Ran across an article in today's WSJ ($) showing the substantial increase in average game time for college football games.  Rather interesting is the contrast with NFL games which are more or less the same length of time from 1995 until now.

The average length of college football games has increased steadily since 2008. But after two years that produced the longest non-overtime games in the sport’s history, this season is on pace for yet another uptick. Through two weeks, the average game has lasted 3 hours and 26 minutes, according to Stats LLC, which is 15 minutes longer than the 1996 season, 20 minutes longer than the 2006 season and even four minutes longer than the record-breaking suffering of the 2014 and 2015 seasons.

 The article recognizes three programs as being part of the longest games over the past couple years.  Baylor is the main reason, they postulate, however, do you recognize the other two teams:

Last season, of the hundreds of schools that play major college football, Bowling Green’s non-overtime games were the longest, clocking in at 3:39. Not far behind was Tulsa at 3:36 and then Baylor at 3:34. Baylor, though, was partly to blame for both Bowling Green and Tulsa: All three schools used the Baylor offense to put up ginormous statistics that dragged out their games.

I thought the last two weeks' games took forever, and not just because of the weather delay.

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