ESPN Kirk Herbstreit names Sherrone Moore his top head coach in Week 4

Michigan football needed change and it needed it fast. After starting the season following the national championship with a whimper, the identity of the Wolverines either was lacking or it wasn’t working.

And the coaches, instead of being prideful, switched things up from their original plan. As a result, a No. 11-ranked USC team left Ann Arbor with its first loss of the season and in its new conference.

ESPN College GameDay host and the network’s premier color commentator Kirk Herbstreit took notice of the coaching job that Sherrone Moore did against the Trojans, and he thusly named him his top performing coach in all of college football this week.

Here are my top performing coaches of WEEK 4:

Sherrone Moore @UMichFootball
Josh Heupel @Vol_Football
Bret Bielema @IlliniFootball
Kalani Sitake @BYUfootball
Adam Fuller DC @FSUFootball
Rhett Lashlee SMU @SMUFB
Morgan Scalley DC @Utah_Football pic.twitter.com/JKuNlno88V

— Kirk Herbstreit (@KirkHerbstreit) September 24, 2024

What’s more, Herbie named Michigan football his top-performing team of the week, edging out Tennessee which walloped Oklahoma on the road in Norman.

Here are my top performing teams of WEEK 4:

Michigan @UMichFootball
Tennessee @Vol_Football
Utah @Utah_Football
Illinois @IlliniFootball
JMU @JMUFootball
BYU @BYUfootball
Navy @NavyFB pic.twitter.com/OIgctHjuWv

— Kirk Herbstreit (@KirkHerbstreit) September 24, 2024

Moore switched things up by going with Alex Orji at quarterback after starting Davis Warren the first three weeks. Considering that Week 4 was essentially a must-win for Michigan, he then adjusted accordingly — not throwing his first-time starting QB to the wolves and instead relying very heavily on the run game as well as the horizontal passing game. The defense played more to its strengths, playing more zone this week and blitzing less. And the Wolverines hung on to beat the Trojans, despite not having its best offensive player, Colston Loveland, who was out due to a shoulder…