re: SEC alters overtime rules to avoid another 7-OT game like A&M-LSU marathon

That was the best game I've ever seen.

Was watching craziness of 7 ot game at a bar, everybody there watching the game not the band playing. It was fun, dramatic & crazy to see basketball scoring numbers on both sides.
Its what makes fall Saturdays the best time of the year.

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Best way to avoid lengthy OT is no extra points in overtime.

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Wouldn’t that make it longer?

I always thought the logic was that as fatigue, dehydration etc. wore on, players were more at risk to make errors that would result in more serious injuries.

I mean, I doubt we see many 7 OT games, and maybe 4 OT is arbitrary but I can see where the concern comes from.

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I always thought the logic was that as fatigue, dehydration etc. wore on, players were more at risk to make errors that would result in more serious injuries.

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Maybe, but there's a counter argument to that, which is that players as they get more fatigued are less capable of hitting the high rate of speeds/forcible impact that typically drive major injuries.

My prior comment that they responded to was specifically calling out that there were only 5 SEC games in history that would have been impacted by this rule change, and there was 15 years before this most recent one occurred.

It's just an odd knee-jerk "we have to do something" sort of rule change, when clearly, there is no reasonable standard to judge by that would say "this is going to happen often enough that we need a rule change for it". It is doing "something" for the sake of "something", meanwhile there are plenty of other things that could use re-working that they didn't and won't touch...

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The new SEC rule has to do with overtime scoring and requires each to employ a two-point try beginning with the fifth overtime period

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Why take that long? I’d put it at 2 tops

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Or they could just, yunno, ensure that the refs are somewhat competent and avoid such boondoggles in the future.

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Take your loss like a man.

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Or, you know, your kicker should actually make his field goals in regulation to avoid overtime entirely.

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Yeah, great idea. Just make sure the players don’t leave the game in a tie. Only aggy could insinuate something so stupid.

I’m so sorry that we keep de-legitimizing one of your program’s crowning achievements.

Line up at the fifty yard line. You get ONE play, then a field goal attempt or second and final play. First team to outscore the other one wins.