College Football Rankings 2017: Projected Top 25 after Week 2

Lamar Jackson is still college football’s most exciting player. Iowa-Iowa State is the best rivalry game ever created. (It’s debatable, but it’s up there.) And, Texas is back. Well, not in this week’s projected Top 25, but they’re back in the win column again. Here’s this week’s projected Top 25 heading into Week 3.

The Heisman Trophy will forever be the most prestigious award in college football and for the first time in quite a long time, a two-time winner of the award may be in the card this season through the first two weeks.

After a comeback victory in their season opener in Indianapolis against Purdue last week, Lamar Jackson went off against North Carolina on the road on Saturday. In the Cardinals’ 47-35 victory at Chapel Hill on Saturday, Jackson accounted for six total touchdowns and 525 total yards of offense against the Tar Heels. He’s quite good still.

In other action on Saturday, Baker Mayfield and No. 5 Oklahoma faced off in a rematch with No. 2 Ohio State after the Buckeyes’ drubbing of the Sooners last year in Norman, No. 15 Georgia heading north to South Bend to face No. 24 Notre Dame for the Irish’s first SEC regular season opponent in 12 years and No. 14 Stanford traveled to face Heisman Trophy contender Sam Darnold No. 6 USC in what could’ve been a preview of this year’s Pac-12 title game.

Oh, and Iowa-Iowa State may have been the best game of the day in Week 2. Seriously. The battle for the CyHawk Trophy got weird and it was fantastic.

Before the polls are released early this upcoming week, here’s a projected look at the AP Top 25 poll prior to Week 3.