Talk to Your Children About Indiana Doing It Again: Week 4 College Football Recap

Even in a week when one could have reasonably skipped the college football slate in favor of obligatory apple picking, we were blessed with another great Saturday of the best sport on Earth. Dabo Swinney is crumbling, oil money is winning and we're one week closer to finding out who will be competing for a national title in the College Football Playoff.

Here's your Week 4 recap.

- Indiana Is Going To Do It Again, Folks

Here we go again. It sure seems like the discussion about Indiana for the rest of the season will be nearly identical to last year. Except this time, IU has essentially a two-game season rather than its lone test against Ohio State in 2024.

The Hoosiers ran Illinois off the field on Saturday night in what is currently a Top 10 win, though we'll see how the Illini finish the season. Indiana's only two games against ranked teams the rest of the way are at Oregon on October 11 and at Penn State on November 8. If IU wins one of those games, then there's not even a discussion to be had. But if it drops both, is a 10-2 record with a home win over Illinois enough to get into the College Football Playoff?

If you think you've seen Indiana discourse, you ain't seen nothing yet.

- Clemson Has Gone From Funny to Sad — and Now Uncertain

Man, this team absolutely sucks. Just a flat-out terrible group of football players. I'm not even sure it's a bowl team.

So couple a now 1-3 start with Dabo Swinney having already issued a bizarre rant which included the idea that he could go coach somewhere else if Clemson fans want him gone so badly and what does the Tigers' offseason look like? If things really go off the rails like it seems they might, maybe Dabo really does think about going somewhere else where he thinks he'll be more appreciated. I am sure Virginia Tech and UCLA would sign up for that experiment — though it seems pretty evident at this point Swinney is not built for this era of college football.

We'll see.

- Oklahoma and the Officials Both Cheated Their Asses Off To Give the Sooners a Win Over Auburn

What the officials in Norman allowed Oklahoma to get away with on Saturday was astounding. Even putting aside the many one-sided penalties — and lack thereof — the Sooners scored a touchdown in a game eventually decided by seven points on a fake substitution that's supposed to be a 15-yard penalty that was instead allowed to stand as an OU score.

The Tigers also opened the game's scoring with a fumble return that seemed clear as day and was ruled a fumble on the field before somehow being overturned upon review. Oklahoma later kicked a field goal on the drive.

I'm generally against blaming the officials for a loss, but they swung things wildly in favor of the Sooners.

- Having Oil Money Must Be Awesome

Texas Tech put together one of the most expensive rosters in the country largely through the transfer portal this season and in their first big test, the Red Raiders went to Salt Lake City and beat Utah's ass up and down the field. And by the way, they did so with backup quarterback Will Hammond having to come on in relief of Behren Morton, who took a hard hit to the head at the start of the second half — Hammond even looked like he should probably get some more reps going forward.

I was very high on Utah, though, and TTU just lined up and smacked them in the mouth for 60 minutes on the road. I don't see how you don't say the Red Raiders are the clear-cut favorite in the Big 12 right now. The only issue was whether all those pieces from the portal would gel properly and it seems that question has been answered.

Check your backyards for oil, kids.