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Originally posted by gtw179
Rule 3 Section 6 Art.3 States when a team attempts to conserve or consume time illegally, the referee shall order the clock started or stopped. In this case the Referee would certainly order the clock stopped.
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Not sure about NCAA, but for high school rules its even more simple than that: "The clock shall start with the
snap...if the clock was stopped because the penalty for a delay of game foul is accepted." (3-4-3i) So if the 25-second count is allowed to expire the referee does not have to invoke 3-6-3 because the clock will not start until the snap anyway. 3-6-3 is designed to handle other situations such as a player who throws an illegal forward pass with the intent of (illegally) conserving time, or a player who holds the tackled runner down in an attempt to consume time.