Week 6 College Football Awards October 6, 2014

(Note: All rankings are current AP [week 6] unless otherwise noted.)

COACHES
Wish I were him: Dan Mullen, Mississippi State

Wish I were him, too: Hugh Freeze, Ole Miss

Glad I’m not him: Kevin Sumlin, Texas A&M
Lucky guy: Will Muschamp, Florida

Poor guy: Butch Jones, Tennessee
Desperately seeking a wake-up clue: Steve Spurrier, South Carolina
Desperately seeking a P.R. man: Jim McElwain, Colorado State

Desperately seeking sunglasses and a fake beard: Les Miles, LSU
Desperately seeking … anything: Brady Hoke, Michigan

TEAMS
Thought you’d kick butt, you did: No. 1 Florida State  (beat Wake Forest 43-3)
Thought you’d kick butt, you didn’t: No. 1 Florida State (defeated NC State 56-41)

Thought you’d get your butt kicked, you did: Maryland (lost to No. 20 Ohio State 52-24)

Thought you’d get your butt kicked, you didn’t: Northwestern (defeated No. 17 Wisconsin 20-14)
Thought you wouldn’t kick butt, you did: No. 5 Auburn (defeated No. 18 LSU 41-7)

Dang, they’re good: Auburn
Dang, they’re bad: Florida Atlantic

You know, they’re not so bad: Utah
Can’t Stand Prosperity: UCLA

Did the season start? Tennessee
Can the season end? Michigan
Can the season never end? Ole Miss and Mississippi State

GAMES
Play this again:  No. 11 Ole Miss 23, No. 1 Alabama 17

Play this again, too: Utah 30, No. 8 UCLA 28
Never play this again: Clemson 41, NC State 0

What? No. 12 Mississippi State 48, No. 6 Texas A&M 31

Huh? No. 25 TCU 37, No. 4 Oklahoma 33
Are you kidding me? Arizona 31, No. 2 Oregon 24
Oh – my – God: No. 11 Ole Miss 23, No. 3 Alabama 17

NEXT WEEK

(rankings are current AP (post-week 6, pre-week 7)
Ticket to die for: No. 2 Auburn @ No. 3 Mississippi State

Best non-Power Five vs. Power Five matchup: Cincinnati @ Miami
Best non-Power Five matchup: BYU @ Central Florida

Upset alert: No. 3 Ole Miss @ No. 12 Texas A&M

Must win: Texas vs. No. 11 Oklahoma in Dallas

Offensive explosion: Washington @ California

Defensive struggle: LSU @ Florida
Great game no one is talking about: Louisville @ Clemson

Intriguing coaching matchup: Gary Patterson of TCU vs. Art Briles of Baylor

Who’s bringing the body bags? Chattanooga @ Tennessee (also, No. 9 Michigan State @ Purdue)

Why are they playing? Charleston Southern @ Vanderbilt

Plenty of good seats remaining: Buffalo @ Eastern Michigan

They shoot horses, don’t they?  Louisiana-Monroe @ Kentucky

Week 6 Random Thoughts:

• In all the years I have followed college football closely (two decades and counting), I honestly cannot recall a weekend where the top-ten rankings were turned upside-down with upsets. Indeed, upsets abounded all over the place. To wit, Thursday night, Arizona went into noisy Autzen Stadium and upset the No. 2 Oregon Ducks. Friday night, Utah State beat deceptively-tough No. 18 BYU. Then on Saturday during the noon timeslot, Mississippi State finally earned a big win over a top-ten opponent in Texas A&M. Following that, Ole Miss beat No. 3 Alabama. The last time the Rebels went 5-0, John F. Kennedy was in the White House. If that is not enough, TCU went into Norman, Okla., and upset the Sooners. Let us not forget that out on the West Coast, unranked Utah upset No. 8 UCLA out in the Rose Bowl. So, just so everybody is up to speed, the No. 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8-ranked teams all went down.

• Regarding Purdue’s win on the road at Illinois, it remains inconclusive as to whether or not the Boilermakers have improved that much since stinking out the joint against Iowa on homecoming weekend, or if the Illini are even more inept than Purdue.

• So with all the top-ten teams going down to defeat this past Saturday, how come No. 1 Florida State escaped unscathed? That would not have anything to do with the fact that they played Wake Forest, would it?

• With all the top-ten teams upset, it might have escaped the notice of many fans that unranked Northwestern also pulled off an upset over the No. 17 Wisconsin Badgers. Given the Wildcats’ mediocre performances thus far, none of us saw that one coming.

• I cannot help but surmise that the only thing the saved Notre Dame’s bacon at home against Stanford was the positively nasty weather that no doubt threw the Cardinal a bit off their game. Otherwise, the Irish might have (indeed should have) been exposed.

• For those of us who are waiting for the opportunity for Notre Dame to be exposed as the truly overrated team they are, mark your calendars for Nov. 8, when they play Florida State, followed by Nov. 22. On that date, they play the Louisville Cardinals. Just sayin’.