Week 2 is in the books and not much has changed in the Southern Football Report Top 4 but there is one team that is slowly losing it’s stranglehold on one of the spots: Ohio State Buckeyes – The reigning champs didn’t set the world on fire last Saturday with their 38-0 win over Hawai’i Saturday afternoon. It was only 17-0 at the beginning of the fourth quarter and somehow the Warriors were able to keep all three Buckeye quarterbacks out of the endzone. Cardale Jones finished the game 12 of 18 with 111 yards and J.T. Barrett also was held to only 70 yards on 8-of-15 passing. Former quarterback now wide receiver Braxton Miller carried the ball 8 times and caught 2 passes for a total of 73 yards. In the grand scheme of things the Buckeyes did what they had to do and no one will notice that it was only 17-0 at the end of the 3rd quarter in their home opener but it will be another month before Ohio State will be truly tested again. Next Up – v. Northern Illinois, 2-0 USC Trojans – It’s only week 2 and the Trojans look like a well oiled machine on offense and it’s not good news for the rest of the Pac-12 that quarterback Cody Kessler & Juju Smith-Schuster are on the same page. The duo has connected 14 times for 281 yards and 3 touchdowns so far in 2015 and if they can each stay healthy will definitely eclipse the 743 yards & 5 touchdowns in 2014. Arkansas State & Idaho haven’t necessarily been the cream of the crop competition wise but the Trojans have taken care of business against them both with an average margin of victory so far this season of 49.5 points. We’ll definitely find out more about the Trojans in the next two weeks (Stanford, at Arizona State) than we have learned in the last two weeks. Next Up – v. Stanford, 1-1 Georgia Bulldogs – A lot of Bulldog fans have been down on the offense this week but the fact that the special teams & defense contributed on the scoreboard is a great thing in my opinion. …
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