t takes an immense amount of confidence to call a fake field goal in overtime. The decision that Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio made to call or sanction this cheeky, risky play would have been laudable as evidence of boldness-slash-insanity even if it didn't give Sparty a 34-31 triumph over Notre Dame. The Spartans are fortunate that it did: missing it and getting a second chance based on a delay of game would have elicited some vitriol.
If true, the play would not have counted and MSU would have been assessed a five-yard penalty for delay of game. That would have moved the football back to the 34-yard line, where Dan Conroy could have tried a 51-yard field goal.
However, there’s even another layer of intrigue to the clock controversy. ABC’s play clock and the Spartan Stadium scoreboard play clock may not have been perfectly synced. Some people insisted that even though the ABC clock had hit zero, the scoreboard clock still had a half-tick left.
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