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The Green Bay Packers didn’t win on Sunday night against the Dallas Cowboys. They didn’t lose, either.
The tied. Their overtime shootout ends with the Cowboys at 40-40 at AT&T Stadium.
Brandon McManus’ 34-yard field goal to tie the game as time expired in overtime concluded a thrilling yet frustrating game on all sides of the ball for the Packers.
They gave up an early double-digit lead for the second straight week, their defense couldn’t get a stop or takeaway and special teams allowed a costly blocked kick that came back to bite them.
A tie is rare in the Packers, but it has happened before.
Here’s what to know about how it happened, the Packers’ last tie, their tie history and NFL’s overtime rules.
Packers last tie
Before Sunday night, the Packers’ last tie came in Week 2 of the 2018 season against the Minnesota Vikings on Sept. 16, 2018, at Lambeau Field.
The game ended 29-29 after both teams went scoreless in the overtime period.
The Vikings outscored the Packers, 22-9, in the fourth quarter of that game to force OT. The Vikings had a chance to win the game in overtime, but Daniel Carlson, who now plays for the Las Vegas Raiders and is the older brother to former Packers kicker Anders Carlson, missed his second OT field goal as time expired.
The Packers blew a double-digit first-half lead in that game, 17-7, like they did on Sunday when they had a 13-0 lead early in the second quarter.
Packers tie history
The Packers’ Sunday night tie was their seventh in team history since the league began implementing it in regular season games in 1974, according to the Historic Packers X account.
Tie games in Packers history since overtime was instituted for the regular season in 1974.
11/26/78 – 10-10, vs MIN
10/12/80 – 14-14, at TB
12/19/82 – 20-20, at BAL
9/20/87 – 17-17, vs DEN
11/24/13 – 26-26, vs MIN
9/16/18 – 29-29, vs MIN
9/28/25 – 40-40, at DAL
— Packers History (@HistoricPackers) September 29, 2025
The Packers have tied the Vikings the most, with three such outcomes against their division rival. One came in 1978, another in 2013 and the last came in 2018.
This is the highest scoring tie in Packers team history.
Packers vs Cowboys tie game
The 80 total points is the second-highest scoring tie in NFL history.
The game was tied at 37-all after Brandon McManus made a 53-yard field goal as time expired in regulation. Jordan Love got the Packers into field goal range after getting the ball back with 43 seconds left in regulation.
Before that, the Cowboys had taken a 37-34 lead on a four-play, 54-yard touchdown drive that took 1 minute, 2 seconds.
Green Bay won the toss in overtime but elected to kick to Dallas, who marched down the field. But the Packers forced the Cowboys to kick a 22-yard field goal.
The Packers got the ball back with 4:40 left. They need at least a field goal to continue the game. A touchdown would have won it. And after the Packers made a clutch fourth down conversion in their territory, their offense stayed in a rhythm, getting to the Cowboys’ 12-yard line with 32 second left. But questionable time management almost cost the Packers. One second was on the clock after Love threw into the end zone incomplete.
The Packers and Cowboys had the second highest-scoring tie in NFL history on Sunday night with 80 points 🔥
It’s the highest-scoring tie since the OT period was added to the regular season in 1974 🤯 pic.twitter.com/z6apLLbRYy
— ESPN Insights (@ESPNInsights) September 29, 2025NFL overtime rules
Both teams are guaranteed to get the ball in overtime, per NFL rules. That was a change from a longstanding rule when the first team to score in OT would win.
If the score is tied at the end of the 10-minute overtime, it’s a tie.
After both teams have the ball, if one team has the lead they win.
Had the Packers scored a touchdown in the game after Dallas’ field goal to open OT, they would have won the game.
Instead, with the field goal coming with no time on the clock the game ends in a tie.