How Is Overtime Played In The NFL?
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How Is Overtime Played In The NFL?
The NFL overtime rules are simple. Each team gets one possession. If the score is still tied, then the game ends in a tie.
How is overtime played in the NFL?
If a game is tied at the end of regulation, the teams will play an overtime period. During the overtime period, each team will have one chance to score. The first team to score wins the game. If neither team scores, the game ends in a tie.
During the regular season, the overtime period is 10 minutes long. In the playoffs, the overtime period is 15 minutes long.
How do teams advance in the playoffs?
In the playoffs, teams advance by winning one game. The format of the playoffs is a single-elimination tournament, meaning that once a team loses, it is out of the tournament. In each round, the team that has won more games (or, if tied, who has won recently) advances.
The tournament starts with four wild-card teams, two from each conference. These are the teams with the best record who did not win their division. The wild-card teams are seeded #5 and #6 in their conference.
In the first round, the #6 seed hosts the #3 seed and the #5 seed hosts the #4 seed. The following week, the winners of those games play each other (in what is now called the Divisional Round). The winners of those games then advance to their conference’s championship game (the NFC Championship for teams in the National Football Conference; and AFC Championship for teams in the American Football Conference).
The winners of each conference’s championship game then advance to play each other in Super Bowl Sunday
How is the Super Bowl played?
The Super Bowl is played between the champions of the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC). The game is played on a neutral site (usually a warm-weather or domed stadium), chosen three to four years in advance. The host city is selected on May 22, three years prior to the game. The game is usually played on the first Sunday in February and is televised in more than 180 countries.
