Last week, a bombshell report dropped that executives atop college football are considering multiple changes in an effort to shorten college football games. Within that piece of news, there are many things to discuss:
-- Are college football games too long? After all, the game already has the shortest regular season of any major American sport. Is shortening the average game a worthwhile pursuit in the first place? Here, John shared some jaw-dropping data on the length of certain games this past season.
-- If so, what's the right way to pursue that goal? There are two major topics on the table: going to an NFL-style timing rule where the clock continues to run after first downs, except in the final two minutes of each half. Or, winding the clock after the ball is set for play after incomplete passes.
-- They can't really be thinking about the second one, can they?
-- Why, unfortunately, TV timeouts aren't the problem.
-- What are the downstream benefits of shortening games? On the flip side, what are the costs of an average game that runs nearly three and a half hours?
-- The self-serving, cynical angle of the push to shorten games.
-- What are ways to shorten games that aren't currently on the table?
And if all that's not enough, stick around for Scott's story about watching Canadian football in a Canadian bar. It's a doozy.
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