What was supposed to be a ho-hum weekend of college football turned out to be the biggest upset weekend of the season. CSF breaks down the national championship update and the current state of the Heisman from the week that reshaped the 2011 season and put the BCS picture into a tizzy.

Upset Weekend: The weekend got off to a crazy start on Friday, when #2 Oklahoma State, who controlled their own destiny to a Big 12 Title and BCS National Championship game, was stunned in Ames to the Iowa State Cyclones.  The loss took OSU out of the national title hunt all together and severely jeopardized quarterback Brandon Weeden’s chance at the Heisman Trophy.

On Saturday, Oregon looked to take advantage of the Oklahoma State loss and jump to at least 3rd nationally, but those hopes were dashed on a missed field goal at the end of regulation to Matt Barkley and USC.  The Ducks fought their way back into the game (USC led 38-14 at one point) but ultimately fell short 38-35.  Oregon’s second loss officially puts them out of the BCS Title hunt as well.

About an hour later, Oklahoma, who had trailed most of the game to Robert Griffin III and his Baylor team, also found themselves in great position to make a push for a BCS title run.  OU quarterback Landry Jones battled his team back into the game and forced an apparent overtime, but Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops got greedy.  With Baylor conceding overtime, they attempted to run the clock out, but Oklahoma opted to use a timeout in attempt to get the ball back with less than a minute to go.  Griffin III showed the Sooners that when you play with fire, you get burned.  The junior QB led his team down the field by running and passing and capped off the game’s final drive with a touchdown pass to Terrance Williams with 8 seconds left on the clock to regain a seven-point lead, and the Bears beat Oklahoma for the first time in 21 tries by a score of 45-38.

Heisman will come down to the wire: All season, the Heisman front-runners have changed more frequently than Charlie Sheen’s roommates.  Here’s the recap.  Stanford’s Andrew Luck is up.  Okie State’s Brandon Weeden is down.  Baylor’s Robert Griffin III has worked his way back in the picture after being forgotten for the last month.  Bama’s Trent Richardson is back in the hunt, but Oregon’s LaMichael James dropped significantly.  Boise State’s Kellen Moore is all but forgotten.  Meanwhile, Houston’s Case Keenum has 38 TDs and only three interceptions, while Wisconsin’s Montee Ball has continued his record-setting season with 31 total touchdowns, respectively.  Oh, yeah….and Kansas State’s Colin Klein has 36 total touchdowns for the surprising Wildcats.  But don’t worry.  The major rivalry games take place this weekend, so all of this is likely to change in a week.  Confused yet?  Just wait until the conference championship games happen in two weeks.

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The 2009-2910 NCAA Scoring title is coming down to a battle of two players in a Texas showdown. Aubrey Coleman of Houston averaging 25.9 points per game and UT Arlington’s Marquez Haynes at 22.9. The two players have traded the top spot through December and January. Coleman has held the top spot for a few weeks recently. Neither player really cares about the status.

“I never look at that, as the season gets going it no longer matters it just turns into a distraction,” Haynes said.    Coleman added, “I never worry about scoring, I just go out and have fun, I don’t look at the numbers.”

Last Saturday Houston’s Aubrey Coleman showed up to SMU holding the lead by almost a two point margin. In a huge game vs. the Mustangs, Coleman scored 4 points over his average scoring 30 in a loss to SMU 94-83. The loss left the Cougars at 14-14 tied with SMU in Conference USA.

SMU head coach Matt Doherty said after the game, “Coleman is special talent, I told Aubrey after the game that I have told people two of the best basketball players I have seen are Aubrey and Len Bias.” The praise was noteworthy as Doherty has coached at Notre Dame and North Carolina and and was a teammate of Michael Jordan and James Worthy.

Three nights later in Arlington Marquez Haynes took to the court with his fellow four Senior teammates in their final regular season game at Texas Hall. After a slow start got him benched and saw the Mavericks fall behind 10-2 to Nicholls University (10-18), Haynes hit his first point from the free throw line at the 13:44 mark .He had a slow first half finishing with 6 points.  Trailing 39-20 to Nicholls at the half, Haynes erupted for19 second half points, to finish with 25 as the Mavericks (16-12) lost 73-64.

Haynes leaves as UTA’s all time single season scoring leader. The transfer from Boston College had the praise of head coach Scott Cross. “He’s been unbelievable, I can’t say enough good things about him.”

The two players posses many of the same qualities, both emphasize their defensive improvement before their offensive numbers. “I feed of my defense”, Coleman said “I look at the tape and try to see if there is an opportunity to get a steal.” Coleman is also second in the NCAA in steals per game.

With Notre Dame’s Luke Harangody possibly missing the rest of the season, Haynes should most likely end in second.

Coleman who is focused on improving the Cougars Conference USA record said he had not had a chance to Haynes play during the season. Haynes said he has only seen Coleman on tape against UT San Antonio. Both players only care about getting their team in the NCAA tournament through winning the Conference USA and Southland tournaments.

Cross added, “I wish nothing but the best for Marquez professionally as he moves on with his basketball career.” Judging by the amount of NBA scouts in the stands at the two games, Cross and Doherty are not the only people with that opinion. “I’ll probably see Coleman at Portsmouth at the pre-draft camp,” Haynes said.

In front of a national television audience Saturday night, the Houston Cougars dropped a 92-77 heartbreaker against the Memphis Tigers at the FedEx Forum in Memphis. This is nothing new to the Cougars, as the Tigers continued their dominance of Houston, winning their 11th straight over the Cougars. Aubrey Coleman, the nation’s leading scorer at 25.3 ppg, had 32 points and was responsible for keep the Cougars hanging in the game in the first half. But as everybody knows, one man can’t win a game. As everybody expected, Memphis finally got the ball rolling and dominated the second half. The Tigers lit it up from behind the arc, going 9-of-16 from 3-point land while Houston shot a dismal 2-of-11. Memphis showed no hangover symptoms from having their 64-game Conference USA winning streak snapped the game before against UTEP. Despite that streak being ended, the Tigers showed they still had Houston’s number, as they seem to be an insurmountable hump to the Cougars’ chance of becoming C-USA champs. Until Houston can dethrone Memphis with at least one victory in conference or, more importantly, tournament play, they may never win the conference title. The 2004-05 season was the last year the Cougars got the better of the Tigers. Since then, it’s been sheer dominance. Let’s face it, Coogs. The road to the NCAA tournament runs through Memphis, Tennessee. Unless you can get an automatic berth, which as of right now looks highly unlikely.