CFB vs NFL game length, TV timeouts

[FlabLoser]

I think Rick Cleveland had is backwards. He says compared to the NFL, college football is too long and lacks flow.

http://www.clarionledger....-football-takes-too-long

They NFL does package games that are almost all 3 hrs long. College does run longer. And I didn't know this:

"I'll tell you the biggest difference," Vaughan said. "In pro football,
the officials tell TV when to come back from a commercial. In college
football, TV tells the officials when to restart the game. Some TV
stoppages last three minutes or more."

And now I'll tell you the biggest difference between the NFL and college football - its the NFL games that lack flow. It is NFL games that have too many commercials. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Hell, the time it takes to go from a score to a kickoff is almost as long as halftime!!</span>

Rick Cleveland forgets there have already been rule changes to run the college football clock more often. But as I pointed out repeatedly, this wasn't to speed up the game. This was to fit in more commercials. That game didn't get shorter. We just got more TV timeouts.

Regardless, college football flows a lot better than the NFL. There may be more short clock stoppages for first down and such, but so what. I guarantee you that in college ball, the time spent between commercials actually watching the game is longer than it is in the NFL.

 

[ShaNaNa]

This is done in every NFL game. That is where the flow is lacking and they are waiting on someone to get up slowly so they can cut to a commercial break.

If it wasn't for fantasy football I would not watch a lot of regular season NFL games. Fantasy football has resurrected the NFL for me.

 

[Fletch Fletcher]

Commercials after the kickoff drive me crazy

^^^^^^^THIS^^^^^^^
That absolutely drives me crazy. They come back from commercial, kickoff, then go back to commercial. Thank God for the Redzone channel

 

[Fletch Fletcher]

Cleveland is an idiot. He was trying to use the USM/ECU game as an example of why college football is too long. He failed to point out that in that game, those teams had a combined 24 penalties for nearly 230 yards. Maybe that had something to do with it, huh Rick?

 

[Rabbitt]

...would be so slow to watch anyhow. How boreing!

 

[patdog]

It was an ordeal to watch that game in real time. Timeouts routinely lasted for 4 or even 5 minutes. And there were a LOT of them.

 

[8dog]

and when they threw it was either incomplete or a first down so the clock was always stopping.

 

[Fletch Fletcher]

I also thought that game took forever, but looking back at the official stats it only took 3 and a half hours. That's not too bad considering Houton threw the ball 59 times.

http://www.mstateathletics.com/fls/16800/stats/fb/2010/ms1009.htm?DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=16800

"Kickoff time: 7:04 pm End of Game: 10:35 Total elapsed time: 3:31"

 

[patdog]

Sadly, it's about average for a college football game. Which is Cleveland's point to begin with.