Week 2 of college football didn’t fail to excite and storylines are starting to develop. What did we learn from Week 2?
The second week of the college football season had just about everything — the blowout wins, games that went down to the wire and a few upsets.
As conference play looms, Week 2 provided a glance at how some teams might stack up in league play while other teams fell to out-of-conference opponents.
Here are five things we learned from Week 2 of the college football season.
5. Florida might not be as good as advertised
Florida began the week as the No. 25 ranked team in the land. Less than 24 hours after the Gators’ home loss to SEC foe Kentucky and Florida is now promptly expelled from the top 25.
The defeat allowed Kentucky, who typically isn’t a winning football team, to snap a 31-game losing streak against Florida. Feleipe Franks didn’t put up horrible numbers but he was inconsistent. He threw for 232 and two touchdowns (with an interception) but only completed 45 percent of his passes.
Franks tried to rally the Gators back from behind in the fourth quarter but an odd play resulted in Kentucky effectively securing the win. Franks dropped back to pass with just seconds left on the clock and looked deep but his arm was hit on the throw.
The ball flew forward and everyone on the field stopped because the expectation was the play would be called an incomplete pass. Instead, the Wildcats scooped up the loose ball and waltzed into the end zone untouched for a touchdown to claim the 27-16 victory.
In their opening in-conference game, the Gators were unable to pull off the come-from-behind win. Are the Gators doomed? Not yet, but it makes the road ahead a lot tougher when they are vying with teams like Georgia for the SEC East division title.