{"id":178060,"date":"2025-09-29T16:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/178060\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:16:08","slug":"what-is-the-overtime-rule-the-nfl-adopted-for-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/178060\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the overtime rule the NFL adopted for this season?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Micah Parsons’ much-anticipated return to Dallas to face his former Cowboys teammates ended with a 40-40 tie<\/a> and the rare walk-off game-tying field goal.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys’ Brandon Aubrey and Green Bay’s Brandon McManus traded short field goals in overtime Sunday night, and Parsons\u2019 only sack played a role in keeping Dallas out of the end zone in the extra period. It was the second time the Cowboys played into overtime this season with both coming after 37-37 ties in regulation.<\/p>\n

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The first ended on a field goal by Aubrey in the final second of the 10-minute extra period that gave Dallas a 40-37 win<\/a> over the New York Giants. This one ended when McManus hit a field goal with no time remaining for the NFL’s first tie since 2022 and Dallas’ first in an overtime game.<\/p>\n

Ties could be more prevalent this season thanks to a tweak in the NFL’s overtime rule that didn’t play a role Sunday night but could in the future.<\/p>\n

What is the overtime rule for this season?<\/p>\n

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The league approved a proposal to make regular-season overtime more like the postseason, with both teams getting a chance at a possession, even if the team that gets the ball first scores a touchdown.<\/p>\n

The NFL instituted regular-season overtime in 1974, adding a 15-minute sudden-death period that ended on any score. In 2010, the rule was tweaked to a modified sudden death that required an opening possession touchdown to immediately end the game instead of only a field goal. That was in effect in both the regular season and the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Overtime then was shortened for the regular season to only 10 minutes in 2017. A rule change in 2022 for the playoffs gave both teams the chance to score even with a touchdown on the opening possession.<\/p>\n

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Now that’s the case in the regular season, after the improved field position on kickoffs made winning in OT on an opening possession TD easier.<\/p>\n

How did the previous rule work out?<\/p>\n

According to Sportradar, six of the 16 overtime games last season ended on an opening-drive TD for the most overtime games ended on the first drive since the rule change went into effect in 2010.<\/p>\n

In all, teams that won the overtime toss won 75% of the time last season, according to Sportradar, and had a .606 winning percentage in overtime since it was cut to 10 minutes.<\/p>\n

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The league kept the 10-minute overtime period instead of expanding it back to 15 minutes like was originally proposed by Philadelphia, which could lead to teams opting to go for 2 and a win if they match an opening-drive TD with one of their own since there might not be time for another possession.<\/p>\n

How rare was Sunday night’s OT?<\/p>\n

The game Sunday marked just the fifth time since the overtime rule was changed in 2010 that a game ended in a tie after both teams kicked a field goal.<\/p>\n

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It first happened in Week 13 of the 2013 season when Green Bay’s Mason Crosby and Minnesota’s Blair Walsh traded overtime field goals in a 26-26 game.<\/p>\n

It happened again the following season when Graham Gano matched Mike Nugent’s kick to give Carolina a 37-37 tie against Cincinnati. Arizona and Seattle traded overtime field goals in a 6-6 tie in Week 7 of the 2016 season and Detroit and Arizona did it in Kyler Murray’s first career start in 2019.<\/p>\n

According to the website Quirky Research<\/a>, McManus’ kick was the first walk-off field goal in a game that finished tied in the NFL since Pete Gogolak did it on the final play of regulation for the New York Giants against Philadelphia in Week 2 of the 1973 season in the last NFL game played at the old Yankee Stadium.<\/p>\n

Overtime was added to the NFL the following season and it took more than a half-century for another walk-off tie.<\/p>\n

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AP NFL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl<\/a><\/p>\n

Josh Dubow, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Micah Parsons’ much-anticipated return to Dallas to face his former Cowboys teammates ended with a 40-40 tie and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[5585,90613,67137,84770,49,48,10391,7236,8823,38387,25047,1043,13294,90612,1731,90614,2598,1728,514,90611,1518,64354,57194,7675,82,29822],"class_list":["post-178060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-arizona","tag-blair-walsh","tag-brandon-aubrey","tag-brandon-mcmanus","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cincinnati","tag-dallas","tag-detroit","tag-field-goal","tag-graham-gano","tag-green-bay","tag-kyler-murray","tag-mason-crosby","tag-micah-parsons","tag-mike-nugent","tag-minnesota","tag-new-york-giants","tag-nfl","tag-overtime-game","tag-philadelphia","tag-regular-season","tag-rule-change","tag-seattle","tag-sports","tag-the-cowboys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}