College football Bottom 10 after Week 9: Hot seats getting hotter - ESPN

Inspirational thought of the week:

Take this job and shove it
I ain't working here no more
My woman done left
And took all the reasons
I was working for

You better not try to stand in my way
As I'm a-walking out the door
Take this job and shove it
I ain't working here no more

— «Take This Job and Shove It,» Johnny Paycheck

Here at Bottom 10 Headquarters, located behind the wall of industrial-sized cooling fans used to keep Pete Thamel's phone and laptop labeled «Coaching Carousel News Breakers» from overheating and exploding like the Death Star, we are following what would appear to be a good plan for anyone and everyone who has even the tiniest line of crossover into the Venn diagram of college football: wearing a hardhat and hiding under our desks as everyone around us shouts, «Timber!» as yet another FBS head coach falls.

No less than eight Power 4 coaches have been relieved of their duties as of the writing of this week's rankings. That count hits an even dozen when you include the jobs lost in the Gang of 6 leagues, as we always do around here.

It's fitting that this is all peaking just before Halloween. Because a year ago, I dressed in a costume as a college football coach, circa 2007 «I'm a man! I'm 40!» Mike Gundy. That night I was a little overserved and didn't realize that I had placed my metal folding chair directly over a smoldering fire pit and wound up burning my Cowboy Orange butt because, yes, I as Mike Gundy unknowingly had been on a hot seat.

Oklahoma State and Brian Kelly have a chance to do the funniest thing ever pic.twitter.com/SFab173DGe

With apologies to Ball State wide receiver Trey Firestone, former UCLA kicker Joseph Firebaugh, Syracuse defensive lineman Kevin Jobity and Steve Harvey, here