Just when you have everything figured out, college football has a way of turning things on its head.

So does LSU running back Leonard Fournette -- literally -- but we'll get to that.

While Alabama kept rolling against Texas A&M, Penn State did its job to disrupt the top of the standings with a win over Ohio State. It doesn't drive a stake into the College Football Playoff rrace, but it does shuffle things up a little.

From those games to a wild offensive showdown in Lubbock, Texas, and Charlie Strong's bad loss, Week 8 wasn't short on storylines.

With so much action happening around the country, we here at CBS Sports want to get you caught up on all the noteworthy things that happened -- both the good and not so good. What were the highlights from Saturday of Week 8? What were the moments some programs want to forget? We hash out the best and worst below.

Winner -- Penn State coach James Franklin: With a 24-21 win over Ohio State, the third-year coach helped Penn State record its first win over a ranked team since 2013 as well as its first win against a top-10 team since 2008. Heading into Saturday, Franklin was 0-7 against Ohio State, Michigan and Michigan State. For all that Franklin's done, he's never had an exemplary record against quality teams. For one game at least, he took some pressure off of him and changed the narrative a bit.

Loser -- Ohio State: Much will be made about the the playoff landscape now that Ohio State lost. The reality is a little less exciting as the Buckeyes still somewhat control their own destiny. They can still win the Big Ten East, the Big Ten and get into the playoff. None of that will happen, however, if this team can't fix a few glaring issues. The deep passing game again wasn't there and pass protection for quarterback J.T. Barrett was a major issue. Special teams gaffes proved to be perhaps the most costly. Given that some of these issues go back further than a week, the Buckeyes have some work to do to relive their 2014 national championship run.

Winner -- Alabama defensive end Jonathan Allen: We've spent so much time talking up guys like Jabrill Peppers for the Heisman Trophy that maybe we've overlooked players like Allen. OK, maybe not, but Allen was legitimately one of the monster creations from "The Cabin in the Woods" in a 33-14 win over Texas A&M. His two biggest plays included a superhero leap-sack of Aggies quarterback Trevor Knight ...

... and a 30-yard scoop-and-score to give Alabama its 12th non-offensive touchdown of the year and Allen's second fumble recovery for a touchdown. For reference Allen and Stanford running back Christian McCaffrey each have two touchdowns since Week 3.

Loser -- Texas A&M receiver Speedy Noil: I'm not about to join the debate over whether the following hit on Noil was targeting or not because, well, I know what targeting is as much as you do. What I do know is that Noil got absolutely obliterated on this return against Alabama and I consider him lucky to be alive.

A slow motion replay of the hit shows Noil's facemask actually being bent inwards -- and is that a tooth flying out of there? That hit, courtesy of Mack Wilson, would turn me into ashes -- actually vaporize into tiny particles that once came together to form parts of a human.

Winner -- LSU running back Leonard Fournette: He isn't going to win the Heisman, but Fournette reminded everyone in a 38-21 win over Ole Miss why he's still the best running back in college football. The junior returned for the first time since missing two games with a nagging ankle injury with a school single-game record 284 yards and three touchdowns ... on just 16 carries. That's a whopping 17.8 yards per carry.

He also produced some highlight reel runs.