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College football will look a little different in 2024 after the NCAA Rules Oversight Panel approved the rule change which eliminated the clock stoppage after first downs that the league has played since 1968.
The clock continues to stop for the last two and a half minutes.
The rule change is one of many coming to college football to speed up the game and reduce the number of plays. Two other approved changes also speed things up. Penalties at the end of the first and third quarters are enforced in the next quarter instead of an untimed timeout, and another prevents back-to-back timeouts during the same dead period.
The changes are being made in hopes of reducing league-wide injuries. The NCAA is moving to a 12-team playoff for the 2024-25 season, and NCAA Secretary-Rules Editor Steve Shaw says the clock rule should cut about 96 regular-season exposures per player.
More rule changes may also be coming. Shaw described the new rules as a conservative approach to begin the process of shortening games, so this is just step one.
Major League Baseball and college baseball recently introduced a pitch clock to speed up games, and fans have responded well to the changes. College football is hoping for a similar transition, but there will always be purists who think the game should remain untouched from how they watched it as kids.
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