1 point safety

[MD Longhorn]

I hate to disagree with Redding, of course.

But if you read this rule, the distance penalty is cancelled. Fine there. Step 2 - Scores by the team that committed the penalty are cancelled. In this case, the score is not made by the team that committed the penalty - it's scored by the other team. This is more similar to a play where A goes for 2, B commits a distance penalty, and A scores anyway - the penalty is declined, but the score is not cancelled.

[CT1]

Originally Posted by MD Longhorn

I hate to disagree with Redding, of course.

But if you read this rule, the distance penalty is cancelled. Fine there. Step 2 - Scores by the team that committed the penalty are cancelled. In this case, the score is not made by the team that committed the penalty - it's scored by the other team. This is more similar to a play where A goes for 2, B commits a distance penalty, and A scores anyway - the penalty is declined, but the score is not cancelled.

Which makes much more sense.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by CT1

Which makes much more sense.

It may make more sense, but it's not the way it's enforced in NCAA at this particular time. As Jason mentioned, there's an approved ruling where there's a clip in the end zone on a try and it, too, is declined by rule.

Maybe this will get changed, maybe it won't, but as of right now, there wouldn't be a safety scored in a game played under NCAA rules if that illegal forward pass was completed and the ball came out of the end zone.