Best/Worst of Week 3

Best: Georgia having a “pink out” for Wendy Anderson, the wife of Arkansas State head coach Blake Anderson, who died from breast cancer last month, in their 55-0 win over the Red Wolves.

Worst: Pat Narduzzi electing to kick a 19-yard field goal while down 17-10 with less than five minutes left in the fourth quarter. Granted, Pitt couldn’t score in three tries from the one-yard line, but their defense had been playing well all game and Penn State would have gotten the ball at their own one if they managed to hold the Panthers again. Kicker Alex Kessman clanged the chip shot field goal off the upright, and Pitt ended up losing after a last-second pass fell incomplete.

Best: This play from Mississippi State QB Garrett Shrader

This effort didn't result in a first down…BUT OH MY GOODNESS. pic.twitter.com/qdKpKldiRG — CBS Sports HQ (@CBSSportsHQ) September 14, 2019

Worst: This play from Iowa State’s special teams

Two Iowa State teammates ran into each other and fumbled the punt return to close the game



(via @CBSSportsHQ)pic.twitter.com/nnpLfaoCpy — Bleacher Report CFB (@BR_CFB) September 15, 2019

Best: Southern Mississippi led Troy 26-21 going into the fourth quarter, then all hell broke loose. After Golden Eagles receiver Neil McLauren connected with Jordan Mitchell on a 51-yard touchdown pass to extend the lead to 33-21, Troy returned the ensuing kickoff 69 yards for another score. Not to be outdone, Southern Miss returned the next kickoff 100 yards to complete a sequence of three touchdowns scored in just 25 seconds of game time. Three more touchdowns were traded in the quarter, both teams scored 21 points in the fourth, in a 47-42 win for Southern Miss. Quarterbacks Jack Abraham and Kaleb Barker combined for 967 yards and six touchdowns in the game.

Worst: Michigan State kicker Matt Coghlin missed field goals of 47 and 31 yards in the second quarter, and he would’ve made a 42 yarder in the fourth quarter to send the game to overtime…..except the Spartans had 12 men on the field. So Coghlin lined up for another 47-yard attempt, and missed again to give Arizona State a 10-7 win over Michigan State. In saying that, the Spartans likely should’ve had one more attempt after a Sun Devil player appeared to jump the snapper.

Best: Liberty head coach Hugh Freeze spent Week 1 coaching from a hospital bed in a press box, and Week 2 coaching from a medical chair. This week, Freeze was able to sit on the sidelines in his own “elevated seating area”. After having surgery due to a potentially life-threatening strand of staph infection just one month ago, it’s nice to see Freeze able to coach from the sidelines again.

Worst: Georgia Tech being a 27-point favorite and losing to an FCS team that runs a triple-option offense, even if it is the same FCS team (The Citadel) that was tied 10-10 with Alabama at halftime last season. This wasn’t the Bulldogs team that was supposed to beat the Yellow Jackets at home, they visit Atlanta on November 30th.

Top Games of Week 4

(10) Utah at USC

(11) Michigan at (13) Wisconsin

(8) Auburn at (17) Texas A&M

(22) Washington at BYU

SMU at (25) TCU

West Virginia at Kansas

(16) Oregon at Stanford

(7) Notre Dame at (3) Georgia