Inspirational considered the week:
Do you ever really feel already buried deep?
Six ft underneath screams, however nobody appears to listen to a factor
Are you aware that there is nonetheless an opportunity for you?
‘Trigger there is a spark in you
You simply gotta ignite the sunshine
And let it shine
Simply personal the night time
Just like the Fourth of July
‘Trigger child, you are a firework
Come on, present ’em what you are price
Make ’em go, “Oh, oh, oh”
As you shoot throughout the sky
— “Firework,” Katy Perry
Right here at Backside 10 Headquarters, situated beneath the 6-foot tall pile of pierogi crusts left by the “School GameDay” crew after final week’s present in Pittsburgh, we imagine that it is very important have fun all life’s victories, whether or not these triumphs be massive or be they small.
Received a nationwide title? Hoist that large gold Eye of Sauron-looking trophy and savor the second.
Received a Heisman Trophy? Hug that bronze stiff-armed man, load him within the automotive and drive him round with you to take selfies with individuals on the road, à la 1980 winner George Rogers.
Kicked a discipline objective with 6:13 remaining in your inevitable 14th consecutive loss that lower the lead from 45-0 to 45-3? Push the ignition button on a trunk load of fireworks that you have had sitting behind the scoreboard all fall as a result of it is your penultimate residence sport of the yr and New England is about to be shrouded in single-digit temps for the subsequent 4 months and that TNT goes to change into frozen and ineffective should you do not use it proper now as a result of fireworks are costly and also you draw 6,000 individuals per sport (paid attendance) and you’ll’t afford to waste the money.
UMASS FIELD GOAL FIREWORKS 🎇 pic.twitter.com/nVI9wP2El3
— School Soccer Campus Tour (@cfbcampustour) November 13, 2025
With apologies to former Nevada operating again Spencer Firebaugh, Mississippi State lineman Luke Work, Rutgers DB Davoun Fuse and Steve Harvey, this is the post-Week 12 Backside 10 rankings.
The Minuetmen rolled west to Ohio for Tuesday Night time (Form of) Soccer, the place they have been Bobbed by the Cats to stay the nation’s solely winless workforce, in addition to the primary to achieve 11 losses. One week from now they may end the season with one other Tuesday throwdown, a go to from Boiling Inexperienced, which is at present 3-7. Ought to UMass reward us with a pre-Thanksgiving victory, then I say it ought to set off all of the fireworks it may possibly discover, together with emergency boat flares and all of the too-frozen turkeys that each one our too-drunk uncles will spend the subsequent week dropping into fryers and burning their homes down.
Previously at any time when a Center Tennessee State workforce discovered itself struggling by way of a season, it might level up the highway to Vandy and Tennessee Tech and say, “Effectively, no less than we aren’t like these losers!” This yr the Blue Raiders cannot even try this, as they roll into the Pillow Combat Of The Week However Not Of The 12 months Like We Thought It Was Going To Be. Why is not it what we thought it was going to be? Maintain studying.
The Niners grew to become the 1-and-9ers after shedding to the Artists Previously Generally known as R.O.C.Ok. within the UTSA. Now they journey to Georgia, the place they may obtain a UGA-record nonconference payout of $1.9 million for making the journey. As Niners grad John McCurdy wrote on UNCC Soccer’s official Fb web page: “At the least we’re first in one thing :-)”
I just lately obtained an offended social media put up from somebody saying that I ought to be extra supportive of the Panthers as a result of their head coach is a McGee. For the file, I do assist all McGees, together with State head coach Dell. Effectively, OK, not all McGees. That reporter who adopted Bruce Banner far and wide with Hulk questions, that dude made me offended. And also you would not like me once I’m offended.
5. The Coveted Group of 5 Spot
I really like the non-Autonomous 5. I hear their complaints about lack of respect. However then, each single time a ranked Group of 5 workforce has stood on the doorstep of the 2025 School Soccer Playoff, it manages to shut that door by itself fingers. Watching these guys attempt to hold on to the decrease rungs of the Prime 25 is like watching Navy plebes after they should climb that greased obelisk on campus. And that metaphor completely works as a result of the Midshipmen are a type of groups, shedding at North Texas to spoil an undefeated season, then turning round and spoiling the CFP goals of South Florida final weekend.
Talking of CFP slippage, the Golden Beagles had #goacc leaders Georgia Tech on the Coveted Fifth Spot precipice earlier than surrendering 19 factors within the fourth quarter and shedding through a discipline objective with 11 seconds remaining, becoming a member of in-state roomies UMass because the nation’s solely double-digit loss groups. In the meantime, South Carolina followers are sitting up from the ground, studying about that collapse and saying, “Is that each one?!” then downing one other shot of mustard BBQ sauce flavored moonshine and returning to the fetal place.
Even when a season goes south, it is nice to know {that a} workforce can nonetheless lean on the bedrock of school soccer: Traditional regional rivalries which were performed for generations. You understand, like Oklahoma State touring to UCF.
The Beavs have created fairly the tumbler of Backside 10 conundrums. They began 0-6 to grab the highest backside spot. Then they gained two in a row, together with an upset of fellow 2Pac member Warshington State. Then they misplaced two in a row, first falling to the then-second ranked Backside 10 workforce, aka the subsequent workforce in these present rankings, and final weekend to then-Backside 10 Wait Listers Residing on Tulsa Time. Now they face the Fightin’ Byes of Open Date U. earlier than an in-season rematch with, sure, Warshington State. The precise Oregon Path was a smoother trip.
Kurious concerning the earlier komment koncerning the Pillow Combat Of The Week However Not Of The 12 months Like We Thought It Was Going To Be? That is bekause the Bearkats kast a kink into the effekt of this klash by profitable konsekutive kontests. However that also kouldn’t kompletely katapult them from these rankings.
The Minors return to those rankings after an extended absence. Effectively, lengthy for them, no less than. Their solely FBS win this season got here towards Sam Houston, thus our refusal to rank them forward of the Kats. However SHSU simply beat I am In … Delaware and those self same Hens will likely be roosting with UTEP of their season finale. So if Sam Houston loses out through defeats to MTSU and Florida Worldwide … however UTEP additionally loses out through an “L” to Delaware … then to kind out the ultimate Backside 10 standings, we will must spend Thanksgiving weekend with that unmarked jar of “holy water” that Granddaddy retains by his chair throughout the holidays.
Ready Checklist: No-vada, San No-se State (aka the workforce that simply misplaced to No-vada), Pur-don’t, Colora-duh State, Arkansaw Fightin’ Petrinos, blowing a 27-point halftime lead.
