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Inspirational considered the week:
Cling on to your hopes, my pal
That is a simple factor to say
But when your hopes ought to move away
Merely faux that you could construct them once more
Go searching
The grass is excessive
The fields are ripe
It is the springtime of my life
Seasons change with the surroundings
Weavin’ time in a tapestry
Will not you cease and bear in mind me?
Go searching
Leaves are brown
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter
— “Hazy Shade of Winter” by Simon & Garfunkel (or The Bangles, relying on how outdated you’re)
Right here at Backside 10 Headquarters, positioned behind the financial institution of telephones used to lift cash for the “Free Marty Smith From Oxford” fund, we as soon as once more take a look at the calendar and understand that it’s convention championship weekend, which implies it is time for the Backside 10 to make like Lane Kiffin and run for the exit amid a bathe of boos and center fingers.
The #Bottom10 Choice Committee is at present in session to find out the ultimate 2025 rankings, to be revealed Wednesday morning. pic.twitter.com/WdIvj25gNW
— Ryan McGee (@ESPNMcGee) December 2, 2025
Attributable to an unprecedented teaching carousel that was so bonkers we have renamed it the Teaching Tilt-A-Whirl, the candidates listing for this 12 months’s Backside 10 Choice Committee grew sooner than Brian Kelly’s attorneys’ billable hours bill. The ultimate roster: me, my dad, Captain Morgan (aka my stepdad), Mike Gundy, present Northwest Oklahoma defensive coordinator Jerry Glanville and former Texas State Armadillos head coach Ed “Straight Arrow” Gennero. As our vote started, we have been joined by Sam Pittman, who pulled as much as our assembly spot, a truck cease behind the Gaylord Texan the place the fancy-schmancy CFP committee was gathered, behind the wheel of a shoebox Winnebago blasting Skynyrd and towing a pontoon boat upon which the title “S.S. YESSIR” was airbrushed.
As soon as once more, we leaned on our Backside 10 FPI components. No, not the ESPN Soccer Energy Index, however moderately the Fake Pas Index. As a result of everybody loves math. (Editor’s observe: Besides us. An earlier model of those rankings had a math error that has been corrected.)
Groups obtain one level for every win, minus one level for every loss, minus one level for every lack of their longest dropping streak of the 12 months, plus a minus-10 bonus if that longest dropping streak is at present lively. We additionally subtract the variety of factors they’ve surrendered on the season from the variety of factors they scored, subtract or add factors based mostly on their season turnover margin and subtract their weak point of schedule (WoS) rating. If a staff fired its head coach, that earns a 50-point subtraction, aka the Randy Edsall Fired Coach Bonus.
Divide all of that by the variety of video games performed, and there is your Backside 10 FPI rating. As a result of it is exhausting numbers, the outcomes are indeniable. And by exhausting numbers we imply that we made the components so badly difficult that it is too exhausting to dispute as a result of it is not value losing the trouble to take action.
With apologies to Tennessee large receiver Deon Hardin, Mizzou operating again Ahmad Hardy, Rice operating again D’Andre Hardeman Jr. and Steve Harvey, here is the ultimate 2025 Backside 10 rankings.
Wins: +0
Losses: -12
Longest dropping streak: -12 (present -10)
Level differential: -330 (133 for, 463 in opposition to)
Turnover margin: -7
WoS: -91
Randy Edsall Fired Coach Bonus: N/A
Whole: -450
Video games performed: 12
Ultimate Backside 10 Fake Pas Index: -37.5
The Minuetmen had their moist hay within the barn a full week early, having performed their closing sport of the season on the Tuesday afternoon previous to Thanksgiving. As soon as they received that hay into the barn, they remembered that the Salem witch trials came about in Massachusetts and so they instantly burned that barn down in an effort to exorcise their Backside 10 demons.
Wins: +1
Losses: -11
Longest dropping streak: -9 (present -10)
Level differential: -264 (172 for, 436 in opposition to)
Turnover margin: -8
WoS: -70
Randy Edsall Fired Coach Bonus: N/A
Whole: -371
Video games performed: 12
Ultimate Backside 10 Fake Pas Index: -30.9
Niners officers reached out to the Backside 10 committee to see if maybe they could obtain bonus cool factors for the truth that their file was 1-9 when Georgia paid them $1.9 million to play “between the hedges.” We instructed them no, however solely after reaching out to UNCC math professors, who assured us that the legal guidelines of pure numerical legislation wouldn’t enable us so as to add one thing known as “cool factors” to one thing known as a “Fake Pas Index.”
Wins: +2
Losses: -10
Longest dropping streak: -8
Level differential: -241 (213 for, 454 in opposition to)
Turnover margin: +2
WoS: -104
Randy Edsall Fired Coach Bonus: N/A
Whole: -359
Video games performed: 12
Ultimate Backside 10 Fake Pas Index: -29.9
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Wins: +1
Losses: -11
Longest dropping streak: -11 (present -10)
Level differential: -230 (170 for, 400 in opposition to)
Turnover margin: -5
WoS: -30
Randy Edsall Fired Coach Bonus: -50
Whole: -346
Video games performed: 12
Ultimate Backside 10 Fake Pas Index: -28.8
Many individuals within the higher Stillwater space had instructed me that I did not have the Kowboys, er, sorry, Cowboys ranked low sufficient. Once we did the FPI math, it backed up these complainers with the identical quantity of drive that it backed down their staff.
