Michigan’s football team is full of players who want to be, and will be, NFL players in the near future. But they should count themselves fortunate that they weren’t playing by NFL rules on Saturday.
\n\nDown 12-7 with mere seconds left on the clock, Michigan’s Bryce Underwood launched a Hail Mary pass toward the end zone in a last-ditch bid to avert an historic disaster by losing to Western Michigan at home in head coach Kyle Whittingham’s first game.
\n\nThe pass sailed out of the end zone with the broadcast clock showing zeroes.
\n\nBig Ten officials ruled that the clock kept by replay officials – which fans do not see – showed that there was one second left. That extra second gave Michigan an extra play and another chance to win the game. They did, with wide receiver JJ Buchanan catching the Hail Mary and sealing the improbable 13-12 comeback win.
\n\nA chaotic sequence of events that, according to Pereira, would never have happened had it occurred in the NFL.
\n\n“It is my understanding that if there is a discrepancy between the video and replay command center versus the television network video that everybody sees, that replay is to use…
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