Because there are way too many games pushing 3 hours. At the HS level, that's ridiculous.
Rich - The numbers provided by the NFHS do not to support your claim:
2017 NFHS Football Play-off Game Statistics SummaryTotal (not avg) length of all games reported from kickoff to final horn.Number of games reported is
italicized and in [
Brackets]
2007 - 2:20 [
567]
2008 - 2:19 [
675]
2009 - 2:19 [
783]
2010 -
2:15 [
737]
2011 - 2:18 [
819]2012 -
2:29 [
765]
2013 - 2:19 [
682]
2014 - 2:20 [
642]
2015 - 2:16 [
602]2016 - 2:17 [
415]
2017 -
2:15 [
506]
26 States participated in 2017 survey: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii,
Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana; Nebraska, Oklahoma,
Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virgina, Wisconsin, and Wyoming