Bottom 10: Clemson and its fans thrown for a loss

• Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior Citizen WriterNov 6, 2024, 09:30 AM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN The Publication and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner
• 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year

Inspirational thought of the week:

Do you like me?Do you wan na be my friend?And if you do
Well then do
n’t be afraid to take me by the hand
If you wish to
I believe this is how love goes
Examine yes or no
— “Check Yes or No,” George Strait

Here at Bottom 10 Headquarters, situated among the huge concrete support pillars installed under the Indiana football workplaces to support Curt Cignetti’s self-esteem, we are still trying to process the nonstop series of sea change/Earth change/mindset change/sleep-cycle modification occasions that were thrust upon us throughout just a few days’ time.We had Halloween, turning the clocks back an hour, the release of a new Liam Neeson/Ron Perlman mob movie and a Week 10 slate that saw a gaggle of ranked groups pressed and/or distressed by unranked teams, not to point out Pur-don’t and Northworstern going into OT.Editor’s Picks

And oh yeah, dummy me. I forgot the biggest event of them all. The one that was unfurling simply as we were putting together these rankings Tuesday evening, Nov. 5, 2024. I am, of course, speaking of the #MACtion doubleheader of Boiling Green at Centralized Michigan and My Hammy of Ohio at Baller State. Oh, and the eve of “The Golden Bachelorette: The Guy Tell All.”

With apologies to Joan Vassos, Jesse Palmer, Matt James, Tyler Cameron, Cleisthenes and Steve Harvey, here’s the post-Week 10 Bottom 10 rankings.

The bright side is that the Golden (plated)Flashes, aka America’s last winless FBS group, did not lose their 18th straight game. The bad news is that it’s just because they didn’t play. Now they kick off Week 11 early with the first of four straight midweek games to end the season. It starts with a see from fellow Ohioans Ohio, followed by a trip to fellow Ohioans My Hammy of Ohio, a visit from fellow Ohioans Akronmonious and then a trip to Buffalo, which isn’t in Ohio, but I’m quite sure Ohio consumes more Buffalo wings than any other state, so it seems like it is.

Brett Favre Financing U also handled to escape its open date without a loss ahead of hosting Marshall this weekend. The Olden Eagles are already eyeing their possible Pillow Fight of the Year of the Century in their season finale to Bottom 10 Waiting Lister Troy Bolton State. In fact, they’re already eyeing the weekend after that, when the season is finally over.

Speaking of the Waiting List, that’s where the Minors were simply two weeks earlier, but after back-to-back Pillow Battle losses to Fa-la-la-la-la La-la-la-Tech and Meh-dle Tennessee, they have leapt up off the bench outside and burst into the front door like me when the buffet person hosting finally says, “McGee, party of one!” Now they will play in extraordinary Pillow Fight Three-peat against … yeah, like that hostess, we’re going to make you wait a minute.

Our old friends the Minuetmen likewise invested part of this fall on the Waiting List, however they answered the call of responsibility by following up their non-FBS win over Jack Wagner by getting housed by another Waiting List member, a fellow 2-7 team out of the S-E-C, Miss Sus Hippie State. Now the Mess plays recently’s Coveted Fifth Area winner Liberty. It’s always a strange headspace for a group of Revolutionary War soldiers to try to defeat Liberty.

The Tigers topple down The Hill from the fancy-schmancy Coaches Poll top 10 into the Coveted Fifth Spot after losing to #goacc mid-packer Louisville. We were on the fence about whether to put Death Valley or Pleased Valley into this slot, however our minds were made up after downing a bottle of rejuvenating water that had actually been winged at our heads from the Clemson trainee section.Clemson fans tossed particles onto the field after they were unhappy with a call.Louisville scored on the extremely next play. pic.twitter.com/AI6SBYmRrM!.?.!— ESPN (@espn)November 3, 2024

I can hear the lobby conversation now. “Hey, Clemson, did y’ all actually simply lose to Louisville and land in the Coveted Fifth Spot?” “Hey, FSU, did y’ all truly just lose by 24 points to North Carolina and is the only team you’ve beaten actually Cal?” Then they both get up their briefcases and head into the courtroom to describe why they are too good for the ACC.

The Buttermakers lost the B1G Bottom 10 Bowl provided by Rust-eze, falling to Northworstern in overtime. Now they end up the year with 3 of four games against top 10 teams in Ohio State, Penn State and Indiana. In associated news, sources tell Bottom 10 JortsCenter that Purdue’s legendary engineering department is attempting to create one of those Tony Stark time machine thingies so they can quick forward to winter season.

The New Owls have actually flown back into these standings after following up their first-ever win as an FBS program with their seventh-ever loss as an FBS program. Now they struck the roadway for their first-ever Pillow Battle of the Week, a match with border competing UTEPid. Told you we ‘d get to it.

If the Bottom 10 were a series “Video game of Thrones “memes, this is where we ‘d see a photo of Boromir talking and giant white letters that check out “ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY GET SMOKED 59-21 BY ONE-WIN UAB AND NOT WIND UP IN THE BOTTOM 10.” OK, sure, let’s go on and do it …

Working on today’s #Bottom 10 and, directs northeastern Oklahoma … pic.twitter.com/7VUfH88njv!.?.!— Ryan McGee(@ESPNMcGee)November 5, 2024 My OG Bottom 10 champs are back! The Panthers keep

acquiring ethical victories. Their only actual success came back-to-back in September over Chattanooga and Vanderbilt. So, if you’re scoring in your home, and we are, Georgia State beat Vandy, who beat Bama, who has actually been ranked No. 1 and who beat Georgia, who has been ranked No. 1 and who beat Texas, who has been ranked No. 1. I almost printed this paragraph out on Georgia State stationery and accomplished to the door of the College Football Playoff choice committee meeting room at the Gaylord Texan, like Martin Luther at the Castle Church.Waiting List: FA(not I)U, Akronmonious, Meh-dle Tennessee, WhyOMGing?, You A Bee?, Whew Mexico State, Temple of Doom, Utaw State, Charlotte 3-and-6ers, assistant coaches impersonating volcanos.