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The league said that after an evaluation of broadcast viewership and attendance habits across the Pac-12, it addressed the issue of game length with its member administrators and coaches and decided to implement the new program.

The plan is to shorten game length up to 10 minutes and reduce broadcast windows by up to 15 minutes.

Under the new initiative, all nonconference games shown on Pac-12 Networks, the TV and multimedia company of the Pac-12, this season -- up to 15 games in total -- will have reduced break times between the first and second quarters, along with the third and fourth quarters. Some games will also utilize a condensed break format, expected to reduce up to four additional minutes of break time.

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To shorten halftime, both teams must agree on the proposed reduction from a 20-minute to a 15-minute halftime, according to the league's release. At least six nonconference games on Pac-12 Networks will have shortened halftimes, including Arizona State vs. New Mexico, Arizona vs. Northern Arizona, UCLA vs. Hawaii, California vs. Weber State, Washington vs. Montana, and Colorado vs. Northern Colorado.
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I'm surprised that the break lengths between the quarters and halves are not in the rulebook?
 
Makes sense. They can't play ads continuously during halftime, so might as well shorten that. The obvious--reducing the number of commercials or the length of commercial breaks--is out of the question.
 
I'd love to see commercials like they do for other sports. Make the screen that shows football about 75% of the screen size and run a few ads instead of stopping for a commercial break. Commercial breaks only cause people to fast forward when they re-watch, so why not force them to atleast see the ad?
 
gte490v said:
I'd love to see commercials like they do for other sports. Make the screen that shows football about 75% of the screen size and run a few ads instead of stopping for a commercial break. Commercial breaks only cause people to fast forward when they re-watch, so why not force them to atleast see the ad?
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Those are the most annoying ones, IMO. I didn't buy a 65" HDTV to watch stuff in almost-HD on 55" of screen.
 
I just wish the games against the smaller schools were played without the media time outs.
 
Go to the NFL model and keep games at 3 hours or less. Run clock after out of bounds plays, set ball quicker, don't stop clock for first downs and work on tv timeouts etc. I would probably watch more college football if the games weren't sooooo long. Four hour games are ridiculous.
 
There is no need for TV timeouts after each change of possession. Remember the non-TV games up until about 10 years ago had the opposing team right back on the field after a punt without the ridiculous 3 minute commercial break. If you figure there are 10 total punts in a game, that's an easy 25 time minute savings right there.
 
79tech said:
Go to the NFL model and keep games at 3 hours or less. Run clock after out of bounds plays, set ball quicker, don't stop clock for first downs and work on tv timeouts etc. I would probably watch more college football if the games weren't sooooo long. Four hour games are ridiculous.
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I hate the NFL clock rules. Totally changes the end-of-game clock management dynamic. In my opinion it is less fun to watch, because the losing coach/team has so many fewer options for stopping the clock. It just gives the winning team a little extra advantage in those situations. I think giving the losing team a little extra help there makes the games a lot more fun.

Apparently Tech is usually the team trying to catch up. Otherwise I'm not sure why I'd feel that way.
 
18in32 said:
Doesn't that mean less in-game rest for players? Let's make it a player safety issue and see if they stick with it. Nobody likes long games... but games are too long because of commercials, not because players had a chance to catch their breath.
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Good point. This would be favorable for factories / teams with depth. A player safety and a competitiveness issue.
 
Not a fan of the NFL time clock rules at all. Cuts game play short in order to maximize commercials while keeping the whole thing under a certain time. I want less commercials and no changes to the game.

Nothing worse that having our offense rolling down the field in the middle of a deathmarch and having a TV timeout.
 
covingtonjacket said:
Nothing worse that having our offense rolling down the field in the middle of a deathmarch and having a TV timeout.
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That can't really happen, can it? If either team calls a timeout during a drive it can be extended to a TV timeout, but there was going to be a stoppage of play which would break our momentum no matter what.

I don't think there's any way for us to be driving down the field and a TV time out just spontaneously occurs.
 
andrew said:
That can't really happen, can it? If either team calls a timeout during a drive it can be extended to a TV timeout, but there was going to be a stoppage of play which would break our momentum no matter what.

I don't think there's any way for us to be driving down the field and a TV time out just spontaneously occurs.
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I think you are right. Standard (non-media) timeouts are 30 seconds or 1 minute versus the longer (3 min?) media timeouts though, which probably makes a difference.
 
if you can't sit through an extra 10 or 15 minutes, then you're not a real CFB fan to begin with.
 
Need to revamp instant replay reviews, too. 1 minute is all you get. If you can't determine the call within 30 seconds, then it is too close and the call should stand.
 
GBurdell said:
if you can't sit through an extra 10 or 15 minutes, then you're not a real CFB fan to begin with.
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Yeah, I think the advertisers that pay for most of CFB are interested in selling both to real CFB fans and to non-real/lukewarm CFB fans. If it was just real fans they were catering to, they could probably increase ticket prices ten fold and do away with advertising altogether. The cost of some tix is many times the cost of tix that others pay for theirs.
 
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