Snap judgments on Saturday's best.

Teacher's Pet: Oklahoma State RB Keith Toston.
OSU's big presentation was due Saturday afternoon, and quite frankly, a lot of the Cowboys weren't pulling their weight -- starting running back Kendall Hunter was nursing an ankle injury, while star receiver Dez Bryant was sent to the principal's office for hanging out with a bad crowd. Instead of complaining, Toston shouldered Hunter's burden in the backfield, rolling up 130 yards on 26 carries and, just for good measure, did Bryant's work as well, leading all Cowboy receivers with 74 yards on two catches. His gold-star effort helped OSU outlast a big day from a pesky Texas A&M offense and keep their rapidly-dimming Big XII title hopes intact.

Most Unlikely Couple: Jonathan Crompton and his own receivers.
Coming into Saturday's make-or-break game against Georgia, Crompton's TD-INT ratio at Tennessee was 18-17 (with six of those touchdowns, remember, coming against tomato can Western Kentucky to open the season), and his career completion percentage was just barely peeking over 50 percent. Expertly-administered play-action therapy, however, enabled the embattled QB and his receiving corps to find the spark their relationship has been missing, and Crompton surprised everyone by bringing home a 310-yard, four-touchdown bouquet on 20-of-27 passing. (An equally unlikely pairing: Georgia's fan base and their much-maligned special-teams unit, which was about the only thing the Dawgs had going for them in a 45-19 demolition at Neyland Stadium.)

Most Creative: Ohio State's defense and special teams.
Be honest -- if you perused the box scores on a given Saturday and saw that a 5-0 Big Ten contender had held OSU to only 184 yards of total offense, your first thought would be "The Buckeyes laid an egg in another big game," right? But Ohio State didn't need a whole lot of yardage to whack undefeated Wisconsin 31-13; instead, they just tore a page out of the "Beamerball" handbook, returning two Scott Tolzien picks for touchdowns and adding a third TD on a 96-yard kickoff return for good measure. Clearly, Jim Tressel has no time for your bourgeois notions of "offense." Scoring is about the art, man.

Mr. Personality: Duke QB Thaddeus Lewis
The lowly Blue Devils hadn't won an ACC road game in nearly six years, but that didn't stop Lewis from putting on a one-man show in Raleigh, a 40-of-50, 459-yard, five-touchdown display in a 49-28 humbling of N.C. State. Can anyone remember the last time Duke put up 49 points in an ACC game? (Don't exert yourself looking it up, please; that was a rhetorical question.)

Grape Job! Florida State, embroiled in an annus horribilis that now includes an increasingly touchy coaching controversy on top of a 19-point outing against I-AA Jacksonville State and a seven-point flop against South Florida, needed a big offensive showing as bad as anyone Saturday night -- and the 'Noles got one: FSU rolled up 539 yards and 44 points on Georgia Tech, headlined by a 359-yard, five-TD outburst from quarterback Christian Ponder. Only problem is, the defense gave up 49 points to the Yellow Jackets to clinch FSU's third consecutive loss. But hey, you can't have everything. At least those mean old anti-Bowden "Blackout" folks didn't bother to show up.

Most School Spirit: Oregon CB Kenjon Barner
With his team trailing UCAL 3-0 at halftime and in danger of forfeiting all the goodwill the Ducks had built up over the course of a four-game winning streak, Barner gave his struggling mates a jolt the best way he knew how to open the second half:

Barner's 102-yard return sparked a 21-point third quarter that keyed a 24-10 Oregon win to keep the Ducks atop the Pac-10 standings. Even Oregon's legendarily comely cheerleaders would be hard-pressed to re-energize a sideline that quickly.

Most Popular: Ranked seventh in the nation in passing yards allowed, Alabama's secondary hasn't been particularly friendly to anyone it's faced all year -- and yet Ole Miss quarterback Jevan Snead couldn't stay away from them, heaving up four picks and limping out of Vaught-Hemingway Stadium with the second-worst QB rating in the SEC (ahead of only Vanderbilt's Larry Smith). You need to watch out for folks like Kareem Jackson and Rolando McClain, Jevan: They may seem all fun and glamorous, but they'll only take from you while giving you nothing in return.

Drama Queen: After a borderline-hysterical week of will-he-or-won't-he regarding Tim Tebow's chances of starting the LSU game two weeks after the concussion that landed him in a Kentucky hospital, Teebs strapped on his helmet, lowered his shoulder and plowed into the opposing D-line just like he always has -- except, for, you know, the whole "scoring" part. Considering that Florida's snarling defense held LSU to only 162 total offensive yards and three points, Tebow probably could've watched the entire game from the bench and it wouldn't have mattered. Give him this, anyway: The ability to wind up in the headlines even when you haven't done all that much is the mark of a truly enduring superstar.

Class Clown: Meanwhile, on the other side of the field at Tiger Stadium, LSU coach Les Miles showed that whether he's plunging daggers into Florida's heart with repeated fourth-down conversions or struggling to muster any kind of offense whatsoever, he was nothing short of entertaining in his battle to "get the next call," as CBS' Gary Danielson put it, after a rash of presnap calls against his team in the first half. The referees Miles hectored, cajoled, nagged and generally annoyed the crap out of for nearly the full 60 minutes may not have found him quite so amusing, but someone's always got to be the buzzkill, don't they?

Biggest Flirt: For the third time in four games, Texas messed around early and let an overmatched opponent think they had a shot, only to crush the upstart's dreams and flounce off with a win. Teasing people like this is the kind of thing that will get UT in trouble with, say, the newly re-Bradforded Oklahoma Sooners, but for right now, the Longhorns play hard-to-get better than anyone in the business.

Most Likely to Succeed: Speaking of crushed dreams, Boston College has been a relatively reliable ruiner of Virginia Tech's hopes over the last few (regular) seasons, but the Hokies made sure there was no chance of that on Saturday, rolling up a 34-0 halftime lead on the way to an easy 48-14 win. VT appears to have found the right mix on offense with mobile quarterback Tyrod Taylor and workhorse running back Ryan Williams; between that and a defense that's regained its old equilibrium (the Tech D held the Eagles to only two first downs and 28 yards through the first three quarters), the Hokies' stranglehold on the ACC looks just as strong as ever.