[Husker] College Football OT Rules

[Theodore Heise]

> A more interesting question would be whether any team has ever 
> chosen NOT to go on defense when it had the first option.  (The 
> team with the first option has two choices, it can select whether 
> to go on offense or defense or it can select which end of the 
> field to play on.)

This isn't really two choices, it's one choice from among four 
options.

Don't both teams go the same direction once that choice is made? 
If so, it's a pretty meaningless choice, unless a running team 
decides to force a passing team to head into a gale.

I remember splitting the last piece of cake with my brother as a 
kid.  My mother would assign one of to cut the cake in two, and the 
other to choose their half.  You never saw such careful cutting!

Perhaps choosing end of the field would be more meaningful if the
teams went opposite directions.

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Theodore (Ted) Heise     <theo at heise.nu>     Bloomington, IN, USA