Last Week: 19/21 323 yards passing 3 TDs passing, 41 yards rushing 4 TDs at West Virginia (55-14) Next Week: vs Texas Tech
Comments: All season long Collin Klein has been on the door step waiting to burst through the door. Well KState's prime time win over West Virginia was Klein's coming out party. Klein hasn't had "huge" numbers for most of the season, but that stopped here. Against the Mountaineers Klein had 364 combined yards and 7 TDs. Heck Klein completed all but 2 of his passes. That is flat out remarkable. It's games like this that get voter's attention and could end with Klein winning KState's first Heisman Trophy. But the Wildcats can't overlook their next opponent, Texas Tech, who has been on quite the roll themselves.
Last Week: 21/32 143 yards 1 TD 2 INTs vs Kansas State (14-55) Next Week: Bye
Comments: After dazzling college football in his early season, Smith has had two clunkers of games and his strangle hold on the Heisman Race is long gone. Against KState Smith was looking to rebound after the Texas Tech loss, but was unable to do so. Smith not only threw his first two INTs of the season, but he was only able to lead the offense to 14 points and lost the game. Smith hasn't looked like the same player that he did in the early season. His accuracy is down and he just looks average. What is worse is that West Virginia is now on a bye week and Smith can't get back out there to get some momentum going. We could have just witnessed Geno Smith's Heisman season end.
Last Week: 9/20 113 yards passing 0 TDs 1 INT, 47 yards rushing 1 TD vs Purdue (29-22) Next Week: at Penn State
Comments: This is not the way Braxton Miller wanted the Purdue game to go. Not only did he not have a great game with less than 200 yards of total offense but Miller left the game and had to be taken to the hospital. Miller has since been released but his availability in the Penn State game is still undetermined. None the less Braxton struggled against a solid Purdue defense and never really had the same game that he did against Nebraska or Indiana. But if he's available to play against Penn State, he'll have a shot to make a strong impression against a very very talented Penn State team.
4. Matt Barkley QB USCComments: Are we going to look back to this game and say it was the one that got Barkley going in the right direcetion? After struggled through most of the season, Barkley was dynamite and in doing so broke a couple of records. His 95% completion percentage broke Rick Neuheisel's record while his 6 passing TDs helped him break Matt Leinart's Pac 12 record for career TDs. Not too bad for a guy that has been struggling for most of the year. And this couldn't come at a better time as the Trojans are about to enter the strength of their schedule. They travel to Arizona this next weekend, but they still have games against Oregon, Notre Dame, UCLA, and probably Oregon again. Barkley's shot at the Heisman is still a long shot, but he could pull something off with a great end to the season.
5. De'Anthony Thomas WR/RB OregonLast Week: 25 yards rushing 0 TDs, 4 yards receiving 0 TDs vs Arizona State (43-21) Next Week: vs Colorado
Comments: Thomas hasn't had the season many thought he would after dazzling as a freshman last year. Even in their route of Arizona the young weapon accounted for less than 30 yards. The only reason that Thomas is still in the race is because there really isn't a large pool of players standing out. Plus Thomas has the ability to break out during some big time games towards the end of the season. But Thomas better start going, because he is starting to slide down the rankings.
Others to Watch
6. Manti Te'o LB Notre Dame
7. Kenjon Barner RB Oregon
8. Seth Doege QB Texas Tech
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