College football has spent years studying ways to cut into the length of games, more recently reframing this quest as a matter of student-athlete health and safety — that trimming the length of games would also limit the number of plays, or "exposures," an athlete would face per game or over the course of an entire season.
This has become an increasingly important topic of conversation given future changes to the format of the College Football Playoff, which will expand in 2024 and could force one or more teams to play as many as 16 or 17 games in a given season.