By Jason Kirk  @JasonKirkSBN on Sep 9, 2016, 11:34p 8 Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson entered Week 2 with eight total touchdowns, scored in only 30 minutes of football against Charlotte. That's a school record for scores in a game. He had a seat after that, having proved his point. With 4 rushing TDs, QB @Lj_era8 holds the school record for career rushing touchdowns by a quarterback with 15 pic.twitter.com/NVI8g73SAw Jackson first popped national eyeballs at the end of the 2015 season, when he dropped 227 yards passing and 226 yards rushing on Texas A&M in a Music City Bowl win. I do not believe you can ever have enough Jackson highlights, so here are those as well:

Louisville sophomore quarterback Lamar Jackson passed for 411 yards and rushed for 199 yards in the Cardinals’ 62–28 victory at Syracuse on Friday night. Jackson recorded 610 total yards on the night, which set the record for most by a player in a single game in ACC history. He entered Friday’s game with 286 passing yards and six touchdowns while also rushing for 119 more yards and two more touchdowns in last week’s 70–14 victory over Charlotte. I acknowledge that I have read the Privacy Policy. I acknowledge and have read the privacy policy.

The NBA star challenged the Louisville then-freshman to a foot race. In it, Jackson launches a football from the goal line on the far side of his high school football field. The ball soars high, gets lost briefly in the stadium lights, then emerges on the other side, dropping into the hands of a waiting receiver on the opposite goal line. Jackson sat perched at a table surrounded by media at the ACC's annual kickoff event last month when one reporter flipped over the notepad Louisville had handed out earlier in the day. On the front was an action shot of Jackson, a sophomore with just eight career starts under his belt, now the face of the program.

The Cardinals had Syracuse beat on the first play of the game, a 72-yard play-action bomb from Jackson to James Quick for a touchdown. Lamar Jackson figuratively and literally hurdling the competition is #MustSeeACCWATCH IT NOW: pic.twitter.com/nSUZD9Sapa Entering Friday, Jackson's eight touchdowns topped 115 other FBS teams. His 315 total yards in the first quarter was more than 29 FBS teams through one week. His 610 total yards for the game was a Louisville single-game record-- and would rank him as the 13th best offense. He's also the first FBS player to throw for 400 yards and run for another 175 in the same game.

- Lamar Jackson became the first Football Bowl Subdivision player to throw for 400 yards and rush for at least 175 and broke the Atlantic Coast Conference single-game record with 610 total yards in a dazzling performance that pushed Louisville past Syracuse 62-28. 15 Cardinals broke the Atlantic Coast Conference record with 845 total yards and Jackson accounted for six touchdowns - including one run in which he hurdled a defender - as Louisville outraced the up-tempo Orange at the Carrier Dome. He completed 20 of 39 passes for 411 yards and ran for 199 on 21 carries while also breaking Chris Redman's 18-year-old school record for total yards. Jackson had 344 yards and a touchdown passing and 139 yards and four TDs rushing by halftime, and he could have had more through the air if not for a series of dropped passes by the Cardinals, who turned it over three times in the first half. Quarterback Eric Dungey hit Amba Etta-Tawo for TDs of 47 yards and 4 yards to give SU.

And of course the bumpy road to the College Football Playoff will unfold once again. The stars could align for the Utes to make more noise in the Pac-12 this year. The problem is the departure of one of the nation’s best receivers (Sterling Shepard) is going to really haunt the Sooners’ offense. A seemingly incomprehensible shuffle of teams in the rankings or the invention of a new term to justify upward/downward movement will set off a frenzy. Stanford represents the league’s best candidate to make the national semifinals, but the Cardinal will pick up three losses by the middle of November: at Washington (Sept.

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