Sad Stunning Awful: Bottom 10 gets on the Taylor Swift

• Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterOct 4, 2023, 07:00 AM ET Close Senior author for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com
• 2-time Sports Emmy winner
• 2010, 2014 NMPA Author of the Year

Inspirational thought of the week:

And time
Is taking its sweet time erasing you.And you’ve got

your satanic forces
And darlin’ they all look like me.

‘Cause we had a gorgeous magic love there …
What a sad stunning awful love affair.

— “Sad Beautiful Awful,” Taylor Swift

Here at Bottom 10 Headquarters, located in the storage room where Jesse Palmer keeps his emergency situation products of arch supports and joint liniments for the candidates on “The Golden Bachelor,” we spent our September standing in line outside football arenas around the nation, not waiting to see football games or to see Taylor Swift, however to see Taylor Swift seeing football games.Editor’s Picks

Are Tay-Tay and Travis Kelce dating? We don’t understand. But they appear to be, and at very first blush the lady who matured in Temple Owls area and the previous Cincinnati Bearcat may look like an odd pairing. So might including T-Swizzle, whose present tour has actually earned a reported $2.2 billion, in the Bottom 10. However take a look at the female’s lyrics, why don’t you?

“It’s me. Hi. I’m the issue, it’s me.”

“And if I get burned, at least we were energized.”

“I’m still a follower, however I don’t know why. I’ve never ever been a natural. All I do is try, attempt, try.”

Do those not seem like the weeps of the groups of the Bottom 10? Heck, throughout this really trip Taylor even tossed up an “L” indication!

| @TaylorSwift13 did a ‘Loser’ indication to “Enthusiast” pic.twitter.com/3L9HeWaTxv!.?.!— Taylor Swift Facts(@blessedswifty)April 22, 2023 With that in mind and with Arrowhead Arena lathered up into

a sequin-covered craze, we are going full Swiftie, finding Miss Americana’s tunes that finest fit every”Anti-Hero “on this list.With apologies to Lawrence Taylor, Aaron Taylor, D’Andre Swift and Steve Harvey, here’s the

Post-Week 5 Bottom 10. 1. No-vada(0-5)”I Did Something Bad”I’m not fantastic at mathematics– my accountant and every instructor I ever had can inform you that. But

I do understand that there are

133 FBS football programs. I likewise know that the Wuf Pack currently rank 131st in points for and 130th in points versus. I likewise know that if you can’t score and you can’t keep the other men from scoring, that’s bad. Like, as bad as I usually am at mathematics. 2. U-Can’t (0-5)

“This Is Why We Can’t Have Great Things “On paper, a one-point loss to

a Utah State program that goes bowling practically every winter does not appear that bad. However when you realize the Huskies had a 17-point lead however lost when a potential game-tying PAT was blocked with 40 seconds staying, you recognize that “on paper”is in fact among those newspapers that Jason Bourne likes to hide behind as he punches you in the face. 3. Sam Houston State We Have Problem

(0-4)” Begin Again”In the Battle of FBS Newbies

versus Jacksonville State, the Bearkats seized an eight-point lead with 1:11 staying, however immediately gave up an eight-play, 75-yard goal drive in less than a minute in addition to the 2-point conversion to force overtime. Not just did the Kats lose in OT, but we had a certified Bottom 10 moment when the overtime coin toss had to be redone due to the fact that throughout the coin flip, the coin hadn’t really flipped. play 0:22 Ref requests renovate after OT coin toss flub Prior To Jacksonville State

and Sam Houston begin overtime, the official attempts

to turn the coin, however it doesn’t actually flip. 4. Akronmonious(1-4)”The Moment I Knew”Speaking of math, we have spent a disproportionate amount

of time this fall watching the MCU– the #MACtion Cinematic

Universe– to see who amongst the one-and-something teams would make a statement that they were prepared to break away. When our friends the Zips lost to the then-second-ranked Buffalo Bulls Not Bills– and did so via a blocked basket in overtime, then, like my college sweetheart tossing all of my stuff out her 10th-floor dorm window, that declaration had been made. 5. UC( not S)F(3-2 )”Champagne Issues”The Fightin’Guses of UCF were up 35-7 in the third quarter prior to surrendering 35 unanswered points to Baylor. Nevertheless, they still had a chance to win the game however missed out on a 59-yard field goal attempt as time expired. It was the biggest resurgence in Baylor history and the biggest collapse in Orlando since I tried to do that” drinking all over the world” thing at Epcot. 6. UMess (1-5)” Right Where You Left Me”Keep in mind way back in the day, like, 2 weeks ago, when Arkansaw State was atop the bottom of these rankings and looked

like a runway Red

Wolf of a preferred to win the

Bottom 10? Then the Wolves beat Southern Missed out on. Then they beat these guys, the group that even way-er back then, like five weeks ago, began the season as the leading bottom group in the preseason Bottom 10, however opened the season with a promising win … and haven’t won since. 7. You A Bee? (1-4)”You Required to Relax “Trent Dilfer has actually always worn his heart on his sleeve, as seen by his feeling this week ahead of UAB’s annual Kid’s Harbor Game supporting kids battling health problem.

However if you saw him simply a couple of days earlier,” going over “an alternative infraction with his training personnel, then you likewise know he uses slobber and seething bile on his sleeve like that Blazers mascot logo that spits fire. play 0:47 Trent Dilfer incensed on the sideline after a pricey charge Trent Dilfer erupts on numerous assistant coaches after UAB draws a costly prohibited

substitution charge. 8. UTEPid (1-5) “Back to December”The Minors registered their fourth straight loss and fifth of the season, with their only triumph coming versus Incarnate Word of the FCS. That means they are one loss far from returning to another December without bowl eligibility. 9. Charlotte 1-and-4 ‘ers (1-4 )”Cardigan “There were so many T-Swizzle choices here. We might have opted for”Sweater

“or even”Dress “or possibly even”Cold As You

“due to the fact that as October temperatures fall and the Niners’keep accumulating losses, perhaps it’s time for Biff Poggi to attempt training a game in something with sleeves. The cutoff t-shirts are becoming like the fungi on the shower shoes of Nuke LaLoosh. 10. Stanfird( 1-4 )”We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together

“As the season nears

its halfway point, we have also officially went into the “oh dang, we won’t be playing again?” portion of the 2023 pre-realignment season. See: Stanford and Oregon, who have actually played 87 times going back to 1900, consisting of the existing run of nearly undisturbed annual meetings that reaches back to 1951. Next year this game will be changed on the Cardinal’s and Ducks’ schedules by the likes of Wake Forest and Michigan State– turning what used to be a Poulan Weed Eater Independence or Redbox Bowl match into a conference game.Waiting List: FA (not I)U, R.O.C.K. in the UTSA, EC-Yew, The Pitt and the Pendulum, UVA Tech, Muddled Tennessee, the MCU (#MACtion Cinematic Universe), San No-sé State, Rod Tidwell’s university, LSU’s feaux D, all the old angry men who tweeted at me about Deion Sanders recently and will tweet at me about Taylor Swift this week