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 two Super Bowls have ever gone to overtime. One was last year's Chiefs vs. 49ers game. Here's what to know about OT in the Super Bowl. 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 Here's what you need to know about the rules for an overtime period for Super Bowl 58: NFL Super Bowl overtime rules Prior to the start of the 2022 season, the NFL amended the overtime rules for Starting with last season, all playoff games that advance to overtime will follow these revised rules, and that will include a potential overtime in Super Bowl LVIII: If a game is tied at the end When the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers faced each other in Super Bowl LVIII, they were level at 19-19 after four quarters and had to go to overtime to decide the winner of the 2024 In 2010, the rules were changed by the NFL, with the result being a modified sudden death. A field goal would no longer end a game if it was the first possession of overtime (in the playoffs). The league changed its overtime rules during the 2022 offseason in large part due to the ending of the Bills-Chiefs divisional round game. The Chiefs won 42-36 after winning the coin toss in Thanks to 2022’s ridiculous Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs game, the NFL changed the rules so that both teams will have a chance to touch the ball, should they get to overtime. 49ers players said that they did not know that overtime rules are different in the playoffs. Super Bowl LVIII ended with the Kansas City Chiefs hoisting the Lombardi Trophy for the The rule change came at the end of the 2021-22 season after the instant classic AFC Championship game between Kansas City and Buffalo in which the Chiefs won the overtime coin toss and scored on Let's take the Super Bowl and change the facts ever so slightly as an example. On that final possession of overtime, Patrick Mahomes hit Rashee Rice on a third-and-6 from the Kansas City 46-yard Super Bowl LVIII came down to the wire. Sixty minutes of action couldn’t separate the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers and so the Super Bowl went to overtime. The NFL changed its overtime rules for the playoffs two years ago. Here's how it might affect the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVIII. Sunday night's game was the second of 58 Super Bowls to be tied after regulation. It was the first played under new overtime rules that ensure both teams get a chance to possess the ball before Here's what you need to know about the rules for an overtime period for Super Bowl 58: NFL Super Bowl overtime rules 2024 Prior to the start of the 2022 season, the NFL amended the overtime rules Super Bowl LVIII came down to the wire. Sixty minutes of action couldn’t separate the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers and so the Super Bowl went to overtime.Video above: Kansas Ardent football fans knew, or should have known, the Sunday night’s Super Bowl wouldn’t have ended at the conclusion of the first overtime period, if the 49ers were leading, 22-19. Many watching the game were confused by the situation. The Chiefs had the ball. They were approaching the end zone. The clock was ticking toward zero. The Chiefs went on to beat the 49ers in a 25-22 thriller to win their third Super Bowl in five years. “I didn’t even know about the new playoff overtime rule. It was a surprise to me,” 49ers The Kansas City Chiefs won Super Bowl LVIII over the San Francisco 49ers in overtime Sunday, and it sounds like some 49ers players didn’t understand the playoff overtime rules heading into the
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