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The NCAA rulebook defines eligible receivers for college football in Rule 7, Section 3, Article 3. [1] The determining factors are the player's position on the field at the snap and their jersey number. Specifically, any players on offense wearing numbers between 50 and 79 are always ineligible.
The NCAA Football Rules Committee determines the playing rules for Division I (both Bowl and Championship Subdivisions), II, and III games (the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) is a separate organization, but uses the NCAA rules). A pass is ruled complete if one of the receiver's feet is inbounds at the time of the catch.
Together with the back judge, the field judge rules whether field goal attempts are successful. For the NFL, this was the fourth official, added in 1929. [18] The position is called the back umpire in Canadian amateur football; all other leagues use the term field judge. However, in the CFL, this was the fifth official, added in 1951. [21]
Following Oregon football's dramatic win over Ohio State, the NCAA announced a rules clarification involving 12 defenders on the field.
The NCAA will allow commercial sponsor advertisements on football fields for regular-season games in all three divisions beginning this season, creating a new revenue stream for schools facing ...
Here's a look at college football's new rules for the 2024 season, including coach-to-player communication, a two-minute timeout and more
Teams change ends of the field at the end of the first quarter and the end of the third quarter, though the situation on the field regarding possession, downs remaining, and distance-to-goal does not change (so a team with possession 5 yards from the opponent's end zone at the end of the first quarter would resume playing 5 yards from the end ...
High school football (apart from Texas) immediately rules the ball dead when the ball crosses the goal line; the ball cannot be returned from the end zone, nor can it be recovered there for a touchdown. NFL immediately rules the ball dead, when the ball touches the ground in the endzone, if not been touched by the receivers before.