1 point safety Oregon vs. Kansas State

This is a very unusual play/ruling in football. I do not own the rights to this video, but this video is being used under fair use act.

[@jameslawlor3635]

The Official did a great job handling it. As fans we really appreciate the explanation and just straight up saying that it's a weird thing.

[@azultj09]

I love how he adds that it's an unusual ruling!

[@newerest1]

lol if he was just like "ruling on the field is 1 point safety" everyone would have been so confused

[@nickjohnson3815]

Go utes

[@pronkb000]

@@newerest1 That was how it was for Texas vs. Texas A&M the first time this happened. The official there treated it like it was an everyday occurrence. Cherry straight-up said, "Okay, y'all, shit 'bout to get cray."

[@Youlikethat3]

There trash

[@honorguard88]

SEE? THESE refs are doing their jobs!

[@godli6063]

Benjamin Bak oh wow I didn’t think someone would reply to a 3 year old comment on the same day I am going to. Wowzers

[@joshtusinger8357]

@@godli6063 4*

[@hughjanus700]

@@joshtusinger8357 now its 4 a year ago it wasn't

[@12tony88]

@@hughjanus700 fr

[@20SUKUNA]

@@hughjanus700 Now 5 year old

[@Cybop-xd9mm]

I like how it happened to the same announcer 😂

[@MarcLloydZ]

sellbullion thats incest.

[@licotacolin]

sellbullion Shut the fuck up, lol

[@samtoshner8002]

Yeah I just finished watching that one - it's funny because the announcers had no idea what was going on with it back then, and this one makes so much more sense

[@drayfinmania]

Kevin mchebri Yeah

[@maestroclassico5801]

Kevin mchebri yes! I just watched the Texas-A&M game video...and YES! Same announcer 9 years apart! He'll retire if he sees it again!! 😂😂

[@mjnarcy]

"If this happens to me again, I'm retiring." That's the best line from this clip.

[@CRMdrifter]

@@PaintMyTaint which is weirder the fact that you replied to a comment from 3 years ago or the fact that your getting mad over nothing.

[@PaintMyTaint]

@@CRMdrifter The fact that you joined in two months later to make an assumption that I am mad over something.

[@CRMdrifter]

@@PaintMyTaint was it that bad of an assumption

[@PaintMyTaint]

@@CRMdrifter It wasn't great

[@CRMdrifter]

@@PaintMyTaint why not

[@scottjaffe8840]

Can't believe it's the same commentator that covered the Texas-Texas A&M one point safety in 2004.

[@JBakerH]

I know right! what are the odds!

[@tylerradke2061]

Its the same ref too, i think.

[@Grotesk]

Not the same ref, the ref was a white guy at the A&M vs Texas game.

[@sturttv]

It's actually the same 2 commentators! Brad Nessler who was speaking about it and the color commentator, Gary Danielson.

[@justinreeder3514]

Actually, the color guy here is Todd Blackledge and back in 2004, it was Gary Danielson. Same play-by-play guy (Brad Nessler).

[@bradmorgan60]

lol well at least they got the extra point

[@clintross7778]

lmao

[@danoly215]

Brad Morgan And they get the ball back

[@lightyagami3492]

@@danoly215 LMAO ikr

[@Namath1000]

@@danoly215 They don't get the ball back.

[@ahappynigerian]

@@danoly215 did you not see the Oregon kicker out on the field at the end of the video?

[@okrajoe]

Gimme my one point. 1 in a million.

[@black-op345gaming5]

okrajoe as someone who watched this game that was funny

[@CPez]

LOVE how it was the same commentator and he vividly remembered the Texas game.

[@darkkaioken]

IKR... in that KZbin vid he was completely lost. Now, he's like "I can't believe I saw this again.... and understand it now"

[@hockeypbp]

He DIDN'T remember the Texas game until after the ref made the call. Having seen the play once already in his career, he still didn't get it right.

