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More New Timing Rules Among NCAA Proposal

The NCAA Football Rules Committee on Wednesday announced several proposed changes, including two designed to speed up the game and others that altered several existing penalties.

The committee recommended administering a 40-second clock to start play after a preceding play ends, and starting the clock on a referee's signal after a play goes out of bounds.

Among the other recommendations: abolishing the 5-yard incidental face-mask penalty, adjusting the "chop block" rule to make it easier to understand and enforce, giving the receiving team the option to taking possession at the 40-yard line after an out-of-bounds kickoff and eliminating warnings for sideline control.

This is the third consecutive year the committee made recommendations to speed up play, a request made by TV networks. Previous recommendations have been criticized, as the changes came at a price of sacrificing the number of plays in a game, and some quickly were repealed.

So the TV networks are concerned that college football games are taking too long to play? Are you kidding me? Maybe it's due to the fact that there are TOO MANY F**king Commercials. I've grown full beards while watching games on TV. The networks complain about the length of games, yet they continue to sign gazillion dollar contracts which result in more ads and therefore longer games. Every new rule they've attempted to introduce has been a complete failure and these rules will be no different.