In regards to the clock.
If the ball carrier runs out of bounds, I was under the presumption the clock should stop.
I have seen at least 5 instances this year, 2 in the last moments of the game, where the clock kept ticking after a play ran out of bounds.
This week, it was a USC player that ran out of bounds when they were attempting to run clock, yet the -clock remained moving - effectively taking a huge chunk of time off. The week prior it was in the UCF game, where the clock remained ticking even though the ball carrier ran out of bounds.
If the clock stopped in both instances, and the rest of the game played out exactly the same - both Utah St. and Peen St. would have gotten the ball back with close to 30 seconds left, instead of not getting it back at all. (There is an obvious variable of it playing out exactly, but putting that aside).
Anyway, has there been a rule change, or did the clock worker "accidentally" fukk up that bad and nobody caught on in both instances. (Although the Peen St. coach was going off on the issue when it happened).