NCAA considering 2 major changes to college football clock rules, per report

If you’ve watched college football at all over the past few years, you know games can drag on for hours.

With all the clock stoppages, Air Raid and hurry-up offenses, fake injuries and more, some games last well over 4 hours.

Now, it appears, the NCAA is trying to tackle some of those issues. Per Nicole Auerbach of The Athletic, the NCAA is considering 2 major clock changes — not stopping the clock on first downs and treating incomplete passes like runs out of bounds:

Last month, @TheAthletic wrote about two potential CFB rule changes — treating incomplete passes like runs out of bounds & not stopping the clock on first downs.

Both are under discussion by NCAA football rules committee, which meets this week in Indy: https://t.co/YliJd7oJzc pic.twitter.com/jfHabPnVPc

— Nicole Auerbach (@NicoleAuerbach) March 1, 2022

Treating incomplete passes like runs out of bounds is a big one, and not stopping the clock on first downs would bring the college game closer to the NFL product.

Obviously, nothing is finalized as of now, but it’s interesting that the NCAA is at least considering these major clock changes.