Week 2 of the college football season was pure whiplash. South Florida walked into The Swamp and left with Florida’s pride in their back pocket. Mississippi State humbled a ranked Arizona State squad, and Oregon turned the Oklahoma State game into a blowout with that 69–3 beatdown. Ohio State’s Julian Sayin looked like a cheat code with his diabolical accuracy. Arch Manning’s Heisman hype train already hit a red light. But the biggest curveball? A former Heisman winner just slid a Group of Five QB to the top of his Heisman list, leaving the usual Power 4 suspects in the dust.
The name at No. 1 isn’t Manning, Klubnik, or even Nussmeier. It’s South Florida’s Byrum Brown . The Bulls QB who spent last year rewriting USF’s record book and now has his Bulls sitting at No. 18 in the nation aft