[@clamstain]

i love that he said, if it happens to me again, i'm retiring

[@davezanko9051]

Starting with the 2015 season this is now possible in the NFL. A blocked PAT attempt (which is now taken from the 15 yard line) is now a live ball, and the defense can attempt to return it for 2 points. (Likewise, a turnover on a 2-point attempt, which is still taken from the 2 yard line, can be returned for 2 points). However, if the defense's attempt results in a safety (like in this game), the kicking team is awarded 1 point. Even weirder and more exceedingly unlikely is the return attempt resulting in a second turnover (say a fumble on the kicking team's1 yard line) giving possession back to the kicking team, only for the kicking team giving up a safety in their own end zone. That would result in one point being awarded to the (original) defense. Which means that it is now possible, though incredibly improbable, for a game to have a score of 6-1. It's actually the only way for a team to have a total score of 1 point.

[@lawman34]

thank God you clarified

[@LilOak]

+Dave Zanko very interesting. How did you find this out

[@davezanko9051]

+OAKED MUSIC It was mentioned in some of the season previews in the local papers. Google it, stuff will turn up.

[@grovergarver3104]

+Dave Zanko The 1 point safety scored by the offensive team (that is, the team trying the conversion) has ALWAYS been possible in the NFL.

[@davezanko9051]

+Grover Garver if you mean the one where the defense gains possession and then backs into its own endzone only to be tackled (like in this video), then no. Before this year, any turnover on a try was an automatic dead ball, as in high school rules. That's what changed this year.

[@VampireYoshi]

Completely correct call. They recovered the block but ran it BACK into the end zone ("into the wall of color, from the green"), and were tackled. Extra point safeties are worth one point. Honestly, this rule was so obscure, yet on the books, for so long that I can't not love it. It's like the trope "The Programmers...", i.e. Game Designers from freakin' 1907, "...Thought Of Everything". And if not 1907, then whenever it came into existence: strange rules are often cool simply by fact of their existence.

[@ilyazhitomirskiy9218]

What's even funnier is that the referee is the same one that gave the "he was giving him the business" call in a Maryland- NC State game.

[@bywill9923]

Number 69 was giving him the business

[@DaTwistedOne1]

Yeah, to bad he stole that line from Ben Dreith, who used it in 86 in a Jets-Bills game.

[@secbj1]

Ron Cherry was the R, he was paying tribute to Ben Dreith when he made that statement

[@herbertt.viking1449]

Legend.

[@hiimemily]

"On the previous play, we have an unusual ruling..." You don't know the half of it.

[@harryberrisford7364]

+Trevor Plays lol its the 2nd time

[@meganegbert8570]

Your parents are so disappointed in you

[@hiimemily]

@@meganegbert8570 They've supported me the whole time, try again.

[@meganegbert8570]

@@hiimemily doesn’t change the fact youll never be a woman

[@chriswebster24]

If you cut off a man’s weenie and put him in a dress, he’ll be a man with no weenie, wearing a dress. If you cut off your own weenie and put on a dress, you’ll be a mentally ill man with no weenie, wearing a dress. A man can go his entire life without anyone ever knowing he has mental problems. He can choose to change his name, and start calling himself a woman, too, though, if he wants to make it obvious to everyone, but that’s all up to him. He is free to choose.

[@baronvonswag]

I was watching the A&M Texas game at a bar with a bunch of Aggies and Longhorns. And when it happened everyone was equally confused! Even after they awarded the point no one in the bar cheered. It was just a "Thanks? I guess?" moment. And then I saw THIS game on TV when he mentioned it!

[@One_Point_Safety]

I come back to this video sometimes, I've been watching it since it came out. It's hard to understand how much things have changed and how much they've, paradoxically, stayed the same. I'll keep chasing this elusive high that is the one point safety. I'm like a dog chasing a car, I wouldn't know what to do with it if I caught it.

[@theoriginalbadbob]

Lateral, my ass; that was a forward pass.

[@iambobby3537]

Still would have been a dead ball.

[@joeryan6321]

An illegal forward pass in the end zone would have the same result, a 1-point safety.

[@marvelousrex2866]

Like a few other people said, it wouldn't make any difference to the score. If they call the illegal forward pass in the end zone, whether Oregon takes the call or the play, it doesn't matter. The result is still the same, a 1 point safety. With that said, I agree that they still should have made the call, regardless of the outcome. Not only did they miss it on the field, but the review missed it as well.

