 Games to be lower scoring this year
With the opening weekend of college football just days away, many players are studying changes made during the off-season. One of the biggest changes doesn’t involve any player or team, but the length of the game itself.
Rule 3-2-5-e states “When Team A is awarded a first down, the clock will be stopped and will start on the ready for play signal.” This amendment means the clock will restart when the ball is ready after a punt or kickoff; the clock didn’t start in prior years until the ball was snapped.
In a typical game, each team has about 12 possessions. The new rule should come into play approximately 24 times and is estimated to shorten the game by five minutes. One obvious consequence of this new rule is that games will be lower scoring. If each team now only has 11 possessions instead of 12 (12 * 55 minutes / 60 minutes), you would expect scoring to be about 8% lower…..
Last edited by BangTheBook : 09-02-2006 at 11:36 AM.
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