October
16, 2001
IT
WAS ONE EXCITING WEEKEND!
In a season already full of surprises, this past
weekend was full of exciting finishes and close games.
Consider:
10
of 13 Sunday games (76.9 percent) were decided by seven points or less,
marking the first Sunday since October 10, 1999 – a span of 34 weeks –
that there were 10 such games in a single day.
With Monday night’s two-point game, 11 of 14 Week 5 games (78.6
percent) were decided by seven points or less – one shy of the record 12
of 14 set in Week 15 of 1993.
5 teams had game-winning scores on the final play.
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of those 5 games went into overtime (all on Sunday) – the most in a single
day since November 10, 1996.