Week 4 — Iowa's Late Touchdown Beats Michigan After Time Expires

Iowa beat Michigan on a touchdown scored as time expired, ESPN's Ryan McGee reported in his Week 4 "Bottom 10" column, published Sept. 30, 2026. The finish reversed the shape of an earlier Michigan game this season that had ended on a disputed last-second sequence in the Wolverines' favor, according to the column.

The result lands Michigan in McGee's weekly ranking of college football's lowest points, a column that has tracked the sport's worst finishes for 13 seasons.

What happened on the Iowa-Michigan touchdown?

Iowa's game-winning score came as the clock hit zero, according to the video accompanying McGee's column, titled "Iowa beats Michigan with a game-winning TD as time expires." The play closed out a Week 4 result that put Michigan on the losing end of a finish similar to one that had worked in the Wolverines' favor earlier in the season, McGee wrote.

How does this connect to Michigan's earlier finish?

McGee's column frames the Iowa result as a reversal of fortune: Michigan had won a game earlier this season on a contested last-second sequence, and the tables turned when Iowa produced its own clock-expiring touchdown to beat the Wolverines. The column does not name Michigan's earlier opponent, focusing instead on the symmetry between the two finishes separated by a few weeks of the season.

How many FBS teams are stuck at one win entering October?

McGee's column counts 27 of the sport's 138 FBS programs with one win or fewer heading into October — 22 at 1-3, four at 1-2 and one at 1-4. McGee wrote it is the most one-win teams he has tracked in 13 years compiling the weekly rankings, spread "from sea to sea and conference to conference."

"There are currently 138 FBS programs and a whopping 27 of them have records of 1-and-something," McGee wrote in the Sept. 30 column.

What is ESPN's Bottom 10 column?

The Bottom 10 is a weekly ranking of college football's lowest-performing teams, written by McGee, a senior writer for ESPN.com and two-time Sports Emmy winner. The column has run for 13 years, tracking the sport's worst finishes and one-win rosters week to week, according to ESPN.

Where can readers find the full rankings?

The complete Week 4 Bottom 10 list, including where Michigan landed after the loss to Iowa and which programs make up the 22 teams at 1-3, is posted on ESPN.com.

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