[@rickhaavisto9023]

@@marvelousrex2866 Review didn’t look at it because it didn’t matter…

[@mrjimi1]

That's not a hard explanation. It's literally the same as a regular safety, just that you only get the one point because it is a PAT.

[@nicolasmartins5601]

mrjimi1 he said unusual, not difficult

[@mrjimi1]

​@@nicolasmartins5601 I don't think that is what I was talking about. I think I was referring to when the commentator referenced how he was happy it was explained by the ref. The only thing that really needs explanation is the one point aspect. Hence my comment.

[@danthemankhan]

That was a forward pass. The foul occuring in the endzone should be a safety anyway, however.

[@nerdhobbyinc.7146]

This happened to me in Madden. I threw a pick on a 2 point conversion and the db fell back into the end zone so I got 1 point

[@Dalton1294]

One of the rarest things I'll ever see in football

[@quentinraffensperger1699]

Have you heard of the "Free Kick" or " Fair catch kick" as most people call it? It's very rare.

[@stellertonybeller1972]

I'm a Browns fan so a WIN would be a rarest thing I would see in football

[@chefteeds9112]

dagostep2 aka Tony Not anyone lmao.

[@lyrics2challenged]

@@stellertonybeller1972 more life to you friend. Y'all apparently would've probably crushed the Bill's lmao.

[@eggz1923]

@@quentinraffensperger1699 hi

[@iloveurvidsNOT]

great job by the ref explaining that rule

[@djpurplefoxsdeadchannel]

@Johnny Appleseed that the joke

[@josiahdomster9010]

Yep

[@shadyshinichi2JZ]

He was just givin you the business.

[@justinberg8687]

1 point safety confirmed! love that the refs got this unusual play right on the field...crazy

[@mikesty]

The odds of this happening in the NFL are nearly zero.

[@mikesty]

After further review of the rulebook - It could plausibly happen but not if the ball is kicked. If a player is running with the ball and fumbles it forwards into the endzone before he gets there, and that fumble isn't clearly going out of bounds by itself, if a defensive player dives at it and smacks it out of bounds, it's a safety on the defense (because this is the only way you can have a safety on the defense, anyway). The rules also state that on a try, the defense can't score a safety - so if anyone says that if the offense goes crazy on a try and runs the ball backwards 98 yards, that's not a safety by rule, and they're wrong (but I don't think this is coded into Madden because it's so insane)

[@Statalyzer]

In the NFL the play is dead if the defense gets the ball.

[@mikesty]

Statalyzer Yep! Yet it's still possible for a safety to be scored on this play by "impetus" imposed on the ball. The ball is dead if the defense *recovers* the ball. If they try to dive on the ball but fail to actually cover it up, and knock the ball out of the back of the endzone, it's a one-point safety. I read the rulebook for like two hours hahaha.

[@l4nd3r]

polyma You can't knock the ball, it's a foul.

[@mikesty]

l4nd3r which is why it results in a safety in this circumstance

[@ameenbendaoud]

if this was just a normal 3 point field goal would it just be a normal safety

[@ptusasgugfhfg]

Yes, I believe so.

[@joepaulo5653]

Yes. This is a play where someone of the blocking team catches the ball out of the end zone, brings it into the end zone and gets tackled for one point. If it were a field goal it would be two.

[@ArtMonkforHallofFame]

agreed. And if this had been a 2-point conversion attempt (instead of an extra point kick) resulting in an interception and then fumble in the endzone, that too would have been worth 2 points.

[@leonmatthewsiv1699]

false...still 1 point because it's on the try after touchdown.

[@Chaoticsaur]

+alas jajo he was asking if it was a regular field goal, meaning it would be 2 points.

[@jjeffries18]

Thx for explanation. Yeah I even read that if a team scores, say, the first TD in a game, gets their point blocked and returned by the defense all the way to the other end zone. Then if they fumble it and the offense re-recovers it and is tackled in their own end zone, it's one point for the "try safety" for the defense. The score would then be 6-1. This will never happen but these are some crazy rules I've never heard of.

