The Lost Season

Marty of the terrific cfbstats has the latest numbers regarding how rule 3-2-5-e has impacted the time of games and reduced the number of plays. Of course, fewer plays mean less football and less scoring. And less football is not a good thing. We do want to thank everybody for trying to help us out regarding the time of the Toledo-Ball State game. Unfortunately, it appears no "official" time was logged on the game. So to keep the purity of the data, the time of that game has been left out. Here are the numbers:

Overall...G........Plays......Plays/G....Min.......Min/G......Time/G
2005......442.....74505.....168.56.....88468*....200.61.....3:20:37
2006......478.....72889.....152.49.....89066.....186.33.....3:06.20
* missing game duration of Toledo-Ball State 10/15/2005

Year......G........Points.....Pts/G
2005......442.....23174.....52.43
2006......478.....22585.....47.17

Year.......G......1H Pts...1H Pts/G...2H Pts....2H Pts/G...OT
2005......442...11694.....26.46......11179.....25.27.......310
2006......478...11746.....24.57......10522.....22.01.......317

Here are the shortest games from Week 8:
Air Force-San Diego State: 2:39
Tulsa-Memphis: 2:39
Buffalo-Ohio: 2:39
Oregon State-Arizona: 2:46
Stanford-Arizona State: 2:50
Tulane-Auburn: 2:50

Here are the longest games from Week 8:
Colorado State-Wyoming: 4:05
UCLA-Notre Dame: 3:35
Boise State-New Mexico State: 3:32
Alabama-Tennessee: 3:30
Hawaii-New Mexico State: 3:26