Paywall but excerpt on clock changes:
• If the games seemed faster this week, you weren't imagining it. There were fewer plays, and the games were shorter on average thanks to a handful of new rules. With such a small sample size, though, the NCAA approached two ways of measuring the immediate impact. The first was comparing Week 1 with last season's full results. The second was comparing Week 1 with only Week 1 of 2022 to account for lopsided wins against nonconference opponents.
According to Steve Shaw, the NCAA's coordinator of officials, the Week 1 games averaged 3 hours, 17 minutes, down about four minutes from last season's overall average. The Week 1 games were about 11 minutes faster this year, though, than they were in Week 1 of last season. Shaw said he thinks that ultimately, after more data is collected, it will settle somewhere in-between.
Shaw said there were a little over 175 plays per game in Week 1, compared with 179.34 per game last year. The sport was down about six plays, he said, when comparing the same week.
• If the games seemed faster this week, you weren't imagining it. There were fewer plays, and the games were shorter on average thanks to a handful of new rules. With such a small sample size, though, the NCAA approached two ways of measuring the immediate impact. The first was comparing Week 1 with last season's full results. The second was comparing Week 1 with only Week 1 of 2022 to account for lopsided wins against nonconference opponents.
According to Steve Shaw, the NCAA's coordinator of officials, the Week 1 games averaged 3 hours, 17 minutes, down about four minutes from last season's overall average. The Week 1 games were about 11 minutes faster this year, though, than they were in Week 1 of last season. Shaw said he thinks that ultimately, after more data is collected, it will settle somewhere in-between.
Shaw said there were a little over 175 plays per game in Week 1, compared with 179.34 per game last year. The sport was down about six plays, he said, when comparing the same week.