College football introduced a new rule this season, but the biggest debate over the rule has nothing to do with the change itself. Instead, we can’t seem to agree on what to call it.
Is it the “two-minute timeout” or the “two-minute warning”?
The name of college football’s stoppage at the two-minute mark of the second and fourth quarters has become such a pointed issue that even the TV announcers have poked fun at the “timeout” term, compared to the “warning” the NFL has used for decades.
“There is a new two-minute timeout. We’ve been asked not to call it a warning,” ESPN’s Rece Davis said during the broadcast of the USC-LSU
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