I sure am. This last month before football stats is always pretty agonizing. But college games are less than a month away and the NFL teams have started mini-camps.

So I have to get my football news and updates by scouring the web… you can only read so much about how Reggie Bush apparantley does not hate New Orleans. So it was nice to cross an artice on The Wizard of Odds about the new Rule 3-2-5-e in NCAA football.

The old rules did not start the game clock after a change in possession until the ball is snapped. The new rule runs the game clock once the ball is placed by the officials. True this is only a few seconds, but estimates are that games will be shortened on average by 7, and up to 20 plays per game. Being a Michigan fan I can already put this into perspective. Last year’s last play victory over Penn State at the last second does not happen and Penn State goes undefeated, leaving three teams undefeated at season’s end. Still think it’s no big deal?

I can understand why they are doing this though. When 40% of last season’s games ended as a tie, I am sure they are attempting to shorten games by 20 or 30 minutes to shorten the game times and are essentially planning for overtime. It’s not enough that college football has become a gutless, with teams playing to get to overtime insead of going for the win, but now it seems that the NCAA is going to encourage this trend by adapting the rules. Next season you might as well have them start wearing skirts.