Illinois State had the ball deep. Montana State was stopping them. On a run play, the ISU runner was stopped short of the goal line but managed to fumble the ball forward into the end zone where a teammate fell on it. The call was a touchdown.
I know rules may be different at different levels, but I thought the rule was changed years ago - at least at the D I level - so that a team could not gain by fumbling the ball forward to gain more yards. ( I remember a game where an opponent took advantage of that tactic to steal a TD against us before the rule was changed.)
Is the rule different at the Championship level? If not, shouldn't ISU have been ruled to have recovered the ball and the ball have been placed back at the spot at which the fumble occurred?