my dad called me and told me about this play. i went crazy. this is a great play and in the spirit of football a real win. but what a surprise. i love college ball. i looked at the wife and told her that this was great. she does not understand. i still love her though.
Die hard MSU fan,but can't help but chuckle when the announcer goes "It'll be a pretty good night for Mark Dantonio." It's right after Dantonio's interview. Glad Marky D is ok!!
@keroppl Keep in mind, the official timekeeper actually relies on the stadium clock, which was at 0 before the snap. Once it hits 0, then the ref must immediately look at the ball. If it is not snapped, then it's a delay of game. The snap was off between 0, and the ref moving his head, which is still within the rule. Go figure.
@ 1:50, I like that the announcer said that it was going to be a good night for Dantonio...except that he kinda suffered a heart attack a few hours later. Great game and a great call.
For those that question the playclock, the explanation given on Mike and Mike this morning was, there a "lag time" once the playclock hits zero that a team has to snap the ball. The back judge whose job it is to watch the playclock said MSU was within that lag time and got the play off in time. My guess is this probably due to the fact that playclock doesn't utilize tenths like a hoops gameclock. Either way MSU won and that's all that matters. GO STATE!
Can't stop watching this. I was there in the stadium and nobody expected this... happiest I've been in years, what a ballsy call. All my best to Dantonio and his family... Go State!
Look at the play clock on ESPNs lower bar. If its correct (actual clock), the snap was a 1/2 second late. There should have been a delay of game, 5 yard penalty and who knows if that would have made a difference in chemistry and karma. Great call, like the Saints on-side kick to open the 2nd half in the Super Bowl.
One of the most brilliantly executed plays in college football. No one saw it coming and it caused absolute mayhem in EL. Gives me goosebumps every time and I'm an Iowa fan.
The play was intended for number 24, the reciever running alongside the player who eventually catches the pass. You can see him fall and then put his hands on his helmet in despair, thinking that the play was busted.
the caption under this video reads 'no description available' that's because there literally is no way to describe the feeling of beating Notre Dame like that.
@terranellsworth What they put on the screen and the game clock may not be the same. It did look like 00 had come up though. I suspect the officials were watching closely.
@CDPics I'm sorry if I misunderstood you, but I don't think you're right, and if you are, then someone should change the technical aspects of the clock. Between the clock hitting 00:01.00 and 00:00.00, the clock will always be at 0:01.00. So if the time is 0:00.45 in electronic time, it will still be 0:01.00 on the game clock. It will hit 00 when it's 00. If I am right, then in NCAA or Madden 11, it would have been a delay of game. However, it was the "lag" time that made it legal. Look it up.
I was sitting at The Post in East Lansing during this entire game. When this play happened I couldn't hear anything but chaos in the city for at least 20 minutes. One of the greatest moments of my life. GO GREEN
Hi Nick! My name is Sophia, and I am producing a doc for Big Ten Network about the MSU "Little Giants" game. For this doc, we are looking for unique fan stories of watching the game. I'd love to connect with you over the phone in the coming days and hear your story in more detail. Do you have an email address where I can send further detail? I look forward to hearing from you!
@NekoSOM You are right and these are all great points and I totally agree with you. But in general what I was hoping people would take away from my comment is that it is not all that surprising or shocking that MSU would make this call in this situation.
@Druidblue that and refs usually give the benefit of about a second or so after the clock hits zero too most of the times. sometimes they'll call it right away, but usually they'll give teams another second or so to snap it.
The snapper snapped right on zero, you didnt see anyone react until it was caught by the QB which made it seem like it was after. Watch the snapper and see.
How didn't ND see this coming? It's a 45 yard field goal which is a less than 50% make percentage for a college kicker. It's not the biggest play of the year, I think many people would have made the same call to either go for it or fake the field goal.
@XNoToleranceSkillzX This is college ball, there is no pass interference until the ball is in the air. Perfectly legal blocks. As for the play clock, the TV clock isn't necessarily correct, only what the official timekeeper has.
You can see the actual clock - not the TV clock - on the screen during the live play. It was clearly delay of game. great call and execution, but it should have been a 5 yard penalty and forced state to go for a long 4th down to keep chances alive. ND got screwed.
I'm guessing the coach meant that the kicker didn't have experience with that kind of long overtime must-make kick. Sure, he has the leg to make long ones (and did so indoors in a cupcake game the week before) but I get why MSU made that call there. It was the perfect time to run the fake. Probability of converting the fake probably wasn't much worse than probability of making the kick, so you might as well go for the win.
man, as a ND fan, i feel like calling this a delay of game is as successful as calling the bush push a penalty. we can say that as much as we want, but in 05 ND should have scored a td on that drive that fitzpatrick blew the field goal and should have stopped that 4th and 9. in this game, we should have scored at the end of regulation or should have put a td on the board in OT and would not have had to worry about a fake fg. hope we beat usc and msu and um this year, that would be great.GO IRISH
this is great! I love seeing the top catholic school in the nation getting its butt whooped by first michigan and second michigan state. My grandpa who has been gone for 45 years now wouldv'e loved to see this. Whoooo hooooo its good to be from the state of Michigan!!!!!!
