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What's hot (and not) for the 2011 college football season?

It's time to hand out individual awards at The Home Depot College Football Awards show. Who should win and who will win can be two different things.

Ranking the best and worst bowl games? Those decisions were no-brainers. The games in between were the fun part.

There might not be an "I" in team, but there's plenty of "I" teams in the Bottom 10 this week.

Former Colorado coach Dan Hawkins probably felt like South Park's oft-whacked character Kenny on many Sunday mornings. At least, he ended his Buffaloes career in the Bottom 10, along with nine other comical teams.

Ranking the best and worst bowl games, those decisions were no-brainers. The games in between were the fun part.

There are six things you need to know about the initial BCS standings.

What did we learn during the first three weeks of the season? What we thought we knew over the summer wasn't exactly true.

Bowl season has arrived, but not every game is created equal. See how Mark Schlabach ranks all 34 bowl games.

The BCS standings won't have much meaning to teams that don't win their conference titles. On The Mark sizes up the conference races.

Consider the first week of October the calm before the storm. Starting on Saturday there's a slew of big matchups coming over the coming weeks that will help decide who plays in Miami.

The quarterbacks in the Ohio State-USC showdown will need to be on the mark this Saturday. Off the mark last week were Florida's running game and Syracuse coach Greg Robinson.

Navy's win for the ages was definitely on the mark. But Army's decision to drop a game against Georgia Tech was not.

USC? Still hot. Notre Dame? Not so much. What else is hot (and not) for the 2007 college football season? Mark Schlabach has the answers.