College Football Players of the Week

Here are your college football players of the week,

Remember, if you feel that another player was worthy of higher honors than the two I chose, post the athlete and let me hear why you think he or they were more deserving.

Remember though, the two athletes I pick are usually going to be on a team that played somebody other than St. Mary’s School of Art.

That’s just how I roll – here are your top performers of the week:

Offensive Player of the Week: Brady Quinn, QB Notre Dame
I’ll be honest, I wish the guy I’ll mention after this won his game on Saturday night, because Quinn’s team should have been beaten by about three touchdowns by MSU and his numbers are inflated with the amount of times he had to throw to get the Irish back into the game. However – 20 of 36 for 319 yards and five touchdowns is hard to argue with.

QB Colt Brennan of Hawaii actually had little bit better numbers than Quinn if you can believe that. But Brennan’s performance was in a losing effort to ranked Boise State, so in my opinion the nod has got to go to Quinn for saving Notre Dame’s season (for the moment). Brennan threw for 388 yards, five touchdowns and completed five more passes than Quinn with the same amount of attempts (25 of 36) in Hawaii’s 41-34 loss to the Broncos.

Defensive Player of the Week: Daymeion Hughes, DB California
What a weekend by the senior defensive back from California. Hughes intercepted two passes in the Golden Bears 49-21 victory over previously ranked Arizona State. Hughes returned his second interception 47 yards for a touchdown to give California a 42-14 lead heading into the fourth quarter and also had 10 tackles (seven solo). He now has five interceptions on the season.