From CBS Sports site 

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/washington-draws-unsport...

“Since Washington was wearing purple uniforms, the team decided to try and blend in McClatcher with the purple-painted end zone. Clearly, no Oregon player initially noticed him as McClatcher nearly made it to midfield on the return.”

Per ESPN’s rule expert: "One of the things they put in a year or two ago was you cannot take a player and lay him down to decoy like he's not on the field," 

isn’t this play exactly what TCU did last year when they played OSU (who lucked out that the play was penalized as an illegal forward pass)? Am I missing something?