There has never been a one-point safety in the NFL, but
the rules do allow for such a score.
A one point safety can only occur after a failed point
after touchdown attempt. For the defense to score a one point safety, the
offense would have to botch the extra point so badly, that an offensive player
wound up in his own end zone, 98 yards away, and then get tackled in the end zone.
In NCAA football, the ball is not ruled dead when a
defensive player touches the ball after a failed extra point attempt. In the
2013 Fiesta Bowl Kansas State blocked an Oregon extra point attempt and then
attempted to run it back. A Kansas State player was eventually tackled in his
own end zone, resulting in what would have been a safety on an ordinary play.
However, because it happened on a conversion attempt, it was scored as a
one-point safety.
In 2015, the NFL changed the rule that the play was
called dead when the defense took possession of the ball after a failed extra
point attempt. Now, a defensive player can attempt to score on a failed extra point
attempt as Kansas State did in the 2013 Fiesta Bowl.
More information and a video One-Point Safety
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