Tuesday Play Tracking: Army-LSU Dropping Time Together Plus Miami Overtime

We got up, we got down, let's move some things around

I highly doubt anyone was as excited about LSU hosting Army as I was because it meant same time numbers and, in watching the game, a tight game. It was tight, too, 179 minutes. One of 2 games out of our seven teams that came in under 3 hours.

Of our 7 teams only 8 games for the season have hit under three hours.

52 games. 8 under 3. 15% of games under three hours.

Times are down across the board, except New Mexico, to varying degrees. However, still not hitting that 3 hour window that the NFL hits, even with the NFL rule changes.

Here’s last week:

And this week:

Alright so let’s see what we’ve got:

-Army and LSU so easy and both down on plays and time from a week ago. Army is speeding to a “same bat time, same bat place” outcome this season because that Army-Navy game is going to make up a lot of time for them that normal games do not.

-Miami played overtime. Up 4 minutes from last week but we have to figure out how those minutes matter and you all are smarter than me about how to do that with respect to spreadsheets.

-Michigan is up plays and time, again.

-Seems New Mexico is settling into, “we aren’t going to a bowl” world. I think game times and plays go up if they win soon and have a shot. 3 wins between the Nevada, UNLV, Boise State, Fresno State and Utah State games.

I think I am going to start earmarking the random slots check games this week so we can see if the game vs the network makes a huge difference.

Fox: Oregon-Utah

CBS: UGA-Florida

SECNet: Mississippi St-Auburn

NBC: Pitt-ND

And a bonus of Clemson-NC State on The CW.

All games that are not “primetime” but are in the window together and get to see what this looks like for them. Will compare to the games we have on our normal schedule of 7 teams and check those vs network as well.

More work but I think we can figure out who is really wasting time.

Cheers!!