[stupac2]

I disagree strongly.  The road team in a noisy environment needs the play clock a lot more than the home team. Home field advantage sans play clock is much stronger than with a play clock.

Disagree strongly with what? That the conspiracy theory is ridiculous (which is obvious), that it affected the teams about equally (which results bear out, unless you have some metric besides delay of game penalties and wasted TOs that it would affect), or that this has happened at Stanford Stadium (which I'm not 100% sure of but pretty confident)?

[stupac2]

I disagree strongly.  The road team in a noisy environment needs the play clock a lot more than the home team. Home field advantage sans play clock is much stronger than with a play clock.

Disagree strongly with what? That the conspiracy theory is ridiculous (which is obvious), that it affected the teams about equally (which results bear out, unless you have some metric besides delay of game penalties and wasted TOs that it would affect), or that this has happened at Stanford Stadium (which I'm not 100% sure of but pretty confident)?