Coaches in our section of the state two years ago decided to use the overtime procedure in order to assure there were no more tie games.

Does anyone else use the overtime procedure in the regular season?

Because Texas is under NCAA rules, we use the NCAA overtime procedure. I think the only time there is a tie is if the referee calls the game after four periods with the score tied and it can't be resumed (NCAA 3-3-3-d).

Ed,
We use it here in Section 1 in NY. They decided about 5 years ago to make it easier to set up the playoffs for the state tournament. I know you don't go from LI. We use the 20 yard OT proceedure. It's the same as the 10 yd. but you can get a first down.

Steve

Why would the Referee do this?

I have no earthly idea, but I was studying rules last night and saw that one. I am guessing that the game would be in overtime and either weather or some other major event would cause the game to be called with the score still tied.

In NC, we use the standard 10 yard OT procedure in conference games. In non-conference games, the coaches must agree prior to the game that they will play OT. If either doesn't want OT, then we don't play.

Over here in the Maui Interscholastic League, we do not use the overtime rules for preseason and regular season games unless the game is for the first round, second round, or league championship. Then we follow the NFHS 10 yard overtime procedures found in the rule book.

Our state association uses the normal NFHS overtime procedures for the state football championship tournament (8 teams, single elimination, over 3 weekends) except that play starts from the 20 yard line.

I would like to express my opinion and get feedback from everyone. I'd like to see a modified sudden death type of overtime procedure where you have the normal coin toss and free kick and rules applied. Play continues until one team scores and other team can't match the score on their following possession. Do other officials think this could be done or would it make the games too long?

In Illinois and Indiana...
 

...the standard NFHS 10-yard OT rules prevail during the regular season for the same reasons your state is initiating the use.

We also don't let the games end, unless one team forfeits or the game is called due to some extreme situation - usually to do with safety. A few years ago, lightening storms rolled trhough the area. We just waited until they subsided and the lightening detectors gave us the "all-clear" (2 hours later!).

Ed, what part/section of NY State do you work in?? This of course is my assumption that you do work football in NY.

We've be using an OT procedure in NY state since 1990. It started off with the NFHS suggested 10 yard version but it was changed to a 20 yard version about two, maybe three years ago.

Arkansas uses the FED 10 yard procedure and has been for at least 10 years.

We use a regular season OT procedure here in our OV (Ontario Varsity) league.

Coin toss called by the home team. They can choose offense, defense or an end. Teams take turns from the same 35. Each team shall be granted the same number of offensive series'. A score by the defense ends the game. Most points in your possession wins the game.

..Mike

I work section 11, Suffolk County, Long Island.

We started the 20-yard OT procedure four seasons ago in response to the problem of determining placement using power rating system when a tie occurs.

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Ed,

In NJ, we use Federation rules for HS ball. However, as allowed by NF rules, our state association adopted their own regular season OT procedure some years back. The one they adopted currently has the following features which distinguish it from the standard NFHS system: 1st and 10 from B's 25 yd. line, change of possession can result in a score and end the game, etc.). As far as I can determine it is exactly the same as the NCAA procedure.

In Georgia we play off all games when the two schools are of the same classification.
We use a somewhat outdated system of playing 2 five minute halves. It is quite interesting but usually ends up with a team winning by penetration and that is a big loser for the fans and players.
I have had many of these over the years.

South Dakota has used the NF overtime procedure (exactly by the book) at least since the 1984 season (as a senior I was involved in one). We started a playoff system in the 1981 season (Graduating Class of 1982) so that may have been why SD has always used it since I can remember.