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Ryan McGee
Inspirational considered the week:
Time eternal
Time to play B sides
Time ain’t on my aspect
Time I am going to by no means know
Burn out the day
Burn out the night time
I am not the one to let you know what’s incorrect or what’s proper
I’ve seen suns that had been freezing and lives that had been by
However I am burning, I am burning, I am burning for you
— “Burnin’ For You,” Blue Oyster Cult
Right here at Backside 10 Headquarters, presently positioned behind the massive pile of to-go containers that Jess Sims brings dwelling from all of her “School GameDay” highway eats segments, we all know that the place there’s smoke, there’s additionally hearth. And barbecue. And ash. However hopefully no ash on the barbecue.
There are a number of chairs being barbecued in faculty soccer nowadays. Scorching seats that grew to become kindling, and approach too early for an October fall harvest bonfire. UCLA and Virginia Tech grew to become the primary FBS groups to half methods in-season with their head coaches, one a legendary former participant and the opposite a legendary former assistant coach. And that has led to a hunka hunka burning “Who’s Subsequent?” sizzling seat lists.
It is not even actually CFB Week 4 but and sizzling seats are already… pic.twitter.com/WvZIxzD7fs
— Ryan McGee (@ESPNMcGee) September 14, 2025
It is sufficient to make one, properly, sit, and pause to ponder their place on this world. May at some point we get up to seek out an athletic director standing within the door of our workplace with a pink slip? Or a booster who sells automobiles and thinks he is an professional on the unfold offense standing in our door with a buyout test? Or Lane Kiffin standing within the door of our kitchen with a tape measure and material samples? And … wait … as we sit right here … did somebody spill some Tabasco on this chair or did we by accident get some muscle rub in our drawers?
With apologies to Navy O-lineman Connor Heater, Ole Miss D-tackle Jon Seaton and Steve Harvey, listed here are the post-Week 3 Backside 10 rankings.
The Amherst Amblers fell to 0-3 through a 47-7 loss at Iowa, which was additionally Kirk Ferentz’s 206th victory, making him the winningest coach in Large Ten Convention historical past. It was a becoming coincidence contemplating that Ferentz took the Hawkeyes job whereas the unique Minutemen had been nonetheless in Massachusetts.
The Bearkats kouldn’t benefit from the bye week on their kalendar bekause they nonetheless kouldn’t kover the unfold towards Open Date U. Now they are going to kombat Texas and kuarterbacking konundrum Arch Manning.
There are presently 11 0-and-something groups within the FBS, and 5 reside in #MACtion. Sources have informed Backside 10 JortsCenter that these groups have all requested Ohio if they’ll have the contact information for West Virginia’s scheduling man.
In associated information, sources are additionally telling us that after firing head coach DeShaun Foster, UCLA officers tried to see if the NCAA would allow them to return to the Pac-2, however their calls saved getting kicked to voicemail as a result of the NCAA strains had been tied up with all the UCLA gamers ringing the switch portal hotline.
Since their dramatic run to the School Soccer Playoff nationwide title recreation, the Irish are 0-3. It is not an unsightly 0-3. It is 0-3 towards three ranked groups by a mixed 15 factors — and the 2 losses this season are by a mixed 4 factors. However with no convention championship at their disposal and just one ranked opponent remaining on their schedule, the Irish CFP security internet is thinner than the margin of whether or not Rudy was or wasn’t offside.
Virginia Tech spent the offseason having its roster raided like a rum runner boat boarded by Jack Sparrow, misplaced a recreation to the son of its legendary coach, obtained run over by Vandy, obtained blown out by supposed little brother in-state college Outdated Dominion and fired its head coach so early within the season that the gamers who had been left from the primary switch portal raid might begin their very own switch portal exit in the event that they wished. My pal Marty Smith hasn’t been this upset since I by accident spilled Swiss Miss on his white Air Jordan Dior’s.
7. Oregon Trail State (You have got died of dysentery) (0-3)
Full disclosure: I’m presently scripting this in a resort room in Corvallis, the place I am engaged on a “School GameDay” characteristic in regards to the platypus trophy that the Beavers and Geese will play for this weekend. I’m … fairly … certain … they’re … messing … wItH … THEE … hOtEl … WHYFY … 2 … kEEp … mE … frum … FY-LING … this … STorY …
I do not need y’all to get too excited, however I’m wanting on the schedule and on back-to-back Tuesday nights in November, Weeks 12 and 13, Akron hosts UMess and State of Kent. That fast clicking you heard was me checking on inns and flights after which emailing the “GameDay” honchos to attempt to persuade them to do reveals from Akron with me for seven straight days. That one solitary click on you heard was them hanging up on me.
The Golden Flashes within the Pan lived as much as that identify, developing a NSFW 21-play, 93-yard, 12-plus-minute drive to take a 28-24 lead over the Buffalo Bulls Not Payments with 2:38 remaining … after which surrendering 76 yards on eight performs in 1:29 to lose their twenty fourth straight FBS recreation, seventeenth straight MAC recreation and eleventh straight convention recreation at dwelling. That is not NSFW, that is NC-17. Shoutout to a 12 months in the past, when the Flashes’ upcoming go to to Florida State would have been the Pillow Battle of the Week.
Talking of NC-17, have y’all peeped Florida’s schedule? It is the scariest factor I’ve seen since that point my household visited a Florida truck cease and my daughter purchased what she thought was a memento rubber alligator, however then a number of miles down the highway it bit the canine.
Ready checklist: Do You Know The Technique to San Jose State, Northworstern, My Hammy of Ohio, Western Not Japanese or Central Michigan, Kennesaw Mountain Landis State, No-vada, the staff that hardly beat No-vada, Baller State, We’re Not In Kansas State Anymore, replay evaluations that make on-field refs give up.
