They don't address whether the reviewed call was correct because they regard it irrelevant to the correct outcome of the game.
Posted on September 16, 2026 at 09:14:26 PM by tman
The MAC challenged the outcome of the game, arguing that it must be overturned. This framed the issue that the oversight committee viewed itself as addressing: Was the outcome of the game, a M victory, correct. It plainly concluded that the answer was no. There is no other way of reading its statement.
You're right that, it doesn't address the rectitude of the ruling on the field. But it doesn't say that that ruling was incorrect. Whether the ruling on the field was right or wrong is simply irrelevant: It should not have been changed by the replay officials who, if they had followed the proper protocol, should have concluded that time had expired after the throw out of the end zone.
Although the statement does not explicitly address the rectitude of the ruling on the field, it implies that if that ruling had been that there was one second remaining, then the replay officials should have overturned it and declared the game over as a WMU victory. The replay officials should have used the same correct protocol and therefore concluded that no time was remaining. I don't think that replay officials are obliged to give any deference to rulings on the field respecting time in situations such as this.
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