Notre Dame may have lost that game, but you could tell Brian Kelly respected the call! He was surprised obviously, but he enjoyed it!! I don't blame him, it was a hell of a call!!
ND fans are now complaining that time had run out... that there SHOULD have been a Delay of Game penalty (5 yds). The entire officiating crew was from the Big East Conference. The Big East released a statement Sunday that says the officials made the correct call (non-call). Have a nice day.
@rcutter66 No it wasn't, I couldn't care less about either school, but they went over this officially. The on field play clock had not hit 00 as the ball was being moved back to hike.
The official play clock is kept on the field, not by the TV clock!!!!! It counted, and that's why nobody but ND media and people that don't know football are complaining.
this is ridiculous. the playclock was at zero for a good second before they snapped it. i love how the refs were eager to call notre dame for delay of game but when theres an obvious delay of game on state theres no call.. wtf.
"After review, the conference believes that the game officials correctly applied the proper mechanics and guidelines that are in place to determine, in a consistent manner, when a flag should be thrown for delay of game. The responsibility is assigned to the back judge, who in this situation was standing beneath the upright. Proper mechanics dictate that his focus be directed to the play clock as it approaches zero.
Yeah, I didn't realize there was an "issue" with this play. Obviously they got the play off in time. Too bad for ND, good for MSU. When you're a team like MSU that is certain not to go to a BCS game, it's easy to call crazy calls like this. Great for recruiting too. Notre Dame, meanwhile, continues to put a disappointing product on the field year after year.
I would love to tell a joke relating this heart-stopping ending to Mark D'Antonio's heart attack... but I'm pretty sure that's been done many times already.
The ref behind the line of scrimmage has to look up at the play clock, then blow his whistle and throw the flag for delay of game. So even though they did hike it after it hit 0, human error and the lag of the ref means it's legal. The NCAA already explained their lag rule and said it was fair. Michigan State wins.
Watch the scoreboard :00 (top corners) and snap. Its almost simultaneous. No official could blow that dead. I dont care if these refs were all ND alumni and the game was at ND Stadium. That play stands. You cant blow a play dead without checking if its snapped, and it happens at the same time. Thats why they talk about 'lag'.
I must also add that this game was ALMOST the most exciting game I've been to.. second only to when we beat MICHIGAN in a similar way last year in overtime!
MSU is really fucking good at winning on the last play of a game
Thank you so much for posting this. I had worked a double and fell asleep before this great play. I appreciate you.
my dad called me and told me about this play. i went crazy. this is a great play and in the spirit of football a real win. but what a surprise. i love college ball. i looked at the wife and told her that this was great. she does not understand. i still love her though.
Something tells me Coach Dantonio's stock just went up 200%. What an epic finish.
Best play I've seen in awhile!
I was there...such a sick call, and a great game. Go Green!
Die hard MSU fan,but can't help but chuckle when the announcer goes "It'll be a pretty good night for Mark Dantonio." It's right after Dantonio's interview. Glad Marky D is ok!!
GO GREEN! SO PROUD OF OUR AMAZING TEAM!
this play suprised me and risky, but wow that was amazing, Go Sparty!!
@keroppl Keep in mind, the official timekeeper actually relies on the stadium clock, which was at 0 before the snap. Once it hits 0, then the ref must immediately look at the ball. If it is not snapped, then it's a delay of game. The snap was off between 0, and the ref moving his head, which is still within the rule. Go figure.
I was speechless after that call.
@ 1:50, I like that the announcer said that it was going to be a good night for Dantonio...except that he kinda suffered a heart attack a few hours later. Great game and a great call.
Not a fan of either but this is easily my favorite play call of all levels of football
For those that question the playclock, the explanation given on Mike and Mike this morning was, there a "lag time" once the playclock hits zero that a team has to snap the ball. The back judge whose job it is to watch the playclock said MSU was within that lag time and got the play off in time.
My guess is this probably due to the fact that playclock doesn't utilize tenths like a hoops gameclock. Either way MSU won and that's all that matters. GO STATE!
Can't stop watching this. I was there in the stadium and nobody expected this... happiest I've been in years, what a ballsy call. All my best to Dantonio and his family... Go State!
unbelievable.. love it!
Look at the play clock on ESPNs lower bar. If its correct (actual clock), the snap was a 1/2 second late. There should have been a delay of game, 5 yard penalty and who knows if that would have made a difference in chemistry and karma. Great call, like the Saints on-side kick to open the 2nd half in the Super Bowl.
