By Pat Forde This year’s pool of contenders is large, but a lot thinner if we assume the usual formula wins out. Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (party supplies sold separately at Rice, where the Owls have a winning record five games into the season for the first time since 2013): MORE DASH: Loaded Weekend | Red River Fallout THIRD QUARTERTHE HEISMAN SORTING MECHANISM IS ENGAGEDThe 21st-century formula for winning the Heisman Trophy is fairly simple: Star on a team that is in the running for the national championship all the way into late November or earl…