October 25, 2021 • 13 mins
We knew it would and Saturday proved it, the new college football overtime rule sucks!
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(00:02):
Hey, everybody, welcome back intothe ark She experience. My name is
Arka and as you can tell,we're back in the car again because we
are doing more work on that project. But like I said, this thing
is getting closer to be able tobe revealed and it has talked about and
(00:22):
to really really be excited about,and I am pumped to do that with
you. So in the meanstime,content a big weekend this weekend in college
football. Despite what the naysayers saidabout the big giant spreads in the early
games and some of the games thatdidn't look nearly as attractive a star,
(00:45):
college football never fails. College footballnever fails to give us stuff that we
should be interested in, like Cincinnatiand Navy going much closer than it should
have, Illinois and Penn States goingto nine overtimes, and that's where we're
going to talk. By the game'stotal, it's forty five and a half.
(01:07):
How do you go to quote endunquote nine overtimes and still hit the
under easally? How How it's becauseof this new blasphemous overtime system. Okay,
so here's here's the rum. TheNCAA change the rules this offseason and
(01:30):
said, we were tired. We'retired of watching all of these children play
so many overtimes and just constantly gethurts. It's a pandemic. They said
(01:53):
that word, but they made agiant rule change as if this were some
kind of monster thing happening, asif multiple overtimes was a scourge and needed
to be stopped because it kept happeningover and over and over again. And
(02:14):
the truth is the stats are overtime'spretty rare, and multiple overtimes it's even
rarer. And guess what, rememberthat seven overtime game between Texas A and
M and LSU. It's even rarer. How do I know that because it's
(02:36):
the only one that's ever happened.Yet we want to be able to protect
these children, these babies, thesethese youths that are so unaccustomed to hitting
each other that a few more playerswould burn them out. It's higher than
(02:58):
way too much. It's two twohard, because if you get to overtime,
you might get to a second,or to a third, or two
a fourth. And you know what, deep games may never end. It
turns out the game that may neverhave ended was the one with pin State
(03:22):
in Illinois, thanks to the newstupid two point conversion go after the third
overtime. We're starting with a thirdovertime rule. So just briefly, if
you don't know, and you shouldif you're listening to this, after the
second overtime, teams trade two pointconversions. One makes one missus. That's
how the game ends. I can'ttell you how bad of an idea that
(03:50):
was at the time we screamed aboutit on the podcast before. In fact,
you could probably go back previously inthe feed and find that episode where
we're talking about how college over timewasn't broken, stop trying to fix it.
And then I just I knew weneeded to get to one of these
games. We needed a game thateverybody was going to watch, not a
(04:12):
game between Eastern Washington and UNLV,which I think was one that went to
multiple overtimes. I know we neededone that people were going to pay attention
to. Right in that early windowwhere Penn stayed a highly rate team,
big, big, big favorites againstIllinois, We're supposed to blow by the
water and they didn't. And nowwe get to one of these monstrosities with
(04:36):
the overtime. So we needed toget to one of these games for everyone
to see how bad of an ideathis was. And folks, I monitor
social media enough for a living becauseI really love it. I don't get
pay to do it, but Ireally like it. I couldn't find a
single person who liked it. Icouldn't find a single person who liked it.
(05:00):
Lee Some people liked it as faras making fun of the Big ten
and how n of the offense isworth that game now NF the offenses generally
are in the Big ten. Ifound a bunch of those, but not
a bunch of people saying this.You know this two point overtime rule,
It's it's pretty clean. I likehow they're doing it. This is a
(05:21):
this is special. This decifitally didsomething here, God bless them. No,
No, there was none of that, and there will be none of
that. The thing about college footballovertime is it's just like all of college
football itself. It's unique, it'squirky, and it's special. It's different
(05:49):
than the NFL overtime model. Ithink the NFL should adopt the college model.
NFL never likes to do things collegedoes besides take all of his offense
and his poor nagers and its ideas. They'd ever like to do that or
take all of its players. Theywon't take the idea of overtime. But
(06:10):
you know, all the other stuffis good anyway, I am flapper gasted.
