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The Slow Death of Rule 3-2-5e

Jul 11, 2008 – 11:52 AM
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Scott Olin Schmidt

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Last year, cheers went up around the college football world celebrating the demise of rule 3-2-5e, an NCAA effort implemented in 2006 to speed up the game of college football.

While a number of changes were made in the 2007 offseason, remnants of the rule existed...until yesterday at least. Under new NCAA rules, there will be two significant changes for 2008:
  1. The clock will start at the snap after a change of possession, rather than when the referee signals the ball to be in play; and,
  2. On kickoffs, the clock will only start once the ball hits the field of play.
Meanwhile, in other timing tweakage, the play clock will go down to 15 seconds, from 25, following a television timeout. Expect plenty of confusion and several yellow handkerchiefs from this one!
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