At some point every cheapest fifa 16 coins Saturday, while watching a college-football game that seems like it started forever ago, you might think that games didn’t used to drag on for so long. It isn’t just your imagination: College-football games really are getting longer.
In the 2008 season, after the NCAA passed new rules meant to make games shorter, the average time of a regulation game was 3 hours and 11 minutes, according to Stats LLC. Since then, that number has ticked up almost every season. It peaked at 3 hours and 22 minutes last year, though this season is challenging for the record at 3 hours and 20 minutes.
It isn’t just that the typical game ends a few minutes later. What makes it worse is that a growing number seem like they’ll never end at all. Already this season, there have been 66 games that lasted for more than 3 hours and 30 minutes, and six epics that passed 4 hours. Ole Miss’s marathon win over Alabama on Sept. 19 was only the latest example. That game kicked off at 9:21 p.m. ET and finally ended 4 hours and 5 minutes later at 1:26 a.m. ET. It didn’t go to overtime but was still longer than the extended cut of “Gone with the Wind.”
College games seem to be even more of a grind compared with NFL games. This year, the average NFL game has taken 3 hours and 7 minutes, a number that hasn’t changed dramatically over the last two decades. Last year, only eight games lasted longer than 3 hours and 30 minutes, and www.utfifa.co none went above four hours. Since 1996, in fact, only four NFL games broke the four-hour mark a total that college football has already eclipsed this season.