College football Bottom 10 after Week 8: Canes can't stay away - ESPN

Inspirational thought of the week:

(Cole Trickle drives his mangled Chevy Lumina into the pit stall)

Buck Bretherton: «Well, how about that? Something we don't have to fix!»

(Crew chief Harry Hogge walks over and kicks a dent into the side of the car Bretherton is looking at)

Harry Hogge: «I don't want you to get spoiled, Buck.»

— «Days of Thunder»

Here at Bottom 10 Headquarters, located behind the footlocker on the «College GameDay» bus where Nick Saban keeps his secret stash of «Anchor Down» Vanderbilt football apparel, we are beginning to worry that perhaps those of you who visit these rankings, as the kids say, «on the regular» might be like those who benefited from Saban's time in Tuscaloosa. You're getting a little spoiled.

Just two weeks ago, we had an all-time majestically meh Pillow Fight of the Week of the Year Mega Bowl matchup between UMess and State of Kent, winners of a lot of the most recent Bottom 10 titles. (We tried to look up exactly how many, but someone spilled Yoo-hoo on the archival floppy disk.) Then, this past week, we had the Sam Houston Bearkats kutting it up with UTEPid. Now the stage is set for a third consecutive PFOWY, as Georgia State Not Southern hosts the South Alabama Redundancies. And, as you will read in the words ahead, this is just the tip of a season-sinking iceberg of not-big games coming, as the spotter on the Titanic shouted way too late, «Right ahead!»

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So, for all the talk about Power Autonomous Haughty Four conference realignment, in-conference scheduling, CFP committee résumé reading and the headliner showdowns that all of the above seem to bring with them, how about some