re: Do we get the opening possession of second half?

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Good try but you’re wrong. In football if a team doesn’t receive the ball the first half, they Automatically get possession the second half

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That's not how it works. If you win the toss you have the option to defer to the second half, or decide whether you want to kick, recieve, or defend which end of the field. If you defer to the second half, you get to pick between those things in the second half instead of the first.

Which is why, when a team defers the other team always take the ball as their option. If they wouldn't the other team would take the ball, and then have the option to pick first in the second half, and take the ball again. This actually has happened to a Les Miles team, where they didn't get the ball to start the first or second half.


Learn your rules. This isn't Madden.

And on topic, the winner of the jump ball does not determine possession in the second half, unless there is not a jump ball in the first half.