The college overtime is ridiculous. It is ridiculous to say “Okay, here’s the ball at the 25 or the 10 or the 50, see what you can do, and we’ll alternate possessions until we’re done.”

For one thing, when you give teams the ball at the 25 yard line, even in college, it’s hardly a challenge for teams to score. It’s just bizarre to see games where regulation ends tied at 17-17 or 21-21 end with scores like 64-61 or 58-55. It’s not football.

Second, football starts with a kickoff. Special teams is one-third of the game. Teams employ special teams coaches and they have special teams players on their rosters. You should settle football games by, how weird is this, playing football. The only thing that needs to change to make the current overtime system perfectly fair is to ensure that each team will get the ball at least one time.

Doing so would eliminate teams driving down on their first overtime possession, getting to the 35 yard line and going for a field goal because they would know the other team was going to see the ball as well with an opportunity to match or beat their field goal.

Once each team has had the ball once, if neither has scored, the rules would revert to the current sudden death structure.

And as for those who say games shouldn’t be able to end in ties, I think that’s hooey as well. It’s happened once in seven years. I don’t think once in seven years – or even twice or three or four times in seven years if it happens that often – is enough of a scourge to bother changing the rules.

Not some pussyfoot special teams showcase where it’s all about getting to the 35 and kicking.