NCAA College Football Scores, Week 4

NCAA College Football Scores, Week 4

No upsets. (Although Michigan and Notre Dame struggled.)

The noteworthy aspect of this week's play was the typical margin of victory. Four of the ranked teams scored in the 70s, despite playing the scrubs at the end.

Louisville won 72-0

Ohio State won 76-0 (55-0 at halftime)

Baylor won 70-0 (49-0 at halftime)

Miami won 77-7 (49-0 at halftime)

The most interesting of those four games to discuss was Miami's victory over Savannah State, because that wasn't even an impressive victory in context. Savannah has now lost three games by sixty or more. They lost to Georgia Southern 77-9 and to Troy 66-3! Oddly enough, their other game was a win. You are wondering, "If a team loses by 63 to Troy, who could they possibly beat?" That's where the trail gets interesting. They earned a 27-20 victory against Fort Valley State, a team so obscure that ESPN doesn't even have a page for them. It's a "historically black college and university" in small-town Georgia, near Macon. Its home town, tiny Fort Valley, includes this info on its Wikipedia page: "The name Fort Valley is a mystery, as the town has never had a fort. It is believed that the name was mistakenly changed in a transcription error when the post office was named."

Other outrageous scores this week:

Florida State won 54-6
UCLA won 59-13
Washington won 56-0.

Among the unranked teams, the wildest contest was a 58-55 defensive battle between Pittsburgh and Duke. Pittsburgh won, I think. Unless Duke did. Who cares?