What constitutes a catch

[parabrave]

Watching the USCe game and the Cocky receiver catches the ball in the endzone, gets 2 feet in travels about 5 yards in the OOB area goes to the ground and the ball bobbles. Field Ump calls TD. Review overturns the call. If that wasn't a catch I don't know what is.

[redstickdawg]

Watching the USCe game and the Cocky receiver catches the ball in the endzone, gets 2 feet in travels about 5 yards in the OOB area goes to the ground and the ball bobbles. Field Ump calls TD. Review overturns the call. If that wasn't a catch I don't know what is.

similar scenario in the lsu game last night, receiver has 2 feet in bounds and bobbles ball after he hits the ground out. called complete and overruled, either the SEC review folks are terribel or the college rules are more restrictive than the NFL rules.

[BrunswickDawg]

If you are toe-tapping you have to maintain control of the ball thru contact with the ground. If you bobble it you are out of bounds and it is not a catch.

[Mjoelner34]

I was watching a Bills pre-season game one time where Josh Allen hit the slot guy on a 9yd TD pass where the guy had full control, took three full steps in the endzone, ran past the wide white stripe at the back of the endzone with full control of the ball and as his momentum carried him past the stripe, the defender slapped it out and they called it incomplete. It went to review and the call was upheld.
Ridiculous! Three full steps in the endzone with the ball secure = TD. Two or three full steps out of bounds after possessing the ball in the endzone = play is over. But no, not according to micromanaging rules experts who rely on film instead of common sense to inject themselves into the game.

[Pancho]

why not do the same when a player stretches the ball across the goal line and then loses possession? weird

[R2Dawg]

The LSU one also was tricky with the pylon as a TD. When you cross the goal line the play is dead. I'd have to watch that one again, I guess they said he didn't posses as he crossed goal line? They have to clean this up. Totally messed up right now but they have botched everything else in college football so why not.

[smootness]

similar scenario in the lsu game last night, receiver has 2 feet in bounds and bobbles ball after he hits the ground out. called complete and overruled, either the SEC review folks are terribel or the college rules are more restrictive than the NFL rules.

In both the SC and LSU plays, the receiver was considered to be going to the ground as the catch was made, and in that scenario you have to maintain possession through the ground. I do not love the rule and the way replay adds to the craziness but it is what it is. Same as the NFL rule.

[Cowbeller]

why not do the same when a player stretches the ball across the goal line and then loses possession? weird

Bc a football move constitutes possession. This rule seems to fire up everyone a couple times a year but it is pretty cut and dry

Maintain possession through the ground or make a football move which is almost always obvious

[parabrave]

This is the catch I was talking about.

https://youtu.be/Dq0pvd3g1dU?t=378