After the stunning end of the Green Bay Packers v Arizona Cardinals play-off game, our US sports reporter asks the question: should the NFL change its play-off rules? If you watched the Green Bay v Arizona game with me on Saturday night, you would have been deafened by the shriek as Aaron Rodgers threw not one, but two unbelievable Hail Marys to take the Packers to overtime. They lost the coin toss, and one kick-off return and two Larry Fitzgerald receptions later, they were out of the play-offs. And while Arizona celebrated, a lot of people began asking the question again: shouldnt we revisit the NFLs overtime rules? Thats because Green Bay didnt get a chance to possess the ball and level the game, because in the rules, if you get the ball and score a touchdown the game is over. Highlights from the NFC divisional playoff game between the Cardinals and the Packers But this isnt a rule thats been long established in the NFL. This rule began in 2010 after the NFLs owners decided that the old rule - which said the team who scored a field goal would end the game - wasnt great, opting instead for the if you score a field goal the game continues, if you score a touchdown the game is over rule.Green Bays Clay Matthews, understandably, has said that the NFL should opt for college footballs overtime rules which are not only much easier to comprehend but also fairer. College footballs overtime rules are: both teams start on the oppositions 25-yard line, and they have to match each others scores. In other words, both teams get the chance to play. CBSSports John Breech has pointed out that this would eliminate the coin flip issue, which is no bad thing.Sportswriter Jason Kirk added: What kept the game from ascending to an even higher level was the fact that Aaron Rodgers never got to touch the football in overtime, thanks to sudden death rules. He added: Youd like to watch Aaron Rodgers v Larry Fitzgerald in overtime, wouldnt you? Aaron Rodgers threw a late touchdown pass but the current rules didnt allow him to touch the ball during overtime Kirk and Breechs comments have been added to by NBCs Mike Florio who said: Spare me the if you want to win the game, stop them nonsense.The question of whether a team goes to the next level of the postseason shouldnt hinge, ultimately, on the outcome of a coin toss. Both teams should have a chance to possess the ball, and the kicking team should have a chance to match any score mustered, field goal or touchdown, by the team that receives the kick-off.Florio has pointed out that the NFLs change should be just for the play-offs but I dont quite agree. I think it should be for the whole season. Everybody wins: the viewers, the TV guys, and the fans. A college game between Arizona State Sun Devils v Oregon Ducks demonstrated how different rules could be beneficial Other sports have been happy to look at each others extra-times and get in sync. In the NBA and college basketball, both sports play five-minute overtime rules, and baseball gives both batting sides a chance to score a run or two in overtime. Would it be such a horrible thing if that happened for the NFL and college football?Right now, there doesnt seem to be a lot of love for the current ruling, but our thought is this: the longer there are no changes, the bigger dissatisfaction there will be among fans, the media and, yes, the owners. The NFL has the chance to morph a little. If they dont want to start both teams on the oppositions 25-yard line, then start on the 30-yard line. Or let the other side receive a kick-off if the other team scores a touchdown. 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College football has nine undefeated teams, and seven of them play away from home Saturday, so odds are there wont be nine undefeated teams Sunday.No. 4 Washington?and No. 7 Nebraska?play their toughest opponents yet. No. 3 Clemson?plays at No. 12 Florida State, where the Tigers havent won in a decade.We havent had a crazy weekend yet, the kind of Saturday where one upset trumps another from early games to late. Why not this one? Time for crazy.1. Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson may be more passer than runner these days, but his competitive fire remains his best asset. Coach Dabo Swinney reminded everyone that after Watson threw the first pick-six of his life against NC State, he completed his next 14 throws (actually, it was 12 of his next 14 throws). Then Swinney noted the third-quarter play when Clemson wideout Mike Williams fumbled at the Wolfpack 4-yard line and NC States?Shawn Boone returned it 70 yards. Tight end Jordan Leggett made the tackle because Watson threw himself into two blockers. Deshaun has all of that other stuff, Swinney said, but that right there, you cant coach that. That comes from the inside.2. Its a long way from Clemson to South Carolina?these days, and a long way from 1-7 UMass, against whom 18-year-old Gamecocks freshman quarterback Jake Bentley threw for 201 yards and two touchdowns last week in his debut, to No. 18 Tennessee?coming off a bye week. While Bentley is the third quarterback the Gamecocks have started this season, he energized an offense that averaged only 14 points per game in its first six games. What made coach Will Muschamp feel good about Bentley was not what he did Saturday. It was Monday. I asked him today on the field, How much film did you get in yesterday, Muschamp said Tuesday, and he said, About two-and-a-half hours. Thats what you want your quarterback to do.3. When Penn State?blocked the kick that rocked Ohio States?world, the Nittany Lions scored their first special-teams touchdown in four years. The Nittany Lions had been the only Power 5 team not to score a touchdown in the kicking game in that time. I drew a direct connection from that failure to the Penn State roster depleted by NCAA-mandated scholarship reductions -- lack of depth, etc. But USC, which had similar reductions from 2012-14, scored 10 special-teams touchdowns -- five punt returns, three kickoff returns and two blocked kick returns -- in those three seasons. Either Penn State didnt get it done, USC did, or both.4. Nuggets unearthed while combing through USA Todays annual survey of head-coaching salaries?released Wednesday: The SEC and the Big Ten each have five of the top 14 highest-paid coaches. But the SEC has the next four. The first Pacc-12 coach on the list, David Shaw of Stanford, is 19th ($4.dddddddddddd06 million annually). The top Mountain West coach, Tim DeRuyter of Fresno State?($1.51 million) was fired Sunday. The lowest-paid coach ranked in the top 10 listed in the database -- salary information for Baylor is not available -- is Mike Riley of No. 7 Nebraska (42nd at $2.8 million). Three of the top-10 salaries are paid to African-Americans -- Charlie Strong, Kevin Sumlin and James Franklin -- a reminder of the progress already made.5. Speaking of Strong, nowhere is the disparity among the Big 12 membership more starkly illustrated than in head coaches salaries. Bob Stoops of Oklahoma?($5.55 million) and Strong of Texas?($5.2 million) have the fourth- and sixth-biggest paychecks in the game, respectively. The next-highest Big 12 salary, Gary Patterson of TCU, is 20th ($4.01 million). The lowest-paid head coach among the Power 5 conferences, and the only one who isnt paid a seven-figure salary, is David Beaty of Kansas, 1-18 in his attempt to resurrect the Jayhawks. Beaty makes $801,169 per year. The next-lowest paid Power 5 head coach, first-year man Tracy Claeys of Minnesota, makes $1.4 million.6. How about the tumultuous turnover at the top in the Pac-12? The league says that when Stanford dropped out of the AP poll two weeks ago, it was the first time since 1999 that neither Stanford, USC nor Oregon?was?ranked. Its not merely that the Cardinal and the Ducks, the only teams to win the North in the five-year history of the Pac-12, are fourth and sixth, respectively, in the division; its that the only two South teams that have yet to appear in the championship game, Utah?and Colorado, are tied for first in their division. They play on Thanksgiving Saturday; No. 4 Washington and Washington State, both undefeated and atop the North, play the Apple Cup the day before. This could be fun.7. Speaking of the Ducks, if Oregon loses at home Saturday to Arizona State, the Ducks losing streak would reach six games for the first time since they lost the last six games of the 1991 season (and the first two of 1992). Coach Mark Helfrich has begun to look to the future by giving the offense to freshman Justin Herbert. Hes the first Oregon native to start at quarterback since Kellen Clemens in 2005. Thats a reminder that Oregon must find its players outside the state. The Oregonian earlier this year named the top 20 prep quarterbacks in Oregon since the 80s. The only one of recent vintage, Brett Smith, started at Wyoming while the Ducks played Darron Thomas and Marcus Mariota. Wholesale Hoodies NFL Shirts Outlet Jerseys NFL Wholesale Cheap NFL Jerseys Free Shipping Wholesale Jerseys Cheap Cheap NFL Jerseys China Wholesale Jerseys Wholesale NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys China Cheap NFL Jerseys ' ' '