The Yahoo! Sports blog lists the winners and losers of this past week of football, and USC and Matt Barkley is listed as a winner: "... USC continues to be a lurking one-loss team that nobody is paying much attention to."
The Heisman race is off and running with a bevy of candidates turning in weekly performances that either make their stock rise or fall. Heading into the season, Matt Barkley all but had the trophy sewn up. However a loss at Stanford that was riddled with interceptions and bereft of any touchdown passes lowered his stock.