Congrats to Michigan State from Louisiana!
One of the most brilliantly executed plays in college football. No one saw it coming and it caused absolute mayhem in EL. Gives me goosebumps every time and I'm an Iowa fan.
Amazing...but didn't the playclock run out?
The play was intended for number 24, the reciever running alongside the player who eventually catches the pass. You can see him fall and then put his hands on his helmet in despair, thinking that the play was busted.
I believe, I speak for most of cincinnati... Thank You Mr. Dantonio
What about the earlier play where the MSU receiver ran out of bounds (wasn't forced), then ran back in and caught the ball for a td?
What year was this?
the caption under this video reads 'no description available' that's because there literally is no way to describe the feeling of beating Notre Dame like that.
Damn, he has a set of grapefruits for making that call!
Get well soon, Coach Dantonio!
He led him perfect.....
Kelly: "We're splitting hairs on what happened at the end of the game. ... We've gotta defend the play.
@terranellsworth What they put on the screen and the game clock may not be the same. It did look like 00 had come up though. I suspect the officials were watching closely.
@CDPics I'm sorry if I misunderstood you, but I don't think you're right, and if you are, then someone should change the technical aspects of the clock. Between the clock hitting 00:01.00 and 00:00.00, the clock will always be at 0:01.00. So if the time is 0:00.45 in electronic time, it will still be 0:01.00 on the game clock. It will hit 00 when it's 00. If I am right, then in NCAA or Madden 11, it would have been a delay of game. However, it was the "lag" time that made it legal. Look it up.
I saw a still, the play clock clearly said :03 when the snap occurred. The ABC clock was wrong.
I PLAYED AGAINST AARON BATES IN HIGH SCHOOL!!! JOHN GLENN HS IS 30 MINUTES FROM MY SCHOOL!
Haha Kelly just drops his headseat...gotta feel terrible. Go State!!!
Damn that was sick!
@deputyduffy .......I'm an ND fan but that's funny dude!
I was sitting at The Post in East Lansing during this entire game. When this play happened I couldn't hear anything but chaos in the city for at least 20 minutes. One of the greatest moments of my life. GO GREEN
Hi Nick!
My name is Sophia, and I am producing a doc for Big Ten Network about the MSU "Little Giants" game. For this doc, we are looking for unique fan stories of watching the game. I'd love to connect with you over the phone in the coming days and hear your story in more detail. Do you have an email address where I can send further detail?
I look forward to hearing from you!
@NekoSOM You are right and these are all great points and I totally agree with you. But in general what I was hoping people would take away from my comment is that it is not all that surprising or shocking that MSU would make this call in this situation.
@Druidblue that and refs usually give the benefit of about a second or so after the clock hits zero too most of the times. sometimes they'll call it right away, but usually they'll give teams another second or so to snap it.
The snapper snapped right on zero, you didnt see anyone react until it was caught by the QB which made it seem like it was after. Watch the snapper and see.
0:24 sound explosion
@pizzaisyummy86: Turns out he's coming back this Saturday; although he'll be in the press box, not on the sideline.
@sarcmatt Yeah, no kidding. Glad he's doing better though.
@LightningSiren wow I have never heard of a hear attack
anybody else notice the playclock? looked like it ran out before the snap to me
How didn't ND see this coming? It's a 45 yard field goal which is a less than 50% make percentage for a college kicker. It's not the biggest play of the year, I think many people would have made the same call to either go for it or fake the field goal.
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@XNoToleranceSkillzX This is college ball, there is no pass interference until the ball is in the air. Perfectly legal blocks.
As for the play clock, the TV clock isn't necessarily correct, only what the official timekeeper has.
You can see the actual clock - not the TV clock - on the screen during the live play. It was clearly delay of game. great call and execution, but it should have been a 5 yard penalty and forced state to go for a long 4th down to keep chances alive. ND got screwed.
God I love my school.
I'm guessing the coach meant that the kicker didn't have experience with that kind of long overtime must-make kick. Sure, he has the leg to make long ones (and did so indoors in a cupcake game the week before) but I get why MSU made that call there. It was the perfect time to run the fake. Probability of converting the fake probably wasn't much worse than probability of making the kick, so you might as well go for the win.
man, as a ND fan, i feel like calling this a delay of game is as successful as calling the bush push a penalty. we can say that as much as we want, but in 05 ND should have scored a td on that drive that fitzpatrick blew the field goal and should have stopped that 4th and 9. in this game, we should have scored at the end of regulation or should have put a td on the board in OT and would not have had to worry about a fake fg. hope we beat usc and msu and um this year, that would be great.GO IRISH
ahem....anybody look at the play clock...well past zero before ball is snapped!!!! Great game anyhow.....
I can't see the game clock on this video.
He was sooooo shocked it worked he had a heart attack.
