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Originally Posted by A Salt Weapon
We have a similar odd rule in high school here, if you miss a field goal but it goes into the end zone it’s a touchback for the other team. Actually works out pretty well because if you miss a long field goal the other team gets it at the 20 instead of the spot of the kick.
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Yes, that's the standard rule for high school football (per the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Rules of High School Football), which I think Alaska and everywhere else except Texas uses. Texas uses the NCAA rules. I think historically the current high school rule was the original standard, but the NCAA and the NFL departed from it.
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia entry on "Touchback"
A special rule applies in college football and the NFL with regard to field goal attempts. If a missed field goal occurs in these leagues, the spot at which the non-kicking team receives possession of the ball depends on the spot from which the ball had been kicked. In NCAA football, the ball will be placed either on the 20 or the line of scrimmage of the play in which the attempt was made; in the NFL, either the 20 or the place from which the ball was kicked. (In either case, the ball goes to the spot which is further from the goal line.) The purpose of this rule is to discourage low-percentage, long-range field goal attempts and to deemphasize the advantage which can accrue when only one team has a kicker who has a reasonable possibility of success from a great distance. In American high school football (except in Texas), the missed field goal, regardless of where attempted on the field, results in a touchback as long as the attempt breaks the plane of the goal line, and in arena football, the field goal is treated as if it were a punt.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchback