Rece Davis wades into 2-minute warning vs. 2-minute timeout debate

Much has been made of the new two-minute timeout in college football and the phrasing and framing of it. Rece Davis has now addressed it too during his broadcast on Sunday.

Davis discussed the distinction at a timeout leading into the two-minute one in the second quarter of No. 13 LSU vs. No. 23 USC in Las Vegas. He noted the designation that they’re supposed to use regarding the name of the two-minute stoppage.

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“Remember too, as we start a new college football season – 2:36 to play here in the first half. There’s a new two-minute timeout,” said Davis. “We’ve been asked not to call it a warning. But, at two minutes, there’s a timeout, the clock stops at the end of each half in college football.”

Davis then referred to it as such at 36 seconds later when the timeout commenced.

“We have hit the two-minute mark here and the aforementioned two-minute timeout,” Davis announced.

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The two-minute timeout is one of many technological changes to the sport for this season. It’s the same break as that in the pros but is not to be referred to as such.

Most fans are going to continue to call it the two-minute warning regardless of how specific anyone is about it. However, while they’re aware of it too, the broadcasters are going to note it as the two-minute timeout as it continues into its debut season in the rulebook.

More on the new two-minute timeout

We all know what the NFL calls the automatic timeout either at the two-minute mark or at the first dead ball following the two-minute mark of the second and fourth quarters. It’s called the two-minute warning. That concept is coming to college football, but it will have a slightly different name.

“It’s the two-minute timeout,” McDaid said.

For all practical purposes, it will work the same as the NFL’s two-minute stoppage. Teams will have essentially an extra timeout to work with at the end of each half. In college, the clock will stop on first downs inside the two-minute timeout. That first-down clock stoppage happened inside the two-minute mark at the end of each half last year but this draws a bright line that ensures everyone knows when the stoppages come into play.