Awesome I remember this!
That was sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!
this is great! I love seeing the top catholic school in the nation getting its butt whooped by first michigan and second michigan state. My grandpa who has been gone for 45 years now wouldv'e loved to see this. Whoooo hooooo its good to be from the state of Michigan!!!!!!
Notre Dame may have lost that game, but you could tell Brian Kelly respected the call! He was surprised obviously, but he enjoyed it!! I don't blame him, it was a hell of a call!!
ND fans are now complaining that time had run out... that there SHOULD have been a Delay of Game penalty (5 yds). The entire officiating crew was from the Big East Conference. The Big East released a statement Sunday that says the officials made the correct call (non-call). Have a nice day.
@rcutter66 No it wasn't, I couldn't care less about either school, but they went over this officially.
The on field play clock had not hit 00 as the ball was being moved back to hike.
Wow. This old timer (Spartan grad '75) just loved it. Get well, Coach D.
At the game i was so nervous when they got ready to kick then when they faked i went insane! thumgs up msu fans
The official play clock is kept on the field, not by the TV clock!!!!! It counted, and that's why nobody but ND media and people that don't know football are complaining.
@zackcoolman28 FG kicking is the only play where a players knee can be down while holding the ball and not actually be called down.
this is ridiculous. the playclock was at zero for a good second before they snapped it. i love how the refs were eager to call notre dame for delay of game but when theres an obvious delay of game on state theres no call.. wtf.
wow the coach definitely threw his kicker under the bus... lol
Notice the play clock at 0 the ball still was not snapped but no flag thrown that play should have been whistled dead.
@bballdrew1001 The TV play clock isn't always in sync with the actual play clock, bud.
Pause at :22. MSU Dickweed clearly pulled down the ND player going back for coverage.
the other team was like wat just happened? ??
It's really too bad that know one saw that the play clock was at ZERO!! Great play but it really should not have counted.
"After review, the conference believes that the game officials correctly applied the proper mechanics and guidelines that are in place to determine, in a consistent manner, when a flag should be thrown for delay of game. The responsibility is assigned to the back judge, who in this situation was standing beneath the upright. Proper mechanics dictate that his focus be directed to the play clock as it approaches zero.
WOW!!
Yeah, I didn't realize there was an "issue" with this play. Obviously they got the play off in time. Too bad for ND, good for MSU. When you're a team like MSU that is certain not to go to a BCS game, it's easy to call crazy calls like this. Great for recruiting too. Notre Dame, meanwhile, continues to put a disappointing product on the field year after year.
@notredamefan023 yea starting when?
the dude from notre dame looks like a guy from that mtv show two a days.
this is the best
@bdhn17 espn's play clock is unofficial
You should ask Denard Robinson if Dantonio gives up on his defense.
@erictwigs You learn something new everyday.
I love how both of those D-linemen are laid out leaving 83 wide open.
Somebody pressed the buffalo wild wings button......
LMAO at Dantonio's attitude during the post game interview.
That just reaked of "Yea, that's right........I'm a badass"
I would love to tell a joke relating this heart-stopping ending to Mark D'Antonio's heart attack... but I'm pretty sure that's been done many times already.
The ref behind the line of scrimmage has to look up at the play clock, then blow his whistle and throw the flag for delay of game. So even though they did hike it after it hit 0, human error and the lag of the ref means it's legal. The NCAA already explained their lag rule and said it was fair.
Michigan State wins.
Watch the scoreboard :00 (top corners) and snap. Its almost simultaneous. No official could blow that dead. I dont care if these refs were all ND alumni and the game was at ND Stadium. That play stands. You cant blow a play dead without checking if its snapped, and it happens at the same time. Thats why they talk about 'lag'.
That would have probably dropped in the John L. Smith days.
dantonio = genius
@FretzAndMez Okay, again, in Madden and NCAA 11 it wouldn't have counted, but everything that happened was legal, look it up.
@notredamefan023 Ive wathced it more times than Albert Einstien can count. They snapped the ball as the playclock hit zero
Can't get enough of this one!
I'm A Bama fan but MSU is a sentimental favorite of mine. That was amazing
My school is a big deal!! SPARTANS!!!! WE BLEED GREEEEEEEEEN!!! Prayers to our coach Dantonio and his family, praying for a speedy recovery!
I saw this live. I was stunned with the gutsy call.
i could watch this video all day.
GO GREEN
I skipped my night shift at the Brody Caf just to go to this game! soo glad i did!
A Buckeye with best wishes for Coach Dantonio. Def a ballsy move, he deserves kudos.
I must also add that this game was ALMOST the most exciting game I've been to.. second only to when we beat MICHIGAN in a similar way last year in overtime!
Was at that game. Lovely. 🤘🏻
OWNED! The look on their faces...PRICELESS!!!