Clock rule change data after week zero and week one: games are being significantly shortened

They've ruined my favorite things because they have to milk every last penny out of every human ever born.

I am just happy they give us football content in between our commercial broadcasts.

Great thread. I haven't watched much football, but it seemed like a lot of commercials... Although it seemed like that last year too.

"Great for advertisers, fucking terrible for fans. "

I think it's to be determined how great it is for advertisers. I'm likely to be watching fewer games. Will be interesting to see if this impacts ratings. Networks might regret their new contracts if ratings take a nose dive. More commercials might prompt more people to DVR games.

Definitely a negative. Numbers aren’t as bad as I thought, but still unfortunate. 

Maybe my imagination ---- but it seemed (off one data point, WVU @ PSU) like NBC didn't air a metric-ton of commericals.

Could be good, since NBC has some B1G games this year, of course.

The other 2 games I watched yesterday: Colorado @ TCU on FOX was a torture-fest.  I attended the Coastal Carolina @ UCLA game at the Rose Bowl: that was an ESPN broadcast and it felt like they were in-between FOX and NBC in terms of number of commercials.

My dad always says,”The answer is money. What is the question?”

Having so many commercials is stupid. The people in the stands won’t see them, people record the game and fast forward through the commercials or if they watch the game live, during the break they flip over to another game or get up to do something and not watch the commercials.

The only time people seem to care about commercials is during the Super Bowl, and those have been disappointing lately 

Maybe if a protest could be organized, where enough fans turn off the games at the start of the 2nd quarter and leave it off for an hour it would put pressure on the rules committee and networks to stop diluting the game with commercials.

Or maybe enough people will just stop watching games that don't involve their school 

"I just don't have the will to sit in the 85 degree sun for 4 hours to see 30 minutes of football anymore."

Unfortunately, this needs to be done for 3 non-con games and at least 1 league games. (Almost every year.) However, these are the games where you bring the kids and establish the tradition of them loving Michigan Football, the University, and Ann Arbor. Get them started by watching the "Band Take The Field" and then watching the Team running onto the field listening to The Victors. Goosebumps will happen.

It is tough, but it has to be done. With the Big 10 expanding, it may eventually be 2 games a year instead of 4 games per year.

GO BLUE!!!

Shorten baseball. Not football 

I had season tickets for numerous years (4 seats) straight but stopped purchasing after the 2019 season (decision was made pre-pandemic, but only by a few months).  I still feel comfortable with the choice.

This is a big negative for JH style of play

One thing I didn't realize is that not only is the clock running on first downs, but it's running on plays that go out of bounds without the pause. According to what I just saw and heard on the lsu vs fsu broadcast.

I like none of it. I enjoy the game and all it brings. The game yesterday was neverending awful PEACOCK commercials. They didn't even have enough commercials so we got that garbage... Be back soon bullshit.

Yes this was a completely stupid corporate bullshit rule change.

Does this exclude special teams plays? I looked up the average plays per game last year recently and it was closer to 160/game.

Regardless, sad to see the solution to shortening games be playing less football and not showing fewer commercials. 

Here’s the truth for me as an alum, with season tickets from the day I stepped on campus all the way through almost 2 decades to today:

I love everything about the gameday experience, but what I like the least is the game. I love tailgating with my mgobrother and bringing our spouses and 5 kids between us. It’s the best. The games though have become a drag on the fan. I think of the freezing slog games of night game Indiana, Nebraska last year, and our embarrassing OOC schedule and it’s a rough go. We got home at 6:00 yesterday and I was shot; and my favorite part of the day wasn’t even the game. I start to think meeting up with my brother and his kids and have our kids play all game and watch the game in A/C would be more enjoyable at this point for most games.

And yet, it becomes worth it when games like 42-27 happen; there is the trap 

Well this isn't my hill to die on, or to make a buck on, but if it was...

Make a website, heck, make it a weekly Diary here. Post all the advertisers who advertised nationally for NCAA CFB games AND post their competitors who offer similar products but who didn't advertise. (Please buy the competition and don't buy the advertisers). An argument could be made from a purely practical standpoint that the company who doesn't advertise in the space may actually have the superior product and may not be paying extra overhead for advertising and could pass some of that on to ensure competitive pricing. Enough people start tweeting this or sharing it on social media, I think some serious conversations would be had at that sorry excuse for a corporate headquarters in Indianapolis.

This sucks. I'm a big in person game watcher, and I'm constantly trying to convince people it's better to be there. This just makes it that much harder

I’ve seen a million numbers on this 

What else is new? They're doing everything they can to maximize profit and fans are doing doodley squat in response. The college football powerhouses aren't afraid for their jobs, or afraid of fans ability to effect their profits. They're not afraid, period.

I won't mention the Citizenry of the U.S and their ability to hold federal politicians responsible for doing their jobs and keeping their promises in general because of the board's general policy on politics, but I have little hope that college football fans will do jack to change things in the college football world. Oh, they'll discuss which coaches are in "hot seats" ad nauseam. But they won't make the people in positions of power over college football fear for their jobs and the profits of their entities. 

You present interesting data in a concise manner and then make some interesting points in the first following paragraph. Pretty good. I don't know what to make of that second paragraph though. "Hanging out at home while drinking cheap beer" and "eating cheap food" definitely helps the "feeling pretty old" and "will to sit" make more sense. I feel for you man, I really do. 

College football fans effecting changes in regards to "advertising"? And the dumping of feces onto those who pay money to sit in the stadium in order for people at home to delay the game watching advertisements? I'm trying to keep a straight face, I truly am.

Said this was going to happen when all of the NFL slappies were talking about how this is a great rule.

Also, this is going to hurt Michigan more than it hurts teams who throw the ball a lot.

Fewer plays to wear you down with the run and more commercials that let you rest.

It going to hurt fans of Michigan and other running teams because their games will be significantly shorter.

If you root for an Air Raid team you're going to get incomplete passes and guys getting knocked out of bounds along the sideline. Meanwhile, Michigan is going to be running it up the middle.

It's all bad.

I end up having the mute button on so frequently that I forget to turn it on and I end up tuning out of the games.

CFB is circling the hole at the bottom of the toilet.  But at least we got these last few years as a solid send off.

It will be interesting to see what effect this has on individual game and season stats and records.