The Oklahoma State Cowboys will have plenty of high-profile chances to prove themselves before the season wraps up.
Take a look at the national polls (or our power rankings) and you will see plenty of teams that were expected to be there when the season began.
Ohio State, TCU, Baylor, Alabama and Michigan State were all expected to be top 10 teams, and there they are, as October nears its end.
But more than a half-dozen teams are in the latest AP Top 25 that were not there when the season began, so we thought, 'What better time than now to get to know more about some of those teams that have crashed the party?