The Changing World Of College Football

The last two weeks I have witnessed Carolina give up 68 and today the Wolfpack 62.  I don't know how Carolina fans felt last week but I gave a sigh of relief when the game was over because I thought Clemson was going to score 100.

Despite giving up 68 Carolina loses by 18 and today the Pack by 14.  In fact with ten minutes to go in the game Clemson fans still had thoughts they could lose the game.  I am not quite sure whether Big Four football is that bad or college football is  no longer four yards and a cloud of dust.

I find this new college game very exciting to watch but there will have to be rule changes made  to save the game.  Clemson score 62 points and had two passes intercepted.  State had a pass picked off in the Enzone and a blocked field goal.  Between them today they ran nearly 190 plays.  Very seldom in the NFL both teams run 120 between them.  That equates out to over half another game played today and it did not go over time.

I know most of you will think since I like State I say this but Mike Glennon should be the top quarterback taken in next years NFL draft.  He is a better passer than Philip Rivers, more mobile and when on the run can throw it 60 yards on the money.  If he had receivers who could catch there is no telling what his passing numbers could have been this year.  It is very easy to see why Tom O'brien didn't want Mike Glennon to leave last year and told Russell Wilson to take a hike.

How can college football be saved?  My answer would be to eliminate the stopping the clock after a first downs  except inside of two minutes in the half and at the end of the game.  Stopping the clock is the reason there were 190 plays today.  Since college football has a 25 second clock they are going to run more plays every game just because of that but with no stopping the clock after first downs today  they would have only gotten maybe 150 plays in.  If you look back when today's game was at 150 plays the score was still 55-38.

If the National Championship game comes down to Oregon and Kansas State you just might see for the first time in history that the loser scores 40.   Boy won't that be an exciting game.  Funny thing about exciting games is a 17-10 game can be just as exciting at least in a 17-10 game it looks like 11 going against 11 while a game like today looked 11 against 8.