Three-point stance: An ugly Week 2; refs hurt Big 12; Heisman race

Rivals.com National Recruiting Director Mike Farrell’s thought-provoking Three-Point Stance is here with a look at five things that made him unhappy from the weekend, how Oklahoma State and the Big 12 got screwed and the odd Heisman race after two weeks.

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Last week I expressed my joy over five things that happened during the first weekend of college football, but my cranky side is back already following week two. Here are five things that ticked me off:

Ray-Ray McCloud was a five star prospect, a star at multiple Rivals Camps and an Under Armour All-American. The kid had a ton of talent out of high school and has begun to show that talent at Clemson already. But how on earth, after watching players like DeSean Jackson do it and many others come close, do you drop the ball before crossing the goal line like he did on what should have been a 75-yard punt return for a score? It’s time for players (Dalvin Cook are you listening?) to stop trying to look cool when scoring and just cross the goal line with the ball tucked away. It could have cost Clemson a win in a close game against Troy.

Kenny Hill annoyed the heck out of me during his sophomore season at Texas A&M when he and his family decided to try to trademark his nickname “Kenny Trill” after one game, a win over what would end up being a very overrated South Carolina team. Since that game, Hill was benched in favor of Kyle Allen, was arrested for public intoxication and suspended two games by the Aggies, and transferred to TCU. Now, with a second chance, his play on the field has been excellent, but his “me-first” attitude has once again hurt his team. After scoring from five yards out to put TCU up 28-20 with under two minutes left in regulation, Hill decided to once again put himself first with some odd celebration that looked like a throat-slashing gesture. Now apparently he’s saying the gesture means “rising kings” in sign language. Whatever it was, the refs took it as an inappropriate gesture, Arkansas used a short field to score and put the game into overtime and TCU lost. This kid, who has done so much wrong in such a short period of time, needs someone to finally get it into his head that the team comes first.

The tackling in the Arizona State-Texas Tech game was criminal. I have no idea why certain teams can’t square up and tackle. All the excitement of the 68-55 win by the Sun Devils was dampened at bit, at least to me, at the fact that neither team has been taught how to make a tackle in this day and age. The defenses should be embarrassed.

Speaking of embarrassed, let’s hope the offensive line for Georgia is feeling some of that this week. The top 10 Dawgs rushed for 167 yards on 39 attempts, an average of 4.3 yards-per-carry, with one of the nation’s top five running backs against an FCS team in Nicholls State that has 19 wins in 8 seasons and is 9-48 in the last five seasons. Georgia escaped 26-24, but could have been the victim of the biggest upset in college football history and it all starts up front. Kirby Smart has been talking about how he wants his team to be more physical and if this isn’t a wakeup call, I don’t know what is.

The officials in the Oklahoma State-Central Michigan game screwed not only the Cowboys but the Big 12. See more below.

The Big 12 had a playoff team last season in Oklahoma, but it took some hard work from the Sooners following a bad loss to Texas and if it wasn’t a power program led by Bob Stoops, it would have been left out (see Baylor and TCU in 2014 season). Now the Big 12 is already in trouble after two weeks. Oklahoma’s loss to Houston puts them in a must-win situation against Ohio State this weekend, TCU lost to Arkansas this weekend and no one expects Baylor to get the nod even if they run the table, justifiably or not, because of the off-field awfulness. That leaves Texas, a much-improved team but unlikely to run the table, the aforementioned Bears and West Virginia (not a contender for the playoff) as the only teams in the Big 12 without a ding on their record.

So why does the game being stolen away from Oklahoma State by an incorrect call that set up CMU's Hail Mary matter so much? Because the contenders in the Big 12, Oklahoma still included, need every other Big 12 team they play this season to be as strong as possible. The Cowboys should be sitting at 2-0 right now heading into a key matchup against Pitt, but instead they join the other five teams in the conference with one loss. That’s not good for the Big 12 at all.

After two weeks I expected our Heisman trophy candidates to be DeShaun Watson, Leonard Fournette, Dalvin Cook, Christian McCaffrey, JT Barrett and Baker Mayfield. Instead, Lamar Jackson, who reminds me of a right-handed Michael Vick this early in his career, Deondre Francois and a rehabbed Nick Chubb join Barrett among the biggest early names. Mayfield is off to a solid start, but a second loss could kill his chances and McCaffrey has had one good game already, albeit average compared to what he did last year. It’s just odd to see names like Jackson and Donnel Pumphrey ahead of the big running backs in the stats column and for Watson to be 98th in the country in QB Rating. Discussing the Heisman after two weeks is foolish, but it certainly is interesting.