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Early surprises - both good and bad - after two full weeks of the college football season

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USA TODAY Sports' Paul Myerberg breaks down the latest Amway Coaches Poll. USA TODAY

After three weekends of results, narratives are steadily being formed surrounding college football's most intriguing teams, players and coaches. Boiled down, the takeaways from even this limited sample size fit into two categories: pleasant surprises or terrible, woeful, the-sky-is-falling disappointments. (There's little room for gray area, as always.)

On the positive side, there may be no bigger surprise than the Heisman Trophy-level play of Oklahoma quarterback Jalen Hurts, who across two games since transferring from Alabama has more touchdowns, nine, than incomplete passes, seven.