Here's what you need to know about the rules for an overtime period for Super Bowl 58: The exception: if the team that gets the ball first scores a touchdown on the opening possession. Super Bowl 58 went to overtime between the Chiefs and 49ers, and after San Francisco kicked a field goal with 7:22 left in the first overtime, the Chiefs drove down to the 49ers' three-yard line The Patriots won the first overtime Super Bowl after making a 28-3 second-half comeback against the Falcons. New England's win came amid the old overtime rules, when the game automatically ended Prior to the start of the 2022 season, the NFL amended the overtime rules for this year's playoffs, which, obviously, includes the Super Bowl 57 matchup between the Eagles and Chiefs. Only one Super Bowl has advanced to overtime. Super Bowl LI, which saw the New England Patriots overcome a 28-3 deficit to force overtime, and then win the game on the opening possession of OT Super Bowl LVIII in February of 2024 was played under the NFL’s current playoff overtime rules. The 49ers won the toss, chose to receive and kicked a field goal on their first possession. The Chiefs then marched down the field and scored a touchdown on their first possession, to win the game. A review of overtime rules for the Super Bowl this year. So let’s say the Chiefs score a field goal on their first possession of overtime, but the 49ers score a touchdown on theirs. The From 1974 until 2010, tied scores at the end of regulation were decided with a 15-minute “sudden-death” overtime period. In 2010, the rules were changed by the NFL, with the result being a 3) If the team with first possession scores a touchdown on the opening drive of overtime, that team wins the game. No extra point will be attempted. No extra point will be attempted. A coin toss determines which team receives the ball first. Each team will have the opportunity to possess the ball unless the team that receives the ball first scores a touchdown on its opening possession. Sudden death play, where the game ends on any score (safety, field goal, or touchdown), continues until a winner is decided. It was the second Super Bowl to go into overtime — the New England Patriots defeated the Atlanta Falcons in overtime in Super Bowl LI in 2017 — but it was the first with the revised postseason The NFL’s first Super Bowl in Las Vegas was a sloppy, mistake-filled affair that was mostly boring until the back-and-forth fourth quarter and OT. It was the second of 58 Super Bowls to be tied after regulation, and the first played under new overtime rules that ensured both teams got the ball. Kansas City became the first team since the 2003-04 New England Patriots to win back-to-back titles in what was just the second overtime game in Super Bowl history. The New England Patriots and the Atlanta Falcons became the first two teams to enter overtime in a Super Bowl game. The Patriots won the coin toss, and they elected to receive the football. The Chiefs are the first back-to-back Super Bowl champions since the New England Patriots 20 years ago. A tie score at the end of the first overtime period launches a second 15-minute overtime Super Bowl LI (2017) was the first to go to overtime, while the second was Super Bowl LVIII (2024). only for the Patriots to score 19 unanswered points to force overtime. MVPs of Super The 49ers coach was on the field for the first Super Bowl overtime when his Falcons lost to the Patriots 34-28 in Super Bowl LI. The Falcons famously blew a 28-3 lead in a game where Shanahan was Mahomes threw a 3-yard touchdown pass to Mecole Hardman in overtime, and the Chiefs rallied to beat the San Francisco 49ers 25-22 on Sunday, becoming the NFL's ninth repeat Super Bowl champs. If overtime happens, it wouldn't be a first for a Super Bowl. It would be a second. Of the first 56 Super Bowls , only one went into overtime, the New England Patriots' 34-28 comeback victory over 49ers’ decision to take the ball first in Super Bowl overtime will be debated for a while 1 of 3 | San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan looks at notes during the second half of the NFL Super Bowl 58 football game against the Kansas City Chiefs Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024, in Las Vegas.
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