Wisconsin exploits new college kickoff clock rules

[Kramer.]

At the end of the first half, UW scored a TD to go up by 7 with about 20-25 seconds left.
On the kickoff, UW had everybody offsides by 5-10 yards when the ball was kicked. 5 yard penalty rekick, but now there's only 14 seconds left.
On the next kickoff, they do the same thing. Everyone is offsides by 5-10 yards. At the end of the return there's now 4 seconds left.
Then they squib it, and the half is over.
Nice work by UW to exploit the rules, but college football obviously has to do something about their clock rules if teams are intentionally committing penalties to their advantage.

[Evan]

Wow, that's a nice little trick. I'd like to see this if anyone can find a YouTube link or something.

[Needle77]

Ball State should have done that for the rest of the game.

[JackWhite]

Surprised nobody has done this before, not to mention committing offensive penalties that result in the clock being restarted after the ball is set. There was a post here a while ago talking about that one. NCAA needs to change the rules. Amazing that more coaches haven't taken advantage of these stupid rules. However, I have never put a lot of faith in the intelligence of coaches.

[Pinchot]

It probably should have been unsportsmanlike conduct after the second one and they should have put time back on the clock.

[MyTurn2Raise]

good move by Wisconsin, but what crummy rules

can't Penn St decline the offsides and take the return

I thought there was also the option to tack on the 5 to the end of the return

[TheRover]

I've always wanted to see a team exploit rules like this, but in a game like this its kinda lame.

[MacGuyV]

The announcers just said the refs could've put time back on the clock at their discretion.

[Austiger]

Wouldn't PSU have just run out the clock? The whole thing seems petty.

[bernie]

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Surprised nobody has done this before, not to mention committing offensive penalties that result in the clock being restarted after the ball is set. There was a post here a while ago talking about that one. NCAA needs to change the rules. Amazing that more coaches haven't taken advantage of these stupid rules. However, I have never put a lot of faith in the intelligence of coaches.

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Beat me to it.

Like false start penalties(clock running prior to snap). Clock runs after ball is spotted.

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