Hugh Freeze didn’t appear to be too keen on the NCAA’s proposed rule changes that could go into effect next season.

The NCAA Football Rules Committee earlier this month proposed a set of rule changes that are aimed to shorten the length of college games, the most notable of which would eliminate clock stoppages after first downs, except for inside the final two minutes of each half. The proposed changes will be voted on next month by the NCAA Rules Oversight Panel, and if approved would go into effect this fall.

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“I honestly don’t know,” Freeze said Monday when asked for his thoughts on the proposed changes. “We have such a great product, you know? When I’m sitting in those meetings and I don’t have much of a voice, I’ve—I’ve just said our game is…as exciting as any sport that is out there. I just hate to see us tinker with too many rules.”

Along with the running clock after first downs, which the NFL already does, the other proposed changes include eliminating the ability for a team to call consecutive timeouts to attempt to ice a kicker and having penalties accepted at the end of the first and third quarters enforced at the start of the following quarter as opposed to an untimed down at the end of the period.

The committee passed on a proposal that would have also kept the clock running after incomplete passes.

According to Freeze, the three proposals up for approval next month are anticipated to shorten games by six to eight plays.

“It shouldn’t affect it terribly,” Freeze said.

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Still, the proposed changes are meant to help shorten the length of college football games and reduce the number of plays in a contest with player health and safety in mind. Former Auburn coach Bryan Harsin mentioned multiple times last season, prior to his firing, that the average college football game lasts three hours and 24 minutes. Last season, FBS teams averaged between 59.1 (New Mexico State) and 89.2 (Texas Tech) plays per game, with national-champion Georgia (70.1 plays per game) representing the median among the 131 teams at this level.

Auburn last season averaged 69.5 plays per game, which was 77th nationally, while Freeze’s Liberty team was 51st at 71.9 plays per contest.

Georgia coach Kirby Smart, the co-chair of the rules committee, said earlier this month that the proposed changes are a “small step” toward reducing game length and will provide an opportunity for the NCAA to further review the potential impact of the changes. While Freeze doesn’t believe the college game needs any truly drastic changes at this time, he said the people whose time should be taken into consideration when it comes to such changes are the fans in the stadium.

Along with the player safety aspect, Freeze believes fan experience should be a priority.

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“The people sitting on their couches and that choose to do that, great, I’m glad they’re tuning in; we need that,” Freeze said. “But the ones that can get up and go get a beverage and another piece of sausage and cheese plate in their kitchen and come back during the commercial, we’re all sitting in there waiting for — so I never understood why we don’t just try to, on the front end, maybe adopt what every other sport is doing now, which is picture-in-picture and let’s just keep playing…. So, I don’t have an opinion yet, but I will after the season, I’m sure.”

Tom Green is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Tomas_Verde.