{"id":409398,"date":"2026-01-14T20:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/409398\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T20:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:43:10","slug":"cfl-rules-committee-proposes-end-to-regular-season-tie-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/409398\/","title":{"rendered":"CFL rules committee proposes end to regular-season tie games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768423390_118_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJan 14, 2026 | 11:37 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>CALGARY \u2014 The CFL rules committee is proposing the elimination of tie games during the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>If a CFL regular-season game is tied after regulation time, a maximum of two overtime rounds are held with teams gaining possession at the opponent\u2019s 35-yard line.  Should the score remain even after two possessions, the game goes down as a tie in the standings.<\/p>\n<p>Under the rules committee proposal, if the score remains even following overtime, it would be decided by alternating plays from the opposition\u2019s three-yard line until one team scores and the other does not.<\/p>\n<p>CFL playoff games, if tied after regulation, currently go to the two-possession overtime format. If the contest remains even after those possessions, overtime continues until a winner is determined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Canadian Press Jan 14, 2026 | 11:37 AM CALGARY \u2014 The CFL rules committee is proposing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-409398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409398","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=409398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}