If the college rule is the same as the NFL rule, you are correct. http://chicagosports.chicagotribune...03992.story?coll=cs-bears-asktheref-headlines
Damn, searching through the NCAA rulebook was not much help. Did find this article from the Wisconsin/Illinois game about a muff punt. We know you can't advance a muff, but I think this answers the question about where the ball is spotted. It's where you recover the ball, not where it is muffed. It would have been an LSU TD.
Against A & M in the opening game of (I think) '95, an LSU player was hit in the back with a punt while going downfield to help with blocking. Our PR never even saw the ball because of it. A & M was awarded the ball at the spot where they recovered the ball.
It's a touchdown. From the 2006 NCAA Football Rules and Interpretations Rule 6-3-3 Rule 6-3-4 Rule 8-2-1-e If the ball was touched, then article 6-3-3 rules that the ball is live and can be recovered by anybody (a legal recovery). Exception 6-3-4 does not apply. Article 8-2-1-e rules that a legally recovered scrimage kick in the opponent's end zone is a touchdown.
That's simply an untrue statement. Replay works for the better in most situations, it occasionally doesn't work out how it should and that's when some call for the end of it. I personally like it, but they need to penalize those refs that review a play and still get it wrong.
The original angle made it very difficult to tell if he did indeed touch it, but the back angle should leave no doubt. I agree that in all angles that it's very difficult to see the actual contact, but the way the ball changed it's spinning direction, should leave no doubt.
The reaction of the player should leave little doubt. He pulled his hand away like it was scalded just at the moment the ball started tumbling differently.
