It was one of those days for the Big Ten's cellar dwellers.
at Ross-Ade Stadium, the Boilermakers—then trailing 14–0—thought for a second they had trimmed the deficit to one possession with a touchdown midway through the second quarter.
Purdue sophomore wide receiver De'Nylon Morrissette did catch a pass from quarterback Hudson Card on some black-painted grass. The only problem? Morrissette was standing behind the pylon with the football out of bounds. No catch, no touchdown.Card threw another incomplete pass on third-and-goal, and the Boilermakers settled for a 22-yard field goal to put its first points on the scoreboard.
The college football world had some fun with the odd attempted touchdown catch out of bounds, criticizing the grounds crew for the confusing paint job:That endzone is painted CRAZY. In the middle of the back, the edge of the endzone ends where the black paint does. But in the corner it's black outside for another two yards?Exactly why you paint that part of the end zone white to make it abundantly clear which part is out of bounds.
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