Power ranking the SEC after week 2: UT into second place, pass rush lifts SC

Power ranking the SEC after college football week 2: Several tiers beginning to form in conference

The week two slate in the SEC looked to be a C+ at best coming into the weekend. After the fact, though, it turned out to be highly entertaining—as we all should have expected.

One more data point for each squad means we can now form a line! Or a line segment, I guess. But that means we can extrapolate wildly, which is every college football fan's favorite pastime in the early part of the season.

Let's take a look at how the SEC shakes out after week two of play.

Power ranking the SEC after week 2: #16 Kentucky

I’m really not sure how to describe what we saw from Kentucky this past week as anything but a complete and utter failure. Mark Stoops agrees with me, apparently!

The vaunted Kentucky offensive line, supposed to be the strength of their team, had some real issues against the Gamecocks’ front. It’s beginning to look like that might be the case for lines around the league, given how well young Dylan Stewart has been playing, but it was still shocking to see.

There’s a sense in which the Wildcats were affected by some bad breaks here—the Cats forced several fumbles that the Gamecocks recovered—but when you can’t even drop back to pass without facing immense pressure, you might be cooked offensively.

Now, the Cats are staring down the barrel of a visit from the Georgia Bulldogs. This one might get ugly. If so, there will be an awful lot of questions about former Texas A&M football coach Mark Stoops and the temperature of his seat up in Lexington.