By Dennis Dodd, CBS Sports: A simple spat over a football rules change has turned into a referendum on the primacy of major-college football itself.
A rule change allowing the clock to run following first downs — outside of the last 2 minutes of each half — was approved for Division I and Division II last month. That ended the practice of first-down clock stoppages that dated back to 1968 and served as one of the most notable rules that made the college game distinctive from that in the NFL.
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