Why College Football Is Calling The Two-Minute Warning The Two-Minute Timeout Instead

The two-minute warning officially made its debut in college football this weekend.

Well, sort of.

College football fans were taken aback over the weekend when they reached the two-minute mark of the second quarter of Georgia Tech’s victory over Florida State.

The referee for the game, Jerry Magallanes, blew his whistle, turned on his mic and announced that it was now time for the “two-minute timeout.”

I’m sorry, the what now?

"Two-minute timeout" is dumb!

It is the two-minute warning…

— Grayson Weir (@GsonJW) August 24, 2024

“Two-minute timeout” is stupid, just call it a two-minute warning

— James Darden (parody) (@jwdarden94) August 24, 2024

Whoever decided to call it the “Two-Minute Timeout” instead of the Two-Minute Warning should be required to meet the fullback in the A gap.

— David Heitz (@DavidJHeitz) August 24, 2024

As you can see, fans weren’t exactly fans of the ridiculous new terminology.

I am not calling it the two-minute timeout

— no context college football (@nocontextcfb) August 25, 2024

Just call it the 2 minute warning pic.twitter.com/R8TUCv0YRR

— Pregame Empire (@PregameEmpire) August 25, 2024

What are you calling it?

— Tom Fornelli (@TomFornelli) August 25, 2024

So, what gives? Everyone universally understands what the two-minute warning is. It has existed in the NFL for decades. So why did college football feel the need to change it?

Chris Vannini of The Athletic revealed that “when the NCAA announced the ‘2-minute timeout,’ I asked coordinator of officials Steve Shaw why they didn’t use ‘warning.’ He said because it’s not a warning like it originally was created for in the NFL. I said, ‘OK but everyone is going to call it the two-minute warning.'”

Vannini did not say whether Shaw had a retort. But clearly, he was correct about the name “two-minute warning” sticking. And it feels like a case of college football trying to reinvent the wheel.

Several fans worried that the new stoppage play would just lead to more television timeouts. But as Vannini reports, it’s led to the exact opposite.

“So no, the two-minute warning is not adding extra TV timeouts,” Vannini writes. “It may not always be noticeable, but it will help game flow earlier in quarters, when broadcasters will feel less pressure to jump to commercial. But every time that stoppage arrives with two minutes left, fans are still going to be unhappy.”

As for the verbiage, that won’t change anytime soon. College football is sold on “two-minute timeout.” But we’re not calling it that no matter how hard they try.

 

 

 

 

 

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