It was hard to find a photo of Samaje Perine with a Kansas defender in the frame
It was hard to find a photo of Samaje Perine with a Kansas defender in the frame. (USATSI)

Every Monday, Eye on College Football's Tom Fornelli looks back at 10 things that stood out to him over the college football weekend -- everything from the awesome to the just plain stupid. Mostly stupid.

In last week's Saturday Meal Plan, I wrote that even though the slate of games scheduled over the weekend wasn't exactly exciting, we should cherish each of them anyway. We're running out of Saturdays to enjoy this year.

And I went into Saturday with that mindset, but you know what? The games lived up to the lack of hype. I'll never actually complain about having college football to watch, but by and large this past weekend was a dud.

I mean, unless you were really into that 6-3 double-overtime affair between Wake Forest and Virginia Tech.

But the headliner games were all blowouts for the most part, or at the very least, never seemed to leave the outcome in doubt, and there weren't any major upsets, either (I didn't consider Arkansas beating Ole Miss an upset, even if Vegas did). All that being said, there were some memorable moments for me to document here.

1. I feel bad for Samaje Perine.

The Oklahoma running back had a huge day against Kansas. He set a new single-game rushing record with 427 yards and also rushed for five touchdowns. None of his scores were cheap, either, as they came from 49 yards, 33 yards, 34 yards, 66 yards and 27 yards out. So while he averaged an impressive 12.6 yards per carry in the game, he averaged an even more impressive 41.8 yards per touchdown carry.

That's kinda good!

Did you notice something about those runs? Perine was touched only four times by a Kansas defender, and none of the contact resembled even the slightest of threats to bring him down. Hell, on two of the runs he wasn't touched at all.

It was probably the easiest 427 yards a running back will ever have, and I'm not saying that to knock the performance. It was amazing.

I still feel bad for him, though. Perine had this epic game a week after Wisconsin's Melvin Gordon broke LaDainian Tomlinson's single-game rushing record when he rushed for 408 yards against Nebraska. Now, while this might make you wonder why I don't feel bad for Gordon (I do), whose record lasted only a week and he never got to play in the fourth quarter, I feel worse for Perine.

When Gordon set the mark last week it was a big deal because Tomlinson's mark had stood for 15 years. Perine's performance was amazing, and deserving of a ton of attention, but the fact it came only a week after Gordon tempered those reactions a bit.

Instead of, "Oh my God, did you see what Samaje Perine did?!" the collective reaction to it was, "LOL, it happened again?!"

He deserves better.

2. Mark Dantonio makes my heart melt sometimes.

Every season in college football you're bound to come across a fan who gets angry at the other team's coach for "running up the score." This fan might even be you, as you fill with rage and throw out words like "classless" and "scumbag" while you deal with the sadness of seeing your team get its butt kicked.

But I'm not that fan.

I've always been of the philosophy that if you don't want the other team to score, stop them. I would rather my opponent beat me into submission than for it to show me mercy. That's one of the reasons I admire Michigan State's Mark Dantonio, because he is not a man of mercy, and he gave us another example of this Saturday.

On the opening drive of the second half with the Spartans leading 35-0, Michigan State faced fourth-and-5 at the Rutgers 24. Dantonio sent his field goal team out onto the field, but they did not kick a field goal. Instead, the Spartans ran a fake and kicker Michael Geiger took off for 23 yards down to the 1-yard line. 

It was great.

Sure, Nick Hill would fumble on the next play to give the ball back to Rutgers, and some would call this karma, but I would just call it a coincidence.

And I still love Dantonio for doing it. 

3. Yale's punter is slick.

Yale lost to Harvard for like the billionth (give or take a billion) time in a row last week, but the Bulldogs still had one nice moment in the game. Or at least the Elis' punter did.

That's a pretty slick move by Bryan Holmes. Ivy League punters are athletes!

4. Not all punters are athletes.

I don't mean to pile on Kansas here, but it wasn't just the defense having a bad day against Oklahoma. The Jayhawks were bad in all units, which was disappointing to see considering how well the Jayhawks had been playing in recent weeks.

But I feel like this play summed up Kansas' performance Saturday more than anything Samaje Perine did.

It's not the snap going over Trevor Pardula's head. That stuff can happen to anybody. No, it's the effort he puts into getting the ball back. Now, I know that it really doesn't matter. Whether he falls on the ball or an Oklahoma player falls on it, the Sooners are going to get the ball in the same spot.

But come on, Trevor, you could have at least tried.

5. Tennessee is not that hard to spell.

ESPN's College GameDay spent Saturday morning at Harvard, but the SEC Network was in Knoxville for Missouri-Tennessee. And this Tennessee fan showed the world why she was in Knoxville and not Cambridge.

No wonder she didn't get any cake.

6. Let us admire Ray Bentley's mullet.

Glorious, glorious #MULLETion.

7. If Duke Johnson asks you to hold his gloves, politely decline.

You know where they've been.

8. UCLA's heart was in the right place.

First, before I get into UCLA's tribute to Jackie Robinson, I would like you all to take a look at how wonderful the combinations of UCLA's and Southern California's uniforms look on the field together.

More teams really need to do this. If your school's colors don't match one another, you don't always have to wear white jerseys as the road team just because that's the way it has always been done. It looks amazing.

But back to the Jackie Robinson thing.

The Bruins had Robinson's No. 42 painted on the field at the Rose Bowl, and the players had decals on their helmets to honor former Bruin as the school retired his number.

There's just one problem.

Jackie Robinson wore No. 42 with the Brooklyn Dodgers when he broke baseball's color barrier, and that's a significant moment not only in sports history, but American history as well. There's a reason the No. 42 is retired by every MLB team.

But Robinson didn't wear 42 at UCLA. 

It's the thought that counts, I suppose.

9. Pistol Pete is still terrifying.

Go ahead, look into those dead eyes and tell me Pistol Pete would think twice about blowing your head off. When this image came on my television I instinctively threw my wallet at it and ran away.

10. Minnesota's Twitter account won the weekend.

If you're going to respond to a parody Twitter account, do so in style like Minnesota.

Until next week!