college game clock

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Originally Posted by cdoug

What was the previous one? I was just a fan then and always remember it starting on the snap once OOB. (But maybe at that point I wasn't paying close enough attention to what was going on.)

The clock is only a "normal" football clock in the last 2 minutes of each half. They pretty much adopted the NFL clock to keep the games around 3 hours. I think that it has something to do with this fad they call TV.

The only time that the clock starts on the snap outside of the last 2 minutes of the HALF is a Change of Possession, incomplete pass or a time out. If a player runs out of bounds prior to the last 2 minutes of the half, the clock starts on the ready.