Week 4 of the college football season didn’t look like much on paper. There were obvious mismatches, a dearth of games between ranked teams outside of the Pac-12 and plenty of last-minute cupcakes before conference season was in full swing.
Naturally, college football shattered expectations.
TCU needed a tipped-pass miracle to escape Texas Tech with a 55-52 victory, Ole Miss was challenged by hapless Vanderbilt, Kentucky stunned defending SEC East champion Missouri and the Pac-12 delivered three landscape-altering blowouts in the conference race.
USC eviscerated Arizona State, UCLA ran all over Arizona and Utah essentially ended Oregon’s College Football Playoff hopes with a 62-20 beatdown that left many wondering if the Ducks’ magic from the past few years had officially run out.