Bottom 10: Texas Tech enters the spooky rankings - ESPN

Inspirational thought of the week:

All our times have come
Here, but now they're gone
Seasons don't fear the Reaper
Nor do the wind, the sun, or the rain
Come on, baby
(Don't fear the Reaper) Baby, take my hand
(Don't fear the Reaper) We'll be able to fly
(Don't fear the Reaper) Baby, I'm your man
La, la, la, la, la

— «Don't Fear The Reaper,» Blue Oyster Cult

Here at Bottom 10 Headquarters, located behind the hedges at Williams Brice Stadium, which used to be a great place to hide but is now as wide open as Jeremiah Smith on a post route, we love Halloween. Even though we grew up attending a church where the youth pastor told us that having a Blue Oyster Cult cassette in our Case Logic tape case on the passenger seat of our Oldsmobile might as well have been riding shotgun in Satan's elevator to Hades.

When a college football Saturday lands right smack on top of the scariest day on the calendar, it always sends a little extra chill up the spine pads of those who coach and play the games. Well, most of them, anyway. For longtime frequent residents of the 10-story Tower of Terror that is the Bottom 10, the sensation of a sudden drop that makes you feel like your toes have landed in your tonsils is no E-Ticket ride. It's a way of life. Over and over again.

So, it's been especially fun for us here to watch those who have spent most of their college football lives in the hoity toity Top 25 spend the past two weeks bouncing up and down and hanging on for dear life while Rod Serling laughs at them, and so do we.

You can hear our Bottom 10'ers cutting loose with a maniacal laugh of their own as they quote a guy from a movie based around another holiday, also about thrills and chills and falling lifts inside a tall building.