A, Rosen Peter; Wilson Rick L. - In: Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports 3 (2007) 2, pp. 1-19
Division 1-A college football adopted overtime rules in 1996. There have been 328 overtime games since, and only four times have coaches opted to go on offense first upon winning the coin toss. Thus, there is an accepted belief that starting on defense first is advantageous, as validated by...