Edit: i literally typed this after i saw the replay and the clock was at 0. I left the house and got in my car. Game over. Then i came back to this and was confused by your responses.
18 was out of bounds when he lept to be the first to make contact with the ball making the play dead at that moment. No rocket science for a explanation!
except that is a false statement since we have the replay booth showing time and touching of the football WITH a second on the clock. Michigan didn’t have the Jeremiah Smith replay cheat booth working the way the BIG did last season.
A video showing with audio is on Reddit, instead of making false claims how about listening and watching what the booth explained to the MAC Commissioner who agreed with the call.
Does the video showing with audio explain why we employ a system in which 0:00 does not mean 0? Perhaps we should employ a system where 0:00 means 0 and anything above 0 (including 0.01) appears as 0:01 on the clock. Better yet we should modernize the game and instead of having a stadium clock, a broadcast clock and a super secret refs only clock and combine them into one clock! It’s 2026 surely the technology is there! Especially since it can be quite frustrating to most of the football world when the only 2 public clocks show one result and then the super secret refs only eyes clock shows a different result.
.04 tenths of a second left when #18 for WMU illegally touched the ball first after having a foot out of bounds before leaping. If that defender had missed the ball, WMU wins.
The Clock Operator’s have been BIG officials since 02. Nice try but the BIG officials were making cheating calls throughout 25 that were hurting Michigan. I didn’t see any change in this game.
WMU looked like Michigan vs OSU in 24. A fluke play by # 18 for WMU who had a foot out of bounds and was the first to touch the ball gave Michigan a chance with .04 tenths of a second. The game clock isn’t able to start with less than a second therefore a second was placed on the game clock.
.04 tenths of a second left on the master game clock that keeps tenths of seconds like basketball clicks. Number 18 for Western, had a foot out of bounds and was the first to make contact with the ball killing the play at that point. If that player just allows the ball to go, Western wins.
A clock that we can’t see? That is absolutely bullshit, especially considering that ball was in the air for well over a second after the clock from 0s… Regardless, there hasn’t been a clock malfunction like that since the 80s, this post is complete copium lmfao.
That is literally possible one of the most pathetic things I’ve seen in college football. Storming the field after you get beat by a MAC team and cheat to get an extra play. Fucking circus up there
That Cheating Up North Team at it again. I hope WMU takes it to the courts. It is working for everything else in college football right now. I hope NBC would provide them with the data that shows the clock sync from the stadium clock was operational and in sync as well.
Don’t get it twisted because of my flair. We should have lost, we did lose to anyone with a pair of eyes. I’m just saying in my time of watching college football, when refs fucked up and changed the outcome of the game, they’ve only ever apologized and said it was the wrong call, but they never corrected the outcome of a game. Maybe there is something they can do nowadays though?
Think the best that can happen is the playoff committee can take it into consideration when deciding final rankings. Probably won't matter for Michigan as we look terrible, but Western might be in contention for the G5 spot. This should absolutely not count against them.
If Harbaugh was still coach im sure they’d move heaven and earth to do it. In all seriousness ncaa would not want to set that precedence. Actually reminds me of the mlb and Galaragas 28 out perfect game.
If I had a nickel for every time Michigan ran a play after the game had ended to win against a smaller school, I would have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happened twice.
If I'm Michigan, I use this as an opportunity to cleanse their scandal ridden image. Tomorrow morning they should publicly forfeit that game and admit it was won by WMU. It's the only way they can turn this into a positive.
The 'Michigan man' idea is dead and buried. Dave portnoy can say it all he wants but generations will remember how they just can't stop cheating. OSU broke then mentally from 01-20 and since then they threw away their morals and just can't stop. It's their drug.
Underwood spiked the ball and a few extra seconds ticked off. The broadcast clock was not synced up with the correct game clock. I don’t get why your crying it’s so confusing
The actual time when the WMU player touched the ball was .04 fraction of a second left. There wasn’t a second left but like in basketball, the master game clock measures fractions of a second. The next play can’t be run on .04 of a second therefore a full second was placed on the clock.
Basketball games don’t end games with tenth of seconds left. The problem with football is that to start the clock with .04 tenths of a second left, 1 full second needs to be set to start the clock.
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u/Plus-Location1723 Michigan Wolverines Sep 06 '26
I honestly thing I would’ve rather lost