Tennessee Vols and the rest of college football may need to adjust to a big change involving the clock in 2024
The Tennessee Vols and the rest of college football may need to adjust to a big change involving the clock that could be coming to the sport in 2024. According to The Athletic, college football officials are expected to discuss the addition of a two minute warning in a rules committee meeting later this month. “With […]
The Tennessee Vols and the rest of college football may need to adjust to a big change involving the clock that could be coming to the sport in 2024.
According to The Athletic, college football officials are expected to discuss the addition of a two minute warning in a rules committee meeting later this month.
“With our change in the clock rules, we have a number of things that hinge on a certain period in the game, like the first down situation,” said NCAA national coordinator of officials Steve Shaw to The Athletic. “If you had a definitive two-minute break, then you could flip all of your clock rules."
“Like today, the 10-second runoff (for penalty and injury timeouts) doesn’t kick in until one minute (left)," added Shaw. "So we think there might be some value in having a two-minute stop and then now we go to post-timing rules and make all of it contingent on the two-minute.”
Clock rules were changed last offseason to help shorten games. Those changes included the clock continuing to run after first downs (except in the final two minutes of the half), the banning of consecutive timeouts, and not having untimed downs at the end of the first and third quarters.
According to Shaw, those changes shortened games by 4.5 plays (four minutes in real time). So while there was a slight change, it didn't have a major impact on the game.
Adding a two minute warning would likely add at least two plays to every game. And the added commercial breaks could eliminate the four minutes of real time that each game was shortened (on average) last season.
There's no guarantee that the rule will be passed this offseason. But if it is, it will be a good thing for the Vols. Anything that adds more plays to the game is a plus for Tennessee's up-tempo offense.
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