Here's the reason you didn't get anything done over the holidays. The total time chewed up by the 32 bowl games totaled 6638 minutes. In other words, 4.609 days! Marty from cfbstats provides us with this vital data. The average length of a bowl game was 3:27:26, compared to the length of the average regular-season game, which was 3:06.33, a difference of just under 21 minutes. CBS' telecast of the Sun Bowl hit the four-hour mark. Only the Fiesta challenged the Sun in length, and that game went to overtime. All the bowls were longer than three hours with the exception of the Champs, which missed the three-hour mark by a minute.#....Bowl................................................Network...Length
1....Sun (Oregon State-Missouri).........................CBS.......4:00
2....Fiesta (Boise State-Oklahoma)......................Fox.......3:58
3....Motor City (Middle Tennessee-Central Michigan).ESPN......3:45
4....Emerald (Florida State-UCLA)......................ESPN......3:45
5....Insight (Texas Tech-Minnesota)....................NFL........3:45
6....PapaJohns.com (South Florida-East Carolina)....ESPN2.....3:42
7....Hawaii (Hawaii-Arizona State).....................ESPN......3:40
8....Independence (Oklahoma State-Alabama)........ESPN......3:38
9....Liberty (South Carolina-Houston)..................ESPN.......3:38
10...Music City (Clemson-Kentucky)....................ESPN.......3:35
11...Outback (Tennessee-Penn State)..................ESPN.......3:32
12...New Orleans (Rice-Troy)...........................ESPN2......3:31
13...Alamo (Texas-Iowa)................................ESPN.......3:30
14...Las Vegas (Brigham Young-Oregon)...............ESPN.......3:28
15...Orange (Louisville-Wake Forest)...................Fox........3:28
16...Capital One (Arkansas-Wisconsin).................ABC........3:27
17...MPC Computers (Miami-Nevada)...................ESPN.......3:26
18...Gator (West Virginia-Georgia Tech)..............CBS.........3:26
19...Holiday (Texas A&M-California)...................ESPN.......3:24
20...BCS Title (Ohio State-Florida).....................Fox.........3:24
21...International (Western Michigan-Cincinnati)....ESPN2......3:22
22...Sugar (Notre Dame-Louisiana State)..............Fox.........3:19
23...Rose (USC-Michigan)................................ABC........3:18
24...Texas (Rutgers-Kansas State)......................NFL........3:17
25...Cotton (Auburn-Nebraska).........................Fox........3:17
26...New Mexico (New Mexico-San Jose State).......ESPN.......3:14
27...Armed Forces (Tulsa-Utah)........................ESPN.......3:13
28...Chick-fil-A (Georgia-Virginia Tech)..............ESPN.......3:12
29...Poinsettia (Northern Illinois-Texas Christian)...ESPN2.....3:11
30...GMAC (Ohio-Southern Mississippi)................ESPN.......3:09
31...Meineke (Navy-Boston College)...................ESPN.......3:06
32...Champs (Purdue-Maryland)........................ESPN.......2:59
2 comments:
Wow, look at how long those games were. Which is why I can't stand it when a network schedules two games back to back, leaving only 3 hours for the first game to finish in. I can't stand missing the first of half of my game!!!!!
With title sponsorship of bowl games, you will see 2, sometimes 3 commercials for the title sponsor each break. Then you have commercials from the local Chamber of Commerce promoting the smaller city the bowl is located in (i.e. Mobile during the GMAC bowl).
This will not end any time soon.
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