The Victors

I used video editing software to analyze the clock offset that we see at the 35/36 second mark. It's only one frame (30fps broadcast), so .033 seconds, possibly less since we don't know at which moment between frames the clocks turned.

Then I compared the broadcast video of the first Hail Mary to the Big Ten explanation video. To the best of my syncing abilities, the offset between the ref/stadium clock and the nbc clock at that moment is more like 5 frames (basically 0.16 seconds) at that point. So, I wonder if that 9 second reset somehow made nbc's clock even more off? It does seem to match the stadium clock in the video I linked above, so it's not that the "sooper sekrit" ref clock was doctored and not synched.

I think the one legitimate argument WMU could maybe make is that in both the Big Ten video and the broadcast video, you don't have direct evidence for when contact was actually made since #18's back is to the camera in one and the picture is really blurry in the other. You can deduce that he must have touched it while the :01 is still up, but I don't know if that's the standard in that situation (I read that it must be "clear and obvious proof" so that doesn't necessarily require direct video evidence as in say a fumble review or OOB review but you could argue that it's not clear and obvious if you can't see it). But I think it's not necessarily clear what exact moment he touched it, but you can deduce that he has already touched it by the time the clock hits zero. But he probably touched it with literally a tenth of a second to go, at most 0.2. Crazy.