College football Week 2 - Big test for Kentucky-Florida, rare meeting for Alabama-Texas, familiarity in USC-Stanford

After a wild Week 1 that featured five consecutive days of games, ranging from Appalachian State scoring 40 points in the fourth quarter alone and still losing to North Carolina to Iowa scoring seven points (on two safeties and a field goal) in four quarters and winning, what does the second full weekend of games hold for college football?

An SEC matchup featuring two ranked teams, the first regular-season meeting between Alabama and Texas in a century, a familiar Pac-12 contest and those same high-scoring Mountaineers taking on a much stingier defense in Texas A&M.

Here's a full rundown of the key matchups and most compelling storylines for the top games in Week 2.

No. 20 Kentucky at No. 12 Florida (Saturday, 7 p.m. ET, ESPN/ESPN App)

Even mentioning Kentucky's name in context with the Top 25 rankings or the SEC football race was at one time pure fantasy.

Come on, at a basketball school? Don't get football coach Mark Stoops started on that one, especially this week, as his Wildcats take on Florida in the Swamp, a game that in the past barely caused a ripple in the SEC. After all, Florida won 31 consecutive games in the series before the Wildcats finally broke through in 2018.

But on Saturday, it will be the first SEC matchup of the 2022 season pitting two nationally ranked teams against each other. Coming into this season, most would have predicted that Kentucky would be the only team ranked among the two. That's before Florida quarterback Anthony Richardson went into full Cam Newton-mode last week in the Gators' 29-26 upset of then-No. 7 Utah.

«It's tough to single out any one thing,» Stoops said of how to slow down Richardson. «He has a talented arm. Everybody is going to say what an athlete he is, but he can rip it