Jealousy starts to rear it's ugly head when Tami stays in Dillon longer than expected after running into her wealthy old high school boyfriend. While attempting to score scholarship despite his past, Smash might take up an offer from something out of the ordinary. Tim gets his own Christian radio show to impress Lyla. Some big news may change Jason's life forever.
Matt Saracen has given up all hope on anything going right. Julie becomes jealous when she sees how close Tyra and Tami are becoming. Someone might be moving on on Landry and Tyra's relationship and during his three game suspension, Smash asked Coach Taylor for some advice.
Tim needs to give the money back to his ex-roomate that he stole. Jason gets a job at a car salesman and instead of being criminally charged, Smash needs to make a public apology for what happened at the movie theater. Tami gets a job as the girls' volleyball coach.
Carlotta goes back to Guatemala, leaving Matt all alone and sad and Part of Santiago's past returns. Noel and Smash find out that their parents don't agree with their relationship. A Christian radio station hires Lyla as their new on air personality while Coach Taylor and Tami hunt for a new day care for Gracie.
Coach Taylor and Tim Riggins are at odds when it comes to Julie, and Tim needs some advice on the situation. The Panthers' biggest game of the season is coming up against Laribee High School and all the attention seems to be focused on what Coach Taylor will do to prepare for it. Smash is running into obstacles when everyone wants a verbal commitment to their college programs, except the one he wants.
Not only do Coach Taylor have to adjust to their rivals Laribee High School sharing their lockers, football fields, and weight room with them after a tornado strikes, but he also has to adjust, along with Tami and Julie, to Tim Riggins living with them. After being cleared of murder, Landry and Tyra now must work on their relationship.
Landry finally comes clean about his role in the murder of the man who assulted Tyra. Herc decides that it's a good idea to find Street a date on an online dating service. There is termoil between Julie and Tami as they prepare for baby Gracie's christening.
Matt decides he wants an open relationship because he likes his grandma's caretaker and his current girlfriend. Things explode at the Taylor house when Eric goes off on Tami for relationship with someone at work, after Tami goes off on one of Julie's teachers. Landry contemplates turning himself in after he goes in place of Tyra to meet her attacker's brother. Smash's first recruitment trip leaves him thinking twice about college.
The day Smash has waited for has finally arrived...the first day he can talk to recruiters. Coach Taylor eyes a new potential asset for the Panthers. Lyla and Tyra are asked by Tami to run the annual Pantherama. Matt wants his cake and he wants to eat it too when he is fond over his grandma's caretaker and his new girlfriend. Julie is jealous about the situation and turns to her writing teacher for someone to talk to.
Landry's dad is put into a tough position when he has to choose whether to be a cop or a father once Landry confesses to what he did. Shelley, Tami's free spirited "green" sister comes to help out, but instead makes Tami rethink her choices and questions Dillon. And if Riggins wants back on the team, he first needs to prove it to Coach Taylor.