Inspirational considered the week:
Take this job and shove it
I ain’t working right here no extra
My girl finished left
And took all the explanations
I used to be working for
You higher not attempt to stand in my manner
As I am a-walking out the door
Take this job and shove it
I ain’t working right here no extra
— “Take This Job and Shove It,” Johnny Paycheck
Right here at Backside 10 Headquarters, positioned behind the wall of industrial-sized cooling followers used to maintain Pete Thamel’s telephone and laptop computer labeled “Teaching Carousel Information Breakers” from overheating and exploding just like the Dying Star, we’re following what would look like a very good plan for anybody and everybody who has even the tiniest line of crossover into the Venn diagram of school soccer: sporting a hardhat and hiding below our desks as everybody round us shouts, “Timber!” as one more FBS head coach falls.
At least eight Energy 4 coaches have been relieved of their duties as of the writing of this week’s rankings. That depend hits a good dozen while you embrace the roles misplaced within the Gang of 6 leagues, as we at all times do round right here.
It is becoming that that is all peaking simply earlier than Halloween. As a result of a 12 months in the past, I wearing a dressing up as a university soccer coach, circa 2007 “I am a person! I am 40!” Mike Gundy. That evening I used to be a bit overserved and did not notice that I had positioned my metallic folding chair straight over a smoldering fireplace pit and wound up burning my Cowboy Orange butt as a result of, sure, I as Mike Gundy unknowingly had been on a scorching seat.
Oklahoma State and Brian Kelly have an opportunity to do the funniest factor ever pic.twitter.com/SFab173DGe
— Boastful Nation✌🏻 (@FightOnRusty) October 27, 2025
With apologies to Ball State broad receiver Trey Firestone, former UCLA kicker Joseph Firebaugh, Syracuse defensive lineman Kevin Jobity and Steve Harvey, listed here are the post-Week 9 Backside 10 rankings.
The Minuetmen took a break from their Pillow Combat of the Week marathon, shedding to five-win Central Michigan. Now they hit a two-game stretch that in preseason felt like a surefire PFOW doubleheader, however Akronmonious had the Akrondacity to win three video games. Nevertheless, the subsequent opponent, Northern Unwell-ugh-noise has hovered between the Backside 10 Ready Listing and the precise Backside 10 all season, even incomes us a point out in a current write-up concerning the group’s woes since beating Notre Dame, which occurred on Sept. 7, 2024, however with the Huskies’ document sitting at 8-11 since then, it feels extra like Sept. 7, 1924.
Talking of Pillow Fights, with all due respect to the Bearkats’ upkoming Halloween kostume kontest with the Kajun-speaking kin of Louisiana, our fokus is already on the subsequent weekend’s kruise west to kompete with …
The Beavs spent their bye week celebrating their Week 8 win over the Lafayette Leopards and resting up for Part 1 of their in-season home-and-home with fellow 2Pac member Wazzu. However in between these two video games are matchups with Sam Houston and one other Backside 10 flirt, Livin’ on Tulsa Time.
The Woof Pack’s previous six video games have been misplaced by margins of 1, 15, 3, 34, 2 and 21. So anticipate this weekend’s journey to Utah State to be a single-digit defeat and subsequent week’s go to from San No-sé State to be a double-digit loss. It is one of the best curler coaster in Reno for the reason that one my dad and mom put me and my brother on on the Circus Circus Resort & On line casino in 1979 whereas Mother ran all the way down to the ground to play the brand new Burt Reynolds-themed slot machines.
After spending greater than a decade working tirelessly to considerably efficiently restore his onetime Notre Dame public picture of being about as huggable as a cactus, final summer time Brian Kelly employed a picture guide to assist him get his efforts excessive. Sadly, it was a former NASCAR PR exec from the late 2000s. That is like hiring one of many guys from the lookout tower of the Titanic that will help you steer your yacht out of the gross sales dock.
Georgia State Not Southern misplaced back-to-back Pillow Fights of the Week, to Georgia Southern Not State and the South Alabama Redundancies. It was the primary time a Backside 10 group had achieved such a feat since … checks notes … Penn State final month.
I like this time of 12 months on cable tv as a result of all of the networks begin working midweek nighttime Halloween marathons. Like Hulu exhibiting all of the Alien motion pictures. Or AMC exhibiting the Friday the thirteenth sequence. Or the ESPN networks exhibiting Charlotte 49ers soccer.
Talking of stuff leaping out from the darkish and scaring the bejesus out of us, ensure you carry a flashlight into the shadows of Week 13. That is when MTSU hosts Sam Houston State.
If Wake Forest can play North Carolina and NC State can play Virginia as nonconference video games in opposition to in-conference opponents, then why cannot we add a mid-December non-ACC, Backside 10-sanctioned #goacc Mega Bowl between the BC Headache Powders and the 2-5 UNC Chapel Payments? I think about a bunch of New Englanders on the entrance finish of their winter’s Sam Adams-fueled hibernation may need some issues they’d wish to say to Coach Belichick if he got here to Newton for the vacations.
Full disclosure, we have been going to place Livin’ on Tulsa Time on this spot after Tulsa misplaced to Temple, one month after shedding to Tulane, that means that TU misplaced to each TU and TU, the second in OT. However then we remembered that certainly one of TU’s TW’s (two wins) got here at OSU, which simply misplaced to TTU by 42.
Ready Listing: Livin’ on Tulsa Time, Colora-duh State, Cannot-ucky, Arkansaw, South Alabama Redundancies, San No-sé State, UTEPid, Worst Virginia, Northern Unwell-ugh-noise, EMU Emus, Wisconsin Dangerous-gers, Akronmonious, UNC Chapel Invoice, the USC-Notre Dame sequence ending.