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Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

Interesting in that the Fed result is different from NCAA's, if we take "fumbled the snap" literally, i.e. that the would-be punter gained possession of the ball and then fumbled. (He probably meant "muffed the snap", but this is for the sake of argument.) Then, because kicking of the loose ball doesn't change its status as a fumble, you'd have a fumble going out of bounds ahead of the spot where it was fumbled from, so team B would get to take a better spot if they decline the penalty in NCAA than they would get in Fed.

Robert

NCAA, illegally kicking the ball or illegally batting the ball are loss of down fouls, so team B (R) may very well want to accept the penalty unless the spot where the ball went out of bounds was more than 15 yards behind the spot of the foul.