NCAA announces major rule changes for 2024 college football season
The NCAA has officially announced a pair of significant rule changes ahead of the 2024 college football season.
The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved a pair of previous rule proposals. First, college football will now have a 2-minute warning at the end of both halves. Secondly, the use of headset communication tools on sidelines between players and coaches will now be permitted.
The decision to add a 2-minute warning comes 1 year after the NCAA changed its rules to no longer stop the clock after 1st downs that occur in-bounds (except in the final 2 minutes of each half).
The 2-minute warning will create an extra stoppage late in each half and potentially make it easier for teams to pull off late-game comebacks. However, the rule is not expected to add an additional media break. Instead, this rule is expected to allow media partners to spread out their commercial breaks more evenly over the course of a game.
“This is not a new or additional timeout,” rules committee co-chair A.J. Edds said last month, via The Athletic. “This is a known position that will hopefully alleviate the impression early in the quarters where media partners have taken breaks in consecutive opportunities. This will give them a larger runway over the second and fourth quarters.”
The use of headset communication comes on the heels of Michigan’s highly-publicized sign-stealing scandal that hovered over the Wolverines in 2023. Teams will now have the ability to have 1 player on the field equipped with the communication device.
According to the press release, communication between coach-to-player will be cut off with 15 seconds remaining on the play clock or when the ball is snapped — whichever comes first.
Both of these rule changes align college football with the NFL. The NFL has used headset communication since 1994 and has had a 2-minute warning at the end of each half since 1942.
the NFL-ication of CFB continues. I suspect player unions are next. They’re not going to be happy until they kill everything that made college football so unique and special, and we stop watching.
Jax…Yes it has dramatically changed since NIL and the Transfer Portal were introduced. It sure does seem like the NFL and college game are beginning to mirror each other.
“However, the rule is not expected to add an additional media break.”
CFB has a commercial problem, so I sincerely hope this does not lead to extra commercial breaks. My poor family has to listen to me b i tch and moan at every blasted commercial, so for their sake I hope this doesn’t lead to more. I mean, every football season there seems to be two dozen or so commercials used for the entire season and at best only one or two are tolerable.
“On a special episode of Fansville….”
You can shake your fist at the sky all you want but since all of our teams benefit financially from their broadcast rights, it’s a given that the broadcasters sell commercial time to finance those benefits. You can’t have one with out the other.
It seems that the principal objection has to do with having to endure the same lame commercial on an endless loop. But, that is where the Big Money comes from. Maybe, just maybe, if Dr. Pepper got the Bud Light treatment we might see some improvement.
Ellis Shoe…You hit it. The Advertising execs. at ESPN need some new adv. salesmen to pitch TV adv. to new potential sponsors. Now it’s over & ovar again commercials.
There has not been more advertising time added to CFB football games since the institution of the new clock rules. Stewart Mandel and Seth Emerson wrote an excellent article on the subject for The Athletic in September 2023. It’s a really concentrated and focused read on the subject for anyone who is interested.
How does it not add an additional commercial break? You go to timeout, you have a commercial.
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This is the sort of thing those old enough to remember the last Vol championship say
Most coaches have been on board with helmet comms, it’ll do away with the sign stealing accusations both real and imagined. As far as the two minute break goes it’s just another way for advertisers to crowbar another two to three commercials into the game, not surprising considering the tv rights deals going on now.