College Football World In A Transition Phase?

If there's one thing that will never change about the college football world, its that things change. Every few years the landscape shifts itself somehow and the environment of college football takes a new shape. Nobody stays on top forever. Just ask Nebraska, Miami, and Florida State. However, powerhouse programs who fall on their luck rarely stay down (with the exception of Notre Lame). Just ask Nebraska, Miami, and Florida State.
Many Florida Gator fans saw the past few years as signs that the Young Gators' Reign over college football would last forever. But since mid-December those Gator fans, along with the rest of college football have been witness to events that beg to differ.

• It started with what seemed to be a small upset at the time when the Gators lost to now National Champion Alabama in the SEC Championship Game.

• Bobby Bowden, amid much unrest at his school of 30+ years, retired after his bowl game leading to an inevitable transition stage at mid to late 90s juggernaut Florida State.

• The Heisman Trophy, which seemed to be more of a lock as a 3 team race than ever before in history (between Tim Tebow, Colt McCoy and Sam Bradford) is won by Alabama's Mark Ingram, a player who could be a force in college football for the near future. 

• Florida Gators are launched into a rebuilding phase due to the departure of all-world QB Tim Tebow, the health issues of Urban Meyer and his subsequent drama, the departure of the programs REAL backbone in Charlie Strong to Louisville, and the flight of a strong junior class to the NFL.

• USF, an up and comer in the Big East and in the arms race known as college football in the State of Florida, is dealt a huge blow to its chances of respect by a home blowout at the hands of a surging Miami program and the firing of Head Coach Jim Leavitt after allegations he choked a player and interfered in the schools investigation of the incident. USF goes from almost making the Big 3 (UM, FSU, UF) the Big 4 to becoming a member of the:
  

• Randy Shannon, bolstered by the uncertainty at UF and FSU, sees his University of Miami program gaining steam on its way to providing college football with a "Hurricane Warning" in the coming few years. CLICK HERE to see why.

• Mike Leach puts a player in a dark room of sorts and is fired, maybe moreso for his Napoleon Complex and disregard for the Universities opinions, thus leaving a vacuum in the Big 12 which looks to be filled by reemerging powerhouse Nebraska, and filled in Texas by June Jones and a SMU program who is seeing success it hasn't seen since its Pony Express days of the Early 80s.

• Les Miles Continues to do a "Larry Coker" on the once well oiled machine of an LSU program. (Ask any University of Miami fan what that means. lol) 

• Nick Saban becomes the first coach in almost 80 years to win a title at two schools, cementing himself and the Bama program (unless he bolts to the NFL) as the top dog in the SEC, the South, and all of college football until further notice.

• What may be the final straw to the camel's back know as "college football during the 00's" is the rumored deal between Pete Carroll and the Seattle Seahawks, CLICK HERE FOR LA TIMES REPORT which would cripple a USC program that was already being caught up to by the rest of the Pac 10.
• Side note: Is it just me? Or are a lot of people leaving USC right now. Carrol and his OC are bolting, Joe Mcknight's leaving early, Aaron Corps leaving for Richmond among others. Sounds like they know something we don't. PROBATION MAYBE? HMMM...

Sounds like its about that time in college football. Should be fun...