OT Question

[don16954]

Our IHSA crew worked two overtime games this past weekend, one varsity (10/18 - 1 OT) and one JV (10/21 - 4OT). We agree with the way you handled the choices, as that is the same way we offered the choices. In the JV game, after the first toss, the winning team was offered defense, offense or end of field. For the second-fourth, the choice alternated between the proper captains, and the choices remained the same, offense, defense or end of field, per 10-Yard Line Overtime Procedure (2002 Rules Book pp.74-750, in particular 5-1-1, paragraph 6.

As to the timeouts, our crew reads the rule as the TO's accumulating all remaining TO's from the second half, plus each OT. Hence in the 1OT, the home team had 1 TO, as they had used all their TO's at the end of the 4th Quarter trying to score, and the visiting team, having used no TO's, had 4 TO's; in 2OT, Vistitors, still not using any, had 5 TO's, Home had 2TO's as they did not use the one awarded for the 1OT.