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Fans Blast College Football Overtime Rules After Eight-OT Georgia-Georgia Tech Battle
Georgia needed eight overtimes to survive an upset scare against Georgia Tech and keep their College Football Playoff chances alive. While the thriller at Sanford Stadium provided great cinema, it also brought college football’s overtime rules into question.
In the first overtime period, each team gets a possession at the opponent’s 25-yard line. If the game is still tied, another period is played with the same parameters. However, if the game is still tied after two overtimes, we have a “2-point conversion-off” where both teams alternate 2-point conversion attempts to determine a winner.
The process is certainly fun, but it’s probably not the best way to end a football game. The ending of the 44-42 Georgia marathon win over Georgia Tech brought the validity of college football’s overtime rules front and center:
Well that was awesome, even if I’m not wild about the 2-point OT rule.
— Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) November 30, 2024
JJ Watt chimed in:
This is wildly exciting, but not a good way to decide a football game.
— JJ Watt (@JJWatt) November 30, 2024
And plenty of others with thoughts on whether the rule should change or how to improve the existing format:
I can not believe this game has resorted to two teams failing at a mini game like we’re deciding a winner of Mario Party
Please revert the OT rules
— Liam Blutman (@Blutman27) November 30, 2024 College football fans – “NFL needs real OT rules”
College football OT: “At the 3rd OT we have a 2 point conversion off!!!” pic.twitter.com/OAbyJeq93k
— NBA Slime (@TerryFranconia) November 30, 2024 2 rule change suggestions for college overtime:
1. stop walking up and down the field to change sides
2. stop giving them new timeouts before each 2-pt try OT
— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) November 30, 2024 6th OT college football rules should be this pic.twitter.com/oAZEI9Rsfj
— Master (@MasterTes) November 30, 2024 Immediate changes needed to college football OT rules.
No timeouts after the first OT. — Kyle Lamb (@kylamb8) November 30, 2024 the old OT rules were just fine.
— Billy D. (@fourdtough) November 30, 2024 JJ, as usual, nails it. https://t.co/UvUJ0P9Oau
— Adam Schein (@AdamSchein) November 30, 2024 Still can’t believe we totally changed the CFB overtime rules because of one Texas A&M-LSU outlier game.
— Chris Vannini (@ChrisVannini) November 30, 2024
Stop changing ends.
The Bulldogs have secured a spot in the SEC Championship game on Dec. 7 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. Georgia is set to battle the winner of Saturday’s matchup between Texas and Texas A&M. The heartbreaking loss dropped the Yellow Jackets to 7-5 as they now await to see where they will head for their bowl game.
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Kirk Fordice-like Rick Jackson is sounding a whole lot like Daniel Kirkwood Fordice as he tries to be elected Georgia’s next governor.
Fordice came out of nowhere — actually, Vicksburg is somewhere but you know what I mean — in 1991 to become a two-term Mississippi governor.
He had money but nothing like Jackson, a billionaire businessman who’s also trying to emerge from nowhere politically to win Georgia’s top office.
“The establishment hated Trump, because they couldn’t control him. They are going to hate me,” Jackson says in an ad for Georgia’s Republican Primary on May 19, sounding like one of my favorite Mississippi governors — Fordice, because of his unpredictable personality (he could vilify or charm you, all in one sentence), not his politics. He died in 2004 of cancer.
I stood by a cafe entrance one morning, waiting to cover a Fordice speech. When he appeared, I stuck out my hand to shake his. “I’m not shaking your damn hand. You’re part of the problem down there (referring to the newspaper),” he told me, smiling and moving on.
Jackson rose to become one of economic giant-Georgia’s wealthiest people. He came from Atlanta’s rough midtown area, ending up in the foster care system. He left college due to poor financial circumstances.
The 71-year-old Jackson wormed his way into the dynamic city’s business scene in the late 1970s, mostly of the healthcare variety with mixed success before starting a workforce staffing and services company and later an antibiotics manufacturing plant. He turned those businesses into billion-dollar enterprises.
“It’s God’s money,” he said in rural Blakely, and he’s been charitable with it.
Jackson doesn’t try to hide his vast wealth. His family lives in a 48,000-square-foot mansion at Cumming, a place of nearly 100,000 people near Atlanta in Forsyth County, which once promoted its almost all-white population as a virtue.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Bill Torpy recently wrote that Jackson will spend a ton of his own money in seeking another mansion, the one occupied by Georgia’s governor. Torpy noted that present Lt. Gov. Burt Jones was once heavily favored to win the primary race, but he’s fallen behind Jackson’s bold money bid.
“The one-time front-runner in the Republican primary (Jones) has been relegated to No. 2, the result of a $100 million Mack truck running him over.
Rick Jackson, a billionaire healthcare tycoon, a man with a sly smile and reptilian gaze, is the guy driving that truck,” Torpy wrote.
The GOP field includes Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger, who spurned Trump’s demand to find 11,780 votes that would’ve allowed him to win Georgia in 2020.
Fordice was effective with some bombastic rhetoric during his run for governor, but I don’t remember it reaching the histrionic level employed by Jackson. In a major ad blitz, often referencing (Georgia college student) Laken Riley’s murderer, Jackson promises that unauthorized immigrants committing violent crimes will be “deported or departed … any questions?”
In another ad, Jackson growled, “Like President Trump, I don’t owe anybody anything, and like you, I’m sick of career politicians.”
Fordice spent only $1 million to get himself elected Mississippi’s governor. He somewhat sneaked up on the establishment, riding no escalator to the first floor of his Vicksburg concrete river mats-contracting office to declare his intentions. Who could ever forget his announcement seeking the governorship that ran on page 5 of the Clarion Ledger?
Recent polling ahead of Georgia’s May primaries for governor shows the eventual Republican nominee faces a strong Democrat in the November general election, most likely former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. That’ll require another whole pot of money.
— Mac Gordon, a native of McComb, is a retired Mississippi newspaperman. He can be reached at macmarygordon@gmail.com.
Gulfstream recently announced a $5 million investment in Georgia education, welcoming students and leaders to its Savannah headquarters.
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