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2023 Week 4 Game Recap

Here are this week's game results. I didn't have time this week to add a home/away column but I will see if I have time next week to add it in.

^18^ Colorado, ^T-24^ BYU, ^12^ Ole Miss, ^19^ Oregon State, and ^9^ Notre Dame are this week's ranked teams that fell. We didn't have as many upsets as last week, but most top teams still seem vulnerable. I wasn't able to watch many games last night but hopefully ToasterOverlord did and can provide some ranked v. ranked game recaps in the comments.

	Thursday	September 21
Georgia State	defeated	Coastal Carolina	30-17

	Friday	September 22
Wisconsin	defeated	Purdue	38-17
NC State	defeated	Virginia	24-21
Boise State	defeated	San Diego State	34-31
Air Force	defeated	San José State	45-20

	Saturday	September 23
Marshall	defeated	Virginia Tech	24-17
Kentucky	defeated	Vanderbilt	45-28
^10^ Oklahoma	defeated	Cincinnati	20-6
^4^ Florida State	defeated	Clemson	31-24
Syracuse	defeated	Army	29-16
^2^ Michigan	defeated	Rutgers	31-7
Troy	defeated	Western Kentucky	27-24
TCU	defeated	SMU	34-17
Texas A&M	defeated	Auburn	27-10
Tulsa	defeated	Northern Illinois	22-14
Toledo	defeated	Western Michigan	49-31
Georgia Southern	defeated	Ball State	40-3
Ohio	defeated	Bowling Green	38-7
^14^ Duke	defeated	Connecticut	41-7
Louisville	defeated	Boston College	56-28
^15^ Utah	defeated	UCLA	14-7
Maryland	defeated	Michigan State	31-9
^11^ Oregon	defeated	^18^ `Colorado`	42-6
Nebraska	defeated	Louisiana Tech	28-14
Illinois	defeated	Florida Atlantic	23-17
West Virginia	defeated	Texas Tech	20-13
Old Dominion	defeated	Texas A&M-Commerce	10-9
Miami (OH)	defeated	Delaware State	62-20
New Mexico	defeated	UMass	34-31
^20^ Miami	defeated	Temple	41-7
Kansas	defeated	^T-24^ `BYU`	38-27
^17^ Alabama	defeated	^12^ `Ole Miss`	24-10
Iowa State	defeated	Oklahoma State	34-27
South Florida	defeated	Rice	42-29
^23^ Tennessee	defeated	UT San Antonio	45-14
Jacksonville State	defeated	Eastern Michigan	21-0
Central Michigan	defeated	South Alabama	34-30
East Carolina	defeated	Gardner-Webb	37-0
Liberty	defeated	Florida International	38-6
Georgia Tech	defeated	Wake Forest	30-16
Tulane	defeated	Nicholls	36-7
^16^ LSU	defeated	Arkansas	34-31
Arizona	defeated	Stanford	21-20
^22^ Washington State	defeated	^19^ `Oregon State`	38-35
Wyoming	defeated	Appalachian State	22-19
Texas State	defeated	Nevada	35-24
Arkansas State	defeated	Southern Mississippi	44-37
Colorado State	defeated	Middle Tennessee	31-23
Florida	defeated	Charlotte	22-7
Houston	defeated	Sam Houston State	38-7
^5^ Ohio State	defeated	^9^ `Notre Dame`	17-14
South Carolina	defeated	Mississippi State	37-30
^8^ Penn State	defeated	^21^ Iowa	31-0
^3^ Georgia	defeated	UAB	49-21
^1^ Texas	defeated	Baylor	38-6
Northwestern	defeated	Minnesota	37-34
^T-24^ Missouri	defeated	Memphis	34-27
Indiana	defeated	Akron	29-27
Louisiana	defeated	Buffalo	45-38
^13^ North Carolina	defeated	Pittsburgh	41-24
Kansas State	defeated	UCF	44-31
James Madison	defeated	Utah State	45-38
UNLV	defeated	UTEP	45-28
^6^ Washington	defeated	California	59-32
Fresno State	defeated	Kent State	53-10
^7^ USC	defeated	Arizona State	42-28
Hawai'i	defeated	New Mexico State	20-17

12 comments

Andjhostet

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As an ISU fan this was a fun weekend. We got a conference win in the first time in 2 years, in a pretty fun game. Iowa got assblasted to the moon which was hilarious.

smort

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We got a conference win in the first time in 2 years, in a pretty fun game.

Ditto for USF! And UCF got blasted by K-State, so a good weekend all around!

g0d0fm15ch13f

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How's Golesh treating ya? I was sad to lose him but hope he's doing well.

smort

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He’s saying all the right things, he seems to have righted the ship after Jeff Scott.

We were within 7 points of Bama in the last 2 minutes of the game two weeks ago, and last weekend we got our first FBS win in 700 days. So I’m pretty pleased so far!

I’ll be shocked if we get 6 wins this year, but after getting 4 wins total over the last 4 years, starting 2-2 has me hopeful!

g0d0fm15ch13f

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Yeah isn't Iowa supposed to be able to prevent scoring

ToasterOverlord

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Northwestern defeated Minnesota 37-34

For those of you that enjoy ESPN win probability graphs, this was with just over 3 minutes left in the 4th quarter:

g0d0fm15ch13f

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Man, how bout them vols finally showing up literally a third of the way into the season. We finally made serious strides in terms of consistency, but we better hope that trend continues as we get into the conference portion of the season. SCAR is turning into a massive swing game for us heading into the by week. If we keep trending this way and alabama keeps not getting much better we have the ability to make that November matchup with the dogs a sec east title match. I was doing the wedding thing so I'll be spending at least most of today rewatching the game. But from the highlights I saw/heard sounds like Milton is still doing alright despite how quickly we vols can sour on someone (makes it all the more incredible that we honest to god started Garuntano for 4? years). Receivers are maybe catching balls more, but it sounds like that time on jugs occupied time that should have been used learning routes. I think our running game is our bread and butter this year (and to be fair we are always a run first team with the veer and shoot). And I personally think that we aren't really using our best runner from the back field, Cam Seldon. Secondary will continue to struggle against teams that can throw, I just hope they actually tackle when presented the opportunity. Dline continues to look pretty good, but boy does our Oline worry me. Sacks, bad running lanes and procedure/holds are absolutely stifling for this team and we keep getting in our own damn way.

