Chris 'The Bear' Fallica's 2024 College Football Week 4 'Bear Bytes'

College football Week 4 is here, and I couldn't be more pumped. 

This means the next few days will be exciting for fans who love football and for bettors looking for fun ways to wager a few bucks.

I've already given you my best bets for Week 4 games, but now it's time to have a little fun with my "Bear Bytes."

These little "bytes," as I call them, are just nuggets that give you some entertaining talking points to pull from as you watch the football festivities with friends and family or banter with your coworkers at the water cooler.

Here are the biggest nuggets that stuck out to me while doing my research.

There are three ranked matchups Saturday — Utah at Oklahoma State, USC at Michigan and Tennessee at Oklahoma. 

Outside of those three games, the 14 ranked teams playing unranked teams are favored by an average of 25.4 PPG. Ten are favored by at least 20 points, and the only team favored by fewer than ten points is Kansas State -7 at BYU.

Utah @ Oklahoma State (4 p.m. ET, Saturday, FOX and FOX Sports app )

Over the last 10 years, Mike Gundy is 17-6 in games where the spread is within +3/-3. In the 10 home games, Oklahoma State is 8-2, winning each of the last six — three coming as an underdog. Utah is 2-7 in its last nine games away from home against ranked teams. The only two wins came against USC.
 
USC @ Michigan (3:30 p.m. ET, Saturday, CBS)

Since 2021, Lincoln Riley has been a favorite away from home 13 times. His team has won 10 of the 13 games but are just 3-10 against the spread (ATS) and 2-7 at USC.

Tennessee @ Oklahoma (7:30 p.m. ET, Saturday, ABC)

This week snaps a 49-game streak in which Oklahoma was favored at home. The last time OU was a home underdog was 2016 when the Sooners were a slight