{"id":408146,"date":"2026-01-14T07:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/408146\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T07:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:20:09","slug":"cfl-rules-committee-recommends-leaving-late-half-clock-unchanged-eliminating-ties-in-overtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/408146\/","title":{"rendered":"CFL rules committee recommends leaving late-half clock unchanged, eliminating ties in overtime"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Photo courtesy: David Friederich\/B.C. Lions<\/p>\n

The CFL rules committee has made two recommendations for 2026, the league has confirmed to 3DownNation. TSN was first to report the news.<\/p>\n

The first recommendation is in regards to the game clock.<\/p>\n

The league is changing to a 35-second running play clock for 2026, though the rules committee is recommending leaving the clock unchanged for the final three minutes of the first and second halves.<\/p>\n

If approved, this would mean the league keeping a 20-second play clock that must be whistled-in by an official for the final three minutes of the second and fourth quarters.<\/p>\n

The rules committee\u2019s second recommendation is to eliminate ties in overtime.<\/p>\n

Under the league\u2019s current rules, regular-season games have a maximum of two rounds of overtime, at which point the game ends in a tie if the score remains even.<\/p>\n

The rules committee is recommending that if the game is still tied after two rounds of overtime, the game is then decided by alternating plays from the opposition\u2019s three-yard line until one team scores and the other does not.<\/p>\n

Since 2016, the CFL has had four regular-season games end in a tie. Two of these games occurred in 2024.<\/p>\n

The rules committee\u2019s recommendations are subject to approval from the league\u2019s board of governors.<\/p>\n

In September, the CFL\u2019s board of governors voted unanimously to change several rules<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2026, a single point will no longer be awarded when a missed field goal goes wide of the uprights or a kick sails through the back of the end zone without being touched by a returner. Team benches will also no longer be permitted to be on the same side of the field.<\/p>\n

For 2027, the field will be shorted to 100 yards with 15-yard end zones. The uprights will also be moved to the back of the end zones.<\/p>\n

CFL commissioner Stewart Johnston will speak to the media on Wednesday from Calgary, where the league is currently holding its offseason winter meets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo courtesy: David Friederich\/B.C. Lions The CFL rules committee has made two recommendations for 2026, the league has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[166835,166836,49,48,7028,521,522,520,21008,119924,527,123129,4553,170991,82],"class_list":["post-408146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-3down","tag-3downnation","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-changes","tag-clock","tag-football","tag-overtime","tag-rules","tag-rules-committee","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408146","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=408146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}