
Ryan McGeeSep 24, 2025, 07:00 AM ET
- 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:
Pale September
I wore the clip similar a formal that year
The autumn days swung brushed astir maine similar fabric connected my skin
But arsenic the embers of the summertime mislaid their enactment and disappeared
My bosom went acold and lone hollow rhythms resounded from within
-- "Pale September," Fiona Apple
Here astatine Bottom 10 Headquarters, located successful the Miami poolside cabana wherever assemblage semiotic specialists are studying Pat McAfee's tan lines, we are bittersweet due to the fact that we cognize that for astir of the nation, the days of jumping into immoderate swimming excavation are rapidly coming to a close. The days remaining successful September person dwindled into azygous digits, soon to beryllium followed by single-digit temperatures successful those pools.
For many, September can't wrapper up soon enough. I americium of people speaking of the pumpkin spice cartel and the teams of the Bottom 10. The hopes that those teams carried into Week 0 person each but vanished. As October looms, they are already halfway oregon much to a cache of losses that volition warrant a sub-.500 season. The dreams they shared of earning a 6-6 berth to a December vessel crippled are astir arsenic bankrupt arsenic the cryptocurrency slope that failed to marque outgo connected their sponsorship of that vessel game.
But alas, each is not lost. No squad successful the FBS ranks has much than 4 losses. There's inactive 1 much crippled play near successful September. There is inactive clip for a turnaround. Just marque definite you don't get truthful turned astir that you upwind up moving the shot into the incorrect extremity zone.
August 30, 2012: Kent State's Andre Parker returns a muffed punt the incorrect mode against Towson and was tackled by his opponents. pic.twitter.com/koRDpRmydY
— This Day In Sports Clips (@TDISportsClips) August 30, 2025With apologies to Andre Parker, Earth, Wind & Fire and Steve Harvey, here's the past Bottom 10 rankings of September 2025.

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1. Sam Houston, We Have a Problem (0-4)
The Bearkats kreated a konundrum for Texas fanatiks. Kould they successful benignant konscience kontribute enkouragement to Arch Manning?
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2. UMess (0-3)
The Minutemen failed to screen the dispersed against the Fightin' Byes of Open Date U. And by that we mean they tried to person a picnic astatine Lexington Green and virtually failed to screen the spread, which was overrun with ants. Still, that's amended than being overrun by Tigers, which volition hap this play astatine No. 20 Missouri.
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3. ucLa Boo'ins (0-3)
There was besides a bye successful Westwood. As in, "Bye, Coach." Now it's disconnected for the Pillow Fight of the Week, that tradition-rich Big Ten rivalry crippled astatine Northworstern.
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4. Oregon Trail State (You person died of dysentery) (0-4)
I was successful Corvallis midweek, specified days earlier the Game Formerly Known As The Civil War. Fittingly, the temper up of the Oregon matchup was overmuch similar the feelings of the Confederates arsenic they arrived astatine the Appomattox Court House. The postgame temper was similar erstwhile they were leaving the courthouse and stepped successful a heap of equine manure.
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