![]() Five of the seven teams received at least one first-place vote in the Sun Belt Conference Football Preseason Coaches Poll and the top four teams were separated by a total of only 10 points-James Madison with 78, App State with 75, Coastal Carolina with 71 and Marshall with 68. McDaid spoke to the media on Wednesday, prior to the head coaches and student-athletes from the seven schools in the Sun Belt East Division-a division that is wide open in all of the preseason projections. They understand what we don’t want in the game, and they’re doing the things to get the head and neck out of collisions in the game.” “You ask me what’s the explanation for that, to me it’s clearly the behavior of the athletes has changed. “Overall, there was a 68 percent reduction in targeting per game in just a two-year span.” “We had a 35 percent reduction in targeting per game across the FBS from 2020 to 2021, and a 25 percent reduction from 2021 to 2022,” he said. A controversial rule change a few years ago, McDaid said that targeting calls were again reduced by a significant amount last season and were only a small part of the average 14.1 penalties called in FBS games. McDaid was almost relieved when the topic of targeting came up. Untimed downs in penalty situations at the end of each half will continue. The other new regulations that could affect game times this year are the prohibition of teams calling back-to-back timeouts in the same dead-ball situation-“You’re not going to ice the kicker with two timeouts anymore,” he said-and a change that will eliminate untimed downs due to penalties at the end of the first and third quarters. He expects the revised clock rules, each in place to increase player safety, will shorten games by only four or five plays per game. Three hour and 45-minute games are what we don’t want.”įBS games averaged 178.3 plays last year, the lowest in five years, but McDaid said that the difference over those years has been only four plays. ![]() “What they’re concerned about, and what we’re concerned about, is the average number of plays in those games. “When I listen to the schools, the chancellors and presidents, the athletic directors, when I listen to the teams and our fans and our coaches, 3:21 a game’s not bad,” said McDaid, whose data shows that FBS games have averaged between 3:16 and 3:24 over each of the past five years. Beginning this season, the clock will not stop when a team picks up a first down inbounds except in the final two minutes of each half. One change in particular will be readily apparent to college fans-and could result in game times being slightly shorter than last year’s average of three hours and 21 minutes across all of FBS football. For John McDaid, that’s a good thing.īut the Sun Belt Conference’s Coordinator of Football Officials did provide an update on the few rule adjustments in place for the upcoming season during Day 2 of Sun Belt Football Media Days on Wednesday at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel. Story Links NEW ORLEANS - Anyone looking for major changes in college football rules for the 2023 season will be disappointed.
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