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But no. After a video review, it was determined that a defender touched the ball beyond the back of the end zone with a second left. That gave Michigan one more shot, and Underwood made this one count, connecting with JJ Buchanan for a game-winning touchdown to avert disaster in Kyle Whittingham’s debut as Wolverines coach.

NBC rules expert Terry McAulay was stunned by the officials’ decision.

“The ball isn’t even close to touching the player when it goes to zero,” he said. “Now their system, their Hawkeye system, apparently either had a different sync or whatever and they came up with one second when it touched the player. I don’t see how that happened, assuming our clock is correct. It is clearly not touching the player, the ball is clearly still in the air when the clock goes to zero on our screen. So the Big Ten is going to have to tell a lot of us how did they get to one second on this play.”