5. The Lane Practice
Marty mentioned if I did not have Kiffin within the Coveted Fifth Spot once more this week he would beat me over the pinnacle with the turkey leg he wasn’t in a position to eat along with his household on Thanksgiving as a result of he needed to go to Oxford and maintain a microphone as a substitute.
Wins: +1
Losses: -11
Longest dropping streak: -9 (present -10)
Level differential: -217 (237 for, 454 in opposition to)
Turnover margin: -11
WoS: -66
Randy Edsall Fired Coach Bonus: N/A
Whole: -323
Video games performed: 12
Ultimate Backside 10 Fake Pas Index: -26.9
Simply because the arithmetic harm OSU, it helped GSU, which jumped/fell from No. 2 to No. 6. That may not appear to be a lot, however for a staff that final gained a sport greater than 80 days in the past, you will take no matter excellent news you may get.
Wins: +2
Losses: -10
Longest dropping streak: -6 (present -10)
Level differential: -148 (222 for, 370 in opposition to)
Turnover margin: -4
WoS: -90
Randy Edsall Fired Coach Bonus: -50
Whole: -316
Video games performed: 12
Ultimate Backside 10 Fake Pas Index: -26.3
Simply, essentially the most vocal “How can we not be ranked?!” #Bottom10Lobbying crowd of 2025 was Rams Nation. And once we did the mathematics, they have been proved proper as Colorado State leapt like a ram from a rock formation off the Ready Checklist into the canyon of practically the highest/backside 5. Now they’ve employed skilled Backside 10 rehabilitation specialist Jim Mora, who completely ruined what was the Backside 10’s model of Chiefs vs. Eagles, UMess vs. U-Cannot, by inexplicably turning the Huskies into winners.
Wins: +2
Losses: -10
Longest dropping streak: -7
Level differential: -135 (218 for, 353 in opposition to)
Turnover margin: -11
WoS: -60
Randy Edsall Fired Coach Bonus: -50
Whole: -271
Video games performed: 12
Ultimate Backside 10 Fake Pas Index: -22.6
The Beavers appeared to spend their total season caught in a bizarro Backside 10 vortex. Considered one of solely a pair of members of the 2Pac convention, Oregon State beat its solely league colleague, Warshington State, in Week 10, however then instantly misplaced to Sam Houston. Then all of the Beavers needed to do was beat Wazzu once more to depart these rankings for good, however they misplaced 32-8. Now they may do like all beavers and spend the winter not hibernating, however packed right into a mud lodge with different beavers, shivering and seeing who has to swim out beneath the ice to get meals. In associated information, that is additionally how we on the Backside 10 Choice Committee spent this week. We despatched Mike Gundy out to get the meals as a result of his haircut completely appears like a beaver.
Wins: +2
Losses: -10
Longest dropping streak: -5 (present -10)
Level differential: -85 (280 for, 365 in opposition to)
Turnover margin: -12
WoS: -109
Randy Edsall Fired Coach Bonus: N/A
Whole: -229
Video games performed: 12
Ultimate Backside 10 Fake Pas Index: -19.1
Representatives of the Minors crashed our committee assembly to remind us that whereas they understood they might seemingly need to be ranked, it doesn’t matter what the mathematics mentioned, they needed to be ranked above/beneath Sam Houston as a result of they beat the Bearkats head-to-head. However we did not hear any of that as a result of once we say they crashed our assembly, they actually crashed our assembly. Paydirt Pete had to make use of his pickax to pry the UTEP conversion van free from the place it bumped into the trailer carrying Pittman’s pontoon boat.
Wins: +2
Losses: -10
Longest dropping streak: -10
Level differential: -88 (305 for, 393 in opposition to)
Turnover margin: -9
WoS: -54
Randy Edsall Fired Coach Bonus: N/A
Whole: -169
Video games performed: 12
Ultimate Backside 10 Fake Pas Index: -14.08
The Golden Beagles have been in a Backside 10 peloton to the end line, which was extra like that scene at Oklahoma just a few weeks in the past when the Sooners received misplaced within the smoke of their stadium entrance and fell over one another, piling up like firewood for winter. Ultimately, Arkansaw and Pur-don’t obtained too massive of a Energy 4 WoS enhance, whereas Muddled Tennessee and No-vada each had the audacity to win two out of their closing three video games, hitting the Elevate Hell Reward Dale 3-victory mark and shifting out of the operating. We began to do the FPI math on just a few different groups, however when the batteries ran out in our Texas Devices calculator, Coach Pittman, relieved his former Hogs missed the ultimate minimize, introduced, “I am going to go to the shop, but it surely will not be to purchase batteries. It will be to purchase beer.” Assembly adjourned.
Ready Checklist: Arkansaw Fightin’ Former Petrinos, No-vada, San No-sé State, Pur-don’t, Muddled Tennessee State, Northern In poor health-ugh-noise, ULM (pronounced “Uhlm”), convention tiebreakers that require slide guidelines.
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