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The Quad of the Week – Week 4 (Four games to watch at once)

by: RT Young09/18/25
NCAA Football: Southern Methodist at Texas Christian
Sep 23, 2023; Fort Worth, Texas, USA; SMU Mustangs head coach Rhett Lashlee (right) and TCU Horned Frogs head coach Sonny Dykes (left) before the game between the TCU Horned Frogs and the SMU Mustangs at Amon G. Carter Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports

Week 3’s SEC centric “Quad” is going to be tough to top. The four games last Saturday were all entertaining, but A&M–Notre Dame was a true banger. This week? We’re going a little more arthouse, if you will.

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The window lands at 11:00 a.m., so all you Inside Texas brunchgoers can slap some overpriced avocado toast and a mimosa on the TV tray and enjoy a morning slate of teams you might not normally watch.

Why not 2:30 this week? You ask. There are several good games then. You say. Because I need Auburn/Oklahoma on the full screen, I don’t want to quad up what has all time schadenfreude potential. Please Jackson Arnold, please.

As always, the rules stay the same: there’s no Longhorn overlap, four games in the same window and we give you one timeframe where you fire up the quad.

Name: Arthouse Saturday
Time: 11:00–12:00 CST

Game 1: The Iron Skillet – SMU at TCU (Frogs -6.5)
Game 2: Texas Tech at Utah (Utes -2.5)
Game 3: Arkansas at Memphis (Hogs -7.5)
Game 4: North Texas at Army (Mean Green -1.5)

Notes:
The final Iron Skillet goes down in Fort Worth, where Sonny Dykes looks to avenge last year’s loss. That game ended with Dykes ejected in front of his old fanbase and it got nasty in Dallas. This year TCU is off to a scorching start on offense behind veteran QB Josh Hoover, while SMU will try to avoid slipping to 1–2 after already falling to another religious rival in Baylor.

Meanwhile, the most expensive roster in football heads to Salt Lake. Texas Tech has flattened Ark-Pine Bluff, Kent State and Oregon State, three glorified scrimmages. That’s what should happen when Cody Campbell bankrolls a transfer-heavy squad for Joey McGuire. You expect them to crush bad teams. But Utah is a different test, and Behren Morton hasn’t shown much away from home in his injury riddled career.

The other two games? Well, this is where Arthouse Saturday earns its hipster tag. So put on your thick rimmed glasses and your beanie so you can wax poetic about Army’s ground game. Shrug emoji, we’ll see I guess.

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Movie Pairing (No Explanation Given): Before Sunrise (1995)

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