The Victors

When Buchanon caught the ball to get to midfield, his body hit the ground with 13 seconds on the clock. They let it run down 2 full seconds to 11 before stopping the clock on the obvious first down. Then when they set the ball and Michigan quickly spiked it they let 3 seconds run off the clock to get it down to 8. The refs correctly reset the clock to 9 seconds at that point, but there is no way it realistically should have been at 10 seconds on the clock if they would have stopped it sooner on the live ball play.

I get a little bit of clock runs off as refs signal to stop the play. But for Buchanon to be laying on his back on the ground with 13 seconds on the clock and it to run down to 11 is sort of unbelievable. It should have been stopped with at least 12 seconds on the clock. And if they get that easy call right, then this entire thing is a non story because they would have had at least 10 seconds left for the next play not 9.