This weekend's college football headlines from Bleacher Report.

There are a lot of teams looking good and acting tough so far this season, but it’s often hard to tell who’s the real deal. The contender vs. pretender breakdown should quiet a lot of overeager fans.

Notre Dame beat Stanford this weekend which made Chris Marinelli eat his words, so much so that he issued a half-assed apology to the school, but some think even that’s not enough.

Vanderbilt is good. Why? Well, no one can really figure it out. They’re the smallest team in the SEC and haven’t been undefeated this long in years. What exactly is their deal, and how can it be stopped?

Michigan kept up in the first half, but the Wolverines got blown out of the water by the potent Illinois offense in the second half. It’s not looking good for the maize and blue who are trying to avoid breaking their infinitely long streak of winning seasons.

Auburn is doing pretty terrible this year as their loss against Vanderbilt this weekend proved. What’s it going to take to turn thing around for the Tigers?