Players ejected for targeting in the second half of a college football game could be eligible to play the following game after an appeal through the conference office, if a recommendation handed down Friday by the NCAA rules committee is approved.
After four days of meetings in Indianapolis, the committee also recommended penalizing all open field blocks below the waist and creating an investigation process for allegations of a team faking injuries that could lead to conferences penalizing schools and coaches.
Recommendations need approval from the playing rules oversight panel in April.
The committee discussed changing how the game clock is managed to shorten games by both time and number of plays, but decided not to act.
The average FBS game was 3 hours, 28 minutes last season and included about 137 offensive plays.
Shaving time and plays out of college football games has become a discussion point recently as conference commissioners considered possibly expanding the playoff, a move…