Inspirational Thoughts of the Week:
Have you ever felt like you were already buried deep?
There is screaming six feet below, but no one can hear anything
Did you know there’s still a chance for you?
‘Cause there’s a spark inside you
you just have to turn on the light
and let it shine
just keep the night with you
like the fourth of july
‘Cause baby, you’re a firework
Come on, show them what you’re worth
Let them go, “Oh, oh, oh”
like you shoot into the sky
— “Fireworks,” Katy Perry
Here at Bottom 10 HQ, nestled beneath a 6-foot-tall pile of pierogi crusts left by the “College GameDay” crew after last week’s show in Pittsburgh, we believe it’s important to celebrate all of life’s wins, whether those wins are big or small.
Won the national title? Hoist the big gold Eye of Sauron trophy and enjoy the moment.
Won the Heisman Trophy? Hug that bronze man with stiff arms, put him in the car and take him for a ride on the street to take selfies with people, 1980’s winner George Rogers.
Kicked a field goal with 6:13 remaining in your inevitable 14th consecutive loss that cut the lead from 45-0 to 45-3? press the ignition button That trunk load of fireworks you have sitting behind the scoreboard all falls apart because it’s your last home game of the year and New England is going to be stuck in single-digit temperatures for the next four months and the TNT will freeze and become useless if you don’t use it right now because fireworks are expensive and you draw 6,000 people per game (paid attendance) and you can’t waste the cash.
Umas Field Goal Fireworks 🎇 pic.twitter.com/nVI9wP2El3
– College Football Campus Tour (@cfbcampustour) 13 November 2025
With apologies to former Nevada Spencer Firebaugh, Mississippi State lineman Luke Workrutgers db devon fuse And Steve Harvey, here are the bottom 10 rankings after Week 12.
The Minutemen headed west to Ohio for Tuesday Night Football (ranked), where the Cats beat them soundly and remain the only winless team in the country, as well as the first team to reach 11 losses. A week from now they will finish the season with another Tuesday Throwdown, visiting Boiling Green, which is currently 3-7. Should UMass gift us a pre-Thanksgiving victory, I say she should set off all the fireworks she can find, including emergency boat flares and all the overly frozen turkeys that all our drunk uncles will spend the next week plunging into fryers and burning down their houses.
In the past whenever Middle Tennessee State found a team struggling in a season, it could point to Vandy and Tennessee Tech and say, “Well, at least we’re not like those losers!” The Blue Raiders can’t even do that this year, as they’ve been embroiled in the pillow fight of the week, but not of the year, like we thought it was going to be. Why is it not what we thought? keep reading.
The Niners became the 1’s and 9’s after losing to the artists formerly known as the Rock at UTSA. They will now travel to Georgia, where they will receive a UGA-record non-conference payment of $1.9 million for the trip. As Niners graduate John McCurdy wrote on UNCC football’s official Facebook page: “At least we’re first in something :-)”
I recently received an angry social media post from someone saying I should support the Panthers more because their head coach is a McGee. For the record, I support all of the McGees, including head coach Dale, at State. Well, okay, not all McGees. The reporter who followed Bruce Banner everywhere with questions about the Hulk, that guy made me angry. And you won’t like me when I’m angry.
5. Prestigious Group of 5 Spots
I like the non-autonomous 5. I hear their complaints about lack of respect. But then again, every time a No. 5 ranked team stands at the door to the 2025 College Football Playoff, it manages to get that door shut on its fingers. Watching these guys try to hang on to the bottom of the top 25 is like watching Navy guys climb a greased obelisk on campus. And that metaphor works perfectly because the Midshipmen are one of those teams that ruined an undefeated season by losing at North Texas, then turned around and ruined South Florida’s CFP dreams this past weekend.
Speaking of CFP slippage, the Golden Beagles took down #goacc leader Georgia Tech in the coveted fifth quarter before surrendering 19 points in the fourth quarter and losing via a field goal with 11 seconds remaining, joining in-state roomies UMass as the nation’s only double-digit losing teams. Meanwhile, South Carolina fans are up from the floor reading about that collapse and saying, “Is that all?” Then downed another shot of mustard BBQ sauce flavored moonshine and curled back into the fetal position.
Even when a season is over, it’s great to know that a team can still depend on the bedrock of college football: the classic regional rivalries that have been played out for generations. You know, like Oklahoma State traveling to UCF.
Beeves has put together the 10 puzzles below. They started 0-6 to occupy the top bottom spot. They then won two in a row, including an upset of fellow 2Pac member Washington State. They then lost twice in a row, falling first to a bottom 10 second-place team, i.e. the next team in these current rankings, and last weekend to a bottom 10 seeded listper at Tulsa Time. They will now face the Fightin Boys of the Open Date U before an in-season rematch with Washington State. The actual Oregon Trail was an easy ride.
Are you curious about the previous commentary regarding this week’s pillow fight, but not the one of the year, like we thought it was going to be? That’s because the Bearcats have skewed the impact of this conflict by winning consecutive championships. But this still could not completely knock them out of these rankings.
Miners have returned to these rankings after a long absence. Well, at least for them for a long time. Their only FBS win this season came against Sam Houston, thus we declined to rank them ahead of the Cats. But SHSU defeated I’m In…Delaware and that’s what Haynes would do in his season finale with UTEP. So if Sam Houston loses via losses to MTSU and Florida International… but UTEP also loses to Delaware via “L”… then to sort out the final bottom 10 standings, we’ll need to spend Thanksgiving weekend with that unmarked jar of “holy water” that Granddaddy keeps by his chair during the holidays.
waiting list: No-Wada, San No-Say State (aka the team that just lost to No-Wada), Pur-Dont, Colorado-Duh State, Arkansas The Fightin’ Patrinos led by 27 points at halftime.
