Miffed after Adrian Martinez's third turnover of the first half, Scott Frost dropped his head on the sideline as Ohio State piled on the points earlier this season during a blowout win at Nebraska.

This was supposed to be the Huskers' coming out party in primetime with College GameDay in town, but instead turned into a massive letdown, an inside look at a program that just isn't there yet in its journey back to prominence.

"We're all disappointed," Frost said. "I thought we had a puncher's chance if we came out and played a really good game, and we didn't, so that's the end result. I told the team we can't doubt for a second where this is going, what we're doing to get it there, the improvement we've made. I want the guys to go to bed tonight and put this behind them."

Nebraska is one of several major programs that hasn't lived up to preseason billing after six weeks, One team that nearly made this cut is Florida State, but it appears the Seminoles have turned the corner under Willie Taggart with consecutive ACC wins heading into Saturday's showdown vs. Clemson.

Here's a look at 10 squads with sizable expectations to open the season who have been disappointments during the first half of play this fall: