(04-22-2021 08:17 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(04-22-2021 08:07 PM)Renandpat Wrote:  That is the main reason, but NCAA halftime is 20 minutes compare to NFL's 12 minutes plus every NCAA play is under review.

It's just a hunch, but I would imagine that the review process actually shortens college games relative to NFL games. On paper, it would seem that with every play subject to review that college games would spend more time under review, but my seat of the pants viewing feeling is that the opposite is true.

This is because the college system, with booth initiated review **, means reviews tend to occur smoothly. Whereas in the NFL, the coach-initiated stuff, with the red flag being thrown and then the refs consulting with the coach then announcing the review and then going under the hood ... it just all seems much clunkier and time consuming.

So I would bet that more overall time is spent reviewing NFL plays than college plays, even if more college plays are reviewed.

I wish the NFL would adopt the college review system.

** yeah, I know college coaches can initiate one review per game, but it's just one, and because they have to take a TO to use it, it effectively gets folded in to "time out" time.

You and me both. I also wish the NFL would adopt some kind of rule where any regular season game has to end with a winner, especially now since there's a seventeenth game. It doesn't have to be the College rule. Just something to ensure regular season games don't end in a tie. Please, NFL? (But hey, I guess that's wishful thinking on my part.)