5 things we learned from Week 2 of College Football season

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Many things we don’t know

Plenty of college football fans had rough weekends. But nobody has/had it as bad as Florida State fans who watched the Seminoles suffer a brutal home loss to Jackson State of the FCS.

Not only did Florida State lose, but the Noles lost in the most shocking way possible, giving up a long touchdown pass on the last play of the game. You could call it a Hail Mary. It was more like a really long completion.

Just a week ago after a tight loss at Notre Dame, Florida State recruiting was buzzing and everyone agreed the Noles looked on their way back.

How quickly the narrative can change.

While we know Florida State football is definitely not back, there are still plenty of things we don’t know about college football powerhouses and playoff contenders.

Florida has won easily against weak opponents but quarterback Emory Jones has thrown two interceptions in consecutive games. Will that improve against Alabama? It doesn’t seem likely and the Gators may be ready for a quarterback change as Anthony Richardson has been dynamic.

Notre Dame has also looked shaky. The Irish needed overtime to beat Florida State, which looks a lot worse now than it did a week ago, and Brian Kelly’s team also needed a late touchdown to defeat Toledo on Saturday.

Notre Dame has a tough schedule with games looming against Wisconsin, Virginia Tech, and North Carolina, so we’ll find out soon enough about the Irish.

Maybe we’ll find out about the Sooners too as Oklahoma hosts Nebraska on Saturday, which is a tougher test than the first two weeks and so far, after just a close win over Tulane, we don’t know much about OU either except that Spencer Rattler is really, really good.

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Which brings me to my last point: How in the world are the Sooners ranked ahead of Oregon? If that doesn’t show the flaw of college football polls I don’t know what does?