Remember tie games?

SEC Opinions - Do you remember tie games?

Roll Tide Crimson Tide 

     I wonder what the mood of those anti-Alabama voters would have been if overtime was eliminated from college football? Both LSU and 'Bama would have 11-0-1 records. The entire football world would have been clamoring for a re-match. Well, that is exactly what happened earlier in the season except for some silly and I want to ad un-manly change of the rules. Back in the day teams fought each other for 60 minutes and if the game was a tie it was tie. You would walk off the field with your opponents, not unlike brothers in arms, who had fought a vicious battle and lived to talk about it.

     Now we have overtime if the two teams are tied at the end of regulation. You have another coin toss, a receive or defend option. Two teams who fought for 60 minutes mano y mano are relegated  to a lucky bounce or a penalty which might decide the outcome. What a silly rule overtime has become. Not only do you have an overtime but at times you have two, or three, or four, and on rare occasions five. Tired players are more easily hurt. Tired players don't always make for good football. The fans want resolution but overtime (IMO) is not the way to do. If you play 60 minutes Mano y Mano and play dead even the game should be over. Both teams can walk off with their heads held high or at least not hanging. 

     This season had Bama and LSU tied it would be the most monumental game in college football history. We would have none of this spinning that Oklahoma State should be in the BCS National Championship game. The only thing that would matter is that neither team had a loss and played to a tie. None of this whining and regional bias. None of this lets attitude of   punishing Trent Richardson because 'Bama backed into the national championship game.

I know this position is old school. That's okay. New isn't always better. Progress is an opinion of thought.  Alabama getting another shot at beating LSU is big. It could have so much more. Just to make my position clear - Oklahoma State is not in the same league as Alabama or LSU. I think they may be more like Georgia. Besides anyone who has a quarterback who is old enough to have grandchildren is as silly as overtime.