College football Week 1 overreactions: Michigan didn’t steal its miracle win from Western Michigan

At what point does time lose its meaning? Physicists point to the speed of light or the edge of a black hole, but for the Big Ten, the boundary is apparently a national television broadcast.

It turns out the clock ticking on your screen and the official timing utilized by officials don't always sync up. Michigan managed a wild 13-12 escape against Western Michigan thanks to a second Hail Mary attempt, a miracle from a replay review that found a single second left after Bryce Underwood's initial pass was ruled incomplete. Social media, predictably, exploded with skepticism and conspiracy. To the naked eye, the clock had clearly hit triple zeroes on the broadcast before Broncos safety Micah Davis made contact with the football in the back of the end zone.

The conference's synchronization efforts revealed a jarring disparity: while the NBC feed showed zeroes, the replay system captured a lone, precious second remaining the moment Davis made contact with the ball. Under the letter of the law, a play is whistled dead the instant a player begins from an out-of-bounds position, leaps, and touches the ball in bounds.

A statement regarding the results of tonight's game between Michigan and Western…

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