<P> Tie games, which were commonplace in the National Football League (NFL) through the 1960s, have become exceedingly rare with the introduction of sudden death overtime, which first applied to the regular season in 1974 . The first game this new rule applied to ended in a tie between the Denver Broncos and Pittsburgh Steelers . The most recent NFL tie happened on 16 September 2018, when a game between the Green Bay Packers and the Minnesota Vikings ended in a 29 - 29 tie . </P> <Ul> <Li> In the NFL, if the team having first possession in overtime scores only a field goal, the other team receives the ball and can either tie the game with a field goal resulting in continuation of overtime (which then becomes sudden death) or score a touchdown, thereby winning the game . This modified sudden death rule was instituted during the 2010 playoffs and adopted for the 2012 regular season . If the overtime period ends with the score tied, either because both teams scored field goals on their initial possessions and failed to score again or neither team scored throughout the duration of the overtime period, then the game ends in a tie . A game ending in a scoreless tie has never occurred since the introduction of overtime . The exception to this rule is the playoffs . In the playoffs additional overtime periods are played until a winner is determined . </Li> <Li> In National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) college football, overtime was introduced in 1996, eliminating ties . When a game goes to overtime, each team is given one possession from its opponent's twenty - five - yard line with no game clock, despite the one timeout per period and use of play clock . The team leading after both possessions is declared the winner . If the teams remain tied, overtime periods continue, with a coin flip determining the first possession . Possessions alternate with each overtime, until one team leads the other at the end of the overtime . Starting with the third overtime, a one - point PAT field goal after a touchdown is no longer allowed, forcing teams to attempt a two - point conversion after a touchdown . <Ul> <Li> The unpopularity of ties in American sports is reflected in the saying, "A tie is like kissing your sister ." The earliest known use of the phrase was by Navy football coach Eddie Erdelatz after a scoreless tie against Duke in 1953 . </Li> <Li> The 1968 Yale vs. Harvard football game ended in a 29--29 tie, but the Harvard Crimson student newspaper famously printed the headline "Harvard Beats Yale 29 - 29". </Li> <Li> 6 October 1990: Kansas and Iowa State end their game in a 34--34 tie, giving KU the all - time NCAA Division I-A record for number of tie games with 57 . Illinois State holds the Division I - AA record for ties with 66 . Since then, NCAA football games have a tie - breaking rule, so only an extenuating circumstances game suspended on account of weather would allow this record to be broken . The 1995 / 96 school year was the last to feature non-weather curtailed tie games . </Li> <Li> NCAA Rule 3 - 3 - 3, Suspending the Game, permits tie games primarily on weather . NCAA rules on inclement weather include policies on lightning, requiring a minimum 30 - minute delay upon the first detected lightning strike within 7.5 miles (12 km) of the venue, and each lightning strike detected at the venue results in an automatic resetting of the clock . Officially, a tie game can only be declared if the teams agree to, or the conference declares the game, a draw, because of severe weather conditions if the game cannot continue at a reasonable time (curfew, travel logistics, weather warnings), it is an official game, and the game is tied . Official tie games can take place if the score is tied at any time when the game is suspended, tied at the end of regulation, or at any overtime period . If one team has scored in their overtime period, but the second team has yet to complete its overtime period when the game is forced to end early because of weather, as in baseball, the score is wiped out and the game ends in a tie . </Li> </Ul> </Li> </Ul> <Li> In the NFL, if the team having first possession in overtime scores only a field goal, the other team receives the ball and can either tie the game with a field goal resulting in continuation of overtime (which then becomes sudden death) or score a touchdown, thereby winning the game . This modified sudden death rule was instituted during the 2010 playoffs and adopted for the 2012 regular season . If the overtime period ends with the score tied, either because both teams scored field goals on their initial possessions and failed to score again or neither team scored throughout the duration of the overtime period, then the game ends in a tie . A game ending in a scoreless tie has never occurred since the introduction of overtime . The exception to this rule is the playoffs . In the playoffs additional overtime periods are played until a winner is determined . </Li> <Li> In National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) college football, overtime was introduced in 1996, eliminating ties . When a game goes to overtime, each team is given one possession from its opponent's twenty - five - yard line with no game clock, despite the one timeout per period and use of play clock . The team leading after both possessions is declared the winner . If the teams remain tied, overtime periods continue, with a coin flip determining the first possession . Possessions alternate with each overtime, until one team leads the other at the end of the overtime . Starting with the third overtime, a one - point PAT field goal after a touchdown is no longer allowed, forcing teams to attempt a two - point conversion after a touchdown . <Ul> <Li> The unpopularity of ties in American sports is reflected in the saying, "A tie is like kissing your sister ." The earliest known use of the phrase was by Navy football coach Eddie Erdelatz after a scoreless tie against Duke in 1953 . </Li> <Li> The 1968 Yale vs. Harvard football game ended in a 29--29 tie, but the Harvard Crimson student newspaper famously printed the headline "Harvard Beats Yale 29 - 29". </Li> <Li> 6 October 1990: Kansas and Iowa State end their game in a 34--34 tie, giving KU the all - time NCAA Division I-A record for number of tie games with 57 . Illinois State holds the Division I - AA record for ties with 66 . Since then, NCAA football games have a tie - breaking rule, so only an extenuating circumstances game suspended on account of weather would allow this record to be broken . The 1995 / 96 school year was the last to feature non-weather curtailed tie games . </Li> <Li> NCAA Rule 3 - 3 - 3, Suspending the Game, permits tie games primarily on weather . NCAA rules on inclement weather include policies on lightning, requiring a minimum 30 - minute delay upon the first detected lightning strike within 7.5 miles (12 km) of the venue, and each lightning strike detected at the venue results in an automatic resetting of the clock . Officially, a tie game can only be declared if the teams agree to, or the conference declares the game, a draw, because of severe weather conditions if the game cannot continue at a reasonable time (curfew, travel logistics, weather warnings), it is an official game, and the game is tied . Official tie games can take place if the score is tied at any time when the game is suspended, tied at the end of regulation, or at any overtime period . If one team has scored in their overtime period, but the second team has yet to complete its overtime period when the game is forced to end early because of weather, as in baseball, the score is wiped out and the game ends in a tie . </Li> </Ul> </Li>

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