Offer us Liberty or provide us the Bottom 10! Or

• Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterOct 30, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner

• 2010, 2014 NMPA Author of the Year

Inspiring idea of the week:

“‘It’s no usage discussing it,’ Alice stated, searching for at your home and pretending it was arguing with her. ‘I’m not going in once again yet. I know I should need to get through the Looking-glass again– back into the old space– and there ‘d be an end of all my experiences!’

“So, resolutely turning her back upon your home, she set out again down the path, determined to keep straight on till she got to the hill.”

— From “Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There” by Lewis Carroll

Here at Bottom 10 Headquarters, located inside the giant water tower used to store all of our tears shed throughout the Lee Corso reunion with his former Indiana players throughout recently’s “College GameDay,” we have invested a lot of time over the years educating ourselves on how to travel through multiverses, multiplanes of reality and several psychological multiplexes of what is possible.In other words, we

‘ve accidentally, OK deliberately, strolled face-first into a great deal of mirrors, windows, sliding glass and wardrobe doors. To evaluate out that tin of “Collin Klein for Heisman” Band-Aids we found in an old desk drawer? Sure. That belongs to it. However the real mission is to try to find brand-new pathways that might carry us from the continuous discomfort of the Bottom 10 cinematic universe into better, more successful, dot-com-titled trophy-lined streets of college football euphoria.Just when we think our efforts are eternally ineffective, a midweek moment of multiverse insanity cracks the limits of belief and reveals a path that takes us from 0-and-something to the limitless pleasure of 1-and-something, specifically when an 0-and-something group that is a 27-point underdog and has actually never won an FBS game knocks off a something-and-0 team, sending them down in, ahem, Flames.HELL YEAH #GoldStandard |

#SeeUs pic.twitter.com/vI36pgr7o8!.?.!— Kennesaw State Football(@kennesawstfb )October 24, 2024 With apologies to Kennesaw State alum Ty Pennington, previous MLB commissioner Kennesaw Mountain

Landis and Steve Harvey, here are the post-Week 9 Bottom 10 rankings. The Golden(plated)Flashes, aka America’s last winless FBS team, lost their 17th straight game, surrendering 358 yards rushing to Western Michigan. The last time a bunch of Bronco students gained that much ground was when Tim Allen and Terry Crews entered Bruce Campbell’s Oldsmobile and took a trip set to tunes of fellow WMU alum Luther Vandross. The Sun Belt Old Cash Golden

Eagles lost to Sun Belt New Money James Madison as they continued their march towards what is shaping up to be an all-time Pillow Fight of the Week of the Year of the Century, on Nov. 30 against … well … we’re going to make you wait for that info. Like Brett Favre makes Mississippi await him to pay them back old, brand-new and relief money. The Chowboys lost the Pillow Fight of Week 9 to … yeah, we’re going to make you wait

for that, too. Like my neighbor makes kids await the Halloween sweet due to the fact that his listening devices don’t work and it takes him permanently to hear the bell and finally get moving. Type of like Wyoming’s offense.

On Friday, I flew over UAB’s stadium en path to Tuscaloosa. On Saturday, I drove by that same stadium, moving even quicker due to the fact that I was attempting to get Marty Smith back to Charlotte in time to host the Concert for Carolinas. We identified a long trail of smoke and were afraid that Protective Stadium might be on fire, but we recognized it was just coming from Trent Dilfer’s ears.How devoted

are we to guaranteeing that the #Bottom 10 is as precise as possible? We have actually been flying reconnaissance flights over UAB. pic.twitter.com/LQfc7GriUp!.?.!— Ryan McGee(@ESPNMcGee)October 29, 2024 Editor’s Picks It was George Orwell who said,” If liberty indicates

anything, it suggests the right to inform people what they do not want to hear.”Well, Liberty, I know y’ all play Wednesday night, so I understand you don’t wish to hear this, however when one blows a shot at the Desirable CFP Area to a winless team, then the Coveted Fifth Spot it is. After investing Week 8 doing what Liberty could not, the Blew Raiders were not able to prevent the post-Kennesaw emotional letdown and lost to last year’s version of Kennesaw, Jacksonville State. This weekend I will be at the Georgia-Florida game in Jacksonville, as I am every year, and I always question if maybe some overserved Dawgs and/or Gators fans ever get indifferent with the GPS and end up in Jacksonville, Alabama, rather of Jacksonville, Florida. The Minors are back in these rankings since they lost a Waiting List Pillow Battle to Fa-la-la-la-la La-la-la-Tech, but today they’ll host the for-real Pillow Battle of the Week as they invite their traditional and classic longtime natural and regional competitor, Middle Tennessee State. Speaking of Pillow Fights, we guaranteed we ‘d let you understand who beat Wyoming in the latest edition of the PFOW. Here they are. The Other Aggies, who kicked a 40-yard field goal as time expired in Laramie. Now I want the Performance for Carolinas was occurring this weekend, because I would have told Marty Smith to tell Eric Church that”As Time Expired in Laramie”certainly seems like a top 40 country hit. The OG Owls are the last ones remaining in

these rankings since Temple, Kennesaw and FA (not I)U had the downy audacity to win football games. The OGs arrive here due to the fact that they were grounded by a previous Bottom 10 stalwart, the Artists Previously Known as UCan’t. But let’s not provide Connecticut a lot of props. If they had any genuine husky guts, they would schedule a last-minute contest with Kennesaw to try to complete the four-team Hooter Hoedown. pic.twitter.com/ZMjX2UKRHQ!.?.!— UConn Football( @UConnFootball)October 26, 2024

After making the once-mighty Miami rivalry completely unimportant, the No’s now welcome in UNC, aka the historic geographical center of the ACC, for the latest round of their “Hey, Remember Like 10 Minutes Ago When We Kept Shrieking That We Were Too Great for Y’ all?” world tour.Waiting list:

Troy Bolton State (aka the team that beat Southern Missed), Pur-don’t, Kennesaw Mountain Landis State, UMess, FI(notA)U, FA(not I)U, Temple of Doom, Fa-la-la-la-la La-la-la-Tech, Akronmonious, election ad mailers.