Halloween comes early?

Freak snow storms, upsets, bad costume choices...just another October in college volleyball.

Are Bruins the new No. 1? - With a sweep of NorCal, and a Husker loss, is UCLA returning to the top spot for the first time since, what, August of 2000? (thanks, RichKern.com)

Cal home court powerless against LA schools - Gotta say, didn't see that coming.

Make up yer mind, Gophers - Hey we're Minnesota! We lost to Northwestern! Then we swept Illinois at Illinois! Isn't that fun? No?

Hey Notre Dame - You lost to this team Saturday night:

Hope they don't have to play the Rockettes or anything later in the season.

With five games you get egg roll - Utes enjoy a little Duck with Plum sauce. (If only there was someone on Oregon's team with the last name Lo Mein.)

Matches whose relevance I can't gauge - UC Davis beats UCSB! But probably because the Gauchos just wanted to get back to Isla Vista sooner.

Gators get got - Must suck to have Tennessee and Kentucky in your half of the SEC. Case in point? This weekend.

Seriously, is home court good for anything? - Fordham -- 278 RPI -- was playing at Saint Louis -- 57 -- without two starters, then lost another during the match. They hit .066 for the match. They were aced 8 times. Fordham had never beaten SLU in 10 previous meetings. Fordham won in five.

Slippery suckers, aren't they? - UNI went down 0-2 to Mo. State, but prevailed in 5 for their 49th straight conference win.

OKLAHOMA! Where the wind goes sweeping down the plain - ...until it runs smack-dab into Missouri, who sweeps them. I need new metaphors for Oklahoma matches. Totally leaning on that OKLAHOMA! thing too often.

Directional results - Eastern Kentucky beats Eastern Illinois, Western Michigan beats Eastern Michigan, Northern Illinois beats Central Michigan, Southern Miss beat East Carolina. Use compass as needed.