Rhode Island and Maine's Yankee Conference passed rules during the prior season in which teams began overtime periods when a regulation game ended in a 21-21 tie. How were Rhode Island and Maine able to play so long even though the NCAA had yet to establish an overtime rule? Well, individual conferences were able to establish their own rules for what happened in the case of a tie after regulation. According to school officials, the game was thought to be the longest modern-era college football game at the time. The first four-plus hour thriller in FCS football came in 1982 when Rhode Island defeated Maine 58-55 in six overtimes. An officiating error should've given Harvard the win in the third extra period. However, this overtime game should've been decided in the third overtime instead of the fifth. The final stop! TIGERS WIN! #NA22AUBound 🍊🥤 #BackToTheBest /VPQSws2tjU Thanks to new overtime rules, this game lasted over four hours, with Princeton emerging victorious. Harvard and Princeton each entered their 2021 meeting as undefeated teams with top-10 defenses in the FCS. Here's a recap of some of the longest games between FCS opponents in history: Oct. MORE: Highest scoring college football games across FBS, FCS, DII, and DIII This is a change from the previous rule, which started to use 2-point plays in the fifth overtime period.
Also established in 2021, if the game reaches the third overtime, teams will run alternating 2-point plays, instead of starting another drive at the opponent's 25-yard line.Previously, a 2-point attempt was required after the third overtime period.
Teams will be required to run a 2-point conversion play after a touchdown when a game reaches a second overtime period. In 2021, the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved a change to overtime rules again. Starting with the fifth overtime, teams will begin to run alternating two-point conversion plays instead of offensive possessions that start at the 25-yard line. However, in 2019, the overtime rules were changed. Starting with the third overtime, teams must attempt a 2-point conversion after every touchdown. There is no game clock, only a play clock. An overtime period consists of each team getting one possession from its opponent's 25-yard line. The NCAA adopted an overtime rule in 1996 and for most of those games, the overtime rules have been virtually the same. RELATED: How overtime works in college football Eastern Kentucky pulled off an FCS-over-FBS upset, knocking off Bowling Green 59-57 in seven overtimes.Īmong two FCS opponents, the record for most overtimes in a game is six, happening on three different occasions since overtime entered the NCAA. The second-most overtimes played by an FCS team came on Sept. Bethune-Cookman defeated Virginia State - a Division II opponent - in eight overtimes 63-57. Twenty-three years before Harvard and Princeton's multiple-overtime battle, the record for most overtime periods played by an FCS team was set by Bethune-Cookman on Sept. Princeton finally converted in the fifth, before a Tiger stop on Harvard's ensuing possession ended the game. In the new rule instituted before the 2021 season, teams must alternate two-point conversion attempts starting with the third extra period.īoth the Crimson and Tigers failed on their attempts in the second, third and fourth overtime periods. It was 13-13 through four quarters and 16-16 after the first OT. The game remained low-scoring despite the abundance of overtimes because teams exchanged field goals and later missed or made two-point conversion attempts. 
The game fell one overtime short of the record, finished off by a Cole Smith two-point conversion pass to Jacob Birmelin that gave the Tigers sole possession of first place in the Ivy League. In 2021, Harvard and Princeton almost made history with Princeton's 18-16 win in a five-overtime thriller on Oct.
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