And why you would change such aweird, cute, perfect overtime system.
First of all, overtime's only beenaround since like ninety six. All
right, it's a really new thing, like in the in the pantheon of
(06:33):
college football. It is a baby. In fact, I would say at
this point, maybe it's a toddler. Okay, it's a toddler. You
know. It's definitely younger than thebefore past, but definitely older than the
hurry of no huddle offense, I'llput it that way. So college football
(06:58):
overtime was perfect because it was collegefootball. Everything that makes college football is
so great is all wrapped up intothat overtime. Everything that's great about college
football. It is different. Rememberremember when people would tell you that you
can't have the playoff in general becausecollege football is different, and you can't
(07:20):
have expanded playoffs because college football's difference, and you can't constrict bowl games because
college football's difference. I disagree withthose in this case because that's a question
(07:41):
about equity of access to play forthe national championship, the biggest goal of
all of them. But here weshould be embracing this. College football is
stupid, it's weird, it's wackyand wild, it's bizarre. It's feel
with amazing tradition. Smaller teams thatyou would never give two thoughts about get
(08:07):
your attention almost every single week.It is a beautiful tapestry of awesome.
And overtime was with that. Overtimegave you the ability to play football in
overtime. It was a shortened versionof football, which overtime should be,
(08:33):
but it gave you the ability tostill call plays, to still set up
a drive, has some strategy toit. You might as well be trading
extra point attempts at this point orkicking in as far back from you as
you can for a field goal.I mean, there's nothing to this,
(08:54):
There's no it's empty. As muchas I made fun of that game and
I didn't look, I was emptyafter that game. If that game had
gone to nine real overtimes, I'mnot empty. There's a lot of trauma
there. But when you're switching plays, switching aside to the field every two
plays Brothers and Sisters. There's nothingthere, like, it's not that exciting
(09:24):
and it's not that interesting. Youknow what it is. It's what the
ncuble A legitimately wanted. They justwant the game to be done, not
the fact that you just spent threeplus hours playing the damn thing. Then
cuba A says, you know whatyou're done, wrap it up, knock
(09:46):
it off. You guys have hadyour time. It's time for the next
window of games. It's unbelievable.This has got to be something that I
hope b SCAA looks at this.It says, we made a mistake.
(10:09):
The two point conversion over time disasteris not what we thought it would be.
Is antithetical to the sports, isantithetical to the drama of this great
game, and it's not even apart of this game. How many two
(10:30):
point conversions do you see get attemptedin college football? And granted it's a
thousand times more now and it's stillnot very often. So why would that
be the focus of your game?Why would that be determinant of your three
hour contest? This tiny, tiny, tiny, slippery like microscope tiny,
(10:58):
Why would that part of the gamebe what determines your winners and your losers.
It makes no sense. It didn'tthen, it doesn't now. And
I hope for the sake of hoping, because I know this game won't do
it. It's it's not enough.I hope we see a couple more of
(11:20):
these big, high profile games.I hope Alabama LSU in a couple of
weeks goes six or seven overtimes.I need high profile teams in high profile
games having this happened. It doesn'thave to be, you know, the
number one team in the count.Georgia doesn't have to go into you know,
(11:41):
the game against Florida and have ithappened this week. But if it
did, it doesn't have to beNotre Dame USC. But if it could
have, it just needs to beenough where people are watching and paying attention
and seeing again reminded about the repugnantnature that the ending of the games have
(12:05):
become. You made a stupid rulein c double A, a stupid,
stupid rule, and it's okay.You lost. You hurt the sport a
few little bit this year. Makethe change, make the change. Everything
can go back to normal. Justdon't keep up with this. It does
(12:31):
the sport no service. It doesthe game itself it's happening there no service.
And it does the fans no service. It does everybody everyone included fans
to the trainers, to the coaches, to the players, to me watching
(12:52):
it does. This all a giantdisservice. So just changing, just change.
Let this be your warning. Youmade a mistake. It looks stupid,
but people can make mistakes. Committeescan make mistakes, and they can
fix it. So do your joband fix it. And by the way,
(13:18):
if you want to call one ofthose emergency meetings and fix it like
before, this weekend's games not gonnahate you.
