[Husker] College Football OT Rules

[Mike and Kelly Petersen]

I could see a team chosing to be on offense first if their defense had just
gone off the field after being exhausted from defending the opponent on a
long game tying drive.

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From: "Theodore Heise" <theo at heise.nu>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Husker] College Football OT Rules


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> > 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
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