With the college football Week 2 slate wrapped up, it’s time to bring up the panic meter, and again there’s three teams we need to talk about after the weekend.

Oregon, Oklahoma, and LSU (yes LSU) all had very different outcomes in Week 2 with mixed levels of concern. Oregon had a high-scoring loss to Oklahoma State, Oklahoma dropped a low-scoring affair against Michigan, while LSU rolled through LA Tech.

The panic meter is sounding off for all three teams, and we need to explain why and if we should actually be concerned.

Oregon’s slow starts are becoming a pattern

Let’s start with Oregon, and yeah, I would panic at least a little bit. The slow starts have been a problem for years at this point, but this is supposed to be the most talented Oregon team we have ever seen, and they’re playing like this?

Oklahoma State didn’t even play their best football game. The Cowboys lost the turnover battle. Oregon had plenty of opportunity to win that game and didn’t. The defensive line that was seen as one of the best in the entire country does not look like that right now.

Dante Moore, who was supposed to be the best returning quarterback outside of someone like Trinidad Chambliss, is losing his draft stock by the day. And it looks like those concerns with the coordinators are going to be what holds Oregon back from winning a national championship. I hate to say it, but I’m pressing the panic button.

LSU is fine after another blowout victory

Now let’s talk about LSU. I’m not worried about them whatsoever. I understand there were some ugly moments against Louisiana Tech. The thing is, we know for a fact that Lane Kiffin plays down to his opponents.

He’s talked about it before in interviews, that he’ll overlook these lower-level opponents, especially if he has bigger ones down the road. So I understand why LSU didn’t look great.

If I’m an LSU fan, I’m looking at this as a good opportunity for Sam Leavitt to have some growing pains against a lower-level opponent that won’t beat you.

Oklahoma’s offensive ceiling is a real concern

And then there’s Oklahoma. I’m not completely panicking, but I understand the concern. I feel like there’s going to be some really risky games where the Sooners go through the same formula of these tough offensive battles, needing one or two explosives from Isaiah Sategna III or John Mateer heroics to win, and the offensive production just isn’t great.

And frankly, I’m starting to look at Ben Arbuckle and asking: is he a good enough play caller to get Oklahoma to the level it needs to be at to beat a Texas, to be able to make a deep college football playoff run? Those are all very valid questions at this point.

When you watch the end of that game, Mateer and his inaccuracies were a huge reason the Sooners couldn’t move the ball to make the plays they needed. I get it, Michigan had a bounce-back game, but that was easily in contention for Oklahoma to win if they were just a little bit more consistent. And they weren’t.

So I completely understand if you’re panicking as an Oklahoma fan, because it’s going to be a rinse and repeat of last year. And last year, yes, got you to a college football playoff, but there were a lot of tight games in there that could easily flip against you. Oklahoma could miss it this year. That’s where I stand.