The blog is tired after a long weekend in Knoxville, but we managed to roll out of bed this morning to find these links to get you through Monday Enjoy. (And don't forget to follow the blog on Twitter. We're 229 followers and growing strong!)

• After a rough outing at Alabama, Arkansas jump-started its offense in a rout of Texas A&M last weekend, writes Alex Abrams of the Northwest Arkansas News.

• Running back D'Anthony Curtis got to enjoy his first touchdown in last week's game, writes Robbie Neiswanger of the Northwest Arkansas News in this notebook.

• Neiswanger reviews some keys to last week's game and doles out weekly awards on this blog post.

• Auburn's up to fourth in the SEC in ESPN.com blogger Chris Low's power rankings. The Tigers jumped Georgia and now trail Florida, Alabama and LSU. Here's what he had to say:

• 4. Auburn: The surprise of the league has clearly been Gene Chizik’s bunch. Somebody must have forgotten to tell the Tigers (5-0, 2-0) that they weren’t supposed to be any good in Chizik’s first season. That offense has been something else with Chris Todd throwing and Ben Tate and Onterio McCalebb running. The Tigers face another road test at Arkansas this weekend after disposing of Tennessee last Saturday in their first road game of the season.
  

• The Tigers made it on to all but two ballots in the Associated Press poll. It's hard to justify not having them on there at this point. Poll maverick Doug Lesmerises of the Cleveland Plain Dealer has Auburn ranked the highest at No. 7.

• New bowl projections for ESPN.com. Mark Schlabach has Auburn in the Cotton Bowl against Oklahoma (that would be a fun game), while Bruce Feldman is sticking with the Tigers in the Music City Bowl against Georgia Tech.

• Auburn is a loser no longer with Gene Chizik in charge, writes Kevin Scarbinsky of the Birmingham News.

• Chizik has come a long way since that heckler harassed Jay Jacobs at the airport last year, writes Dan Wetzel of Yahoo.com.

• Todd's turnaround has been remarkable in the last year, writes Tommy Hicks of the Mobile Press-Register.

• Alabama won big against Kentucky but left the Bluegrass State angry about its performance, writes Jeffrey McMurray of the Associated Press.

• Special teams let Georgia down in a tough loss to LSU, writes David Hale of the Macon Telegraph.

• The Bulldogs snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, writes colleague Guerry Clegg of the Ledger-Enquirer.

• Ron Higgins of the Memphis Commercial Appeal thought the officiating in the LSU-Georgia game stunk.

• Jevan Snead threw three picks against Vanderbilt. Ole Miss will need him to do better than that if it's going to move forward, writes Geoff Calkins of the Memphis Commercial Appeal.

• David Ching, formerly of this blog but now at the Athens Banner-Herald, called the referees' calls a disgrace in his column from the weekend.

• T. Boone Pickens is a rich man who enjoys everything about Oklahoma State football. Jenni Carlson of the Oklahoman has the story here.

• Paul Rhoads' fightin' Cylclones lost a heartbreaker to Kansas State on a blocked extra point that would have sent the game to overtime, writes Sean Keeler of the Des Moines Register.

• And I'll try to make this a recurring feature, even though it's not football-related. I'll have an archived article from The Onion to lighten your day. This one made me laugh for 15 straight minutes: "Activision Reports Sluggish Sales For Sousaphone Hero."