Week 4 College Football Lowlights Countdown

10. Weekly Minnesota update – This week its a loss to Northern Illinois from the MAC. Coach Tim Brewster is just awaiting the firing guillotine at this point.

9. Cincinnati receiver D.J. Woods – Woods did some good things in the game against Oklahoma including having 171 yards receiving. Sadly for him, he was caught from behind while heading for touchdowns twice, one of which he fumbled while being tackled. He also dropped the crucial punt that allowed Oklahoma to have a short field to go up two scores.

8. College Gameday becoming more of a corporate entity than it already was – In the past, College Gameday went to best matchup of the day. Period (unless that game was in the Pac-10). That all started to change in 2006 when the crew went to the USC-Nebraska in Los Angeles over more deserving games being televised by other networks. Since then, the crew has been shifted more and more to games being televised by the ABC/ESPN family of networks. I have no problem with that, but don't tell everyone, as you do every year that you are going to the best games of each week or the most compelling stories. This year's slate of games is a mockery to the game of the week. Week 2 should have been at Ohio St.-Miami, but went to Alabama-Penn St. to ensure Alabama would be on this season since CBS owns the rights to most of the remaining Alabama games including all of the marquee ones. Week 3 was sent to Auburn-Clemson as a nod to the SEC and to avoid a west coast trip that early. Last week was sent to Boise St-Oregon St. Great story but the best game was Arkansas-Alabama. Last week could have been excused if the show was heading back to Tuscaloosa this week for Florida-Alabama since the show doesn't like to showcase the same team in consecutive weeks. It's not. Stanford-Oregon will be good, but its not the game of the week this week.

7. Arizona St. turnover fest – How do you run 99 plays for nearly 600 yards and lose at home? Turn the ball over 7 times as Arizona St. did against Oregon. The Sun Devils really should have won that game.

6. Pulling Stephen Garcia – What was Steve Spurrier thinking. Yes Stephen Garcia fumbled twice in the 4^th quarter. Before that he had been brilliant and the backup is a freshman. Notice to Steve Spurrier: Danny Wuerffel, Shane Matthews or Rex Grossman are not walking through the door and players in the present day don't take as kindly to quarterback roulette as Doug Johnson and Jesse Palmer did. For the record, backup Connor Shaw was intercepted twice and South Carolina lost the game.

5. Texas offense – What in heck was that. UCLA had been steamrolled by the running games at Kansas St. and Stanford at the beginning of the year. Houston had an excuse because UCLA knocked both quarterbacks out of the game. Texas has none. Where are the playmakers? Where are all the 5-star recruits. The defense was bad, especially in the second half, but the offense was just putrid until garbage time.

4. Ryan Mallett in the 4^th quarter – Mallett was great in the first three quarters, but awful in the fourth. The two interceptions were killers.

3. Tennessee vs UAB – Neither team deserved to win this game. Tennessee for getting outgained so badly and UAB for missing five field goals. If any game shouldn't have had overtime and gone back to the old system of ending in a tie, this was it.

2. Big Ten Scheduling – No conference games. No teams from other BCS leagues. What a disgrace. And on top of that, someone other than Minnesota managed to lose too (Purdue to Toledo). You know its bad when the ABC regional game in the afternoon for your league includes Eastern Michigan.

1. New Mexico – Blown out by UNLV. How bad do you have to be to get blown out by UNLV? This is one of the four worst teams in college football this year and the coach is (and has been from the start) an epic disaster the likes of which we likely will never see again in college football. The program that had been decent for most of the 2000s may not ever recover.

(Editor's Note, Georgia would normally be found somewhere in this countdown, but they will be handled separately later this week)

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