The Long and Short of It

The Oregon-USC game ranks among the longest games of the week, reports Marty of cfbstats. Of course, this game had the bizarre instant replay incident, the "reversal of the previous reversal" that delayed play for 15 minutes. And four teams from the state of Michigan were involved in three of the shortest games of the week. What gives?

Overall...G.......Plays.......Plays/G....Min.........Min/G......Time/G
2005......594....100123.....168.56.....118642*....200.70.....3:20:04
2006......641.....97735.....152.47.....119550.....186.51.....3:06.31
* missing game duration of Toledo-Ball State 10/15/2005

Year......G........Points.....Pts/G
2005......594.....31092.....52.34
2006......641.....30384.....47.40

Year.......G.....1H Pts....1H Pts/G...2H Pts....2H Pts/G...OT
2005......594...15782.....26.57......14930.....25.13.......380
2006......641...15846.....24.72......14157.....22.09.......381

Here are the shortest games from Week 11:
Utah State-Nevada: 2:35
Navy-Eastern Michigan: 2:38
Western Michigan-Central Michigan: 2:40
North Texas-Louisiana Lafayette: 2:42
Michigan-Indiana: 2:44
Washington State-Arizona State: 2:44

Here are the longest games from Week 11:
Rice-Tulsa: 3:42
Pittsburgh-Connecticut: 3:41
Oregon-USC: 3:38
Texas-Kansas State: 3:29
Syracuse-South Florida: 3:29