After the second weekend of College Football, many teams are rising as true playoff contenders, such as Florida State, the University of Texas, and Penn State. The SEC also seems to have regressed after the second weekend of the college football season. 

Florida State routed Southern Mississippi 66-13 at home. This gives them a 2-0 start to the season and will bolster their hopes to making a College Football Playoff push. The University of Texas traveled to Tuscaloosa, Alabama to play the University of Alabama and beat them 34-24 in a promising win. Texas looked like they were back with the way they were beating Alabama down on both sides of the ball. Penn State beat the University of Delaware confidently with a 63-7 win at home against the Blue Hens. This makes them 2-0 to start the season and this may indicate that it might be the year they finally win the Big Ten, and make it to the College Football Playoffs. These teams quickly rose to the top after two weeks of play and could possibly make the College Football Playoffs, and even win it.

Two of the SEC’s most promising programs took a loss in this week’s games, and were projected to win. Alabama, one of the best SEC programs in the past decade, lost to Texas at home, in their 4th home loss in the last decade. Texas A&M is possibly the SEC team with the most positive outlook this year, with a new offensive coordinator and with a lot of good recruits on the team, they were a projected to be a Top 20 team and are projected to get eight or nine wins, while challenging the Alabama Crimson Tide for the SEC West title. Vanderbilt University also lost to the Wake Forest University’s Demon Deacons while playing in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. They were already expected to lose as they aren’t performing as good as the rest of the SEC. These teams losing could be a prediction of what is to come, in what could be subpar SEC season.