[Hulk01]

Terry, thanks for the digging.

College football games used to have more plays.  The 2008 rule changes--to a running 40 second play clock and only brief stoppages on out-of-bounds plays--sped up the clock and cut down on the number of plays.  And back in Plunkett's day, a 55% completion percentage was pretty good, which meant there were a lot of incomplete passes to stop the clock.  In 1969. Stanford and its opponents averaged over 29 incomplete passes a game.  This year, that number was just over 22.

My memory, too, is that huddles were shorter and Plunkett didn't take much time before the snap.  if so, that sped up our pace and led us to running more plays, too. 

[Hulk01]

Terry, thanks for the digging.

College football games used to have more plays.  The 2008 rule changes--to a running 40 second play clock and only brief stoppages on out-of-bounds plays--sped up the clock and cut down on the number of plays.  And back in Plunkett's day, a 55% completion percentage was pretty good, which meant there were a lot of incomplete passes to stop the clock.  In 1969. Stanford and its opponents averaged over 29 incomplete passes a game.  This year, that number was just over 22.

My memory, too, is that huddles were shorter and Plunkett didn't take much time before the snap.  if so, that sped up our pace and led us to running more plays, too.