Week 2 started with a record 10 SEC teams in the AP top 25. The discussion of the conference's strength intensified when Arkansas coach Bret Bielema lauded his team's inter-conference strength of schedule and the depth of the conference that had just four teams outside the top 25.

Now, as the second weekend of college football is over, we can all agree that the SEC isn't head and shoulders above the rest of the college football. A week after we wondered if the Pac-12 was up to snuff to being considered the best conference in the country, it's now time to put the spotlight on the SEC.

Let's start with Bielema's team, which fell to Toledo at home 16-12. With the vaunted Arkansas power run game held to just over three yards a carry on 31 attempts, quarterback Brandon Allen threw the ball over 50 times. Yes, a Bielema team threw the ball over 50 times. In fact, Allen's 53 pass attempts were the most a Bielema quarterback has ever attempted.

While discussing his conference's excellence, Bielema also made sure to point out that Ohio State had just one ranked team (Michigan State) on its schedule for the rest of the season. The comment was true, though it was yet another example of getting too caught up in polls so early in the season. There's way too much movement and voters are relying too much on prediction rather than performance.

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Many believed Arkansas was a threat for the SEC West in 2015 after it won two conference games and a bowl game over its final four games of 2014. Yet nothing you saw on Saturday would make you believe the Hogs have a chance in such an "unprecedented" conference.

Arkansas will surely end up outside the top 25 on Sunday. Auburn will likely still be in, though it's hard to consider the Tigers a top-10 team after the way they struggled against FCS-level Jacksonville State.

Auburn escaped with a 27-20 overtime win – wouldn't you have loved to see JSU go for the win at the end of regulation? – though a Jacksonville State win wouldn't have been a fluke. The Gamecocks hung with a team considered one of the two best in the SEC West and forced quarterback Jeremy Johnson into two more bad interceptions.

Johnson entered his first full season as a starter to much fanfare. He's a dynamic athlete who feels like a perfect fit for coach Gus Malzahn's offense. But he's thrown five interceptions over the first two games of the season. If that rate continues, Auburn will be incredibly lucky to survive September games against LSU and Mississippi State and not end the month 2-2.

Meanwhile, Missouri needed to rally back from a 17-10 halftime deficit at Arkansas State before holding on for a narrow 27-20 win. For comparison, the Red Wolves lost 55-6 at USC on opening weekend.

So, after Tennessee's home loss to Oklahoma – a game in which the Volunteers blew a 17-point lead – and Mississippi State's loss to LSU, the SEC will probably have seven teams ranked on Sunday. It's not a disappointing number; it'll still be the most teams any conference has in the top 25. But the results of Week 2 are proof that rankings aren't the end-all, especially since it's not officially fall yet.

WINNERS

Dalvin Cook, Florida State: The Seminoles put up 441 yards of total offense in a 34-14 win over South Florida and Cook accounted for 60 percent of it. The sophomore running back put up a career-high 266 yards and scored three touchdowns, giving the FSU offense a boost as it struggled to pass the ball in the first half. Cook scored on runs of 74, 34, and 27 yards to help the No. 11 Seminoles improve to 2-0 headed into ACC play.

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