Adding timeAccording to NFL rules, in the 10-minute overtime period: “Each team must possess, or have the opportunity to possess, the ball. According to the Stathead database, there have been a little over 160 overtime games under the current rules for winning in overtime (including the postseason). In college football, each team — regardless of who wins the overtime coin toss — gets a chance to go on offense from the other’s 25 yard-line in the first overtime. Calling for changeWhile Allen didn’t immediately express disappointment at the overtime rules, there wasn’t a shortage of players, past and present, chiming in in his absence. “Great game by both teams but the overtime rules have got to change!!

Source: CNN January 24, 2022 19:49 UTC