[@mjhansford]

Papa Kay, The ball was recovered by KSU outside the end zone and then taken back in the end zone where it was declared dead. Surely KSU should have either made it dead or not taken it back in. That's why Oregon get the one point, it's technically a team making the ball dead in their own end zone - whatever way you look at that, it's a safety.

[@DavidGee51]

The kicker's all, "Now I get that point, right?"

[@liamgriffin218]

If you think about it, this is just saying "the kick is good" with extra steps. Still really interesting, and I tried this in Madden and was surprised that it actually works. Although there's an odd glitch where it shows as 1 point on the score board, however the announcers mention it being worth 2 points and the score breakdown tab shows it being worth 2... But the final score will still say 1 less than that. Basically the score may add up to X according to the breakdown, but the total will show as X-1

[@martiansyrup4331]

So what happens if theoretically the kicking team takes the ball 98 yards backwards and gets a safety, is that a 1 pt safety to the other team, therefore making a possible score of 6-1. That would be weird

[@Namath1000]

Yes, that would be 6-1. Note, though, that's only in college and pro football not high school.

[@Crystal_Bull]

I love that the other popular video of this, of Texas and Texas A&M, features the same guy calling the play. Lmfao!

[@MarcLloydZ]

Fidget the Nimbat no sht sherlock

[@trwent]

The two keys to a safety are (1) possession and (2) impetus. Since K State first (after the kick block) possessed the ball OUTSIDE of the end zone, and then the K State player (stupidly) ran it INTO the endzone, K State provided the impetus for the ball crossing its own goal line while in possession of the ball. Its player then got tackled in the endzone while in possession of the ball, which by rule is a safety. Since it was on a missed PAT kick, it has to be only 1 point, not 2 points, since the offense on that play could not have scored more than 1 point once the ball was kicked. On the ensuing kickoff, K State receives the kick, since which team receives is determined by who just scored the TOUCHDOWN, not on what happened on the ensuing PAT.

[@Wulfgar1224]

Thx for that. I was wondering who got the ball since K State gave up a safety.

[@pwnn00bzorz1]

Nessler called this one and the UT-A&M one, that's hilarious.

[@dansanger5340]

Regardless of the context, I love the signal for a safety.

[@stillgaming]

I remember being pissed throughout the commercial break because I knew that was a 1-point safety. Thankfully the refs were on point that day and fixed it later. It's a weird rule but makes sense. It's the rarest scoring play ever achieved, but not the rarest scoring play ever. The defensive 1-point safety is astronomically improbable but possible. I'm not going to describe the rule, but let's just say it'd require a Leon Lett situation on a blocked extra point for the rule to even start.

[@jhaz89]

Well an accidental one, yes. But it would actually be very easy to make happen. All it would take is an offense purposely running all the way back into their endzone on a conversion attempt, which would essentially be done as a taunt. So the only criteria for it would be a team that is blowing another team out and a ballsy coach who is willing to deal with backlash for being an asshole. Probably would need to either be bad blood between teams, or the coach really good friends with the other coach and know that they wouldn't get upset by it, or run with the "We did it because it's never been done before and most football fans don't even know that rule exists, so we thought it would be intriguing for football fans and one for the record books." That might work

[@frankconti8042]

@@jhaz89i hope someday it happens in a blowout. 6-1 is rare cause the game is still too close for antics. Maybe something like 32-1 could happen if the coaches know each other in a meaningless week 18 game like the Flutie drop kick.

[@davyjones7177]

How has it taken me until November 2021 to learn that this has actually happened.

[@TonyStebbins]

I love that the ref said "we have an unusual ruling"

[@D40P]

What's so hard to explain? If a PAT results in what would ordinarily be a safety, the opposing team gets a point.

[@c2shifty368]

D. Ik this is late but it’s just weird because this was the second time in history of nfl cfl and NCAA that this happened

[@kenrodriguez9645]

If K-State player bobbles it for one more step going backwards it’s a touchback. As it was, he held on tightly and took a step in the end-zone. That required review to establish it was a safety and not a touchback.

