We're built differently from some other teams. We're typically not running 90 plays a game. "We have the ability to go fast, but we'll also slow it down quite a bit. You can't tell people to stop throwing the football, but it will be different. There have been studies, and the longest football games are the ones with the most incomplete passes and the most instant-replay reviews. "Most coaches pay attention to the clock, but you don't really get into the clock until the last couple of minutes of each half, which will not be affected. "I don't think it's going to be too radical," Beamer said. The Gamecocks ranked 84th nationally last season with 832 offensive plays. South Carolina coach Shane Beamer, who was at the Convention Center last Tuesday as the featured speaker at the Friends of Scouting Luncheon, is taking somewhat of a wait-and-see approach as well. Tennessee averaged 7.23 yards per play, which ranked second to Ohio State, but its total plays ranked 32nd in the country and 16th among teams that played 13 games. ![]() The Vols ran 945 plays during their 11-2 season that culminated with a 31-14 downing of Clemson in the Orange Bowl. "It shortens the game, so we'll see what type of changes it actually has on the number of possessions and that type of thing." "It's not going to change how the game is played for any offense or any style," Tennessee coach Josh Heupel said late Monday afternoon before his appearance at the Big Orange Caravan inside the Chattanooga Convention Center. Sports Illustrated reported that the average FBS game last season contained 180 plays compared to 155 in NFL contests and that a running clock after first downs would peel off seven to nine plays. The NCAA announced April 21 that clocks will no longer stop following first downs except for the final two minutes of each half, which will apply at the Bowl Subdivision, Championship Subdivision and Division II levels. ![]() It has everything to do with fewer plays. The Tennessee Volunteers will be hard-pressed to match last season's averages of 525.5 yards and 46.1 points that led all of college football, and it has nothing to do with the departures of Hendon Hooker, Jalin Hyatt, Cedric Tillman and Darnell Wright.
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