Snap Judgments from the afternoon Week 3 slate. For more coverage, check out our early Snaps, Alabama-Arkansas recap, Cal-Ohio State recap, Stanford-USC recap, evening Snaps and complete Top 25 review.

• No. 4 Oregon 63, Tennessee Tech 14. When is a complete obliteration of an FCS team by a top-five program news? When the afternoon slate was characterized largely by other blowouts and we decide to have some fun watching De’Anthony Thomas show off his gears:

The Ducks’ competition, thus far, has consisted of the Golden Eagles, Fresno State and Arkansas State, but sometimes there’s value in just kicking back and enjoying some pinball. Thomas rolled up 222 all-purpose yards, including the above-depicted 59-yard run, a 49-yard reception (that ended in a fumble) and a 48-yard punt return. Marcus Mariota threw for 307 yards, completing 21-of-28 attempts, before being pulled early in the third quarter. Byron Marshall led the Ducks in rushing with 125 yards and a score on 13 touches. Aren’t video games fun? [BOX | RECAP]

And now, other assorted blowouts from around the nation:

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Jeff Driskel accounted for 138 all-purpose yards as Florida edged out Bowling Green. (Sam Greenwood/Getty Images)

Snap Judgments from Saturday’s afternoon slate. For more from SI.com check out our early and late Snaps, plus our game coverage of Alabama-Michigan, Auburn-Clemson, Ohio-Penn State, South Carolina-Vanderbilt, Washington State-BYU, NC State-Tennessee and Boise State-Michigan State and our full Top 25 review.

• No. 23 Florida 27, Bowling Green 14. Whatever else happens, today will always be the day we saw a MAC player do a chomping throat slash in the Swamp. A couple more breaks and slightly better all-around play (two missed field goals will loom large in the minds of the Falcons), and Bowling Green, on the road, could’ve beaten the Florida Gators. Whether this is “the year” of any conference remains very much to be seen, but this Saturday was a fun one for fans of the MAC.

Five more elements that most perfectly symbolize this afternoon’s action:
1. Florida getting hit with 13 penalties for a total loss of 101 yards.
2. The faked punt that set up the Falcons’ touchdown drive, with Bowling Green’s punter running for a first down and a late hit penalty on Florida tacking on an additional 15 yards.
3. Two Bowling Green players colliding, Three Stooges-style, in midair.
4. The Gators getting a false start penalty in the victory formation.
5. This:

Crowd boos a cop for stabbing a beach ball.

— Alligator Army (@AlligatorArmy) September 1, 2012

We could fill another entire blog post with indignant reactions that followed the announcement that Jacoby Brissett and Jeff Driskel would be co-starters at quarterback for Florida. With both in the first huddle, fear spiked that Muschamp meant they would start at quarterback simultaneously, but Brissett lined up at quarterback on first down, and Driskel settled in at receiver. On the next play, Driskel took over under center, and, as previously promised by Muschamp, they alternated the first two quarters — sort of. Driskel played the rest of the first quarter and was allowed to complete his already in-progress drive that ate up more than five minutes of the second quarter, culminating in the Gators’ first touchdown of the afternoon, a 15-yard run by Mike Gillislee. Brissett took over for the remainder of the half, and Driskel played the entire second half.

Our dad was visiting today, and theorized that Florida’s lines, or perhaps Muschamp himself, were easily distracted by laser pointers. He also hypothesized that some enterprising visitor in the stands had figured this out. It’s not the worst theory we’ve ever heard. The Falcons led once in the first quarter and tied the game again in the third. And while the final score was semi-respectable, reactions from our Gator buddies regarding what it took to get there ranged from white-hot rage to bleak despair. [BOX | RECAP]

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