Inspirational Thought of the Week:
Have you ever felt already buried deep?
Six feet under the screams, but no one seems to hear anything.
Do you know that you still have a chance?
'Cause you have a spark
You just need to turn on the light
And let it shine
Just own the night
Like the fourth of July
'Cause baby you're a firecracker
Come on, show them what you're worth
Make 'em say, “Oh, oh, oh”
When you're shooting at the sky
– “Fireworks”, Katy Perry
Here at Bottom 10 headquarters, located under a 6-foot-tall pile of pierogi crusts left behind by the College GameDay crew after last week's show in Pittsburgh, we believe it's important to celebrate all of life's victories, whether big or small.
Won a national title? Pick up the large golden trophy that looks like the Eye of Sauron and enjoy the moment.
Won the Heisman Trophy? Embrace this bronzed, stiff-armed man, put him in your car and take him around to take selfies with people on the street, à la 1980 winner George Rogers.
Shot a field goal with 6:13 left and it's your inevitable 14th straight loss, cutting your lead from 45-0 to 45-3? Press the ignition button on the trunk with the fireworks you've been sitting behind the scoreboard the whole time because this is your second to last home game of the year and New England is going to be blanketed in single digits for the next four months and that TNT will freeze and become useless if you don't take advantage of it right now because fireworks are expensive and you're drawing 6,000 people to the game (paywall) and you can't afford to waste money.
FIREWORKS OF HEADS UMASS 🎇 pic.twitter.com/nVI9wP2El3
— College Football Campus Tour (@cfbcamustour) November 13, 2025
Apologies to former Nevada running back Spencer Firebaugh, Mississippi State lineman. Luke WarkRutgers D.B. Dawun Fuse and Steve Harvey, here are the top 10 rankings for Week 12.
The Minuetmen went west to Ohio for Tuesday Night Football (sort of), where they were gunned down by the 'Cats, leaving them as the only winless team in the country, as well as the first with 11 losses. They'll close out the season a week later with another blowout on Tuesday, a visit from Boiling Green, which is currently 3-7. If UMass gives us a win before Thanksgiving, then I say he should set off all the fireworks he can find, including emergency flares for boats and all the too-frozen turkeys that all our too-drunk uncles will spend the next week throwing into deep fryers and burning down their houses.
In the past, when Middle Tennessee State struggled during the season, it could point the way to Vandy and Tennessee Tech and say, “Well, at least we're not like those losers!” The Blue Raiders can't even do that this year, as they enter the fight with the cushion of the week, but not the year as we thought. Why isn't this what we thought? Keep reading.
The Niners were Nos. 1 and 9 after losing to Artists, formerly known as ROCK at UTSA. Now they head to Georgia, where they will receive a UGA-record non-conference payout of $1.9 million for the trip. As Niners alum John McCurdy wrote on the official UNCC Football Facebook page, “At least we're first at something :-).”
I recently received an angry social media message from someone telling me that I should support the Panthers more because their head coach is McGee. For the record, I support all of the McGees, including State head coach Dell. Okay, not all McGee. That reporter who followed Bruce Banner around asking questions about the Hulk, that dude pissed me off. And you won't like me when I'm angry.
5. Desirable group of 5 seats
I love non-autonomous 5. I hear them complain about disrespect. But every time a Group of 5 team finds itself on the cusp of the 2025 College Football Playoff, it manages to close that door with its own hands. Watching these guys struggle to stay in the lower rungs of the top 25 is like watching ordinary Navy personnel having to climb a greased obelisk on campus. And that metaphor totally works, because the Midshipmen are one of those teams that lost at North Texas and ruined an undefeated season, and then turned around and ruined CFP dreams for South Florida last weekend.
Speaking of CFP slippage, the Golden Hounds edged #goacc leaders Georgia Tech into the coveted fifth spot before trailing by 19 points in the fourth quarter and losing a field goal with 11 seconds left, joining neighbors Massachusetts as the only teams in the country with double-digit losses. Meanwhile, South Carolina fans are sitting on the floor, reading about this collapse and saying, “Is that all?!” then drank another shot of moonshine flavored with mustard barbecue sauce and returned to the fetal position.
Even as the season winds down, it's nice to know the team can still build on the foundation of college football: the classic regionals that have been played for generations. You know, like Oklahoma State going to UCF.
The Beaves created a real top ten puzzle. They started 0–6 and finished in first place. They then reeled off two wins in a row, including an upset of fellow 2Pac member Warshington State. Then they lost twice in a row, first falling to the bottom 10 teams at the time, which is the next team in these current rankings, and last weekend to the then bottom 10 waitlists living on Tulsa time. They now face Open Date U. before their season rematch with, yes, Warshington State. The real Oregon Trail was smoother.
Are you interested in the previous comment about the pillow fight of the week, but not the year as we thought? That's because the Bearkats put a dent in the impact of this clash by winning back-to-back contests. But this still could not completely knock them out of this ranking.
“Minors” return to this ranking after a long absence. Well, at least have pity on them. Their only FBS win this season came against Sam Houston State, so we declined to rank them above the Cats. But SHSU just beat I'm In…Delaware and the same Hens will be sleeping with UTEP in the season finale. So if Sam Houston loses due to losses to MTSU and Florida International… but UTEP also loses by “L” to Delaware… then to make sense of the final bottom 10, we'll need to spend Thanksgiving weekend with that nameless jar of “holy water” that Grandpa keeps near his chair during the holidays.
Waiting list: No-Wada, State of San No-Se (aka the team that just lost to No-Wada), Pur Don, State of Colo. Arcanso Fighting Petrinos took a 27-point halftime lead.