[@jhaz89]

I found out about the rule because I was looking at the scoring rules in fantasy football and saw 1 point safety and thought "what the hell is that?." I then Googled and KZbind it and couldn't believe I didn't know about that.

[@darkkaioken]

The key is that extra point scenarios are, technically, outside of game time since the clock doesn't run during it. It stops after the touchdown and doesn't start again until after kickoff return. This is why you still get to kick your extra point after scoring a touchdown when the last play runs the all the game time off the clock. So, since extra points happen in the space between for a game, this ruling is unique that the event technically isn't live, just a switch of possession. So, instead of a standard 2 point safety, it's only a 1 point. The more impressive thing, which we've seen happen a multitude, is that it's possible for the defense to score a touchdown during an intercepted extra point and never change the game clock time a second.

[@grovergarver3104]

Just to be clear, if the defense scores a "touchdown" on the conversion play, it's worth 2 points.

[@jhaz89]

What the hell did I just read....And as the other guy said, the defense (or offense) could only score 2 points on a "try" after a TD. Your comment can simply be put that "tries" after a TD have their own rules. There's no actual association with the fact that the clock doesn't run on "tries" after TDs and why it's a 1 point safety instead of 2. It's just simply because they have their own set of rules.

[@michelcharbonnier7603]

That's the only play in our playbook. We just score TDs to set up 2-point safeties.

[@dk2853]

I love the fans cheering for the one point safety! 👏

[@corytoews5222]

Can we just think about it this way? On the try, scoring is a little different: touchdowns are worth 2, field goals are worth 1, safeties are worth 1.

[@doctordeath2551]

Imagine losing by one point from a safety in When the game tie with 0 seconds left on the clock

[@ojjuiceman]

The rule should be changed to were Oregon gets the ball back plus 1 point. Give them a reward better than one point if it's so rare

[@jonemeigh5588]

That is amazing that it has only happened twice in NCAA history, and one of the announcers in the booth at this game was also at the other game where it happened!

[@emeraldaly7646]

That's not what he said. He said it's the second time it happened *to him* (i.e. in a game he was calling).

[@tripod206]

It's funny because Nessler had no clue what was going on in the Texas-Texas A&M game, to the point he was certain the officials had done something wrong.

[@TheDCGuitar13]

That ref waited his whole life for that moment.

[@mmoreau84]

No. The safety was scored on an a try (extra point attempt) after Oregon scored a touchdown. By rule, the team scoring the touchdown, and thus snapping the ball on the try, must kick off after the try is completed, regardless of which team actually scores on the try. The same would be true if Kansas had actually run the ball all the way back for a 2-point touchdown.

[@darknightmike10yearsago]

I was watching that game at my house, and I saw that play as it happened.

[@KangaKucha]

Well imho Safety should be 2 no matter what (although I guess on converts it's different, but hell imho it should just 2 point converts no kicks and if the other side gets the ball and returns it to the other endzone, TD and a Amazing Play to be!). Yet in this game, means nothing as Oregon is going to win and likley does.

[@KangaKucha]

Well to be fair as well on KC they were just going for 1 and got it. Nuff said.

[@nathanielstove8662]

the reason they get the point for the safety is that it forces the kicking team to stop the blocking team from returning the blocked kick (which results in a defensive 2pt conversion which happened in the NFL for the 1st time last season)

[@DaTwistedOne1]

Um.. Duh...

[@trwent]

What is important here is that, on ANY play, even a PAT attempt, it needs to be possible for EITHER team to score at ANY time, as long as the ball is live. If, after the ball is kicked and then blocked, only the team that blocked the kick had the opportunity to still score, then that would not make for good football. That is the real reason to have the possibility of the 1-point safety for the team that had its kick blocked.

