Number of Plays in a Game Down by 15

Marty from the site cfbstats is back with his statistical wizardry. He is helping us track the impact of rule 3-2-5-e, which is designed to reduce the time of games. The problem is, it's also reducing the number of plays, and anything that results in less college football is not a good thing. Especially when more and more commercials are interrupting play. Again, if you use any of this information, please give credit to cfbstats. It's a terrific site and if you want to see how your team is doing from a statistical standpoint, it's the only place to go.

Overall...G........Plays......Plays/G....Min.......Min/G......Time/G
2005......178.....29736.....167.05.....35593.....199.96.....3:19:58
2006......199.....30261.....152.06.....36988.....185.86.....3:05.52

Here are the five shortest games from Week 3:
Colorado State-Nevada: 2:25
Buffalo-Northern Illinois: 2:34
Western Michigan-Virginia: 2:40
Eastern Michigan-Northwestern: 2:42
North Texas-Tulsa: 2:43

Here are the five longest games from Week 3:
Kansas-Toledo: 4:00
Oklahoma-Oregon: 3:54
Brigham Young-Boston College: 3:50
Michigan-Notre Dame: 3:28
Furman-North Carolina: 3:27