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"The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel on Thursday approved a change to overtime rules for the 2021 football season.

Teams will be required to run a 2-point conversion play after a touchdown when a game reaches a second overtime period. Previously, a 2-point attempt was required after the third overtime period.

Also, if the game reaches a third overtime, teams will run alternating 2-point plays, instead of starting another drive at the opponent’s 25-yard line. This is a change from the previous rule, which started to use 2-point plays in the fifth overtime period."

Seriously, just bring back ties. Worked just fine for 100 years.

I'm all for it to shorten games. It's an unfair comparison but an NFL game is over when the next is ready to start. I don't have to miss the first half of the first quarter. College football, it seems, constantly runs longer and you're left with listening to the game until the previous one is done. College basketball is even worse.

Good rule change ... fewer plays, fewer injury opportunities. As long as each team gets a fair chance, I am fine with it.

There had been a lot of dissatisfaction with ties for years, but the 1966 season brought it to a national concern. In Notre Dame's game with Michigan State, Ara Parsigian deliberately played for a tie based on obviously political type decisions. He had his team "let the air out of the ball" so that Sports Illustrated headlined "TIE ONE FOR THE GIPPER" on its cover. He knew that Michigan State was playing its last game of its season and Notre Dame still had one game left - with a relatively weak USC team the next week. Neither team could go to a bowl game. The only threat to Notre dame was the undefeated Alabama Crimson Tide, but he figured that with "Bloody Sunday" at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma still fresh in national outrage, he figured Bama could not get the backing to win the National Championship from his team. He was right.

(04-22-2021 09:30 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  There had been a lot of dissatisfaction with ties for years, but the 1966 season brought it to a national concern. In Notre Dame's game with Michigan State, Ara Parsigian deliberately played for a tie based on obviously political type decisions. He had his team "let the air out of the ball" so that Sports Illustrated headlined "TIE ONE FOR THE GIPPER" on its cover. He knew that Michigan State was playing its last game of its season and Notre Dame still had one game left - with a relatively weak USC team the next week. Neither team could go to a bowl game. The only threat to Notre dame was the undefeated Alabama Crimson Tide, but he figured that with "Bloody Sunday" at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma still fresh in national outrage, he figured Bama could not get the backing to win the National Championship from his team. He was right.

Who would have thought a tragic moment in the civil rights movement would prevent another championship for "Bear"

(04-22-2021 09:37 PM)C-Finder Wrote:  

(04-22-2021 09:30 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  There had been a lot of dissatisfaction with ties for years, but the 1966 season brought it to a national concern. In Notre Dame's game with Michigan State, Ara Parsigian deliberately played for a tie based on obviously political type decisions. He had his team "let the air out of the ball" so that Sports Illustrated headlined "TIE ONE FOR THE GIPPER" on its cover. He knew that Michigan State was playing its last game of its season and Notre Dame still had one game left - with a relatively weak USC team the next week. Neither team could go to a bowl game. The only threat to Notre Dame was the undefeated (and untied)

Alabama Crimson Tide, but he figured that with "Bloody Sunday" at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma still fresh in national outrage, he figured Bama could not get the backing to win the National Championship from his team. He was right.

Who would have thought a tragic moment in the civil rights movement would prevent another championship for "Bear"

Selma was a lot more than a "tragic moment" since at least two were murdered before and after the march. Rev James Reeb was bludgeoned with a length of pipe or a bat. No hospital in the area would admit him for treatment so he had to be brought to UAB Hospital ER in B'ham where he died. The other murder was Viola Liuzo who was shot while driving a marcher back to Selma from Montgomery. Three KKK stood trial for that killing.

And this has what to do with UAB athletics?

(04-23-2021 01:09 AM)blazers9911 Wrote:  And this has what to do with UAB athletics?

I am glad that all this happened before there was a UAB. We have that to be thankful for as we begin our second 50 years.

(04-22-2021 09:37 PM)C-Finder Wrote:  

(04-22-2021 09:30 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  There had been a lot of dissatisfaction with ties for years, but the 1966 season brought it to a national concern. In Notre Dame's game with Michigan State, Ara Parsigian deliberately played for a tie based on obviously political type decisions. He had his team "let the air out of the ball" so that Sports Illustrated headlined "TIE ONE FOR THE GIPPER" on its cover. He knew that Michigan State was playing its last game of its season and Notre Dame still had one game left - with a relatively weak USC team the next week. Neither team could go to a bowl game. The only threat to Notre dame was the undefeated Alabama Crimson Tide, but he figured that with "Bloody Sunday" at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma still fresh in national outrage, he figured Bama could not get the backing to win the National Championship from his team. He was right.

Who would have thought a tragic moment in the civil rights movement would prevent another championship for "Bear"

Must you quote him?
Other than that, the ignore function is amazing

Just win.