[@jimjohnston5719]

I think the issue is this: Here, the ball is blocked, touched by the defense while in the air, behind the line of scrimmage. This results in a live ball (thus the fact it can be returned). In the Texas-Texas A&M game, the holder failed to hold the snap, which is a fumble. Texas' kicker then kicked the ball into the scrum at the line of scrimmage, which could have resulted in a penalty for an illegal touch/kick of the ball, since it was intentional. However, the refs let that go, allowing the live ball to bounce around until TAMU downed the ball in the end zone. Here, the Oregon player tacked the K-State player in the back of the end zone. The ball must cross the line of scrimmage in a PAT situation in order to be considered a dead ball. In neither case did the ball cross the Line of Scrimmage before the block or fumble occurred. Thus the ball was live and the 1-point Safety was enforced. I saw this in a High School game once (might be on KZbin now, not sure) where the ball was blocked behind the line of scrimmage and went about six yards down field. The offense said 'Golly gee.' and started to walk off, one of the defenders, realizing it was a live ball, picked it up and scooted downfield for a score.

[@Namath1000]

On a PAT in a high school game? In Texas or not in Texas?

[@LunaticTheCat]

I want to see this happen when a team has zero points, so they can have the elusive score of 1 point. lol

[@josiahconnell6655]

That can’t happen because you have to be kicking an extra point, which means you had to have scored a touchdown. Closest you can get is 2 points from a safety

[@Namath1000]

@@josiahconnell6655 If the team attempting a 2 point conversion, for example, somehow manages to go back 97 yards and get tackled in his own endzone that would be a 1 point safety for the defensive team.

[@josiahconnell6655]

My Name oh yeah I guess that could theoretically happen

[@LunaticTheCat]

​@@Namath1000 I think that's most possible if a team gets a turnover on a 2 point conversion, then fumbles the ball right before crossing the goalline, then the team originally on offense recovers it on the one, runs back a few yards trying to evade defenders, and then gets tackled for a safety. Totally unlikely, but it is definitely possible.

[@Namath1000]

@@LunaticTheCat Yes, that would be a more likely scenario and that would indeed be a 1 point safety for the defense.

[@UC32UC32]

this guy ruined everything for fullbacks lmao

[@101moosefan]

You can get a single point in Canadian football all the time,a single (single point, or rouge), scoring one point, is awarded when the ball is kicked into the end zone by any legal means, other than a successful field goal, and the receiving team does not return, or kick, the ball out of its end zone. It is also a single if the kick travels through the end zone or goes out of bounds in the end zone without being touched, except on a kickoff. After conceding a single, the receiving team is awarded possession of the ball at the 35-yard line of its own end of the field. Singles are not awarded in the following situations: if a ball is downed in the end zone after being intercepted in the end zone if a ball is fumbled outside the end zone if the kicked ball hits the goalposts (since the 1970s; before then it was a live ball) when a kickoff goes into the end zone and then out of bounds without being touched In all these cases the defending team is awarded possession of the ball at the 25-yard line.

[@joepaulo5653]

Wow, Canadian football is unusual.

[@DieFlabbergast]

You mean "different," not "unusual". It's perfectly usual in Canada, after all, where it is American Football that is "unusual." I'm neither American nor Canadian, just in case you were wondering.

[@capt459]

I'll take answers to questions no one asked for 1000 Alex.

[@josiahdayton8240]

Who’s here from tiktok

[@TheGeneraI]

I reference this weekly just to sound smart

[@jjeffries18]

@63besgasman Yeah that's true and should be 2 points. What I said is if the returning team fumbled it before they reached the end zone for 2 and the other team recovered it in their end zone, then they get one point. Highly unlikely that will ever happen

[@Locker146]

Is there a way to have just 1 point in football? Like the score be 6-1? Let's say team Y is attempting an extra point after a touchdown, and team Z blocks it and returns it like 95 yards and gets hit and fumbles, and someone on Team Y picks it up in the field of play (like somewhere around the 5yd line of the opposite end zone of where the extra point was being kicked), and while trying to avoid defenders runs back into his own end zone and gets tackled. Would that result in a 1pt safety making the score 6-1?

[@billboardbomber9016]

No. If someone fumbles it and the defense gets tackled in the defensive end zone it is ruled as a touchback.

[@chanman876]

Yes I believe it would, according to Wikipedia.

[@bittsmuggler50000]

U can't return the pat...

[@kylepeel324]

buttsmuggler50000 You can return the PAT in college

[@jwbaumann]

Yes, it would. But it's never happened. College football only, not pro.

