Last week's qualifier double header provided us with two unlikely All-Ireland quarter-finalists. In the first match in Salthill, Clare put a demoralised Roscommon out of their misery.
And then, in a magnificently open game in Breffni Park, Tipperary pipped an apparently resurgent Derry in injury-time.
We witnessed the usual haul of fine performances. In any other weekend, Conor Sweeney's sensational forward display in Cavan would have seen him out in front. He kicked several points from the play, including two nerveless ones at the end to steal victory from under the nose of Derry.
He earned almost one quarter of the vote. Derry's Danny Heavren and Clare attacker Eoin Cleary scooped up 10% of the vote apiece.
But the prize was a foregone conclusion this weekend. Clare's Gary Brennan, the toast of the punditocracy this week, pulled in a whopping 57% of the vote. Even Willie O'Dea struggled to rack up these numbers in Limerick during the height of the Celtic Tiger.
For some years now, he's been the Clare player who has attracted the greatest praise from outside pundits and his imposing display in midfield last weekend put the hurt on the Rossies.
Actors and showbiz correspondents often ponder the phenomenon of 'Oscar buzz'. Around Gary Brennan right now, there is swirling a great deal of 'All-Star buzz'.
