Hi everyone. I don't work NCAA ball but do some JuCo stuff with college rules and I'm obviously not working any games with replay. But I scoured the rule book and the IR Case Book this morning and don't see any rules coverage for disallowing the TD here.
From what I could see there is no rule that states if a play is allowed to run with 0:00 on the clock it can then be "deleted" by IR. The rules talk a lot about *adding* time if the clock shows 0:00 and the previous play ended with time on the clock, but there's nothing about deleting a play entirely.
Play 164 from the IR Case Book talks about a similar situation. The play is allowed to run with 0:00 on the game clock at the end of the 2nd or 4th quarter. A TD is scored. The case book says this may be reviewed as it is an "egregious error" as it determines the end of a half. That makes sense. But the caveat there seems to imply that for it to fall under the "egregious error" category, the play *must* be at the end of a half.
Since this play was at the end of the 3rd quarter, I don't believe the "egregious error" provision applies as guided by the IR Case Book. And seeing no other rule in Rule 12 that allows for the review, I feel it may have been done in error.
I was watching the game at a bar with no audio but I saw Rogers Redding was the rules analyst for the broadcast and came on the air. Did he speak on this at all?
