Bottom 10: Digital bullies from Michigan earn their spot
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The Bottom 10 inspirational thought of the week:
And if I should falter,
Would you open your arms out to me.
We can make love not war,
And live at peace with our hearts.
Don't you tell me no.
Soul, I hear you calling.
Oh baby, please give a little respect to me.
-- "A Little Respect," by Erasure
At the top of the college football food chain, they called it Separation Saturday. It was a weekend-long clash of the would-be playoff titans that produced improbable, impossible finishes. Here at the other end, at Bottom 10 HQ, located in a Rubbermaid storage shed next to the warehouse where Danny Kanell keeps all his tweed vests, we called it Shakeup Saturday. For we, too, had plenty of improbable, impossible finishes.
We had teams, like, winning and stuff.
Georgia State Not Southern won. Why, Oming? won. Tejas State ... Fres-No State ... the Army Black Nots ... winner, winner, winner! A handful of the teams that still lost managed to make a game of it. Yeah, we saw you, Kansas and UCF.
And in the middle of it all, as typically happens during this, the middle of the season, an annual phenomenon took place. Like the annual migration of the wildebeest, the complaints about a team being shown no respect by being included in the Bottom 10 are replaced. By what? Demands that a team be shown due respect by being included in the Bottom 10.
Like @tcatsuko lobbying for Tulane, retweeting the fact that the Green Wave posted more penalties (11) than first downs (10) in their loss to Houston.
Or Tyson Woodford (aka @skoshtheyosh) stating his case for Nevada, the team that fell to Wyoming.
Or @NickAnders pushing for Nebraska, via the Huskers' four losses in the final 15 seconds or beyond.
Then there was our favorite correspondence of the year, maybe of all time:
In the end, that's what this is all about. Educating the people and allowing them to educate us.
That's called mutual respect.
With apologies to Aretha Franklin and Steve Harvey, here's this week's Bottom 10.
1. UC(not S)F (0-7)
2. North Texas Forty (0-6)
3. Kansas (0-6)
4. New Mexico State (0-6)
5. Digital Tough Guys from Michigan (0-1)
6. Troy (1-5)
7. Louisiana Monroe (1-5)
8. The Boys From Oopsilanti(1-6)
9. My Hammy Of Ohio (1-6)
10. FA(not I)U (1-5)
Waiting list: Tejas State (1-4), U-Mess (1-5), Pur-don't (1-6), SMU (1-5), R.O.C.K. in the UTSA (1-6), Why, Oming? (1-6), UNLV (2-5), Huh-why-yuh (2-5), Ohio State stealing the Miami Sharks' uniforms.
