As the NFL tries in vain to perfect their overtime rules, college football stands above all other sports in litigating a tied game after the end of regulation.
I was in the stands, chortling with glee, as Ohio State and the North Carolina State Wolfpack went into overtime in 2003.
I'll distract myself from the reality that Philip Rivers is now retired from the NFL, meaning that the decrepit, shambling corpse writing this missive is roughly his age, by pointing out that our demand that college football end in a not-tie is a relatively recent adventure.
Those fans were dumb or at least short-sighted because they didn't understand what they were witnessing an evolution that would make college football alone stand out as one of the most purposefully weird endeavors in the human drama we call sports.Overtime periods consist of a two-possession series with each team getting one possession on offense and one on defense. The team on offense will always start at the designated 25-yard line .
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