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NCAA Discussion / Re: more baffling questions
« Last post by Morningrise on April 16, 2018, 03:30:35 PM »A 2/G @ B-7. Ball carrier A1, advancing in the field of play, becomes airborne @ B-2 and places the ball over the pylon while crossing the goal line extended and his first contact to the ground is out of bounds two yards beyond the goal line.
For an airborne player, forward progress is given to the point where the ball crossed the sideline. For an airborne ball carrier, the ball must break the plane of the goal line between the sidelines, to be touchdown. The goal line does not extend beyond the sidelines for airborne ball carriers. (Pylons are outside the sidelines.) Assuming no part of the ball broke the plane of the goal line between the sidelines (when it passed over the pylon), the ball is out of bounds just short of the goal line (when A-1 lands OB). A, 3/G, just outside the goal line. Play clock (40), starts on official’s T/O signal. Game clock starts when ball is spotted and R signals.
However, if some part of the ball broke the plane of the goal line between the sidelines, Touchdown. A, try, B-3. By 2017 rules, play clock (40), RFP (2018 rules may be different). Game clock does not run.
Although the pylons lie outside the sidelines, my understanding was that the 4" x 4" column of air above the pylon is like the pylon itself: If you can put the ball there, you have a touchdown.
I'm pretty sure you get a touchdown if you can put the possessed ball in any of these places:
1. Anywhere beyond the infinite goal line, if your body is touching the end zone ground or the pylon. (Note that touching the pylon ends the down one way or the other)
2. Above the rectangle of the end zone
3. Touching the pylon, even the side of the pylon that's four inches out of bounds
and I had thought this was also one:
4? Above the pylon
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