Hey, everybody, welcome back intothe ark She experience. My name is
Arka and as you can tell,we're back in the car again because we
are doing more work on that project. But like I said, this thing
is getting closer to be able tobe revealed and it has talked about and
(00:22):
to really really be excited about,and I am pumped to do that with
you. So in the meanstime,content a big weekend this weekend in college
football. Despite what the naysayers saidabout the big giant spreads in the early
games and some of the games thatdidn't look nearly as attractive a star,
(00:45):
college football never fails. College footballnever fails to give us stuff that we
should be interested in, like Cincinnatiand Navy going much closer than it should
have, Illinois and Penn States goingto nine overtimes, and that's where we're
going to talk. By the game'stotal, it's forty five and a half.
(01:07):
How do you go to quote endunquote nine overtimes and still hit the
under easally? How How it's becauseof this new blasphemous overtime system. Okay,
so here's here's the rum. TheNCAA change the rules this offseason and
(01:30):
said, we were tired. We'retired of watching all of these children play
so many overtimes and just constantly gethurts. It's a pandemic. They said
(01:53):
that word, but they made agiant rule change as if this were some
kind of monster thing happening, asif multiple overtimes was a scourge and needed
to be stopped because it kept happeningover and over and over again. And
(02:14):
the truth is the stats are overtime'spretty rare, and multiple overtimes it's even
rarer. And guess what, rememberthat seven overtime game between Texas A and
M and LSU. It's even rarer. How do I know that because it's
(02:36):
the only one that's ever happened.Yet we want to be able to protect
these children, these babies, thesethese youths that are so unaccustomed to hitting
each other that a few more playerswould burn them out. It's higher than
(02:58):
way too much. It's two twohard, because if you get to overtime,
you might get to a second,or to a third, or two
a fourth. And you know what, deep games may never end. It
turns out the game that may neverhave ended was the one with pin State
(03:22):
in Illinois, thanks to the newstupid two point conversion go after the third
overtime. We're starting with a thirdovertime rule. So just briefly, if
you don't know, and you shouldif you're listening to this, after the
second overtime, teams trade two pointconversions. One makes one missus. That's
how the game ends. I can'ttell you how bad of an idea that
(03:50):
was at the time we screamed aboutit on the podcast before. In fact,
you could probably go back previously inthe feed and find that episode where
we're talking about how college over timewasn't broken, stop trying to fix it.
And then I just I knew weneeded to get to one of these
games. We needed a game thateverybody was going to watch, not a
(04:12):
game between Eastern Washington and UNLV,which I think was one that went to
multiple overtimes. I know we neededone that people were going to pay attention
to. Right in that early windowwhere Penn stayed a highly rate team,
big, big, big favorites againstIllinois, We're supposed to blow by the
water and they didn't. And nowwe get to one of these monstrosities with
(04:36):
the overtime. So we needed toget to one of these games for everyone
to see how bad of an ideathis was. And folks, I monitor
social media enough for a living becauseI really love it. I don't get
pay to do it, but Ireally like it. I couldn't find a
single person who liked it. Icouldn't find a single person who liked it.
(05:00):
Lee Some people liked it as faras making fun of the Big ten
and how n of the offense isworth that game now NF the offenses generally
are in the Big ten. Ifound a bunch of those, but not
a bunch of people saying this.You know this two point overtime rule,
It's it's pretty clean. I likehow they're doing it. This is a
(05:21):
this is special. This decifitally didsomething here, God bless them. No,
No, there was none of that, and there will be none of
that. The thing about college footballovertime is it's just like all of college
football itself. It's unique, it'squirky, and it's special. It's different
(05:49):
than the NFL overtime model. Ithink the NFL should adopt the college model.
NFL never likes to do things collegedoes besides take all of his offense
and his poor nagers and its ideas. They'd ever like to do that or
take all of its players. Theywon't take the idea of overtime. But
(06:10):
you know, all the other stuffis good anyway, I am flapper gasted.
And why you would change such aweird, cute, perfect overtime system.
