We deserved to lose the game tonight, but the OT rules are absolute garbage in college football. A game like this should not come down to alternating single plays from the three starting in the third OT. Overtime rules have always been flawed, but they were better prior to 2019. Does anyone think this is the correct way to determine the best team on the field?

Spare me the "but what about the potential injuries?!" response. These guys are paid well now, and if we truly didn't want them to possibly be injured we'd ban football and pay them to play chess.

I mean, it's kind of our fault they changed the rules

We made it happen...

It find it laughable that in an attempt to speed up the game they force the teams to march from one endzone to the other to run two plays, after running two plays

Don't know why, it's just comical.

LSU made it happen by losing!!!!!

couldnt agree more. college football OT had a long standing reputation of being perfect. they should have never changed. the 7OT game actually disproved the injury theory

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but how OT transpired tonight was pretty much EXACTLY what the rules committee wants IF it doesn't end in the first or second one. The theory is that if the teams haven't settled the game by the third or fourth OT, even one bad play call or missed pass is enough to settle the game as the teams are shown they are that even. At least for that game.

Its extremely hard to argue with that logic. The game is about who makes the plays to win; not necessarily who is the better team, which is difficult to know in virtually all circumstances a college football game would even go into OT. We may have been a better overall team than Auburn, but we suck on the road against inferior competition and have ended up in OT vs. Auburn and getting blown out vs. SoCar.

The OP being pissed that we lost is nowhere near a good enough reason to change the OT format. He needs to come up with a BETTER system that resolves both POTENTIAL injury issues (one game doesn't prove anything) as well as game time. I personally would remove the try (extra point) from the first OT and eliminate the kicking game (Field Goals/Scrimmage Kicks for 3 points) altogether in the second. But the third one on with 2-point plays isn't going anywhere nor should it.

The bottom line is that most OT games are going to end with one team performing and one team missing. We missed. Get pissed about that -- not the format. ANY NEW FORMAT IS GOING TO BRING AN AGGIE OT LOSS EVENTUALLY. What are you going to say then?

My dislike of the system is not based on the result tonight.

Possessions at the 25 was a good snapshot of football. You need to drive the ball a bit, play against goal line defense, potentially kick a field goal. The 2 point play is exactly what it's called: one play. It's a poor representation of the game that was played for the previous 60 minutes. Who's to say they don't just make it a field goal contest, or who can punt the ball further, etc.