College Football: Week 4 Recap

Written by Josh Cohron | 28 September 2009

A look back at the weekend which gave us four top-ten teams losing...

• Penn State's coaching is awful, the U is not all the way back, Cal is mediocre and Mississippi was ranked way too high. Penn State has beaten Iowa once this decade. When you are consistently losing to teams coached by Kirk Ferentz, it's time to head to the retirement home. Miami's tough early schedule finally caught up with them in the rain in Blacksburg. Miami is young and they'll be fine, but the BCS Champsionship hopes should be deferred to next fall. Cal got absolutely throttled by Oregon. When asked for comment, a house full of Cal fans set their bongs down and asked, "We have a football team here?" And, as for Mississippi, they were awful. Jevan Snead was supposed to be at the top of draft boards and he couldn't throw the ball to save his life. It's just shocking that Houston Nutt team played that poorly (use as much degree of sarcasm as you like).
• Florida fans may like Tim Tebow too much. It was an absolute shame what happened on Saturday night to Tebow, you never want to see anyone get hurt. But, the overreaction of Florida fans in Commonwealth was a bit unsettling. People were actually crying and looked as if they might not be okay. The dude has a concussion, he'll be fine. In a related note, Florida is super good. The bye week sets up perfectly as they can get Tebow back to 100% before they visit LSU in two weeks.
• Michigan's defense isn't very good. It wasn't really a secret, but one that Indiana outed to the world. Giving up 33 points to the Hoosiers wouldn't be that bad, until you think that IU only scored 19 against Eastern Kentucky. Yikes. The good news for the Wolverines is that they are 4-0. The bad news is that there's only one more guaranteed win on the schedule. I think UM will get to a bowl, but it won't be easy.
• It's almost October, so Kentucky fans will create a QB controversy. Mike Hartline looked pretty awful on Saturday night, but who wouldn't against Florida? Kentucky fans know little about football and should really not talk about it. They booed Hartline last year until Randall Cobb started. Cobb went 1-3 as a starter. Hartline then led the Wildcats to a bowl victory and fans were back in his camp. They lauded his effort the first two games of the year, but then he plays bad against the best defense in the country and they're ready to throw him to the side again. Kentucky fan, if you're going to talk about things you know nothing about, at least let it be basketball.

There should be some great games this weekend, only four more days!