College football is on the precipice of making a monumental change to the way the game is played, according to a report from CBS Sports. After more than five decades of the clock stopping after a first down is gained in college football, that mechanism is set to be eschewed.
A final decision will come from the Playing Rules Oversight Panel (PROP), which each year examines proposed changes to the rules from the NCAA Football Rules Committee. The rules committee recommended this timekeeping change in March.
The change in the rules will apply to all levels of NCAA football except for Division III, which recently announced a new, separate set of playing rules.