Five biggest college football surprises

Matt Barkley's ineffectiveness: For whatever reason, he hasn’t been great this year for Southern California, and the Heisman hype has died down.

Gary A. Vasquez, US Presswire

Oregon State looks like a contender: Mike Riley’s squad already has two Pac-12 road wins in the bank and two wins vs. ranked teams. Nobody saw that coming.

Rick Scuteri, US Presswire

MACtion: Between Ohio (5-0 including a win at Penn State), Northern Illinois’ win vs. Kansas, Ball State’s win at Indiana and Central Michigan’s win at Iowa, it’s been a good month for the Mid-American Conference.

Andrew Weber, US Presswire

Oklahoma: Maybe it shouldn’t surprise us anymore that the Sooners have already played its way out of the national title with a home loss to Kansas State. It’s kind of becoming a thing in Norman.

Matthew Emmons, US Presswire

Boise State's offense: How good was Kellen Moore? Without him (and coordinator Brent Pease, who went to Florida), the Broncos are 64th in the nation in passing and 65th in rushing.

Brian Losness, US Presswire