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[QUOTE="Moontan, post: 1878769, member: 166"]
The Wall Street Journal has an article with this title on page D6 of its September 15 edition.

The article discusses the growing duration of college football games. So far this year, college games average 3:26, 20 minutes longer than in 2006. Meanwhile, NFL games have stuck around 3:08.

Some points of interest:
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[*]faster offenses lead to longer games (first down stops the clock, TDs lead to commercials). "the more exciting a team is, the more excruciating its games are"
[*]Last season, Bowling Green's non-overtime games were the longest, at 3:34
[*]Mentions Babers and that Syracuse would make this year's list of longest average game times. "His very first Atlantic Coast Conference game last week took 3:55 - longer than any Syracuse game in the previous three seasons."
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Point three is interesting, as it wasn't SU's successful offense that led to the long game time. Blame 'ville for that... both for scoring and for "cramping".
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