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Week one of college football featured narrow misses from unranked teams and small conferences. That was not the case in week two where upsets were lurking everywhere, and lesser squads actually beat a few teams.

The biggest winners of week two are teams from the Pac-12. Arkansas was upset in Little Rock to become the biggest SEC team to take a major fall this season.

Rank/Team/Record/Previous Rank

  1. Alabama Crimson Tide 2-0 1
  2. LSU Tigers 2-0 2
  3. USC Trojans 2-0 3
  4. Oregon Ducks 2-0 4
  5. Georgia Bulldogs 2-0 5
  6. South Carolina Gamecocks 2-0 6
  7. Oklahoma Sooners 2-0 7
  8. Florida State Seminoles 2-0 8
  9. Michigan State Spartans 2-0 11
  10. Michigan Wolverines 1-1 9
  11. Stanford Cardinal 2-0 12
  12. West Virginia Mountaineers 1-0 13
  13. Virginia Tech Hokies 2-0 15
  14. Texas Longhorns 2-0 16
  15. TCU Horned Frogs 1-0 17
  16. Kansas State Wildcats 2-0 19
  17. Florida Gators 2-0 20
  18. Clemson Tigers 2-0 21
  19. Tennessee Volunteers 2-0 25
  20. Notre Dame Fighting Irish 2-0 23
  21. Arkansas Razorbacks 2-0 10
  22. Louisville Cardinals 2-0 NR
  23. Mississippi State Bulldogs 2-0 NR
  24. Boise State Broncos 0-1 24
  25. BYU Cougars 2-0 NR

Dropped out: Nebraska Cornhuskers, Oklahoma State Cowboys and Wisconsin Badgers

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The Mississippi Free Press produced this story through the MFP Solutions Lab, supported by the Solutions Journalism Network. This series digs into Mississippi’s systemic issues and sheds light on responses to them in other communities. Beyond just reporting on problems, these stories interrogate their causes and inspect potential solutions.

Mississippi native Donna Ladd and partner Todd Stauffer founded the Jackson Free Press in 2002 in the capital city. The heavily awarded local newspaper did many investigations heralded across the state and nation and served as a paper of record due to its diversity, inclusion, in-depth reporting and deep connection to readers and dedication to narrative change in and about Mississippi. In 2022, the nonprofit Mississippi Free Press, founded by Ladd and JFP Associate Publisher Kimberly Griffin in 2020, purchased the journalism assets and archives of the Jackson Free Press. A Google grant through AAN Publishers enabled Newspack's integration of the JFP archives into the Mississippi Free Press website to become part of a more searchable archive of recent Mississippi history and essential journalism.