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27-27: The Rarest Result in Football, and the Giants and Commanders Just Did It Again
Nobody Won. That Almost Never Happens.
Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026 · Northwest Stadium, Landover, Md. · Final (OT): Commanders 27, Giants 27
In the NFL, someone almost always wins. With overtime in place, a tie needs two teams to fail to settle it in 10 extra minutes, and it almost never happens. On Oct. 11, in the rain in Landover, Washington and New York pulled it off.
It was the NFL's first tie of the 2026 season, and only the 31st regular-season tie since the league added overtime in 1974.
It's also the third time these two franchises have tied in overtime. That ties the Packers and Vikings for the most overtime ties by any pair of teams. Washington and New York have now tied each other three times since 1997, including twice in the last four seasons.
How It Happened
Washington takes control
The Commanders led 12-3 at halftime after K'Lavon Chaisson forced a Jameis Winston fumble and Tim Settle recovered it. Jayden Daniels, back from a dislocated elbow that cost him two games, ran 38 yards for a touchdown to make it 19-6. Early in the fourth quarter he went 26 yards for another score, and a two-point conversion to Terry McLaurin made it 27-13 with 11:05 left.
The Giants come back
Then New York scored 14 straight points:
- Isaiah Likely caught a 17-yard touchdown. It was first ruled a fumble, then overturned on review.
- Malik Nabers caught a 17-yard touchdown from Winston with 1:43 left to tie it at 27.
Winston, starting for the injured Jaxson Dart, threw for 326 yards and three touchdowns. Nabers and Likely each finished with 11 catches, 90-plus yards and a touchdown. They're only the sixth pair of teammates in NFL history to do that in the same game.
Overtime: four possessions, no winner
The NFL's newer overtime rules guarantee both teams a possession. This game gave each team two:
- Giants: Rookie Dominic Zvada missed a 46-yard field goal wide left. Earlier in the day he had made a 56-yarder, which tied the franchise record for a rookie.
- Washington: Abdul Carter forced a fumble. Washington recovered but had to punt.
- Giants: Cam Skattebo and Nabers moved the ball into Washington territory before Daron Payne stripped Skattebo and Shy Tuttle recovered.
- Washington: The Commanders drove to the Giants' 24, already in range for a field goal of about 41 yards. They had no timeouts and kept running plays to get closer. On second-and-8, Tremaine Edmunds sacked Daniels, and the clock ran out before Washington could spike the ball.
Final: 27-27.
"Leaving tonight with a tie feels like a loss." — Commanders coach Dan Quinn
"It's an out-of-bounds throw or a clock. That has to come from me." — Quinn, taking responsibility for the final sequence
"I wanted to get off the field before they could take it away from us, I guess." — Giants coach John Harbaugh
Just How Rare Is a Tie?
Ties per season
Since the start of the 2012 season, the NFL has played about 3,700 regular-season games. In that time:
| Season | Ties |
|---|---|
| 2012 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2 |
| 2017 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2 |
| 2019 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2 |
| 2023 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 |
| 2025 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 so far (this game) |
That's 13 ties in 14 full seasons, fewer than one a year. No season since overtime arrived in 1974 has produced more than two. Over the full overtime era the average is closer to one tie every two seasons.
Per game, it works out to roughly one tie in every 280 games, or about 0.35%. A team playing a 17-game schedule would expect to go about 16 seasons between ties.
Why ties got (slightly) more common, and then rarer again
- 2017: The NFL cut regular-season overtime from 15 minutes to 10 to reduce injuries. Ties ticked up: 7 of 118 overtime games from 2017 to 2022 ended level, about 6%.
- 2023 and 2024: No ties at all, back-to-back.
- 2025: The league gave both teams a guaranteed possession in overtime. Through the start of 2026, only one of 17 overtime games under that rule had ended in a tie: the 40-40 Packers-Cowboys game on Sept. 28, 2025.
So when overtime starts, there's roughly a 1-in-17 chance nobody wins. Most games never get to overtime, which is why ties stay so rare.
What Does a Tie Bet Pay?
If you want to bet on a tie, most U.S. sportsbooks offer it as a third outcome on a three-way moneyline. The price is long:
- Sportsbooks typically offer 60-to-1 or longer on an NFL tie, according to ESPN. A $10 bet would return about $610.
- Prices can move fast when bettors pile in. Before the famous 2022 Week 18 Raiders-Chargers game, where a tie would have sent both teams to the playoffs, tie odds at the Borgata fell from 50-to-1 to 11-to-1. Books faced seven-figure liability, and one $1,000 parlay built around a tie would have paid about $850,000. The Raiders won with a field goal in overtime, and the books were off the hook.
The math: 60-to-1 implies about a 1.6% chance of a tie. Historically, ties happen about 0.35% of the time. Books price the tie roughly four to five times more likely than it really is, which is why it's one of the most profitable bets they offer.
What happens to your normal bets in a tie? At most sportsbooks, a standard two-way moneyline on either team is graded as a push and refunded. Point spreads and totals are graded on the final score as usual. Check your book's house rules, because they vary.
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The Tie's Legacy
The tie left the Giants at 3-1-1 and the Commanders at 1-3-1, and that half-game has followed both teams all season. It turned their Thursday, Nov. 12 rematch at MetLife Stadium into a game with the head-to-head tiebreaker on the line.
The Bottom Line
A tie in the NFL is a once-a-season event at most, and some seasons it doesn't happen at all. On Oct. 11, Washington and New York gave us the league's first tie of 2026 and the 31st of the overtime era. It's also their third overtime tie against each other, tying the Packers and Vikings for the most by any pair of teams since 1974.
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Sources: Giants.com instant analysis, CBS Sports, ESPN game recap, List of NFL tied games (Wikipedia), ESPN: Sportsbooks avoid most expensive tie in NFL betting history
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