The SEC announced adjustments to its roughing-the-kicker rule at SEC Media Days on Tuesday morning.

Officials will no longer call roughing-the-kicker or running-into-the-kicker if contact is made more than 5 yards from where the kicker was originally standing. SEC coordinator of officials John McDaid made the announcement.

The rule change follows a controversial finish to the Missouri-Kentucky game last season in-which Mizzou was called for roughing-the-kicker late in the game. The Wildcats won 21-17.

Here’s the play — and an example of a penalty that won’t be called moving forward:

Other clock-related rule changes were also discussed by McDaid on Tuesday morning. The NCAA previously announced multiple changes to the clock, including:

  • The 1st and 3rd quarters will no longer extend for an accepted penalty if game clock expires during the down.
  • Teams can not call consecutive timeouts during the same dead ball period
  • The clock will continue to run after 1st downs in-bounds, except for under 2 minutes in each half.

McDaid said the goal is to limit the number of games that take more than 3 hours, 45 minutes to complete. The SEC average was previously 3 hours, 21 minutes.