That settles it for WMU, and that’s who matters most.
It doesn’t settle it for me. Because I’m being told not to trust my eyes. Maybe I shouldn’t, but that makes it really not as fun to watch if it’s not real.
Everyone is using the official clock. The problem is there appears to be different “technology systems” used to sync the clock to the different video replays. You’re essentially using different technology to press “play” on two videos at the same time. NBC system showed 0:00. The refs “showed” 1 second.
Both were “synced”, but NBC system is apparently not the same system that the replay refs use. If that’s true, that’s a setup for this kind of situation. Unless the video of the play also happens to also show the stadium clock, you’ll always be syncing the video of the play with the video of the clock. Different systems do it differently. So now we can’t trust the official clock. We can’t trust our eyes of what we see
At least do what the ACC does and show us in real time the replay refs reviewing the play. More transparent.
Michigan graduate here. I feel really bad for Western. They deserved the win even though I am hearing 1 second was a reasonable reset.
Western winning the hockey national championship last year was one of my favorite college sports memories. They are not a very big school compared to U of Michigan and Michigan State, so winning a big national championship was great.
Oh, and it is pretty clear Michigan football is not great this year. Oh, well. Lots of behind the scenes turmoil and change. Maybe we can beat Ohio State or something even if our year is bad.
LSU (my alma mater) crushed Clemson. I was all set to ignore college football and LSU in particular because it all seems so corrupt and dirty (with LSU likely a worse offense than most)… And then they curb stomp Clemson and suddenly I can’t help myself.
Yesterday in Topeka, D2 Washburn University played Colorado School of Mines. Because of the extreme heat, the kickoff was moved to 9 am. But when the fourth quarter ended with the score tied at 16, the temperature was approaching triple digits. So the (wise) decision was made to end the game at that point, which is the first tie in a collegiate football game since 1995.
The Arizona State/Morgan State game was 70-7, ASU, after three. The coaches mutually agreed to have a ten-minute fourth quarter (instead of 15) rather than risk the safety of their players in a game that the Bears had no chance of winning.
I also am an LSU alum (undergrad) and I bleed Purple and Gold. However, I agree it’s tough to get excited about a team (any team) when there’s no consistency of players. Players transfer; players quit (I think half the team quit last year before the bowl game–I didn’t recognize hardly anyone and turned it off).
But, yeah, I got totally sucked in to the broadcast Saturday night. It was a completely non-competitive beatdown. I’m not sure if LSU is really that good, or if Clemson is really that bad. I actually felt embarrassed for them. I mean, I think at the end of the 3rd quarter they had 2 first downs and negative 5 yards rushing. The 4th quarter was complete garbage time (for both teams) and hard to watch; I turned it off.
But LSU is back, baby! (At least until they play a real team, lol)
Makes total sense; here in Texas, for high school games, they can actually have a running clock in the second half for games that are completely out of hand, if both teams agree. This means that the clock continues to run even if a player goes out of bounds on a run or completed pass. The clock would only stop on an incomplete pass, a change of possession, or an injury (I think it might continue running even if there is a penalty).
Yeah, we have a version of that for six man, at least, the “mercy” rule. I don’t know the exact threshold that triggers it here; I don’t follow six man football closely enough.
Derek Phillips, a member of the University of Iowa marching band, has been taken off life support after the third-year student collapsed in cardiac arrest Saturday afternoon , shortly before the band was to perform the halftime show.
From the linked article:
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Temperatures rose to 94 degrees Saturday in Iowa City, and Iowa adjusted the start times for several athletic events during the weekend because of forecasted high temperatures in the area. The football game kicked off as scheduled with a game-time temperature of 90 degrees.
That article is confusing. It says he collapsed before they performed at halftime, but also says the band wasn’t going to perform at halftime because of the heat. They were also wearing shorts and t-shirts instead of their standard uniforms.
So the band at least did make adjustments. It’s probably just luck none of the football players collapsed.
Right, that was my point. The band took precautions, including dressing in shorts and not performing at halftime. The football players still played the game, which is a lot more vigorous than marching for 10 minutes.
But despite that, it was a band member that collapsed, not one of the players. It’s possible he had some preexisting health issue.
A statement from the marching band and Dept. of Music described “a significant medical emergency”. This newspaper story cites the cause of death as heat stroke.
However. according to a statement attributed to the family, Phillips “collapsed in the heat” and “suffered a sudden cardiac event”.
So without a definitive post-mortem diagnosis, it’s unknown if there could have been a pre-existing condition like a cardiomyopathy or other cardiac anomaly.