First of all, overtime's only beenaround since like ninety six. All
right, it's a really new thing, like in the in the pantheon of
(06:33):
college football. It is a baby. In fact, I would say at
this point, maybe it's a toddler. Okay, it's a toddler. You
know. It's definitely younger than thebefore past, but definitely older than the
hurry of no huddle offense, I'llput it that way. So college football
(06:58):
overtime was perfect because it was collegefootball. Everything that makes college football is
so great is all wrapped up intothat overtime. Everything that's great about college
football. It is different. Rememberremember when people would tell you that you
can't have the playoff in general becausecollege football is different, and you can't
(07:20):
have expanded playoffs because college football's difference, and you can't constrict bowl games because
college football's difference. I disagree withthose in this case because that's a question
(07:41):
about equity of access to play forthe national championship, the biggest goal of
all of them. But here weshould be embracing this. College football is
stupid, it's weird, it's wackyand wild, it's bizarre. It's feel
with amazing tradition. Smaller teams thatyou would never give two thoughts about get
(08:07):
your attention almost every single week.It is a beautiful tapestry of awesome.
And overtime was with that. Overtimegave you the ability to play football in
overtime. It was a shortened versionof football, which overtime should be,
(08:33):
but it gave you the ability tostill call plays, to still set up
a drive, has some strategy toit. You might as well be trading
extra point attempts at this point orkicking in as far back from you as
you can for a field goal.I mean, there's nothing to this,
(08:54):
There's no it's empty. As muchas I made fun of that game and
I didn't look, I was emptyafter that game. If that game had
gone to nine real overtimes, I'mnot empty. There's a lot of trauma
there. But when you're switching plays, switching aside to the field every two
plays Brothers and Sisters. There's nothingthere, like, it's not that exciting
(09:24):
and it's not that interesting. Youknow what it is. It's what the
ncuble A legitimately wanted. They justwant the game to be done, not
the fact that you just spent threeplus hours playing the damn thing. Then
cuba A says, you know whatyou're done, wrap it up, knock
(09:46):
it off. You guys have hadyour time. It's time for the next
window of games. It's unbelievable.This has got to be something that I
hope b SCAA looks at this.It says, we made a mistake.
(10:09):
The two point conversion over time disasteris not what we thought it would be.
Is antithetical to the sports, isantithetical to the drama of this great
game, and it's not even apart of this game. How many two
(10:30):
point conversions do you see get attemptedin college football? And granted it's a
thousand times more now and it's stillnot very often. So why would that
be the focus of your game?Why would that be determinant of your three
hour contest? This tiny, tiny, tiny, slippery like microscope tiny,
(10:58):
Why would that part of the gamebe what determines your winners and your losers.
It makes no sense. It didn'tthen, it doesn't now. And
I hope for the sake of hoping, because I know this game won't do
it. It's it's not enough.I hope we see a couple more of
(11:20):
these big, high profile games.I hope Alabama LSU in a couple of
weeks goes six or seven overtimes.I need high profile teams in high profile
games having this happened. It doesn'thave to be, you know, the
number one team in the count.Georgia doesn't have to go into you know,
(11:41):
the game against Florida and have ithappened this week. But if it
did, it doesn't have to beNotre Dame USC. But if it could
have, it just needs to beenough where people are watching and paying attention
and seeing again reminded about the repugnantnature that the ending of the games have
(12:05):
become. You made a stupid rulein c double A, a stupid,
stupid rule, and it's okay.You lost. You hurt the sport a
few little bit this year. Makethe change, make the change. Everything
can go back to normal. Justdon't keep up with this. It does
(12:31):
the sport no service. It doesthe game itself it's happening there no service.
And it does the fans no service. It does everybody everyone included fans
to the trainers, to the coaches, to the players, to me watching
(12:52):
it does. This all a giantdisservice. So just changing, just change.
Let this be your warning. Youmade a mistake. It looks stupid,
but people can make mistakes. Committeescan make mistakes, and they can
fix it. So do your joband fix it. And by the way,
(13:18):
if you want to call one ofthose emergency meetings and fix it like
before, this weekend's games not gonnahate you.
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