In the CFL, there's a concept of the rouge point. If you kickoff into the endzone and the runner does not leave the endzone (e.g. taking a touchback), the kicking team is award 1 point. The same applies to missed field goals that go out of bounds; the opposing team didn't return the ball out of the endzone, so it results in the kicking team getting a point. The points are common in the CFL, and though they make a mess of figuring out if you need to go for two or not, teams don't generally overthink the rouge point up there.
The following clip from 2010 shows a more wild rouge-point scenario:
[video=youtube;d5BFaykcxGg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5BFaykcxGg[/video]
I kinda like the rule. I think it would benefit teams like Nebraska that place an emphasis on the kicking game, specifically touchbacks.
And, wouldn't you know it, if we had had the rouge point, we might have beaten Texas in the 2009 Big XII Championship Game
As you are all aware, Texas drove on us in the final two minutes to kick a field goal and win the game, 13-12.
Both teams kicked the ball well, as they were a combined 6-6 on field goals. If either team had missed a field goal, it could have meant rouge points. Since there weren't any, it makes this scenario a little simpler.
The difference comes in kickoffs. Texas must not have had a long kicker that year; they had no touchbacks all game. But Nebraska picked up 2. There was also a Zac Lee pass picked off in the endzone that Texas didn't return, for a total of 3 touchbacks in the game, or 3 rouge points against Texas.
Instead of trailing at halftime 7-6, the Huskers would have led 9-7. And most importantly, instead of leading 12-10 with a minute, we would have led 15-10. Texas would have been unable to simply kick a field goal to win; they'd have to drive the length of the field against Suh and the Blackshirts. I'm going to go ahead and give say that they don't make it all that far, and Colt McCoy and the Longhorns turn the ball over on downs, and Zac Lee takes a knee to clinch the win.
Nebraska 15, Texas 10
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Game box score:
http://www.big12sports.com/ViewContent.dbml?CONTENT_ID=101202&DB_OEM_ID=10410
(yeah, I'm over the game, I just really like the rule and wouldn't mind seeing it work its way south)
The following clip from 2010 shows a more wild rouge-point scenario:
[video=youtube;d5BFaykcxGg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5BFaykcxGg[/video]
I kinda like the rule. I think it would benefit teams like Nebraska that place an emphasis on the kicking game, specifically touchbacks.
And, wouldn't you know it, if we had had the rouge point, we might have beaten Texas in the 2009 Big XII Championship Game
As you are all aware, Texas drove on us in the final two minutes to kick a field goal and win the game, 13-12.
Both teams kicked the ball well, as they were a combined 6-6 on field goals. If either team had missed a field goal, it could have meant rouge points. Since there weren't any, it makes this scenario a little simpler.
The difference comes in kickoffs. Texas must not have had a long kicker that year; they had no touchbacks all game. But Nebraska picked up 2. There was also a Zac Lee pass picked off in the endzone that Texas didn't return, for a total of 3 touchbacks in the game, or 3 rouge points against Texas.
Instead of trailing at halftime 7-6, the Huskers would have led 9-7. And most importantly, instead of leading 12-10 with a minute, we would have led 15-10. Texas would have been unable to simply kick a field goal to win; they'd have to drive the length of the field against Suh and the Blackshirts. I'm going to go ahead and give say that they don't make it all that far, and Colt McCoy and the Longhorns turn the ball over on downs, and Zac Lee takes a knee to clinch the win.
Nebraska 15, Texas 10
| Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Final | |
| Texas | 0 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| Nebraska | 8 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 15 |
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Game box score:
http://www.big12sports.com/ViewContent.dbml?CONTENT_ID=101202&DB_OEM_ID=10410
(yeah, I'm over the game, I just really like the rule and wouldn't mind seeing it work its way south)
