how long do college football games last total
The Wall Street Journal breaks down the latest numbers regarding the length of time it takes to play a 60-minute game, and college football continues to lag. So far this season the average college football games takes three hours and 20 minutes to play. A total of 201 games have already gone at least three-and-a-half hours. In 2008 the average game took nine fewer minutes to play and there were just four games all season that took more than four hours to play.
Football: Per the WSJ 2010 study, NFL games feature about 11 minutes of action. The amount of action in football games has been roughly the same since the early 1900s. There was roughly 13 1/2 minutes of action in 1912, and slightly less in the 2010 study.