[@raygordonteacheschess5501]

Man Cherry aged a lot in the time since the "giving him the business" call a few years earlier.

[@tnyamaneko6093]

Fun fact: Brad Nessler was also the commentator in 2004 for the match between Texas and Texas A&M, possibly the first (and only other) time in NCAA history that this ruling was called.

[@covey3416]

No shit sherlock, he literally said that in this video. *facepalm*

[@tnyamaneko6093]

D'oh, somehow, I missed it, what a way to embarass myself =/

[@markuslinke9206]

But Oregon still has to Kickoff, although it was a safety?

[@davidpaquette4091]

Announcers can't admit how stupid they sounded in the texas\a&m video....

[@abramjohan2799]

Orrr... u could have just let them make the extra point. Smh

[@kenrodriguez9645]

Their Crystal ball that allows them to see into the future wasn’t working that days unfortunately.

[@dredbud9272]

As soon as he tried to fumble the ball forward the play was over.

[@Namath1000]

First of all, it wasn't ruled a forward pass so no, the play was not over. Second, the play would be over when the forward pass hit the ground incomplete, not when he threw it.

[@AdamLaMore]

Most people call it a "conversion safety" if it makes you feel any better. What happens during a conversion try never has an effect on how play resumes afterwards. Even if the defense intercepts the ball and runs it back for two points, they still receive the ball in a kickoff.

[@johndifool2985]

To make it even worse, the guy who recovered the kick threw a forward lateral, which would have also resulted in a safety even if they got it back out of the endzone.

[@atomicgiraffe250]

Should be an illegal forward pass too

[@quentinmilligan8582]

+bvestationfan it was not a forward pass, the pass was backwards. also, the pass wasn't caught, so it was just a fumble.

[@akabuca96]

+bvestationfan either way, a penalty in the end zone results in a safety so same difference

[@grovergarver3104]

+Quentin Milligan FYI, if it was a forward pass (and that's what it looked like to me) then it would be an incomplete forward pass if it hits the ground. An illegal forward pass is still a forward pass and as such, is incomplete and a dead ball if it hits the ground uncaught.

[@joepaulo5653]

Illegal forward pass would be a penalty in the end zone so it would also result in a safety.

[@atomicgiraffe250]

0:56 No disrespect, but that looks like a forward pass to me. The play is dead because it's incomplete, the flag in the end zone results in a safety. Same result, just different sequence of events.

[@deemann123]

when you lose the game by 1/2 point :[

[@TheMacC117]

Still give a lot of props for these part-time officials to even know what a one point safety is.

[@EastDallasCrew]

Anyone come here because of the one point accidentally given to the Raiders?

[@mikesty]

What happened? :O

[@kenrodriguez9645]

@@mikesty Scoreboard glitch, lol. No actual play caused a 1 point gain.

[@xapie128]

So technically you could have a football game that ended with a score of 6-1. Crazy.

[@sachitagrawal6086]

xapie128 no. The team that does the touchdown got the 1 point

[@lth5015]

Technically yes but that would be much crazier than what you saw here. The defense would somehow have to score a safety on the offense on the other side of the field.

[@DaTwistedOne1]

It IS possible but only in theory. It would require the team kicking the PAT to be downed in the opposite endzone. Which we know would require the ball to go backwards nearly 100 yards..lol

[@AEMoreira81]

+DaTwistedOne1 - and that can only happen in NCAA. In the NFL, it would be a two-point safety (starting with 2015, with the PAT moved back to the 15 yard line, a blocked PAT is now a live ball).

[@lth5015]

Adam Moreira no, any safety scored during a PAT is a 1pt Safety

[@unspherdcomb6]

Kanas state was ranked 5... college football was strange back in the day

[@owenmurphy924]

I love the roar from the crowd when he said "1 point safety"

[@djbackspin911]

You never would have thought a 1 pt. safety will ever occur until you somehow watch this vid

[@fergonzaleznavarro8090]

So...does the kicking team get the ball back after the safety?

[@tylerholmes9579]

Is this just an NCAA rule or could it happen in the NFL too?

