The Scoop 16: Zach's Week 2 rankings

Lots of thoughts on some teams, no comment on others. Here's my NFF-FWAA Super 16 ballot through Week 2. 

1. Georgia: The Bulldogs are here until proven otherwise, or until I decided to put someone else here.

2. Texas: The Longhorns earned this spot after earning the single most impressive win of the season through two weeks... and the most emphatic victory by a visitor at Bryant-Denny Stadium in the Nick Saban era. Quinn Ewers put together a Heisman-level performance in completing 24-of-38 passes for 349 yards with three touchdowns and no interceptions. After watching their 13-3 lead melt into a 16-13 deficit over the course of four consecutive scoreless drives, Texas closed the game with a 3-play, 75-yard touchdown drive, a 1-play touchdown drive, a 7-play, 75-yard touchdown drive, and then by killing the final 7:14 of the game. 

"Getting the ball with 7 minutes to go at the end of this game, then finishing the game with the ball in their hands, I think is indicative of how far we've come," Steve Sarkisian said.

3. Florida State: An impressive performance against Southern Miss six days after the emotional high of pummeling LSU. The 'Noles dropped a Norvell era high of 66 points on poor Southern Miss. 

4. Michigan: Scheduling East Carolina, UNLV and Bowling Green in non-conference should be illegal.

5. USC: Lincoln Riley's shock and awe campaign likely continues for another week until a showdown game at Colorado at the end of the month. USC led Stanford 49-3 at halftime. 

6. Ohio State: I'm not freaking out -- this is me not freaking out -- but is it too much to ask to drop more than 58 points on Indiana and Youngstown State?

7. Notre Dame: We might be witnessing the best Notre Dame offense since... 2005? The Irish have to be feeling quietly confident about that Ohio State visit coming up on Sept. 23.

8. Washington: Michael Penix throws for 400 yards getting out of bed. He's been above 10 yards per attempt in both games thus far. 

9. Penn State: The Nittany Lions scored on seven of their first eight drives against Delaware. 

10. Duke: The Blue Devils are now 11-3 under Mike Elko. I say again, if Virginia Tech had beaten Clemson on Monday night, I wouldn't be on this island ranking them in the top 10.

11. Utah
12. Colorado: The only two teams with two wins over Power 5 opponents -- at home and on the road -- are the Utes and the Buffaloes. Colorado beat Nebraska by three touchdowns, while Utah rallied from a second-half deficit to beat Baylor on the road. 

13. Oregon: Oregon rallied from 27-18 down, on the road, with a 20-3 fourth quarter to put Texas Tech away, 38-30. 

14. Tennessee: Tennessee will need to be better than the 30-13 effort showed against Austin Peay to beat Florida. And Tennessee needs to beat Florida. 

15. Kansas State: K-State authored a quietly impressive win, snapping college football's second-longest active winning streak (12 games) with a 42-13 thumping of defending Sun Belt champion Troy. 

16. Alabama: The Alabama offensive line might be the most overrated unit in college football right now. Jalen Milroe was sacked five times and Alabama did not sack Quinn Ewers once. The Tide defense did not force the Texas offense off the field once in the fourth quarter: three straight touchdowns, then a clock-killing, soul-snatching 7:14 drive. Soft.