So I've never seen it happen, but if a game goes into overtime in the NFL, and on the first (and only) possession, the team with the ball bleeds the clock and kicks a field goal as time expires... do they win?
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- Thread starter 11thEagleFan
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I think so. But they don’t win until the clock runs out. So if the FG goes through with like 1 second left, they still have to kickoff. I don’t think there is any rule that guarantees both teams get to have a possession.
They wouldn’t be winning it on their “first possession”, they’d be winning it because the clock ran out and they were ahead.
I think they would win. It’s the other team gets a possession time permitting.
The official answer is that they would play a 2nd OT only if it’s a postseason game. A regular season game cannot have anything beyond a single 10-minute overtime period.
