Bottom 10: The Sooner this season is over, the better

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    • Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com
    • 2-time Sports Emmy winner
    • 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year

Inspirational thought of the week:

Now that I enactment it each together, ohio oh
Give maine the accidental to marque you see
Have you utilized up each the emotion successful your heart?
Nothing near for me?
Ain't determination thing near for me?

Baby travel back,
Any benignant of fool could see
I was incorrect and I conscionable can't unrecorded without you

-- "Baby Come Back," Player

Here astatine Bottom 10 Headquarters, located down the hallway from the aesculapian installation wherever scientists are studying Pat McAfee's humor due to the fact that they judge it mightiness incorporate capable energy to powerfulness full cities, we are basking successful the lukewarm glow of a antithetic benignant of affirmative energy. The benignant of warmth and super-inflated ego that tin travel lone with designation connected TV.

For years we person wondered aloud, tongue-in-cheek, what it would beryllium similar if the folks astatine College GameDay ever allowed themselves to articulation forces with america present astatine Bottom 10 GameDuh. No 1 ever understood america due to the fact that heavy down we each knew it would ne'er happen. Also, person you ever tried talking with your lingua jammed into your cheek?

Then came past Saturday astatine the location of the Artists Formerly Known arsenic the Nayhawks.

#Bottom10 y'all. Nayhawks nary more. It's similar sending my kids disconnected to college. pic.twitter.com/Y2enrnOfaj

— Ryan McGee (@ESPNMcGee) October 8, 2022

It was truthful bully to spot our radical hadn't forgotten us, adjacent if they were trying to accidental goodbye. But that afternoon, arsenic Kansas fell abbreviated successful the closing seconds against TCU and the Rock Chalk fans yet emerged from their surrender cobras, determination we were again, lasting down the extremity portion with a Willem Dafoe GIF look successful our eyes and a cackle acceptable to that "N-nuh n-nuh n-nunh-nuh" opus erstwhile the Wicked Witch rides the motorcycle successful "The Wizard of Oz." Because you tin ne'er hide your archetypal existent love. Especially erstwhile that archetypal existent emotion keeps pursuing you to people and sliding into your DMs. And yeah, Kansas, that's us, conscionable successful clip for Halloween.

With apologies to Gayle Sayers, my aged assemblage woman and Steve Harvey, present are the post-Week 6 Bottom 10 rankings.

1. Colora-duh (0-5)

The bully news? The Buffs didn't suffer this week. The atrocious news? It's due to the fact that they didn't play. The worse news? When the squad got unneurotic for meal during its disconnected weekend, the Buffs ran retired of food and jelly, which meant they inactive failed to screen the spread.

2. Huh-Why?-Yuh (1-5)

Speaking of covering spreads, Hawai'i went to San Diego State arsenic a 24-point underdog but mislaid by lone two. Now the Rainbow Warriors embark connected a docket that mightiness precise good beryllium the roadworthy to a Bottom 10 title, if by "road" you mean a waterslide wherever the h2o has been replaced with WD-40. That thrill thrust begins with a travel 2 weeks from present to second-ranked-turned-Waiting-Lister Colora-duh State, and past 2 weeks aft that with an water hop implicit to ...

3. Fres-No State (1-5)

Speaking of two-week increments, conscionable 2 weeks agone the Bullfrogs weren't adjacent successful these rankings. Now they person spent the past 2 weeks successful the apical fractional of them. That's what happens erstwhile you suffer to UCan't aft kicking disconnected arsenic a 23-point favorite, past suffer to Boise State erstwhile it's 20-20 successful the 3rd 4th and you proceed to surrender 20 unanswered points. Plus, determination was a precise earthy segue to spell from Hawai'i to Fresno and I americium mode excessively lazy to CTL+C them anyplace other successful the standings.

4. UMess (1-5)

The Minutemen mislaid to Liberty. Speaking of CTL+C, transcript that condemnation into an email and nonstop it your slightest favourite past teacher conscionable to ticker their caput explode.

5. BOO!-mer Sooner (3-3)

Now for merchantability connected the Texas State Fair midway: deep-fried Schooners.

6. Akronmonious (1-5)

Over the past 2 weekends, the once-packed MAC faction of one-win teams has been chopped successful half, from six to three. That roster is guaranteed to beryllium shortened by astatine slightest 1 again this week erstwhile the Zips big Not Eastern Or Western But Central Michigan successful the Pillow Fight of the Week Episode VI: The MACtion Menace. If the Zips suffer this one, past each of this feels similar 1 large countdown to the last play of the season, erstwhile Akron hosts the different existent one-win MAC team, Northern Ill-ugh-noise.

7. Boiling Green (2-4)

But ... hold ... if determination are 2 different one-win MAC teams not successful these rankings, past however tin we warrant having a two-win MAC squad ranked above/below them? Two words: Extra. Effort.

OH MY GOD 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/SUqZdUQVdm

— Mr Matthew CFB (@MrMatthewCFB) October 8, 2022

8. North by Northworstern (1-5)

You mightiness presume the Mildcats would person a warring accidental this play against Iowa, a squad that ne'er scores existent touchdowns, but support successful caput Northwestern conscionable mislaid 42-7 to Wisconsin, a squad that doesn't person an existent caput coach.

9. Charlotte 1-and-5ers

Speaking of caput coaches, a heads-up to Charlotte administrators. If idiosyncratic starts knocking connected your bureau door, saying, "Candygram," it's astir apt Matt Rhule from down the street.

10. Whew Mexico State (1-5)

The Other Aggies big the Only Lobos successful the 112th variation of the crippled known arsenic the Battle of I-25, named for the road that connects Las Cruces to Albuquerque. When this crippled was archetypal played successful 1894, it was called the Battle of Oh Damn Our QB Just Got Bit By A Rattlesnake On The Trail.

Waiting list: Colora-duh State, Michigan State Sparse-uns, CMU Chippendales, Northern Ill-ugh-noise, US(not C)F, Strandford, FI(notA)U, Temple of Doom, Livin' connected Tulsa Time, the Mets.

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