Miami Touchdown Debate: Was the End Zone Catch Complete?

We will start with whether or not Miami scored a touchdown in the end zone. Now, this is tough. Mario Crystal Ball has every right to be pissed off, okay? This harkened back to the Dez Bryant catch. This harkened back to so many plays in the NFL where we ask, what is a catch and what is not? A receiver catches a football. squarely. No one's questioning whether Elijah Lofton caught the ball. He caught the ball. Okay. Straight up two hands on the football, two feet in bounds. Not one, two, two feet into the end zone. He's then falling out of bounds and the Notre Dame defender knocks the football out of his hands. I think the problem that most football fans have, and I'm not a hurricane apologist, but the problem that most non-biased football fans, because I'm not one of them. I'm not an Irish fan. I think most football fans would say, okay, if I am a runner and I stick the football over the goal line and the tip of the ball, crosses the goal line, and then someone knocks the football out of my hands, that's a touchdown. We've established that, right? So what is the difference? If I catch the football with two hands, I land inbounds with two feet inbounds, only one, but two feet inbounds, and my hands are firmly around the football. And while I am falling out of bounds after crossing the goal line, somebody punches the football out. It's hard to explain that being an incomplete pass. It's just a logical conversation in football. It's a logical conversation that you're going, hold on, I don't understand. It doesn't make any sense to me how that is an incomplete pass. Now, if you're an Irish fan, you're like, this is great. Look at the rules. We're just going by the rules. And I'll give that to you by the rules, 100%. It is an incomplete pass. But should we look at changing the rules? Like, should we say, hey. Two feet, one foot, whatever you want to call it, possession of the football in the end zone stops the play. It doesn't matter what happens afterwards, surviving the ground, getting pushed out of bounds. It doesn't matter. If you catch the football in the end zone with possession, two feet in bounds, what happens afterwards doesn't matter because that is the standard for a runner. It's not a standard for a catcher of a football, but a runner of the football, break the plane, play's over. It's a tough situation, okay? It's a tough call. Mario Cristobal was bent afterwards, blasting the referees, essentially saying they got jobbed and, you know, they're in Notre Dame and, of course, they're going to lose that call. By the letter of the law, the call was made correctly.