Coming soon to college football: Fewer plays, shorter games, and lots of disagreement.
Following the handful of safety-related changes to gameplay itself, such as recent modifications to kickoff rules, the FBS may in the very near future attack health and safety concerns at the source: by cutting down on the number of plays per individual game and across an entire season.
Teams in the FBS averaged 71.3 plays per game in 1971 and reached a high of 72 plays per game in 2014, only once in this half-century period of widespread offensive evolution dipping below an average of 67.7. "I think we could’ve expanded the College Football Playoff and then used the next two years to come to a really effective conclusion," said SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey. "Others didn’t see it that way. What I hope we don’t do is lose focus on continuing to think about how we update the game in a healthy way.
"If you just kept the clock running after first downs, you’d eliminate 8-10 plays," Klieman said. "That would be one way that you could shorten the game a little bit." Compared to the more staid nature of NFL gameplay, college football is a kaleidoscope of quirky and offbeat offensive schemes designed in part to lessen the talent gap between opposing teams.
That makes it unlikely that any rule changes would be palatable to the entire swath of the FBS; instead, any colossal updates to the longstanding model could be embraced and despised in almost equal measure.
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