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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.
A Griffin, Georgia man is now under arrest, charged in connection with a cold case homicide investigation in New Jersey, prosecutors say.
It’s been nearly 37 years since 42-year-old Mauricio Cuadra was shot during an apparent home invasion; now, authorities say 62-year-old Joseph Quiros-Soto is charged with his murder.
Officials say on Aug. 9, 1989, the officers with the Bayonne Police Department responded to reports of a home invasion and shooting at an apartment on the 400 block of Avenue C. Inside the home, they found Cuadra suffering from a gunshot wound. Cuadra died shortly after.
The case remained a mystery until 2024, when Quiros-Soto confessed to the murder to police in Locust Grove, Georgia, saying that he had become a born-again Christian, NJ.com reports.
Police told the outlet that he gave the detectives details of the crime and allowed visiting Hudson County authorities to take a DNA sample, which matched a stain on the victim.
Authorities were eventually able to obtain a warrant for the Georgia man’s arrest. On May 27, 2026, deputies with the Spalding County Sheriff’s Office arrested Quiros-Soto at his home in Griffin, charging him with murder and murder during the commission of a burglary.
Quiros-Soto is being detained in Georgia, awaiting extradition to New Jersey.
STARKVILLE — Mississippi State baseball has made the super regionals in the NCAA Tournament and will face a team its already played four times.
The No. 14 national seed Bulldogs (43-17) are matched up with No. 3 Georgia (49-12). The best-of-three series will take place in Athens, Georgia, because Georgia is the higher seed.
The super regionals run from June 5-8, and the winner will make the College World Series.
MSU is 0-4 against Georgia this season, getting swept at Dudy Noble Field and then losing a fourth time in the SEC Tournament quarterfinals. Georgia won the SEC regular season and tournament championships.
Both teams made it through their regionals without a loss. Mississippi State blew out Louisiana 19-5 on May 31, while Georgia defeated Liberty.
MSU has played Georgia only once in postseason history, losing in the 1990 College World Series.
Mississippi State baseball history in super regionals
Mississippi State has played in 10 super regionals and won five of them. It has won three straight super regionals. MSU is 2-4 as the visiting team in super regionals.
New Mississippi State coach Brian O’Connor is 7-2 in super regionals.
NCAA baseball tournament schedule
- Super regionals: June 5-8
- College World Series: June 12-22
Sam Sklar is the Mississippi State beat reporter for The Clarion Ledger. Email him at ssklar@usatodayco.com and follow him on X @sklarsam_.
Georgia football landed a pair of commitments Sunday for its 2027 recruiting class.
Wide receiver Taurean Rawlins from Mount Vernon School in Atlanta posted on his X account on May 31 that he’s pledged to the Bulldogs.
Georgia also picked up a commitment from offensive tackle DJ Dotson from Hattiesburg, Miss., he posted on his Instagram account.
Both are rated 3-star prospects.
“I loved the support and love they showed towards me and my family,” Dotson said in a text message to the Athens Banner-Herald.
The 6-foot, 175-pound Rawlins is rated the No. 58 wide receiver in the 2027 class and the No. 478 overall prospect.
Rawlins had 67 catches for 1,395 yards and 17 touchdowns last season, according to MaxPreps.
Rawlins and Dotson give Georgia 10 commitments for this cycle.
Rawlins is the first wide receiver commitment. He also had offers from Ohio State, Florida and Michigan.
Georgia signed four wide receivers in its 2026 class: Craig Dandridge, Ryan Mosley, Dallas Dickerson and late addition Tre Shields.
Rawlins’ coach at Mount Vernon is former Georgia star wide receiver Terrence Edwards.
The 6-foot-7, 330-pound Dotson is rated as the nation’s No. 85 offensive tackle prospect and the No. 851 overall prospect.
He picked Georgia over Ole Miss, LSU and Georgia Tech, according to 247Sports.
Georgia also has offensive line commitments in its 2027 class from Kelsey Adams from Langston Hughes, Abram Eisenhower from Lowndes and Ty Johnson from Mount Pleasant, S.C.
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