On the field, off the field, before the game, after the game. Week 2 had a little bit of everything — including the worst rule in college football robbing us of signature upset and — wait, what? Kentucky beat Florida? In football? Are you sure?

Here are 10 things I’m absolutely overreacting to in and around the SEC:

10. Jalen Hurts’ dad was right. His son’s free agency will be epic

Yes, Hurts surprised me by playing Saturday. I thought he’d only play in an emergency — and Saturday hardly qualified. Maybe it was a curveball. Maybe the plan still is to cap it at 4 games and preserve the redshirt. Or maybe he doesn’t care at all about the redshirt.

Whatever the answers are to those questions, it doesn’t drastically alter the biggest one — where he’ll be next year. I launched the Hurts-to-Auburn proposal two weeks ago. Now others, including Tim Tebow, are jumping on board. The football side makes sense. The competitive bonus makes it perfect. Hurts’ Twitter profile picture says it all: BORN TO COMPETE.

It would be epic. Tua vs. Jalen in 2019 Iron Bowl at Jordan-Hare would be Babe Ruth to the Yankees epic — with a Southern accent and side of grits.

But we’re only a few days into the possibility and already Hurts’ mentions are out of control. Come here, Jalen. No, come here! He really will be the biggest free agent in college football history.

Buckle up.

9. Tua Tagovailoa is going to crush Bama’s single-season passing yards mark

I am quite familiar with Alabama’s “run da bawl” history, but I still look twice every time I hear that the Tide have only had 3 3,000-yard passers in their championship history.

AJ McCarron was the first, setting the mark with 3,063 in 2013. It didn’t last long. Blake Sims threw for a program-best 3,487 yards in 2014.

Only two things will prevent Tagovailoa from crushing Sims’ record this season or next: injuries or Nick Saban’s compassion for overmatched opponents.

Says here that Tagovailoa will become the fourth SEC QB to top 4,000 yards in a season before he heads to the NFL after the 2019 season. With 15 games a distinct possibility in either or both seasons, Tim Couch’s SEC mark of 4,275 is on shaky ground, too.

8. The B1G bounce-back? Please, people …

I learned this a long time ago, while driving through 7 feet of snow to get to work in lovely downtown Indianapolis: You can shut out the Big Ten. You can shut down the Big Ten. But you cannot shut up the Big Ten.

Saturday morning, the B1G was busy promoting the fact that it played 6 games against Power 5 competition. Normally, I’m all about that. I want everybody playing more nonconference games against Power 5 teams.

So while I absolutely salute that, let’s not lose our minds, OK. None of the six opponents was ranked or even thought to be a pretend contender in their conference. And the Big Ten couldn’t even handle that!

You won’t read this anywhere else, but I’m all about perspective. Noise is my enemy, false narratives my rival. I live to crush both.

Duke was picked to finish fourth in the weaker ACC Coastal. Pitt was picked to finish fifth and Virginia seventh. (Oh, and Duke beat Northwestern, on the road in the SAT Bowl. You think maybe that’s one reason the “snubbed” Wildcats weren’t ranked last week?)

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Moving on … Iowa State was picked to finish seventh in the 10-team Big 12.

Colorado was picked to finish fifth in the Pac-12 South and Arizona State was picked to finish sixth. There are only six teams in that division. (And Colorado beat Nebraska, also on the road. And then came the big one, Arizona State upsetting No. 15 Michigan State after dark out West.)

So, to recap: The B1G went 3-3 against Power 5 lightweights — losing twice at home (and Purdue lost at home to Eastern Michigan). Do you see what happens when you play the nonconference Power 5 games? Do you see what happens?

Please, for the love of Herschel, spare me your Ohio State and Wisconsin blowout stories. Your league stinks.

7. Oh, Aggies, you were jobbed …

GameDay went to College Station and Aggie Nation was ready.

So were the Aggies, who went toe-to-toe with No. 2 Clemson for four quarters — only to be hosed by a rule that shouldn’t exist.

Ultimately, Clemson fans will say it didn’t matter that officials ruled A&M fumbled a ball through the end zone for a turnover and touchback. Texas A&M scored on the next possession anyway, and still had a chance to tie it with a 2-point conversion.

But what if the stupid rule didn’t exist? The Aggies would have had 1st-and-goal at the 1, likely punched it in. They would have gone for 2. Even if they didn’t get it, there still was enough time to put together the same type of defensive stand and drive they did to end the game.

It’s a terrible rule. Any rule that results in a turnover on a ball that the defense never possessed makes zero sense. It’s gotta go.

Big picture, wow. Two games in and Jimbo Fisher nearly did the unthinkable.

He talked so fast after the game that I couldn’t keep up, but I think the gist of it was: The Aggies are young, good and a rising force.

And to think some wished Kevin Sumlin were still there. (OK, that was too easy. But did you see what Houston did to Sumlin’s Arizona team?)

Now that’s an overreaction.

6. You don’t want Alabama, Part 234

“It’s just another game,” Arkansas State WR Justin McInnis said earlier this week. “We know we’ve got one of the best receiving corps in the nation. So if we go out there and play like we can play, sky’s the limit for our group. Sky’s the limit for our offense, sky’s the limit for our team. Definitely confident.”

Alabama won 57-7. McInnis had 2 catches for 20 yards.

5. Let’s check in on the Group of 5, shall we?

USF beat Georgia Tech.

Houston crushed Arizona.

ECU blasted North Carolina.

Defending American champion UCF cruised.

Heck, I’m not sure I’d invite these G5 troublemakers to a Playoff party, either.

Stay in your lane, boys!

4. The 4 Playoff teams are …

1. Alabama. 2. Georgia. 3. Auburn. 4. Clemson. Just missed: 5. Oklahoma.

3. Poor South Carolina, poor SEC East …

Things don’t just get names. Events happen that need to be named.

The Chicken Curse is one such thing.

What Georgia did to South Carolina was Alabama-like in its ruthlessness. South Carolina was the victim Saturday; the rest of the East will get theirs soon enough. But the beatdown couldn’t have shocked longtime Gamecocks fans, certainly not those old enough to remember the Navy Nightmare of 1984.

Steve Spurrier did his best to end The Chicken Curse, but curses don’t weep quietly in the corner.

They plot their revenge, usually saving and unleashing their unsavory ways for when they know it will hurt the most.

Like Saturday. In front of 80,000 family members who spent the past nine months dreaming of the moment.

Cruel, Chicken Curse. Cruel.

2. Next up in the QB Controversy Game: Mississippi State?

Nick Fitzgerald was back, but not really. He looked rusty. He looked rushed. As a passer, he looked, well, pretty average. That’s a kind way of describing an 11-for-27 effort that included 2 TD passes but also an interception.

There was no vertical threat to speak of, and that really was the objective Saturday.

One play illustrated the difference between Fitzgerald and, say, a true passer like Will Grier.

In the fourth quarter, Fitzgerald’s hard snap caused a K-State defender to jump. The result was a free play. Last week against Tennessee, Grier did the same thing.

The difference: Fitzgerald received the snap and stayed with the design run. Grier took his snap and promptly went deep. He connected, too.

Fitzgerald’s passing issues weren’t a factor Saturday. But they will be against LSU, Auburn and Alabama.

The countdown has started on the Keytaon Thompson watch.

1. Nobody beats the University of Kentucky 32 times in a row

Nobody.