This Michigan-Western Michigan situation is going to get someone sued...

And I would not rule out, if you want to be a Wolverine fan, etc., that it wouldn't be NBC.

I return you to the video in which NBC clearly shows the ball never touched before the clock went zero:

It's a different video, but it's the same thing I showed before.  The relevant replay starts at about 10 seconds or barely 11.

I have screenshotted the relevant situation.

If you blow it up big enough, you can see the ball, just past the goalpost support and not touched by any player on either team, in or out of bounds.  The clock clearly reads triple-zero.

Why am I so precise?

Because the Big Ten Conference is officially claiming this did not happen.  (Again, I have to link the video instead of just embedding the Tweet for a few more days.)

The Big Ten has an official position that THAT SAME CLOCK read 0:01.  Watch the video in the link.

Someone has just committed sue-able malfeasance.  Because either NBC is trying to manufacture something which is not the case to manipulate the game on their end (which probably is NOT legal, in the face of the Big Ten doing otherwise -- in the infinitesimal chance the Big Ten is not lying through their teeth), or NBC is being thrown under the bus by the Big Ten and being so accused.

If the Big Ten is telling the truth (and I do not believe they are), they are telling you you can never trust another NBC telecast, at any level.  If I'm the Big Ten Conference at that point, I want a new broadcast partner, first available opportunity.

For the record, I believe the Big Ten spliced the video.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....

LIV Golf is apparently in the process of filing for bankruptcy this afternoon -- Chapter 11 in New Jersey.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...

A sacrifice to the altar of football -- a different one which I'm surprised doesn't happen more...

Condolences in Iowa today.

A member of the band at the University of Iowa died after being removed from life support -- dead after trying to perform in 90+ degree heat at Iowa's opener last Saturday.

Horn player Derek Phillips died after he collapsed as the band was preparing for a halftime show which was scrapped as a result.

He was a third-year student.

Two other interesting college football stories this Tuesday...

Both stand to reason, but I'm shocked the second one took public pressure to do it:

1) With Brendan Sorsby not allowed to play anymore, the Big XII's lawsuit and moves to expel Texas Tech are no more.

2) The Mid-American Conference has formally reversed course and wants reversal of the game result from Saturday.  Good fucking luck, but you've at least exposed them.

The SEC is NOT playing around...

The battle of LSU and NFL training-camp invitees is so severe, the SEC is prepared to throw LSU out of the conference entirely...

IN FORTY-EIGHT HOURS.

Along with amending their lawsuit against LSU, the college presidents of the other SEC schools will meet Thursday to throw LSU out of the conference.

And here might be your start of a national super-league.  It would expel LSU from the national championship and probably all meaningful play in college football.

This might well compel LSU to decide to start feelers to see if other schools want to join them.

The action IS apparently in opposition to all present court situations on the subject (though I begin to wonder, rubber meeting road, if this would mean the entire existence of the NCAA would then be also in such opposition!).

Coach Lane Kiffin (yes, THAT Lane Kiffin) openly said that the rout win over Clemson on Saturday might well have been more lopsided if the training-camp invitees (two of which are practicing with LSU as we speak) or other professional players were allowed to play.  This is what precipitated the escalation.

That said, two questions:

• Since LSU has refused the demands of the conference, would this not mean expulsion is the only option?  And would they not be thrown out anyway for the tampering of Coach Kiffin in the first place?
• Second, what happens to the games this year -- and is there a discussion as to whether anyone who attempts to play an interscholastic competition against LSU also is expelled from the SEC?

Stay tuned.

In other news, Catturd is a moron.

He is anyway, but ultra-right-wing X poster Catturd stepped in it this morning in a manner far more endemic to this blog.

Since I'm still on disqualification, I'll link it here.

And he's already being owned on it.

The NFL opener is tomorrow in Seattle for the champs, as is tradition.  (The game was moved to Wednesday to accommodate the Australia game.)

The Australia game is Thursday night our time, Rams vs. 49ers.

Can't embed the post, but I can link it:

Truer words have not been said on the situation of college football.

And, after yesterday's rig-job, people will WELCOME that result.