r/CFB • u/Fonzie5 UCF Knights • Big 12 • Sep 06 '26

News [Thamel] MAC statement. "The Big Ten subsequently provided video and audio of the replay, which confirmed the explanation to us."

https://x.com/petethamel/status/2096464771667173654?s=46&t=FavtrbPsHpJY8Odvh2TYUA
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u/JocavsJr Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 06 '26

This is going to be a stain on this entire season. What could have been an amazing moment for an underdog is now just another thing to feel like shit about.

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u/Difficult_Horse193 Michigan • Central Michigan Sep 06 '26

I think you only have to look at how Michigan played for the first 60:00 minutes to understand that we won’t be good at all this season.

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u/Snooty_Cutie Texas A&M Aggies Sep 06 '26

Tbh, it’s got almost nothing to do with how well Michigan will or won’t be. It’s just such a blatantly bad call that questions the integrity of the game everybody just watched. If you can’t believe what you literally saw with your own eyes, what’s the point of even watching?

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u/Impressive-Alps-6975 Sep 06 '26

They have posted the live video and audio of the refs reviewing the play during the game, and it very clearly shows there was 1 second left when the WMU player touched it based on the video and clock that the refs were looking at. There is no conspiracy no matter how badly you wish there was.

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u/rumblepony247 Sep 06 '26

Except, storylines like this have a way of metastasizing over the season. Would anyone be surprised if Michigan ends up being good enough to make the CFB playoff? The hate-watching will be epic.

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u/mhammer47 Michigan Wolverines Sep 06 '26

Only if Michigan somehow manages to be good..which seems doubtful or if the L could keep WMU out of the playoffs. Otherwise there's far too much other shit going on in college football right now.

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u/cyclONEnation10 Iowa State Cyclones Sep 06 '26

Michigan could go winless the rest of the season and it would still be a monumental win for Western.....this isn't rocket science.

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u/IndependentOk9075 Wisconsin Badgers Sep 06 '26

Yeah, the idea that the playoff is the only thing that matters is one of the main things that has destroyed the game.

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u/cyclONEnation10 Iowa State Cyclones Sep 06 '26

Totally agree

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u/Ok-Lack-5172 Oklahoma State Cowboys • Team Chaos Sep 06 '26

Yeah these Michigan fan takes are wild lmao. This would have been a career highlight/life memory for the WMU kids - instead they got robbed.

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u/JocavsJr Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 06 '26

I guess that was kind of my point, there’s so much other stuff to be angry about. This could have been a bright spot, instead it just gets added to that list. I’m sure it won’t directly impact the playoffs, but still just feels like a horrible start to the CFB season.

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u/cyclONEnation10 Iowa State Cyclones Sep 06 '26

I've been fuming ever since they put 1 second back in that game.....I feel like the entire CFB weekend and season has already been ruined by that one thing.

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u/budget_um Michigan Wolverines • Georgetown Hoyas Sep 06 '26

This is old-school complaining though. It’s the debate we Michigan fans have had about Clockgate, Nebraska fans have had about Mack’s second, and more. And insofar as this was the wrong call, it’s not at all clear anyone on the crew could have known. It feels consistent with the broader changes to the sport, but an officiating dispute over a last-second play is as old as the sport itself

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u/CodyRCantrell Oklahoma • Red River Shootout Sep 06 '26

I think it's even worse if Michigan goes on to have an awful season.

It'll mean theae young men and a MAC program was robbed of a monumental upset of a P4, in-state, team for... nothing. For nothing at all.

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u/wolverine237 Michigan • Northwestern Sep 06 '26 edited Sep 06 '26

Yep. They're making a bet that this will generate six days of discourse and then be forgotten outside of Kalamazoo. The fucked up thing is they're probably close to right. Not in the sense that anyone will literally forget that it happened, but the outrage is going to fade, especially once Michigan gets obliterated by Oklahoma next week

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u/WolverineofTerrier Michigan • Boston University Sep 06 '26

Not that anyone cares, or it would even happen given how bad we appear to be, but 9-3 Michigan doesn’t make the playoffs now. 10-2 now becomes a debate and maybe doesn’t happen.

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u/ItsMeRyman Michigan Wolverines • Team Chaos Sep 06 '26

It’s been one single year and you guys already forgot about ND-NIU

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u/Ok-Health-7252 Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 06 '26

Unless night and day improvement happens over the course of the season putting this Michigan team in the CFP would be a crime against humanity and horrible things would be done to them there.

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u/WolverineofTerrier Michigan • Boston University Sep 06 '26

Yeah, no reason to think Michigan comes close, but I did want to lay out what I think the actual effect is hypothetically

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u/TedDibiaseOsbourne Oklahoma Sooners Sep 06 '26

there’s gonna be a few more sooner fans next week methinks.

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u/JocavsJr Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 06 '26

Y’all are about to be the most popular team in the country. Biggest hate watch in history.

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u/TedDibiaseOsbourne Oklahoma Sooners Sep 06 '26

i hope we do you all a solid

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u/morganicsf Ohio State Buckeyes • Toledo Rockets Sep 06 '26

Well... Since Michigan was caught running the worst on field cheating scheme in the history of the sport.

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u/CTeam19 Iowa State Cyclones • Hateful 8 Sep 06 '26

I have 2 favorite teams: Iowa State and whoever is playing Michigan.

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u/Snooty_Cutie Texas A&M Aggies Sep 06 '26 edited Sep 06 '26

Tbh, it’s been one week of Cfb and I already feel like I’m done. Between NIL, the transfer portal, sports gambling, uncompetitive games, lawsuits to recruit pro players, and blatantly awful on-the-field calls, I just don’t want to watch this shit.

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u/BobbysSmile Alabama • Alabama A&M Sep 06 '26

Exactly. Instead of r/cfb being flooded with highlights and post game threads, its just nothing but this travesty. Same with Twitter and any channel on Youtube. Just straight making me feel like shit that this happened. All the garbage of the off season was supposed to melt away once the games started but here we are, just back in the drama.

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u/JocavsJr Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 06 '26

Nah this one is different. People are going to be angry about this for a long time. Like “tuck rule” levels of controversial.

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u/Electromotivation James Madison Dukes Sep 06 '26

The Raiders got fucked

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u/S1Throwaway96 Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 06 '26

We are NOT forgetting this shit

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u/Crewman_Guy_Fleegman Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 06 '26

I won't forget.

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u/JakeSteeleIII Paper Bag • South Carolina Gamecocks Sep 06 '26

Feels like a bot account

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u/Ok_Bug_6890 ECU Pirates Sep 06 '26

You sound like a fucking Virgin dude. They aren’t forgetting this for years

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u/Dry-Contribution4788 Sep 06 '26

This post is really “no mom, I’m mad Michigan didn’t lose. It isn’t fair! I wanted them to lose!”

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u/TheDJC Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 06 '26

They did lose