Players can not take their helmet off on the field -- PERIOD. It's an automatic "dead ball" 15 yard penalty. The ACC head of officials apparently chose not to address this in his interview with the ACC Network yesterday...
If the call is made, Notre Dame gets the ball back -- automatic FIRST DOWN -- and we probably get two more shots from the 3 yard-line to win the game AGAIN in the final 13 seconds.
Here is an example of this being called by a BIG TEN official in Saturday's game between Maryland and Iowa.
LINK: REMOVING HELMET PENALTY
