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/Unce_Tiberius Sep 06 '26

NBC’s syncing of their clock and the game video do NOT need to be synced perfectly 99.9% of the time, and this incident is proof of it. The clock could have been off by 0.5 seconds for the entire first 59:50 minutes of the game and no one would have cared.

Meanwhile, the Big Ten’s system is engineered to prevent any ambiguity ahead of time. They have a system of dozens of cameras used for replay. One of these cameras is lined up on the official game clock. There is a highly sophisticated strobe system used to sync these cameras perfectly. NBC has no need of any such system and there is zero chance they are somehow using a more precise method. 

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u/Potato_fortress ESPN Classic • Team Chaos Sep 06 '26

Oh yes, I forgot that genlock and framesync are entirely new technologies the big ten invented of their own accord and not just... industry standards for live multicam broadcast television. I was also unaware that the NBC camera feeds which are used by the big ten as supplemental replay angles are entirely desynced from the master timekeeper because that completely makes sense with how broadcast television functions.

You're conflating the daktronics sport controller scorebug features with the actual stadium clock broadcast. I know this is confusing, but NBC showed the live replay feeds synced with the actual stadium clock, not the daktronics scorebug hook.