[@paulyo4]

just ncaa

[@evansjohnc]

Tyler Holmes Well, the NFL added the ability to score by the defense on a conversion attempt last year. So , I guess it could occur there too.

[@paulyo4]

Nah the nfl doesn't have the 1 point safety.

[@lastnamefirst6471]

+paulyo4 yes they do it just hasn't happened since like the1950's

[@paulyo4]

the ball would be called dead prior to the 2015 rule changes. So no, the is no one point safety . Even if it was in the nfl I doubt we would ever see it.

[@TheVideoGametuts]

I'm confused, at the end of the video you see the Oregon kicker, but if it was a safety, shouldn't Oregon get the ball back? Usually the team that gets the points after a safety gets the ball back

[@Zigtec]

10/10 blocking for the center. Would start again.

[@nolanbusa]

Told my family this was a thing. They didn’t believe me.

[@ojjuiceman]

Imagine a team doing the opposite and get a safety on the kicking team thus allowing them to have a score of 6-1. If you bet a dollar on a 6-1 final score football game the payout I have heard is around a billion dollars. I also heard Vegas won't make that bet on the offset it actually does happen but I think that's all rumors

[@eagleknx1179]

Let me explain it the simplest way possible basically he got the ball out of the endzone and then ran it back into the endzone causing a saftey he if caught it when it was just in the endzone it would have been a tb

[@riskyfap8416]

I just blocked an extra point & returned it for 1 pt in madden instead of 2...followed by a regular kick off hence me looking up 1 pt safety vids lolol weirdest shit ever

[@mr.nibblenips4231]

Thank god~! Oregon needed that extra point for the spread

[@BradTaylor-n8t]

I started watching football in the 60s and didn't know this was a rule until sometime around this period. Just a strange play

[@calvins6083]

I was at this game, I witnessed history

[@brad6094]

what's so hard to explain about it? blocked, received outside opponent goal, then tackled in opponent goal.

[@worthlessmutts9598]

rigged...how do you drop such and easy past like that.

[@AdamLaMore]

Only if the defense gains control of the ball. It's possible for a safety to happen with the defense not fully gaining control. See quirkyresearch.blogspot.com/2006/08/one-point-safety.html for more explanation.

[@Blaze21st]

actually thats only true in the nfl. in college the opposing team can run a PAT back for 2 points. but this guy retreated into the endzone and downed the play, giving k-state the safety

[@hgb0005]

It is true however that in college the defense can score a 1 point safety resulting in a score like 6-1. I don't care to go into those details. This can't happen in the NFL.

[@Punchoutrunneryt]

The rule was made so even if you miss the extra point the other team tries to get it out it’s not a safety because that would give you the ball wich isn’t allowed so that saftey acts as a extra point

[@codyelliot3652]

Was the fiesta bowl I remember watching this when I was 5 years old.

[@brandonlink6568]

The ESPN graphics guy didn't know what to do so they didn't update the score until after the ref explained it.

[@52flyingbicycles]

The defense could score a 1 point safety on PAT too. Probably an interception on 2 point conversion. The back runs it all the way back to the one, but gets tackled and fumbles it. The offense picks up the ball and runs it into the end zone, but gets tackled, the result of the touchdown: offense 6, defense 1. It’s the only way to score a single free point in US rules football - and it requires your opponent get 6.

[@the_return024]

Want to see that in NFL playoffs

[@Dewey247]

I was at this game and I was young but I’m very surprised I don’t remember this

[@chariot0421]

What's more impressive? The 1 point safety, or Kansas State blocking an extra point when only rushing 4 people?

[@BOOGiNS]

Alejandro maldonado. Worst kicker in ncaa history. Fyi

[@JK8]

should have had an illegal forward pass flag, as well (which would be declined.)

[@trentl4395]

I'm actually surprised the play stood after review. Maybe it is the camera angle, but that lateral looked blatantly forward to me.

[@paulsonj72]

If forward it is an illegal forward pass in the end zone. Take the penalty enforced from the spot of the foul(where the penalty is enforced from). and you have a saftey. Decline the penalty and take the play the ball is dead in the end zone in the defensive player's possession it is also a saftey. So either way you have a 1 point saftey scored here