Chris Dufresne: College football weekend doesn't entirely add up The weekend was a wild trip through Alice's looking glass and Colorado's secondary. Arkansas State earned $1 million for losing to Nebraska, but everything else made little sense. 2 in total offense, ahead of Oregon and West Virginia. Three teams in the Southeastern Conference West - Arkansas, Auburn and Mississippi - rank No. 93, 94 and 95 in total defense. Kansas is No. Wisconsin is still ranked in the USA Today coaches' poll, but Oregon State still isn't. Alabama turned Arkansas into pig slop in a 52-0 win that solidified the Crimson Tide's red-state power position atop the electoral college. Arkansas, meanwhile, was shut out at Razorback Stadium for the first time since Bill Clinton was a little (rock) kid. Alabama collected 58 of 60 first-place votes in Sunday's Associated Press poll and 54 out of 59 in the USA Today index. Alabama also remained the No. 1 state to live in with a motor home towing a bass boat. Fast-forward Alabama to this year's BCS title game and also the Super Bowl for defeating an unranked team, without its quarterback, coached by a middle-initialed man being held on a 10-month retainer. USC fell from the polls like a circus performer diving from 100 feet into a six-inch pan of water. The Trojans lost, on the road, by a touchdown, to the coaches' No. 16 team. USC was punished nine spots, from No. 12, yet Stanford moved up only five positions to No. Maybe that's what Pac-12 Conference Commissioner Larry Scott gets for calling the coaches' poll "a fallacy" on an L.A. radio station last month. 1, sits at unlucky No. The explanation being given is that USC was "shocked" by a Stanford team that had defeated the Trojans only four of the five previous years. How does that work again? Let's be clear, newscaster boys and girls: The 2007 game was a shock. USC was favored by 41 and Stanford was playing its backup quarterback. Saturday's 21-14 outcome in Palo Alto was more a market correction in which an overvalued team lost to undervalued stock. USC quarterback Matt Barkley, in a shaky 60 minutes, probably lost the Heisman Trophy he came back to win. He will leave USC without ever having defeated Stanford and be haunted by the memories years into his NFL career.