I just read an article recently (and I can't find it now) that game times have increased by about 15 minutes in the last 10 years or so. To me, that's substantial. My personal experience bears that out, too.
If true (and it's not in our case), then time has increased 11%. In the last 10 years, game fees have climbed 15% in Georgia, so officials are now getting paid MORE per hour than before!
Get rid of the ridiculous mandatory 3 minute warm up. Mandate halftimes of no more than 15 minutes. Make sure your mechanics have the kickoff coming in more than 60 seconds after the try. Set the ball in 12 seconds from the end of the last play. Allow officials to get a new ball from the ball boy as soon as the play ends and let ball boys chase incomplete passes. There are plenty of ways to "speed up" a game that don't require new timing rules.
These questions were on the list for discussion, so I'm not the only one asking the questions.
So were allowing a fair catch on kickoffs that bounce once, allowing balls to be spiked from a shotgun, eliminating face guarding, changing dead ball contact fouls to be USC instead of PFs, automatic first downs on PFs, dead balls fouls on both teams offsetting, previous spot on defensive fouls in the offensive backfield, and numerous others.
Why? Because they are NCAA rules, not because they are right for FED. There are many FED people that want FED to be more like the NCAA. That doesn't make them good ideas.