Inspirational Thoughts of the Week:
Take This Job and Shove It
I won’t work here anymore
my woman left
and understand all the reasons
i was working for
You better not try to stand in my way
as i’m walking out the door
Take This Job and Shove It
I won’t work here anymore
— “Take This Job and Fire It Up,” Johnny Paycheck
Here at the Bottom 10 headquarters, tucked away behind the wall of industrial-sized cooling fans used to keep Pete Thamel’s phones and laptops from overheating and exploding like the Death Star with the “Coaching Carousel News Breakers” label, we’re following what would seem like a good plan to anyone and everyone with the shortest line of crossover in the Venn diagram of college football: wear a hardhat and hide under our desks. Because everyone around us yells, “Timber!” As another FBS head coach falls.
At least eight Power 4 coaches have been relieved of their duties as of the time this week’s rankings were written. That number goes up to a dime a dozen when you include the jobs lost in the Gang of 6 league, as we always do here.
It’s only fitting that it all comes to a head right before Halloween. Because a year ago, I wore a college football coach’s outfit circa 2007 and said, “I’m a man! I’m 40 years old!” Mike Gundy. I had a little too much fun the other night and didn’t realize that I had placed my metal folding chair directly over the smoldering fire pit and it had burned my cowboy orange butt, because yes, I was unknowingly in the hot seat as Mike Gundy.
Oklahoma State and Brian Kelly have a chance to do the funniest thing ever pic.twitter.com/SFab173DGe
– Rusty Nation✌🏻 (@FightOnRusty) 27 October 2025
With apologies to Ball State wide receiver Trey Firestone, former UCLA kicker Joseph Firebaugh, Syracuse defensive lineman Kevin Jobity and Steve Harvey, here are the bottom 10 rankings after Week 9.
The Minutemen took a break from their Pillow Fight of the Week marathon and lost to five-win Central Michigan. Now they hit a two-game stretch that felt like a surefire PFOW doubleheader in the preseason, but Acronmonious had the acrondity to win three games. However, the next opponent, Northern Ill-Ugh-Noise, has been hovering between the bottom 10 waiting list and the actual bottom 10 all season, even earning us Mentioned in a recent article As for the team’s troubles since defeating Notre Dame, that happened on September 7, 2024, but the Huskies’ record since then stands at 8-11, making it feel like September 7, 1924.
Speaking of pillow fights, with all due respect to the Bearcats’ upcoming Halloween costume contest with their Cajun-speaking relatives from Louisiana, our attention is already turned to competing at next weekend’s Cruz West…
The Bees spent their bye week celebrating their Week 8 win over the Lafayette Leopards and resting up for Leg 1 of their in-season home-and-away with fellow 2Pac member Wazoo. But between those two games are matchups with Sam Houston and another Bottom 10 flirt, Livin’ Tulsa Time.
Woof Pack’s last six games were lost by margins of 1, 15, 3, 34, 2 and 21. So expect a single-digit loss in a trip to Utah State this weekend and a double-digit loss in a trip to San No-Se State next week. It’s the best roller coaster in Reno since my parents put me and my brother on it at the Circus Circus Hotel and Casino in 1979 while Mom ran around the floor playing the new Burt Reynolds-themed slot machines.
After spending more than a decade trying tirelessly to somewhat successfully improve his Notre Dame public image of being huggable like a cactus, last summer Brian Kelly hired an image consultant to help him top his efforts. Unfortunately, it was a former NASCAR PR executive from the late 2000s. It’s like hiring one of the guys from the Titanic’s lookout tower to help you get your boat out of the sales dock.
Georgia State Knott Southern lost back-to-back pillow fights of the week to Georgia Southern Knott State and South Alabama Redundancies. It was the first time a bottom 10 team had accomplished such a feat since Penn State…check the notes last month.
I love watching cable television this time of year because all the networks start running Halloween marathons in the middle of the week. Like Hulu is showing all the Alien movies. Or AMC is showing the Friday the 13th series. Or the ESPN network showing Charlotte 49ers football.
Speaking of coming out of the dark and scaring the bejesus out of you, make sure you take a flashlight into the shadows of Week 13. That’s when MTSU hosts Sam Houston State.
If Wake Forest can play North Carolina and NC State can play Virginia as non-conference games against in-conference opponents, why can’t we add a mid-December non-ACC, bottom 10-sanctioned #goacc Mega Bowl between BC Headache Powder and the 2-5 UNC Chapel Bills? I imagine a group of New Englanders facing winter’s Sam Adams-fueled hibernation might have a few things they’d like to say to Coach Belichick if he came to Newton for the holidays.
Full disclosure, we were going to put livin’ on Tulsa time at this point, when Tulsa lost to Temple, a month after losing to Tulane, meaning TU lost to both TU and TU, second in OT. But then we remember that one of TU’s TW (two wins) came at OSU, which lost to TTU by 42.
waiting list: Tulsa Time, Colorado-duh State, Kent-ucky, Arkansas, South Alabama Redundancies, San No-say State, UTEP, Worst Virginia, Northern Il-ugh-noise, EMU Emus, Wisconsin Badgers, Acronmonious, UNC Chapel Bills, USC-Notre Dame series coming to an end.
