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Football Officiating => NCAA Discussion => Topic started by: bctgp on August 19, 2017, 08:11:07 PM
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A fellow official and I are stumped by this. Under illegal wedge formation penalty enforcement info (Rule 6-1-10), the last part about PREVIOUS SPOT enforcement if Team A has possession of dead ball. I'm trying to understand a scenario for this. Seems like Team A would decline the foul and take the ball.
Only scenarios we could think of are listed below but I would think they are very, very rare.
1) if Team A gets possession of a turnover downfield near its end zone, ...such that they would rather re-kick and lose possession, seems very rare.
2) have a safety against them, or
3) try an onside kick late in the game after the 15-yard penalty.
Any more likely scenarios where this might happen?
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I believe the scenarios you presented cover the possibilities. If Team A will next snap the ball, then they would decline this penalty 99.9% of the time. As you noted, the possible scenarios where they would want to accept the penalty would be extremely rare, but possible; thus, the option in the rule to accept the penalty at the previous spot under those conditions.
Robert