At least he told the truth

The rule already said that. The NCAA only added to the bucket of goo of situational interpretations that made this confusing to begin with.  

If you go look at the NFL rules, they have just clear rules not rules that are overruled by multiple situational interpretations. 

I swear the NCAA rules committee must be made up of lawyers not people with common sense.

Read Section 5 rule on substitutions then go down to the situational interpretations and try to make any sense out of it. 

 NCAA Rulebook

Lets be honest here. If OSU had won a game by taking a late penalty we’d all be calling it a genius move. I despise the *ucks as much as anyone but it’s a game and knowing the rules and using them to your advantage is just gamesmanship.

This is silly. There was a “loophole,” Oregon found way to exploit it, loophole now closed. I’d expect nothing less from a coach/program and if you don’t think any other coach would do the same it is only because they weren’t smart enough to figure it out themselves. No different to me than a DB taking a PI or defensive holding penalty on a long pass play when he is obviously going to be beat for a TD.

Did they break a rule? They just knew all the angles of the rule. As I pointed above, DBs “break a rule” often when grabbing a receiver when they know they’re beat to avoid a TD. You’d really have a problem if with a 1TD lead very late in a game a Beaver DB grabbed receiver to avoid the tying score to occur? Most on here would call it a smart play. How about an OLineman grabbing his opponent to stop him from having a direct shot at his QB? Reason is different (safety), but still knowingly breaking a rule.