I'm no Sooner.
College football has gone through major changes since the game began. We no longer sew handles on the uniforms of ball carriers so that teammates can help drag them down the field. We have the forward pass. Flying wedges are illegal. The SEC admits black athletes.
I don't consider Yale as a college football power. Yet, if we consider the entire history of college football, Yale has seventeen national championships. Princeton has fourteen. From 1869 to 1922, the Ivy League dominated college football.
Times change.
Sometimes it's appropriate to take an institution and recognize different periods within the institution.
Would you recognize the steroid era in baseball, or the ancient dead ball era? Some mark 1945 as the start of college football's modern era.
Why in the world would anybody ever begin keeping score then at the beginning of a game? Why not in the second, third or fourth quarter? Why not just say whoever scores last prior to the end of the fourth quarter wins the game?
OU is decidely NOT the best football team in the last decade, as they lost FIVE BCS games in a row over that time.
My point is one must begin somewhere, and to arbitrarily decide that we pick a point other than the beginning is rubbish.
Yes, Yale will always be known as a great football power, based upon their proven record, just like Texas is.