Just waaaaah, sir. The only way the rules could have won you that game is if Tech vs. Texas was the only game of the year played under a make-it-take-it format, and even then only if you scored first.

The out of bounds rule sucks.

I do like the new play clock rule. One less way that refs from Austin can help Mack Brown win.

Heaven forbid if FOX ever got control of SEC CFB – we’d be deluged with simultaneous small inset screen PrisonBreakSimpsonsfamilyGuy commercials during a 4th and 1 late in the 4th in the UGA/UF game, not to mention the looming vacuousness of Thom Brennerman every weekend instead of Verne.

Because they pay millions upon millions of dollars for the right to broadcast the games and the commercials make the investment worthwhile. They’re annoying, but the conferences aren’t going to restructure their deals so the networks pay less, and the networks aren’t going to turn down ad revenues for our convenience. The only way that would change is if we stopped watching, and we all know that isn’t going to happen.

Why does CBS have to take a prolonged TV timeout after a score, come back for the kickoff, then take ANOTHER prolonged TV timeout before the first play is run? In the UT/UF game that would have saved like an hour!

That’s only true if they are able to run off 40 seconds before first down. If a team gets the ball, 1st down, while the clock is stopped (i.e. after change of possession), then they can only run off 2:00 (40 seconds after 1st down, again after 2nd down, again after 3rd down), plus the time that runs during the plays.

Actually, end-of-game situations are the one area where I actually *like* the 40-second clock proposal. Takes matters out of the hands of home-conference refs, and you don’t have situations where slow-footed zebras are taking 25-30 seconds to spot the ball and start the play clock after a kneel-down or one-yard fullback dive.