Few things in football are as infuriating as the infamous fumble touchback rule. Imagine your team is inches away from scoring a touchdown, only for a fumble to roll out of the opponent’s end zone.

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The ensuing kickoff was a touchback, sending the NBC broadcast to a commercial break. But when the game returned from break, the Buccaneers were once again lined up to kick off. Was it déjà vu?

but it did anything but as teams were incentivized to boot the ball into the end zone for a touchback to the 30-yard line instead of risking Nixon breaking a return. The NFL enacted the rule ...

The situation began four plays earlier on a kickoff when the Gamecocks gave the T-bar signal that usually indicates the receiving team will take a touchback rather than attempt a return ...

He also led the conference and ranked eighth in the FBS ranks in touchback percentage at 82 percent. Buchanan was a 2022 graduate of Marshall (Texas) High. He has two years to play one ...

So, as his teammate acted like he was just going to let the ball fall and hope it resulted in a touchback, Blackwell caught it and started running toward the end zone on the other end of the field.

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which he said is a signal that it is a touchback and that the team isn't returning the kick. "You're allowed to do that as long as you don't do a wave," Beamer said. "There was no waving of the ...

(End of game) After the touchback, Michigan starts with a run but Alabama's Justin Jefferson is penalized for slapping a Michigan player's helmet in the face while on the ground for a first down.

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Bad tackling by the Bears. Seattle at the 20 after the touchback bounced in the landing area and went out of the end zone. As a big cloud of smoke hangs over the field from pregame garbage.