College Football Week 4 Winners and Losers: Michigan not done yet, a wake-up call for Oklahoma

ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN – SEPTEMBER 21: Alex Orji #10 and Kalel Mullings #20 of the Michigan Wolverines celebrate a 27-24 win over the USC Trojans at Michigan Stadium on September 21, 2024 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)

Week 4 of the 2024 college football season gave us our first real taste of the wackiness the latest round of conference realignment has brought to the sport.

The Saturday slate was headlined by a trio of games featuring new conference rivals. In Norman, Tennessee won an emotional return to Oklahoma for coach and former Sooners national title-winning quarterback Josh Heupel. Meanwhile, USC came up short against the defending champs in the Big House, while Utah brute-forced its way to a win over Oklahoma State in Stillwater.

That’s just the beginning of the action we saw over the weekend. Teams around the country are starting to get into the meat of conference play, and we’re getting a clearer picture of who is a contender (and who isn’t).

Here are the winners and losers from Week 4 of the college football season.

Winner: Michigan is still a Big Ten contender

ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN – SEPTEMBER 21: Head coach Sherrone Moore of the Michigan Wolverines celebrates a 27-24 win over the USC Trojans at Michigan Stadium on September 21, 2024 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)

Folks, it’s possible that reports of the Wolverines’ demise were greatly exaggerated.

After Michigan was eviscerated at home by now-No. 1 Texas, many wrote off this team as rebuilding in Year 1 under Sherrone Moore. And while that’s still undeniably the case, the ceiling may be just a bit higher than we expected, even with this team’s clear and well-documented flaws.

Davis Warren struggled under center in the first three games, prompting Moore to start Alex Orji against the Trojans on Saturday,…

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Publish date : 2024-09-23 22:18:16

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