Why don't they get them? Overtime starts on the 25 yard line. It ends when the team on offense is stopped or scores. It's not limited to a certain number of downs. I think everything is treated as it would be regulation, so a freak play like that just give Wake the ball where they recovered it. They'd still have to move the ball to score.
What about a penalty, say roughing the passer? Automatic first, right? Imagine our QB gets blown up late and knocked out of the game on second and long. We get yards, but a backup QB and 3rd down?
This is correct. Wake's possession ended when the turnover occurred. Recovering another turnover would be a second possession.
Unless Wake took the ball into the end zone. Until the whistle blows, the play continues.
Right, which was discussed above as the only way Wake could have won the game after the turnover. I was responding to a response to a response (and maybe one more) about if Wake recovered a turnover after the strip and wouldn't they get another series.
Nope. On a normal regulation play if the same thing happened but Trill is stripped at the 5 and they recover it, it's first and 10, not 3rd and 85. For that reason alone it is considered a change in possession(twice). That would end their OT series.
Based on the way we played all year and the way they played, Wake was the better team. I hope that clears it up for you.
Then there is the fact that Wake beat BC and BC clobbered us. They also beat Florida State and we didn't. They placed 14 players on the all-acc team, we had 6. They finished 8-4 and 4-4 in conference. We were 5-7 and 2-6 in conference. They are going bowling and we are not. So, I would say they were a better team this year.
When I looked up the rules it said the possession ends when a team scores or fails to pick up a first down. I suppose in that scenario, they get a first down?
Is it that clear cut? The rules that I found don't spell it out.
No, because they can get a new set of Downs in OT.
Please! This time of year everyone is beat up. How many starters did we have out? Come on, that is just nonsense.
Yes it is.
No because the play isn't dead until the play is dead. If Trill fumbles, that is another change of possession, but the play is still alive, if they score they get credit for the TD, if they get tackled on the .01 yard line the game is over because the play is.
Right. It's a new set of downs. I'm not saying your logic is wrong. All I'm saying is the way they are written, the rules are unclear if that logic is followed in this unlikely scenario.
