The reason they give the ball in scoring range is to keep extra time for OT reasonable. If teams had to march 40 yards to score, a single OT would be killer, especially for college games which are already 4.5 hours long. Plus college kickers suck so it’s not quite guaranteed points.
No way the nfl ever adopts the terrible 2 point contest that college ball now does after the first OT. That’s almost worse than the shootout in hockey.
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