Here are the four college football teams that need to be hitting the panic meter after Week 6. Some of these are short-term problems, and some of them are a lot bigger than one Saturday.

The Washington Huskies, Texas A&M Aggies, Oregon Ducks, and Texas Longhorns all walked out of this past weekend with more questions than answers.

Washington got pushed around at home

Start with Friday night, and the way Washington lost to the Iowa Hawkeyes. Iowa presents a lot of unique challenges. You have to stop the run, and you’re going up against a high-level defense. But the Huskies are supposed to be a good football team at home, and Iowa has struggled traveling cross country.

Running back Kamari Moulton ran for 208 yards by himself. If you watched that Washington defense, it was pitiful. Iowa did whatever it wanted, it was explosive, and its offense looked unstoppable. When was the last time you said that about an Iowa offense?

Then you throw in the fact that starting quarterback Demond Williams Jr. struggled before he got hurt, and I hope he gets better. But I believe the Huskies have to roll with Elijah Brown at quarterback. Sitting at 0-3 in conference play, this was the worst-case scenario for Washington by far.

Texas A&M has some major decisions to make with the roster

I’ll be upfront: I’m a Texas A&M fan. This team gets my hopes up just to rip my heart out, so take this however you want. And I’m absolutely panicking.

The Aggies scored six points in both of their SEC road trips. Your coach is talking about message boards in the postgame press conference. And you very clearly don’t have a good enough quarterback. Marcel Reed went 19-of-39 for 187 yards and two interceptions, and the offense looked pitiful even with an improved defensive performance.

Do I need to remind you this program went 11-1 and hosted a college football playoff game? Now A&M looks down the barrel of the bulk of its schedule, and I see a below .500 year coming. That’s brutal.

Oregon has its own issues, mainly with the coaching staff

Oregon is a different situation, but the root of the panic is the same. UCLA is a tough team to beat, and Wayne Knight is incredible. But the Ducks didn’t even get the best performance from Nico Iamaleava, who is now out for the year with a torn ACL, and they still couldn’t overcome it at home.

And you may say, Tegan, Oregon was playing its own backup quarterback in Dylan Raiola. Sure, you can point to a lot of things with the Ducks. But the real panic is knowing you don’t have the coaching staff. The talent is not in question. Oregon has the players to execute, and much like Texas A&M, the hires it made in the offseason were the wrong ones.

Whenever I’m watching a team with bad coaching, I know it’s not something that magically gets fixed over the course of a season. You can live with a true freshman quarterback learning and getting better week to week. I just don’t see a coach have some crazy evolution in the middle of the year.

Texas has a bigger-picture issue

The last team I’ll mention is Texas, and this one comes with an asterisk. I still think the Longhorns are a national title contender. And you may say, Tegan, how are you putting Texas on the same list as an A&M team staring at a losing record? Texas beat the Ohio State Buckeyes and is still going to make the playoff. All can be true.

But I’m hitting the panic meter on a broader level. Texas coach Steve Sarkisian needs to hire an offensive coordinator. And the Longhorns have to figure out the little things on special teams before they waste away another elite defense. And quarterback development has been a question mark throughout the Sarkisian era.

Time and time again, Texas hasn’t elevated the talent inside the building. For a program with that much talent, that isn’t good enough.

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Of these four, Texas A&M and Oregon worry me the most, because neither one can fix a coaching problem in the middle of a season. Washington has a quarterback decision to make, and Texas has a standard to live up to. The standard simply has to be better.