{"id":9089,"date":"2017-09-24T11:01:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T15:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosoncfb.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=9089"},"modified":"2025-09-13T15:44:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T19:44:56","slug":"week-four-college-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2017\/09\/24\/week-four-college-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Things We Learned In College: Week Four in College Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Week four in college football isn&#8217;t in the books yet, but I have a flight to catch in the morning and won&#8217;t be able to include the late games this week. To atone for that, here&#8217;s a dog retrieving the tee after Boise State kicks off:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"tee retrieving dog at Boise State\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VC-F14VWIog?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, this isn&#8217;t new, but I just learned about it last week. I give him a 13\/10. (If that makes no sense to you, you need to be following @WeRateDogs on Twitter).<\/p>\n<h2>Florida State 21, NC State 27<\/h2>\n<p>It was a long wait to see Florida State quarterback <strong>James Blackman<\/strong> in action. Blackman, you&#8217;ll remember, was named the starter after <strong>Deondre Francois<\/strong> was injured against Alabama back on the 2nd. The &#8216;Noles next two games were postponed thanks to Mother Nature. Blackman is the first true freshman to start at quarterback for Florida State since 1985. He completed 22\/38 passes for 278 yards and a touchdown, with no picks in the upset by NC State.<\/p>\n<h2>Louisville 42, Kent State 3<\/h2>\n<p>This game was noteworthy primarily because Louisville QB <strong>Lamar Jackson<\/strong> broke the school record for career touchdowns with his 88th. He had 333 yards of offense in the game, yielding to backup Jawon Pass in the fourth quarter. (Their backup&#8217;s last name is Pass- how perfect is that?)<\/p>\n<h2>Tennessee 17, UMass 13<\/h2>\n<p>Things are going from bad to worse for the Vols. Yes, they came away with the win, but a three-point win against a winless MAC team will barely quiet the calls for <strong>Butch Jones&#8217;<\/strong> firing.<\/p>\n<h2>Texas A&amp;M 49, Arkansas 43<\/h2>\n<p>This had the feel of a Baylor-TCU game from about five years ago- whoever has the ball last wins. One of the more entertaining games of the season so far, unless you like defense.<\/p>\n<h2>South Carolina 17, Louisiana Tech 16<\/h2>\n<p>South Carolina won this game on a field goal with 47 seconds left to play. It was the second field goal the Gamecocks have made this season. Through four games, they&#8217;ve attempted eight and made <em>two<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2>Video of the Week:<\/h2>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aDiIvE-OsF8<\/p>\n<h2>Surprises of the Week<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Georgia 31, Mississippi State 3<\/strong> Wasn&#8217;t this supposed to be a good game?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alabama 59, Vanderbilt 0<\/strong> I didn&#8217;t think this would be a very good game, but I didn&#8217;t expect it to be quite this lopsided either. The &#8220;Vanderbilt is back!!!!!!&#8221; talk may have been a wee bit premature.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s week four in college football. Remember to look for the LWOS Top 25 and all our NFL coverage today. Have a great rest of the weekend!<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9111\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9111\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lwosoncfb.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2017\/09\/24\/week-four-college-football\/alabama-v-vanderbilt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9111\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosoncfb.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/09\/852548322.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/09\/852548322.jpg 594w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/09\/852548322-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9111\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NASHVILLE, TN &#8211; SEPTEMBER 23: Brian Robinson Jr. #24 of the Alabama Crimson Tide scores a touchdown against the Vanderbilt Commodores during the second half at Vanderbilt Stadium on September 23, 2017 in Nashville, Tennessee. 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To atone for that, here&#8217;s a dog retrieving the tee after Boise State kicks off: Apparently, this isn&#8217;t new, but I just learned about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":945,"featured_media":9111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35587,35575,1],"tags":[35,314,465,36,38,2179,418,90,2115,80,59,64,561,96],"class_list":["post-9089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennessee-volunteers","category-texas-am-aggies","category-uncategorized","tag-alabama-crimson-tide","tag-arkansas-razorbacks","tag-boston-college-eagles","tag-clemson-tigers","tag-florida-state-seminoles","tag-james-blackman","tag-lamar-jackson","tag-louisville-cardinals","tag-n-c-state-wolfpack","tag-south-carolina-gamecocks","tag-tennessee-volunteers","tag-texas-am-aggies","tag-umass-minutemen","tag-vanderbilt-commodores"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79393,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089\/revisions\/79393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}