If you go by the ten teams mentioned in ESPN’s Gameday theme, you get a sense of what kind of year it’s been for the traditional powers in college football.  Only three of the ten are ranked, none of them in the top five, and the record of the others is a combined 45-39 with no team better than 7-5.

• Oklahoma: 10-2
• Alabama: 9-3
• Georgia: 6-6
• Florida: 7-5
• Ohio State: 11-1
• Notre Dame: 7-5
• USC: 7-5
• Michigan: 7-5
• Texas: 5-7
• Tennessee: 6-6

Well, we flew through Fort Worth…