It hit Phil's elbow and then went off the Yalies hand. It was the hand that knocked it back. 50/50 call with no proof either way but definitely should not have been overturned.
Bingo!!! We have a winner!
Sears lost the ball, it bounced off Nolan's upper arm back toward Sears, and Sears knocked it straight out of bounds pushing it with his finger tips. It didn't help that Nolan flung his arm back in the same direction, but that was after the ball was rapidly clearing the immediate area. Replay isn't crystal clear because the clear angle wasn't captured, but there is no way that ball travels in that direction, at that rate of speed, if it then hits Nolan again before going out of bounds. It's really just physics, and there is no way that call should have been changed, but you can't expect refs to understand the physics of the game they are officiating. Most everyone else seemed to not be able to process what they saw to the point they believed the call was correctly overturned, so I'm not surprised the refs saw it that way too.
And that's not why we lost, but it did keep us from sealing a game against an inferior opponent that made us look like a team that has no idea how to run an offense.