Anybody complaining about the length of the Texas-Texas Tech game? It was the third-longest game of Week 10, according to Marty Couvillion of cfbstats.com.
The 3:38 contest at Lubbock, regarded at the most entertaining game thus far in 2008, helped drive up the numbers in Week 10, including the all-important average number of plays a game. It was 135.54, second only to Week 7's 136.35.
Week 10 also had the season's highest time per game (3:15) and points per game (56.34).
Marty's weekly look at the average number of plays and time of a game for the past four seasons, plus the Week 10 numbers:
G Plays/G Time/G
2005 717 140.71 3:21
2006 792 127.53 3:07
2007 792 143.43 3:23
2008 509 134.62 3:11
Wk 10 50 135.54 3:15
The longest games of Week 10:
Pittsburgh-Notre Dame: 4:01
North Texas-Western Kentucky: 3:46
Texas-Texas Tech: 3:38
Temple-Navy: 3:36
Oregon-California: 3:35
Wisconsin-Michigan State: 3:34
Rice-Texas El Paso: 3:30
Tulsa-Arkansas: 3:30
The shortest games of Week 10:
Arkansas State-Alabama: 2:42
San Jose State-Idaho: 2:52
Washington-USC: 2:53
Tulane-Louisiana State: 2:53
Alabama Birmingham-Southern Mississippi: 2:54
Kent State-Bowling Green: 2:57
Washington State-Stanford: 2:57
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