Heisman Trophy: 4 Better and 4 Worse Week 2

College football played its second week this weekend and the Heisman picture now has double the amount of games to consider.

Some of the contenders played well and some of the players...not quite as well. 

The weekly column, "4 Better and 4 Worse," takes a look at four players who improved their Heisman chances and four who hurt their chances. Remember these aren't rankings according to the overall picture, but just on how players helped or hurt themselves in a week.  

Worse 4. Robert Woods

Robert Woods has a lot to overcome to have a real shot at the Heisman with USC being sanctioned the way they are. That means he has to put up huge performances to have a chance to win. 

In the first week he did that, putting up 177 yards and three scores on 17 receptions. In Week 2, not so much. He only had 108 yards on eight catches. That's hardly a bad week, but it's not spectacular. 

Better 4. Justin Blackmon

Justin Blackmon might be the best college receiver since Larry Fitzgerald, and maybe going back further than that. He is simply phenomenal. 

On a night following a Sports Science segment on ESPN, which revealed that Balckmon's catch radius is roughly that of a two-car garage, Balckmon put together a 12-catch, 128-yard, two-touchdown performance in an Oklahoma State blowout over Arizona on national TV on Thursday night.

You can make a lot of quarterbacks look good if they don't have to hit a dime from deep, but just a two-car garage. 

Receivers don't normally get a lot of Heisman consideration, but if he keeps playing like this, Blackmon could "catch" on with the voters. 

Worse 3. Andrew Luck

Andrew Luck came in as one of the biggest favorites to win the Heisman trophy. Now after two weeks, he's thrown 461 yards, six TDs and one interception. 

Those are decent numbers, but they aren't massive. His favorite status is not in cement, and if other players are putting up huge numbers and his are relatively pedestrian, he could start watching others pass him up before long. 

Better 3. Marcus Lattimore

Marcus Lattimore was a preseason favorite among tailbacks, but while playing well, he was not playing "Heisman well" until the fourth quarter of the game against Georgia. 

In a game that was receiving a lot of national attention and was impressively tight, Lattimore rushed for 100 yards and a touchdown in the forth fourth quarter to put the Gamecocks on top.

Those kinds of clutch performances resonate with Heisman voters. 

Worse 2. LaMichael James

Honestly, it was hard to know which list to put LaMichael James on. He could have just as easily gone on the "4 Better" side. So why is he on the "4 Worse" side of things? There are two reasons. 

First, while his performance was impressive, including a rushing touchdown, a receiving touchdown, a return touchdown and 179 total yards, it wasn't as impressive as teammate Darron Thomas's performance, who passed for 295 yards and six TDs, adding another 35 yards on the ground. 

Second, it was against Nevada. Oregon bounced back against a devastating loss to LSU, but it gives the impression of a team that destroys cupcakes but doesn't fare well against the elite teams.  

Better 2. Darron Thomas

Speaking of Darron Thomas, he is No. 2 on our "4 Better" list. His performance was completely remarkable. His 295 yards and six TDs seemed almost effortless. 

Thomas came into the season as a second-tier candidate behind teammate LaMichael James, but after this week's performance, he looked like he might be the best player on the team. Only one of these two will be in New York, and right now Thomas looks to be the preferred option.

Worse 1. Nick Foles

Nick Foles passed for 398 yards, which isn't bad at all, but he still had the worst showing for the week in terms of the Heisman race because those 398 yards only came with one touchdown pass, and only 14 points overall. 

That's even worse when the other team is racking up 37 points in prime time. The majority of his yards came after the game was well out of hand. The game was a prime-time game, and most people had probably stopped watching when he got those yards. 

Foles' chances of winning the Heisman weren't great; now they've fallen to almost non-existent. 

Better 1. Denard Robinson

Denard "Shoelace" Robinson wasn't looking that great. Then the fourth quarter happened. His game was hardly "mistake free" as he threw for three picks, but the way he picked up Michigan and won the game with three seconds left is what will be remembered. 

Positively, he had 338 passing yards, 108 rushing yards and four TDs, but what was remarkable is that all four came in the fourth quarter when Robinson also had 233 total yards. 

Robinson went from the being on the precipice of being eliminated from consideration to having the weeks's most memorable performance in just 15 minutes, and that's why he's on top of the "4 Better" list.