Anyway GBO, looking forward to seeing if any of yall have thoughts about this one.

SatouKazuma

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Was it your wedding though?

g0d0fm15ch13f

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No, and I'm west coast nowadays so nobody understands the pain of a fall wedding

wjrii

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So rude. If it must be done, identify away weekend for most relevant 2-3 teams, early wedding, short ceremony, and the reception has TVs. Otherwise the motherfuckers can elope.

This is why the PAC died.

g0d0fm15ch13f

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Yeah I did the single loud clap "lez go!" number during one of the speaches as I was actually listening to the volcast and got a few looks like I was the weirdo.

ToasterOverlord

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My Big XII Week 4 Recap. Sorry it's late again! Had a busy weekend and still catching up on things, so these will be very cursory observations. I'll be fairly busy next weekend as well -- I may not be able to get to ranked matchup recaps until week 6.

The conference went 8-6 (and we're getting into conference play, so I probably won't include this stat moving forward).

Tier 1

Texas (4-0), 0U (4-0)

No movement at this tier from the outbound blue bloods.

Texas finally did what it couldn't do for years: convincingly beat a P5 team they were expected to. Everything was clicking in this game (if we pretend special teams doesn't exist).

I would have expected Oklahoma to beat up on Cinci more in their Big XII opener, but they still won convincingly despite early game miscues.

Tier 2

KU (4-0), K-State (3-1), TCU (3-1)

Welcome back to the 2nd rung, Kansas! I'm sure everyone's heard this, but going 4-0 for consecutive seasons hasn't happened at KU since 1915. And welcome back to being ranked in the AP poll -- too bad you're going to lose it this week!

I'm still a believer in this K-State squad and they held on in a nail-biter against UCF (don't let the box score fool you -- this was a close one and I had more eyes on this game than tOSU @ ND).

TCU keeps the iron skillet! And a spot in this tier. I didn't get eyes on this game, but the box score looks good. Chandler Morris is still one of the QBs I'm a little worried about facing.

Tier 3

BYU (3-1), Cinci (2-2), UCF (3-1)

Welcome to the Big XII, BYU, where Kansas derails your hopes and dreams (in sports other than basketball, if you can believe it). In all seriousness, I think BYU is still pretty good and the fact that they held their own with now-ranked KU means they at least deserve this tier.

Did you enjoy the Big Nude Kickoff, Cinci? Looked like a great atmosphere! And the first bit of the game was great, too (I am morally obligated to switch the channel once 0U starts winning). I was torn about this, but decided to move Cinci up a tier despite the loss because they held 0U to only 20 points. They definitely need to prove they have a capable offense if they want to stay here.

I really wanted to place UCF higher with how they held up to K-State with an apparently very serviceable backup QB, but this game got away from them late so they stay in the mid-tier yet again.

Tier 4

Houston (2-2), Texas Tech (1-3), WVU (3-1)

Well I guess we learned which "Houston" is the real "Houston". Although they are now in the FBS, beating up the Bearkats doesn't tell us much about UH other than they can still win games (but can they do that against a P5 team???)

Welp, Texas Tech, looks like the wheels are coming off. I was high on Tech going into the season, but the pre-season was a bit of a disaster and now conference play doesn't look like they're trending in the right direction. They've still got enough talent and coaching chops to play spoiler though so they get to stay out of the basement.

I'm probably going to catch flack for keeping West Virginia in this tier. I was so close to moving them up, but I need to see just a little more from the Mountaineers to know they're the real deal. Beat a P5 team on the road and then we're cooking with gas. Speaking of heat, seems like the burner under Neal Brown's seat is now turned off (probably a good thing, as the consensus seems to be there was no money for his buyout).

Tier 5

Baylor (1-3), Iowa State (2-2), Oklahoma State (2-2)

Normally losing to a highly ranked team doesn't drop a team multiple tiers. And initially I had Baylor in Tier 4. But the more I thought about it, Baylor absolutely needs to move into the pit of despair. There was nothing redeeming about the home loss whatsoever. Even with Texas granting them amazing field position on 2 muffed punts, they could only muster 6 points. Ouch.

Someone had to win the Toilet Bowl. Congrats on picking up a win, Iowa State! But I'm keeping them here because I think everyone should be able to beat the Pokes and this was close (as it should be).

I was going to write "someone call an ambulance for Oklahoma State" but actually I think we need a mortician. Where is OSU's identity? At least they're scoring now.

Now let me know how I got it all wrong!

/c/CFB Poll Top 25
1. Texas
2. Georgia
3. Tennessee
4. Miami
T-5. Alabama
T-5. Ohio State
7. Oregon
8. Ole Miss
9. USC
10. Missouri
11. Oklahoma
T-12. Kansas State
T-12. Penn State
14. Oklahoma State
15. Notre Dame
16. Northern Illinois
17. Utah
T-18. Illinois
T-18. Michigan
20. LSU
T-21. Louisville
T-21. UCF
T-21. Washington State
24. Georgia Tech
T-25. Maryland
T-25. UNLV