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Notes you need to know coming out of Week 4

Sept. 26 is too early to say that the wins gutted out by Tennessee, Duke, Colorado, Auburn, Stanford and Washington will be the pivots upon which their seasons turn. But it's sure easy to imagine that.

Sept. 26 is way too early to fire a defensive coordinator. It's not as if we didn't know that Notre Dame would struggle, what with four returning starters on that side of the ball. But Brian VanGorder, who has bounced from colleges to the NFL and back, hasn't coached a shutdown defense since he was at Georgia in the early 2000s.