Question 2 of the day

[ElvisLives]

4/10, B-40, 0:10 (2), A=0, B=21.
End A80 run is running full speed inside the right sideline, looking back over his left shoulder for a pass from A10. When A80 is at the B-10, B99 is at the B-11 1/2, looking directly at A80, with both arms raised directly in the face of A80. Without making any contact, B99 waves his arms and hands in front of A80’s face, trying to interfere with A80’s vision. A80 leaps and secures the ball in his hands, pulling the ball to his body. As A80 returns to the ground with his feet inbounds at the B-8, and stumbling, B99 then contacts A80 with his waving arms, and then his body, causing A80 to fall to the ground, fully inbounds, with the ball at the B-6. A80 maintains a firm grip on the ball, and controls ball as he slides along the ground, coming to rest at the B-4.

Ruling:

Oops. More necessary info: When A80 fell to the ground, the game clock read 0:03. At that moment, both teams had 2 team times out, each, remaining.

[Maineac]

A 1/G, B-6. Game clock stops for the 1st down, and will resume on the RFP assuming 1) the half did not expire on the play; and, 2) A has no timeout available. Play clock set to 40 and hold.

B-99 has not fouled (7-3-9-f; AR 7-3-8-I).

[ElvisLives]

Yep. Looking for the fact that there was no foul by B99, since there was no contact before the pass was first touched by A80. Waving hands/arms in the face of a receiver without making contact is not a foul in NCAA football, regardless of how close to the receiver the defender's hands/arms may get. And the receiver completed the entire process of a catch. And the game clock is an issue, being less than 2 minutes in the 2nd period. The clock stops until the ball/a replacement ball is spotted and officials are in position to officiate, unless a team is charged with an available team time out.

Again, not a terribly tricky question. Not all questions have to include illegal action to be helpful reminders of what/how we officiate.