Controversial call in Princeton vs Harvard football game

[jtwcornell91]

Doesn't look like Princeton will be so gracious and give the win back to Harvard.

Harvard's 2-point conversion came in the "bottom of the inning" too, so Princeton's possible concession would be most rational. There would seem to be no "we would've played the rest of the game differently" excuse.

It took me a while to figure out what happened from the summary, since I've apparently lost track of how goofy college football overtime has become.  (I mistakenly assumed a two-point conversion had to follow an actual touchdown, so I thought Princeton had scored 8 points in their part of the OT and Harvard ended up with only 6 points because of the nullified play.)  Also, I assumed they had signalled timeout at some point during the play, not that they let the whole play happen and then retroactively noticed the illegal timeout.

I think it's just as well I don't pay attention to college football anyway.

Here's the TLDR account from the Harvard Crimson account.

Out here in Big 10 14 country we learned about the new overtime procedure this weekend when Illinois upset Penn State in a record-setting 9 overtime periods.  In the first two overtime periods each team gets the ball 25 yards out and tries to score in the usual fashion - touchdown, field goal.  Then they revert to each getting one play from the 3 yard line in a two-extra-point attempt.

Good lord. Ties were ok for 140 years.

But now our entire economy is based on sports gambling sites, so here we are.

The stupid thing is that, in hockey at least, adding shootouts and 3x3 OT doesn't actually simplify things into wins and losses, but replaces three possible results with four.  Instead of bonus hockey to possibly settle the game, you've already awarded 2/3 of the points and are now just playing for the last 1/3.  (And that's in the IIHF version that's at least zero-sum.)

Or zero-dumb.  Imagine having to add 3x3 practice sessions to all the other permutations of man up and man down situations.

I'm not much of a rules nerd.  Will we have 3x2 and 2x2 hockey if there are penalties in OT?  (Add two more practice scenarios?!?)

In case you're serious, if there's a penalty in OT, they play 4x3.

And then 4x4 from the end of the penalty until the next whistle, right?

[upprdeck]

yup and it can go to 5x3 as well

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Doesn't look like Princeton will be so gracious and give the win back to Harvard.

Harvard's 2-point conversion came in the "bottom of the inning" too, so Princeton's possible concession would be most rational. There would seem to be no "we would've played the rest of the game differently" excuse.

It took me a while to figure out what happened from the summary, since I've apparently lost track of how goofy college football overtime has become.  (I mistakenly assumed a two-point conversion had to follow an actual touchdown, so I thought Princeton had scored 8 points in their part of the OT and Harvard ended up with only 6 points because of the nullified play.)  Also, I assumed they had signalled timeout at some point during the play, not that they let the whole play happen and then retroactively noticed the illegal timeout.

I think it's just as well I don't pay attention to college football anyway.

Here's the TLDR account from the Harvard Crimson account.

Out here in Big 10 14 country we learned about the new overtime procedure this weekend when Illinois upset Penn State in a record-setting 9 overtime periods.  In the first two overtime periods each team gets the ball 25 yards out and tries to score in the usual fashion - touchdown, field goal.  Then they revert to each getting one play from the 3 yard line in a two-extra-point attempt.

Good lord. Ties were ok for 140 years.

But now our entire economy is based on sports gambling sites, so here we are.

The stupid thing is that, in hockey at least, adding shootouts and 3x3 OT doesn't actually simplify things into wins and losses, but replaces three possible results with four.  Instead of bonus hockey to possibly settle the game, you've already awarded 2/3 of the points and are now just playing for the last 1/3.  (And that's in the IIHF version that's at least zero-sum.)

Or zero-dumb.  Imagine having to add 3x3 practice sessions to all the other permutations of man up and man down situations.

I'm not much of a rules nerd.  Will we have 3x2 and 2x2 hockey if there are penalties in OT?  (Add two more practice scenarios?!?)

In case you're serious, if there's a penalty in OT, they play 4x3.

And then 4x4 from the end of the penalty until the next whistle, right?

Correct.