Impressed/Depressed/Unmoved: Week 6 of the College Football Season

After a week's break, IDU is back with another thought of who rocked our world, who didn't, and who left us in the shade. And as we write while the stock market implodes, we thought we'd do it "stock market style"....

BUY

Oklahoma

Baylor on the road was meant to be some sort of a test. It wasn't. The Sooners rolled, Sam Bradford looks great, and Texas may well be lucky to escape with a 21-point loss. Mind you, anything can happen in the Red River Shootout (sorry, rivalry).

Pittsburgh

Losing to Bowling Green was a monumental screw-up by Dave Wannstedt, but once again his Panthers, who have just come off a monster upset of Iowa, managed it again by beating once-unbeaten South Florida on a Thursday night.

Southern California

One loss doesn't mean that this storied program automatically sucks. It might do in the Pac-10. But don't get me wrong, USC could beat the pants off most of the teams in the Top 25, even some of the unbeaten ones.

Don't be surprised if this lot gets to the title game; they were that impressive in their blowout of Oregon.

Florida

I was truly stunned by their loss to Ole Miss last week, particularly as they then went on the road to Arkansas and ripped the Razorbacks (who are still suffering from the loss of McFadden, Jones, and Nutt) to shreds.

Notre Dame

Jimmy Clausen's making things look easy, and I won't be surprised if Notre Dame are a one-loss team going into their get-together with Southern Cal.

The weakened schedule helps the Irish, too, but this is still a strong team. Good enough to be ranked? Perhaps, if Michigan State is too!

Vanderbilt

If beating an albeit offensively terrible Auburn was an achievement, then getting to 5-0 is AMAZING for this Commodores team. And you know what? It won't be such a surprise if they go 6-0 this week at Mississippi State. Then the schedule gets a whole lot tougher.

Ohio State

Stop the press. This Terrelle Pryor is goooooooood. Big-difference-in-a-National-Championship-Game-Goooooood.

Missouri

They walked into Nebraska and it looked like a football game. After 60 minutes and 52 Tiger points game, it was less football game and more slaughter. Bo Pellini's got a long way to go.

Texas Tech

The offense (58 points) is an awful lot of fun to watch. The defense still isn't great. It gave up 28 to Kansas State, but when you're scoring 50 a game, does it really matter? We don't expect Nebraska to put up much of a test on Saturday, either.

Texas

Completing the Big 12 lovefest is Texas. They may well get battered by Oklahoma on Saturday, but here's one thing for certain: Colt McCoy is still a great quarterback and the Longhorns can still stand proud after their victory in Colorado. It's one better than Oklahoma did in 2007, isn't it?

HOLD

Penn State

A quick conversation with my buddy after Penn State's sleep-inducing 20-6 win over Purdue: "If you get the chance to see the Purdue game: don't."

That doesn't inspire confidence in a 6-0 team looking for a Big Ten run...particularly as I can probably sense the same overly-conservative crap at Wisconsin on Saturday night. The Lions are on upset alert.

Alabama

They were crap, but they won. Expect Nick Saban to be kicking this lot's butts into shape during their off-week.

Kansas

Coming out of Iowa State (who haven't been great in years) with a 25-23 victory isn't an achievement, even if you were down 20 points at one stage.

Kansas still has a lot of work to do to reach its 2007 heights. Beating Colorado on Saturday wouldn't be a bad way to go, though.

SELL

Wisconsin

Losing 20-17 in a tight game to Ohio State in front of your rabid supporters. What's not depressing about that?

Texas A&M

Can it get any worse for the Aggies after they were torched on the road at Oklahoma State? Probably; they've still got to play Oklahoma and Texas!

Fresno State

Another BCS buster busts out after losing another heartbreaker, this time to WAC rival Hawaii.

Georgetown/Colgate

This is more about the fans than the actual fixture. After all, sports takes your mind off things like, say, real life. And let's say that Georgetown and Colgate kids (many of them probably thinking about careers in investment banking before this collapse) probably needed this game.

It's also sad why the game was called off; the stomach flu's not a lot of fun. Then the Patriot League ADs decided to cancel the fixture altogether. Nice one, guys!!