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I havent had a chance to replay last nights game (would rather not) but did anyone else think that the clock operator let the clock continue to run after the ball carrier stepped out of bounds in the second half?

Clock runs on out of bounds until there is 2 minutes left in each half. They will stop it momentarily until the ball is place and then start it up. At the 2 minute mark it will remain stopped on out of bounds. That is a time saving rule they put in a few years back.

mrydel wrote:Clock runs on out of bounds until there is 2 minutes left in each half. They will stop it momentarily until the ball is place and then start it up. At the 2 minute mark it will remain stopped on out of bounds. That is a time saving rule they put in a few years back.

I guess I saw it happen before 2 mins were left. By that time the game couldn't end quickly enough.

mrydel wrote:Clock runs on out of bounds until there is 2 minutes left in each half. They will stop it momentarily until the ball is place and then start it up. At the 2 minute mark it will remain stopped on out of bounds. That is a time saving rule they put in a few years back.

On rushing plays where the ball handler runs out of bounds, the clock runs with an immediate 40 second play clock. Game clock stops on a first down, until the ref circles his arm with the ball ready, but the play clock starts immediately at the end of the previous play.

On completed passing plays where the ball carrier runs out of bounds, the clock stops and there is a 25 sec play clock.

It's not time savings unless you mean it speeds the game up by running more gm clock off, and thus real time, saving us from 4 hr games. But we get fewer plays.

Situation 1 is exactly why when we had 10 pt lead on tcu with ball at midfield and about 7:40 left in the game we should have run he ball (in bounds) 3 times. Prob burn 50 sec per play thus leaving tcu only 4 min or so. Instead JJ threw 3 straight incompletes. We punted and tcu had 7:30.

Yes, I was referring to the attempts by the powers that be to cutting down the overall length of time it takes to play the game.