I've been thinking about garbage time lately, not because I'm considering another revision to my definition of garbage time, but because I'm curious to know if there is any insight to be gleaned from examining the relationship between non-garbage time and garbage time in more detail.
Readers may recall that I updated my criteria that distinguishes non-garbage possessions from garbage possessions this offseason. The changes weren't dramatic, but they did result in counting more drives as non-garbage than I had previously. Based on the new criteria applied to every FBS game from 2007 to 2017, 10.