[JimD84]

But, speaking of poor calls, I thought the rule was that the receiver is considered inbounds if the defender pushes him out of bounds before he can get his foot down.  Am I wrong, or did the refs get the call wrong where the Stanford receiver almost came down with a full foot inbounds.  The defender was carrying him out as he came down.

I think you're thinking of the NFL, which has such a rule.  AFAIK, the college game has no such provision.  But, the college game only requires one foot in bounds, whereas in the pros it's two.

I think the NFL used to have that push-out rule long ago, but not any more. I don't know if college ever did. It would be super hard to officiate.

Hmm...  You're the second person to indicate that the NFL changed the rule, and I hadn't seen any indication of it.  So, I took a quick trip to the NFL operations site:

https://operations.nfl.com/the-rules/nfl...g-a-catch/

And found the following:

"5. If a player, who is in possession of the ball, is held up and carried out of bounds by an opponent before both feet or any part of his body other than his hands touches the ground inbounds, it is a completed or intercepted pass...."

In other words, if a player is pushed out by a defender, the catch still stands.

Of course, the site could be out of date, but that's what the NFL is saying.

Anyway, my point was that the college game doesn't have such a rule (and AFAIK has never had one), so it doesn't apply here.

[JimD84]

But, speaking of poor calls, I thought the rule was that the receiver is considered inbounds if the defender pushes him out of bounds before he can get his foot down.  Am I wrong, or did the refs get the call wrong where the Stanford receiver almost came down with a full foot inbounds.  The defender was carrying him out as he came down.

I think you're thinking of the NFL, which has such a rule.  AFAIK, the college game has no such provision.  But, the college game only requires one foot in bounds, whereas in the pros it's two.

I think the NFL used to have that push-out rule long ago, but not any more. I don't know if college ever did. It would be super hard to officiate.

Hmm...  You're the second person to indicate that the NFL changed the rule, and I hadn't seen any indication of it.  So, I took a quick trip to the NFL operations site:

https://operations.nfl.com/the-rules/nfl...g-a-catch/

And found the following:

"5. If a player, who is in possession of the ball, is held up and carried out of bounds by an opponent before both feet or any part of his body other than his hands touches the ground inbounds, it is a completed or intercepted pass...."

In other words, if a player is pushed out by a defender, the catch still stands.

Of course, the site could be out of date, but that's what the NFL is saying.

Anyway, my point was that the college game doesn't have such a rule (and AFAIK has never had one), so it doesn't apply here.