College Football: Could Someone Answer a Question? Updated.

An excellent point!

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Why is the timing of college football games evidently top secret?

This conforms with what the official NCAA rules say. 

Like many, I was appalled by the outcome of last night's Western Michigan v Michigan game. Multiple sources, both TV and sports magazine, say the timing of all devices are synched. Great! That is as it should be. 

I spent time with Grok last night and it, plus the NBC rules analyst, say the stadium and TV times displayed are the official time. If so, then the clock expired while the ball was in the air and Western Michigan won. Period.

Yet, there is an evidently a super-secret, password-protected, decoder ring, eyes-only timing system that is the ultra-special official, official-official game timing. And, it is the one (even though we can't see it) that determines the game. Absurd!

This is an important point. Put a $3 GPS chip into each of these
devices, set them to "countdown" mode -- problem solved!

Now that the NCAA has embraced gambling (for the record, I do not gamble on games), there are billions of dollars at stake. At minimum, the NCAA should require transparency and simplicity (one official timing system that everyone sees at the same time). We shouldn't need to ask this question!

It is my opinion the NCAA should overrule the 'top secret' system and make Western Michigan the winner of the game, which it was. 

I -- and many other college football fans -- believe the system was stacked in favor of the Big 10 and the SEC. That Western Michigan was winner of the game was evident to everyone, it is far more ethical than making yet another Big 10 the beneficiary of yet another highly questionable situation. 

If the bookies take a bath, "dems the breaks." 

Football games are not sixty minutes and one second long.