Louisville’s stopped working surface, Tuesday night MACtion knock Bottom 10 off-balance
- Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterNov 20, 2024, 09:41 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:
Oh, north country winters keep a-gettin’ me down
Lost my money playin’ poker, so I needed to leave town
However I ain’t a-turnin’ back to livin’ that old life say goodbye to
So, rock me mama like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama any method you feel
Hey … mother rock me
Yeah, rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a southbound train
Hey … mother rock me
— “Wagon Wheel,” Old Crow Medication Show
Here at Bottom 10 Head office, located in the quickly clearing vault where Pat McAfee keeps the cash he didn’t think he ‘d need to turn over to numerous “College GameDay” visitor kickers, we are everything about the drama that features strange timing.Like deciding to take your pet dog on a walk simply as it begins drizzling. Or going on ESPN Radio and stating with fantastic conviction that NC State and Kansas will make the College Football Playoff. Or asking your girlfriend to marry you earlier than you had planned due to the fact that you were horrified that if you waited any longer you were going to lose the ring and in your panic didn’t even look at the calendar and therefore ended up proposing on April Fools’Day.And just so we’re clear, those aren’t theoretical.
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a day and night like Tuesday of this week. When Kent State and Akron, legitimate Bottom 10 title competitors, one having begun the season ranked top/bottom No. 1 (Akron) and the other having actually kept that spot on lock almost all fall (Kent State), decided they ought to play out the latest chapter of their century-old rivalry on a Tuesday night, hours after this sportswriter usually would have submitted these extremely rankings.Well, just like a wagon that is missing out on one of its wheels so that it can utilized for a trophy, me writing this late at night is going to be a little unsteady. Since the only ones here who might offer help in steadying my legs are my 12-pound dog and Captain Morgan. Where’s my wife, you ask? Oh, she utilized that April Fools ‘Engagement Clause a long time ago.With apologies to Bob Dylan, Darius Rucker, Captain Jack Sparrow and Steve Harvey, here are the post-Week 12 Bottom 10 rankings. And … because extremely Tuesday night game, the Golden( plated )Flashes lost 38-17 at home to their biggest rival,
which is located only 13 miles away. But it’s not simply that. The loss implies that Kent is still on track, with just one game remaining at Buffalo, to become the first FBS group to go winless in a non-COVID season given that 2019. Who was the group that did that in 2019? Akron. And that, kids, is how you run over someone with one wagon wheel. In Week 11, the Molden Eagles lost to
Marshall 37-3. In Week 12, they lost to Texas State 58-3. I think that implies in Week 13, they could lose to South Alabama 79-3. Then again, I’m not excellent at mathematics. Sort of like Brett Favre’s accounting professional. The weekend after head coach Brian Bohannon was fired, however the school
stated he wasn’t fired however rather stepped down, however Bohannon responded publicly that no, he had absolutely been fired since he definitely would never step down, the coach who wasn’t fired but stepped down then stepped up and appeared for the Owls’Week 12 march into the stadium, secretly publishing up in the crowd and after that freely dabbing up his previous team. They lost to Sam Houston We Have a Problem State in overtime. Or, as Kennesaw administrators stated in a statement, they stepped down in overtime. Speaking of overtime, after leading the majority of its Week 12 game, a big chunk by double digits, and then twice restoring the lead it ‘d lost, Massachusetts discovered itself going both down to and down in Flames in OT after a missed out on PAT kick, and then the school fired its head coach, Don Brown. It provides a brand-new addendum to the Minutemen’s battle cry given that 1776, “Give me Liberty and offer me Unexpected Death.” The Coveted 5th Area typically goes to a great group that had a bad weekend. The Hardinals are a kinda excellent team who had such a bad weekend they broke the space-time continuum. The exact same squad that pressed Clemson around– and into this extremely area– in Week 11 reversed and lost to Bottom 10 Waiting Lister Standfird. They did so after having the ball in a 35-35 game, first-and-10 with a timeout in their pocket and having actually just moved into Stanford territory with 20 seconds staying. They spiked the ball on first down to stop the clock. They tossed it out of bounds on 2nd down, which stopped the clock once again. Short incompletion on 3rd down, another interruption. A long incompletion on fourth down, another clock stopper, so Stanford took over at its 45 with five seconds staying. Short pass … one 2nd staying … BUT a late hit individual nasty. 15 lawns. Stanford lined up for an extremely long 57-yard field goal attempt … BUT Louisville leapt offsides. Now a not-as-long 52-yard effort … which the Cardinal nailed to defeat the Cardinals. Proving as soon as again there’s still absolutely nothing better than a great old-fashioned, traditional ACC rivalry. After a weekend off, the Semi-No’s will host Charleston Southern. The FCS Buccaneers are 1-10. Prior to the game, both teams and their coaches will satisfy at midfield so that Chief Osceola can utilize his flaming spear to burn all proof that the 2024 season ever happened. The Buttermakers are ranked 128th in the nation in points for and 131st in the nation in points against. I sent this information to Purdue’s legendary engineering school and they reacted that in engineering terms this is called”the most detrimental possible outcome of a system or design, thinking about all possible variables and environmental factors at their most extreme limits.”And they sent out a link to Brett Favre’s accounting professional’s workplace. The Other Aggies went
to College Station to play the OG Aggies. Sources inform Bottom 10 JortsCenter that they had a lengthy discussion about the Other Aggies, Utaw State, who won at Huh-Why-Yuh to vacate the Bottom 10. Then they concurred that no matter how bad life may be for the aggregate of Aggies, it’s absolutely nothing compared to the Parliament of Owls, who completed a clean four-Owl school sweep of coach shootings when Temple of Doom made a change … after they ‘d just won. The Minors had a weekend off to enjoy in their Week 11 win over
among those Owls in Kennesaw State. Today they will practice a variation of that word– as in”Ow!”– as they prepare for the discomfort of visiting Rocky Top to deal with a Tennessee team that is still fuming over a loss to Georgia that was itself so agonizing that Josh Heupel nearly showed some postgame press conference character. Almost.HEUPEL UNHAPPY! Tennessee head coach Josh Heupel, like numerous a Vol fan not pleased with charges for a facemask and 12 guys on
the field and when asked about them he wished to make sure his concerns about them were well heard! @WVLTSports pic.twitter.com/tELdceZjCO!.?.!— Rick Russo(@wvltrick )November 17, 2024 My hometown group isn’t called the Owls, but it fired head coach and folk hero Biff Poggi anyway. Then again, as was pointed out by my wide range of friends who are Charlotte alums, not to mention my pals at the Sickos Committee, way back in the 1950s, Charlotte College, which leaned greatly into night classes, included an owl as its pre-sports mascot. Or, as Ricky Bobby’s father-in-law tried to warn us, “Remember, the field mouse is quickly, however the owl sees in the evening.”Kinda weird, ain’t it?Waiting list: Miss Sus Hippie State, Georgia State Not Southern, FA(not I)U, Akronmonious, WhyOMGing?, You A Bee?, Wagon Wheel games on a Tuesday night.