re: The Dumbest Rule in College Football

When the nose of the ball immediately crosses the goal line on a run it’s a TD regardless of what happens after that but a receiver can have the ball in his possession and touch down with his feet in the endzone but drop it and it’s not a TD. I know that sounds like a weird description but I hope y’all know what I’m talking about

I know there’s the whole make a football move or 3 seconds of possession thing but it just doesn’t make sense to me why a running play gets the immediate touchdown call in the same split second that a receiver has the ball in his possession with a foot down in the EZ before a drop.

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Because that is the way it works everywhere else on the field.

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The field has different characteristics and rules from the end zone.

I'm not just making this up to justify the rule; the end zone is literally a different place that has special characteristics. The rulebook references this often - the goal line is "the opponent's goal line". A touchback occurs if the ball becomes dead out of bounds behind the goal line, or if a defender has the ball "behind their own goal line."

You clearly don't like this, or don't want to hear it, or perhaps cannot comprehend it. That doesn't make it untrue, nor does it mean it's a bad rule.