Bottom 10: Clemson lands area
- Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior Citizen WriterOct 2, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Close Senior author for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner
- 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year
Inspirational thought of the week:
Summer season has come and passed
The innocent can never last
Wake me up when September ends
Calling out the bells again
Like we did when spring started
Wake me up when September ends
— “Wake Me Up When September Ends,” Green Day
Here at Bottom 10 Head office, situated someplace within the time-space websites produced by the Dr. Strange sling ring that Jesse Palmer wears to broadcast football games on Saturdays while likewise hosting 47 reality shows throughout the week, we are all set for October. Why? So many reasons.I enjoy the cool,
crisp air and not needing to use WD-40 and a paint scraper to get my underwear off on Saturday afternoons following another early morning co-hosting”Marty & McGee”in the September heat of Gainesville or Baton Rouge.I love drinks laced with caramel and apple, almost as much as I dislike beverages– not to discuss donuts, cereal, M&M s, beer, yogurt, butter, bread and hummus– that are loaded with a Biff Poggi-sized portion of pumpkin spice.But many of all, the most visually pleasing part of this time of year
is the name itself. Not Fall. That was the name of the woman from my worst college date, which’s a comprehensive list. No, the moniker that makes us smile is the one that is also the most apropos for the autumnal time of year and also the verb that finest applies to any description of our Bottom 10 teams.Fall.With apologies to Iowa State D-lineman Domonique Orange, Arizona State DB Adama Fall,
Ryan Leaf and Steve Harvey, here’s the post-Week 5 Bottom 10 rankings. There are now only three winless FBS groups and this is the only program in the land with 5 losses. On Saturday, the Golden(plated) Flashes fell in your home to the Eastern Michigan University Emus, 52-33. Now, after a week off, they will host the Week 7 Pillow Battle of the Week, inviting Baller State and its present 1-3 record, but according to the mystically and somewhat spookily precise ESPN Analytics maker, there is a 73.4 %possibility the Cardinals will be 1-4 after hosting Western Not Eastern Michigan this weekend. The New Cash Owls remain in their very first season of FBS ball, but last weekend seemed like old times, losing to UT Martin of the FCS 24-13. Their label is the Skyhawks, with a mascot named Captain Skyhawk, who wears a helmet and goggles, and looks precisely like a bird who went full Tony Stark and got himself some tech that might shoot down an owl.
The Minors stopped working to cover the spread against the Fightin ‘Byes of Open Date U., but in their defense, it was one of those fitted sheets and anybody who properly covers that spread without difficulty has to have either an engineering degree or rubber arms.
The Other Aggies lost to archrival Whew Mexico, which occupied this extremely area one week ago, so it was a simple swap. Mentioning swaps, sources are telling Bottom 10 JortsCenter that New Mexico State agents left their Rio Grande Competition loss and went directly to El Paso to attempt to obstruct the door as UTEP authorities met to discuss their move from Conference U.S.A. to the Mountain West, reminding them that such a move would deny Earth future Pillow Battles of the Century like the one between them over Thanksgiving weekend. UTEP made the relocation anyhow. And waiting on them? Whew Mexico.Welcoming back an old good friend! Invite to the Mountain West @UTEPAthletics!!! #GoLobos pic.twitter.com/a9PIi11BLU!.?.!— New Mexico Lobos(@UNMLOBOS) October 1, 2024 5. Cyclone football To be clear, this isn’t Miami Hurricanes football or Tulsa Golden Hurricane football. No, this
Sought After Fifth Area is reserved for the schools that chose to play ball in the face of Helene. As of Tuesday evening, more than 700,000 South Carolinians were still without power, water or both, yet Sandlapper State schools Clemson and The Castle chose to stick to their Saturday kickoff strategies. Clemson chose a reasoning of”it’s homecoming and the area requires the interruption.”On the other hand, The Citadel forced East Tennessee State to withstand a 328-mile journey through the heart of the storm that was unsafe by any step, stranded by the side of the progressively flooded highways for 12 hours. Why? Since the Bulldogs told the Bucs and the Southern Conference they could not move the game to Sunday due to the fact that it was moms and dads’ weekend and they had”scheduling conflicts. “Using The Castle’s reasoning, maybe that’s how the thousands of people who live near East Tennessee State will explain away their losses. It’s because Mother Nature had a scheduling conflict. BTW, final score: ETSU 34, Citadel 17. Male, talk about emotion, and tears simply putting out. Discuss a situation even worse than you can picture, and a group galvanizing for a win. ETSU head coach Tre Lamb, literally in tears talking about the Helene
experience. Stuck in a homeless shelter parking area. No cell service … pic.twitter.com/NbXzAfbMnQ!.?.!— Scott Eisberg(@SEisbergWCIV)September 29, 2024 The Zips dropped their #MACtion opener 30-10 to the Bobcats of Ohio. In associated news, when I was in middle school, I got in difficulty with my moms and dads for enjoying a Cinemax
experience. Stuck in a homeless shelter parking area. No cell service … pic.twitter.com/NbXzAfbMnQ!.?.!— Scott Eisberg(@SEisbergWCIV)September 29, 2024 The Zips dropped their #MACtion opener 30-10 to the Bobcats of Ohio. In associated news, when I was in middle school, I got in difficulty with my moms and dads for enjoying a Cinemax
After Dark film entitled”The Bobcats of Ohio.” 7. UMess(1-4) The Minutemen, who aren’t in the MAC till next season, lost to My Hammy
of Ohio, which
marked their fourth game and 4th loss to a MAC team. This week they play– quelle surprise!– Northern Illinois, which, as Notre Dame does not desire you to remember, is also in the MAC, but who we totally kept in mind is in the MAC the weekend after they beat the Irish, when they lost to Buffalo, which is likewise in the MAC. And now, after writing all that, I totally want some mac and cheese. Instead, I’m getting … The O.G. Bottom 10 Owls have actually returned to these rankings with their huge 360-degree eyeballs pointed
straight at Kennesaw with a night vision focus on struggling Strigiformes supremacy. They landed on this branch after failing to get their talons on the group that formerly inhabited this spot, the Artists Now Known As The Charlotte 2-and-3ers. The Other Aggies are most likely feeling out of sorts about being 1-3 at the same time they are signing up with the 2-Pac resurrection. But hey, they have one more football triumph than Gonzaga! So, this weekend at the game that utilized to rule the ACC, will
there be a breakfast for the legal representatives that Clemson and FSU have worked with to assist them take legal action against that very same ACC? If so, a heads-up to the Noles ‘legal eagles: Those Clemson guys won’t be canceling, even if you have to climb over fallen trees and powerlines to get there.Waiting list: Fa-La-La-La-La La-La-La-Tech, Temple of Doom, Baller State, Southern Missed, the Return of the Nayhawks, Muddled Tennessee State, Troy Bolton State, celebrating too early.