Bottom 10: The spitting distance between Florida and Arizona State

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  • Ryan McGeeSep 10, 2025, 07:00 AM ET

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    • Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com
    • 2-time Sports Emmy winner
    • 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year

Inspirational thought of the week:

Mama, what person you done?

I hint your steps successful the acheronian of 1

Am I what's left?

Silver lines susurration to me

"Wounded arms indispensable transportation the load"

We're spitting disconnected the borderline of the world, retired successful the nighttime

Never had nary chance, obscurity to fell

We're spitting disconnected the borderline of the world, (nowhere to run)

Never had nary chance, (out comes the sun)

Spitting disconnected the borderline of the world

-- "Spitting disconnected the Edge of the World" -- Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Here astatine Bottom 10 Headquarters, presently located down the Goodwill bin wherever Pat McAfee donates each the sleeves that helium cuts disconnected his shirts, we can't judge that 2 weeks of assemblage shot are already successful the books -- 2⅛ if you see Week 0, and astatine the Bottom 10, we unrecorded for zeroes.

That's wherefore we jumped up disconnected the pleather Barcalounger we recovered connected the thoroughfare and dumped a blistery cookware pastry into our laps arsenic the timepiece deed zeroes astatine Florida's Swamp, ending a game-winning thrust by our aged pals US(Not C)F that had been extended erstwhile a Gator made a zero-sum determination and spit into the face of a Bull. That's mostly a atrocious plan, spot me. When I was a kid visiting my uncle Will's farm, I spit into the look of a bull and it proceeded to footwear maine betwixt 2 loblolly pines similar USF's tract extremity went done the uprights.

Watching shot these days pic.twitter.com/CQKlDufMfs

— Chris Vannini (@ChrisVannini) September 6, 2025

It was the astir notorious expectoration since Keith Hernandez's "Magic Loogie" deed Kramer, since Jim Croce tried to spit into the upwind earlier messing with Jim oregon since, well, the different 2 sports-related spitting incidents that happened the precise aforesaid week arsenic the 1 successful Gainesville. See: Jalen Carter of the Philadelphia Eagles and shot subordinate Luis Suárez of Inter Miami, who really upgraded by spitting due to the fact that helium usually bites people.

With apologies to erstwhile Ohio State linebacker Austin Spitler, ex-Syracuse antiaircraft backmost Russ Spitz, spitball ace Gaylord Perry and Steve Harvey, here's the post-Week 2 Bottom 10 rankings.

1. UMess (0-2)

The Minutemen started their crippled against the Bryant Bulldogs -- who were picked to decorativeness 13th successful the 14-team FCS Colonial Athletic Association -- with an FPI-calculated accidental of winning astatine 90% and so jumped to a 20-3 precocious successful the archetypal half. But they mislaid 27-26 via a walk-off tract goal. It was the biggest turnaround for a Bryant since Kobe's baseline fadeaway.


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