went from 12.5 to 11.5 and were fine.

And 11 patriots balls went from 11.5 to....? 10.5? 9.5? Whatever the range it seems pretty unlikely that at least once Colts ball wouldn't drop 1.1. And if the balls were 11.5 - wouldn't it happen all the time that balls deflate? It wasn't even that cold and the league plays games in all sorts of climates where this hasn't been an issue.

I'm willing to bet that the investigators would have noticed that all 24 balls dropped a similar rate from ref inspection till halftime and this would be a non-issue.

And on top of that, we don't quite know what the Pats balls were but it seems likely it's range of 9.5-10.5.

Of course, this is also not considering that teams apparently had suspicions about the Patriots doing this already.

And also, the science doesn't seem to support significant deflation in that period of time. I thought the problem was that they get rubbed too hard?