On Oct. 10 in Lubbock, Kansas State suffered as bad of a loss as a college football team can suffer. One week later, the Wildcats won about as convincingly as a team can win.

K-State coach Bill Snyder, whose team rebounded from a 66-14 loss at Texas Tech with a 62-14 win over Texas A&M, is just as stumped as the rest of us.

“It probably tells us we’re a little goofy,” Snyder said Monday during the Big 12 coaches conference call, ”and we have no idea where we are or who we are.”

Snyder said he did expect his Wildcats, who surprisingly lead the Big 12 North Division at 2-1, to play much better against the Aggies.

“I can’t tell you it was anything anticipated,” he said. “I believed we would play better in this ballgame than we did at Texas Tech, and I really thought we would probably respond well after the loss. We just played better, we prepared better, probably did virtually everything better.”

They certainly did better than the Aggies, who bring a three-game losing streak to Lubbock this week.

“We just didn’t block and tackle, or throw and catch very well,” Texas A&M coach Mike Sherman said. “The fundamentals of football were not displayed on a consistent enough basis to win the football game. What they did was right, and we didn’t.”

The trials and tribulations of a quarterback

Some Big 12 quarterbacks got hurt on Saturday, and others had their egos bruised.

Texas Tech quarterback Steven Sheffield, who replaced an injured Taylor Potts on Oct. 3, suffered a foot injury in a 31-10 win at Nebraska and will return to the sideline. So will Oklahoma’s Sam Bradford, who re-injured his right shoulder in the first quarter of a 16-13 loss against Texas.

OU coach Bob Stoops said Bradford won’t play this week against Kansas, but his status beyond that has yet to be determined. The guess here is the Heisman Trophy winner will never again wear crimson and cream - unless he passes up on the NFL a second time, which is doubtful.

Bradford’s buddy, Texas QB Colt McCoy, bruised his right thumb during the game and might lose a nail, but McCoy says he won’t have to miss the Longhorns’ game at Missouri on Saturday.

In other QB injury news, Baylor’s Art Briles said Monday that Robert Griffin – who hurt his knee in a win over Northwestern State on Sept. 26 – has been granted a medical redshirt. Briles said he expects the sensational sophomore to be ready to participate in spring practice.

As for those whose psyche was hurt, Nebraska’s Zac Lee was pulled in favor of freshman Cody Green during the loss against Tech. Cornhuskers coach Bo Pelini wouldn’t reveal his intentions for this week’s game against Iowa State, saying the competition is open like it’s always been.

“That’ll be a game-time decision,” said Pelini, who must have learned something from Mike Leach over the weekend. “Right now, nothing’s changed. If and when it changes, we’ll announce it.”

Also, Colorado’s Cody Hawkins was replaced by Tyler Hansen, who brought the Buffaloes back to respectability – at least for a night. Hansen, who relieved Hawkins a week earlier against Texas, sparked a 34-30 upset of Kansas and appears to have nailed down the starter’s role.

Colorado coach Dan Hawkins, Cody’s father, said it’s “hard” to change quarterbacks mid-season.

“It’s always gut-wrenching and you hate it, and it has nothing to do with what a kid’s last name is,” Dan said. “The reality is there’s 10 other guys involved and the coaching staff. It’s always easy to point the finger at the quarterback, but he’s not the total reason for success and not the total reason for failure.”

More props for Reesing

Colorado’s coach provided one of the best quotes of the day when talking about Kansas quarterback Todd Reesing, who a week earlier was unofficially nominated for the Heisman Trophy by Jayhawks coach Mark Mangino.

“Baller,” Hawkins said. “He’s just a baller. He really is in every way. He was in the first game we saw him and was in this game as well. He’s the whole battery pack that powers their whole program, makes it all go. His energy and enthusiasm, the way he makes plays, just the mentality that he’s not going to lose and is going to keep battling, he’s an impressive player.”

Don’t ask Leach about the “system”

Texas Tech coach Mike Leach provided the best quote of the day. He was asked about Mike Crabtree’s upcoming debut with the San Francisco 49ers, and whether Crabtree could help further dispel the notion that products of spread offenses in college aren’t well-suited for the NFL game.

Leach didn’t mention Crabtree in his response, instead taking issue with the notion.

“It’s very stupid because the NFL has got spread offenses all over the place – New England, New Orleans, San Diego, Indianapolis, any of them that are any good with the exception of Pittsburgh,” said Leach, whose former receiver, Wes Welker, is a key cog in the Patriots’ passing attack. “Whoever says it is very stupid. It’s just not an accurate statement. A lot of it started with the San Francisco 49ers and them winning Super Bowls. It’s difficult to comment on because the hypothesis of the statement is so innaccurate.”