TD ruling on Noah Togiai?

It was not a good call, in my opinion. The way Togiai moved his hand after landing out of bounds made it appear as if he was re-securing the ball after he made contact with the ground, and when viewing it at normal speed, I understand completely why the referee made the assumption that he did not maintain possession as he hit the turf, but upon review it was clear that he never bobbled the ball at all. Why it wasn't overturned is beyond me.

The worse call was on the field. The replay official can always err on the side of "stands as called" instead of taking the risk to overturn a call. Regardless, in the end it was 2 wrong calls. 

Didn't get to watch the game live, and haven't been able to muster up the courage to watch the recording yet, but plays like this are something that always irk me. Why is it that a runner with the ball merely has to have the ball cross the plane of the goal line for a score and it doesn't matter what happens when he hits the ground (unless you're last name is Bernard and you're playing U Dub), but a receiver who catches the ball with a foot down in bounds is not ruled a score until he hits the ground with control, runs to the sideline, shakes the coach's hand, and re-ties his shoe?

In one situation the runner has possession/control of the ball. As long as he is a "runner" and maintains control the ball just had to break the plane = TD and play is over.

A "receiver" does not have possession or control. When he does so outside the endzone he becomes a "runner" and the same applies if the catch is complete and the ball crosses the plane. But, a catch in the endzone the ball has already crossed the plane so the control must be maintained throughout the catch process... and all that entails... one foot/knee for clearly inbounds before another body part is OB, clear stable control of the ball before the ball contacts the ground, maintain control on the ground. The ground can't cause a fumble but can negate a catch. If controlled and ball hits the ground, then control is lost and regained it's just as if the ball hit ground. The same if ball is bobbled after contact with being inbounds.

What shouldn't be lost in the midst of the poor call was the fact that the offense drove down the field in the 2 minute offense and was successful. That was really nice to see. Had the call gone our way, it may have had an impact on second half momentum, maybe not, but the offense getting into position to score and tie was a great thing.

I believe that Mountain West replay officials do not have the use of the same replay video that we have with TV.  The announcers mentioned something about all or most of the P5 conferences do have access to all of the TV produced replay video but that the MW had not "subscribed" to that (whatever that means).  That was the "excuse" as I remember it.  Perhaps there is a "fee" involved with having that access that the MW did not want to pay?  Just guessing on my part on that.

Had that been called a TD, rather than an incompletion, it would have stood as a TD. I think it was a bad call, but the video wasn't quite there to overturn.