been letting the tail wag the dog vis a vis TV for too long now. The networks should tailor their broadcasts to the game as it is, not the other way around.

It's worth what it's worth. That's what the conferences need to understand.

It's the ONE thing soccer gets right!

CBS games will shorten significantly.

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Is anyone really complaining that watching their team just takes too damn long?

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Anytime LSU was on CBS

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What am I missing?

Before, the game stopped after every first down. Time to sneak in more commercials.

Now, the new rule says the clock will not stop after first downs (except in the last two minutes of the quarters). No time to get in more commercials.

I'm obviously missing something in all the comments saying there will be more commercials. Why?

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Football, as a sport, was always structured such that it was naturally conducive to TV broadcasts, with 15 minute quarters, a long half times, 3 time outs per team per half. You could have a lovely full exciting game with plenty of plays, and plenty avenues for commercial stoppages, and the game would go 2 1/2-3 hours, with everyone happy and placated.

Instead, networks got greedy (and the conferences became complicit in this and lazy in their thinking with regard to the value of their "product"), and we started plugging in more and more stoppages, longer possession changes for minutes of commercials between each, such that the "games" were now 4+ hours long, with no more real playing time. It started to get ridiculous, so the "solution" is to DECREASE THE ACTUAL PLAYING TIME ON THE FIELD.

CBS has got wood right now lol

I think this is the kind of thing that would play right in to Les Miles gameplan. Not sure what you guys are thinking. Run the ball play defense. He bear people by controlling the clock and not giving others many opportunities to score.