I will preface this by saying I have been a close follower of football for over 50 years. No one loves the game more than me.

 

I have gotten to the point where I can't even sit through a whole game. Between the injuries, long television timeouts, and replay reviews, the damn thing takes in the neighborhood of four hours to play. Even with my love of the sport, I must not have that long an attention span. If I don't, who does?

 

It's a problem and there needs to be some solutions because it takes way too long to play a college game.

Television pays the big bucks. They need the advertising money so I wouldn't expect them to do away with the commercial breaks etc because they would lose money.

They could shift the rules (clock in particular) to more like the NFL game, which start at 1 and end at 4, almost to perfection.

This is an issue for me also. I live in Ashland so if a game starts at 7 I have to leave here about 3 and won't get home until 1:30 am. Honestly, it just isn't worth it.

The link below was a change put in in 2008 to help speed the game up. All it did was allow for less plays and less ability to come back if you are trailing in the 2nd half. The clock used to stop when you went out of bounds. Now it only stops inside the last 2 minutes of each half. Hated it then and hate it now. The play on the field wasn't the problem, the problem was and is all the advertisement and timeouts for tv. I know that is what pays the bills but I hate it. Back at the time they put in the changes they said games were too long and fans didn't enjoy being at a game for 4 hours. I don't know about you but tailgating and the social part of the game is what college kids want. I think most adults as well enjoy the social part of the games but as far as watching from home it's a joke. You can't record a game for the 3 hour time slot tv has reserved for a game. If you do you will never see the finish of the game. Most games I record an extra hour.

 

Explaining the New College Football Clock Rules

They could shift the rules (clock in particular) to more like the NFL game, which start at 1 and end at 4, almost to perfection.

 

Even NFL games regularly exceed the 3 hour time period. This is the big reason they now start the late games later than 4:00pm.

This is an issue for me also. I live in Ashland so if a game starts at 7 I have to leave here about 3 and won't get home until 1:30 am. Honestly, it just isn't worth it.

 

Here, for USF games, we consider them all day events, regardless of kickoff times. Between tailgating, traffic, and the game, we're looking at, at least 9 hours from home to home, and I live less than 20 minutes from the stadium.

 

When we're up there for UK games, driving in from Cincinnati, same same. We don't tailgate for those games, but usually stop on the way in for a meal. Also makes for a long day.

Reviews take far too long , yes the games are def too long

If the first replay angle clearly resolves the issue, please don't look at the other five of them. Reduce he number of time-outs. Shorten half times.

It is amazing to me after watching many of these replays how many of them take five minutes to review and the results are WRONG!

 

Amazing!

I think they should shorten the college game time to 12 minute QTrs and 10 minutes in HS...they are worried about safety and number of hits, but with high speed offense being the norm, there are way more plays being run in today's game.