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The Bottom 10 Inspirational Thought of the Week:I thought things had changed I thought things looked plain I thought I could see the lightI just could not decide and all my shots went wide Id waited for that light so longBut now, now I know I saw the distant glow I heard a distant whistle blow-- The Light at the End of the Tunnel is a Train by WhiteyHere at Bottom 10 headquarters, located in the humidor where Rece Davis stores his Andy Griffith Show VHS tapes, weve entered that time of the season where we feel a little bit like Ricky Bobby.We dont know what to do with our hands.As Thanksgiving weekend wraps up and the college football regular season nears its close, we arent unlike the support crew at your local Turkey Day 10K road race. The winners crossed the finish line hours ago. But here we still stand, knowing that while thousands may have headed home long ago, there are 10 participants still out there on the course. Sure, we want to start packing things up, but we also dont want to be disrespectful to the people moving along at a crawl, knees swollen and a little bit of snot dripping from their noses. They run, limp and crawl toward the light they see up ahead, hoping it is the end of the tunnel, but knowing its probably the Number 3 train headed in the opposite direction ... or Alabama.As they finally drag themselves across the finish line, what do we do? Clap? Hug them? Call the paramedics? Dig a discarded participation ribbon out of the trash and pin it to their T-shirt? Or do we just yell, Damn, yall, its about time! Youre holding up shopping traffic!With apologies to John Stephen Akhwari and Steve Harvey, heres this weeks Bottom 10.1. Fres-no State (1-11) As Ive stood at that 2016 finish line, I have not been alone. This season we have picked up multiple Bottom 10 Section 13 field reporters eager to keep us here at Bottom 10 HQ abreast of the situation at our member schools. This weekend we heard from Twitter bud @SJCsouthpaw, who was in the stands for our Pillow Fight of the Week between the States of San Jose and Fresno.Thankfully, those ominous leaning towers were just stadium lights and not War of the Worlds tripods attacking Bulldog Stadium. By the end, Southpaw went total Jim Cantore, braving the elements to bring us this final report.As of Monday afternoon, he hadnt tweeted since. Dang, maybe those were tripods ...2. In a Rut-gers (2-10) Former Big East member Rutgers lost to former ACC member Maryland in the Yes, This Is Actually A Big Ten Conference Game And Not The Belk Bowl Classic.3. Texas State Armadillos (2-9) The hay is in the barn for most of our Bottom 10 teams, but the Arma ... er, Bobcats still have one game remaining. They are riding seven straight losses, including five in which theyve surrendered 40-plus points and three defeats to current or former 2016 Bottom 10 teams. A convincing defeat at home to Arkansas State might be enough to continue their meteoric fall. Do Bobcats eat hay?4. Buffalo Bills, er Bulls (2-10) All three directional Michigan teams are actually pretty good. My Hammy of Ohio is bowl eligible. Bowling Green and Northern Illinois are not. But just when I think the MAC has become a place I no longer recognize, I look at Buffalo, and Im like Linus with his blanket.5. The SEC Least I once attended a rather redneck party where the main activity was to get everyone drunk, grease up a pig and then have us all chase the poor porker through a mud bog until someone finally caught him. The dude who won was named Earl. Ill never forget him standing there smiling with a front tooth chipped during the hog chase and his Diamond Rio T-shirt torn and soaked in what I hope was mud. Congratulations, Florida. Youre Earl.6. UMess (2-10) At the start of the season, I started a countdown in this space that would take us to what I believed at the time might be the Pillow Fight of the Millennium: the Minutemens visit to Hawaii. Then Hawaii went and won six games and fouled that up. UMass, however, has held up its end of the deal.7. Kansas Nayhawks (2-10) The Nayhawks lost (won?) the 2015 Bottom 10 championship in a tiebreaker. This year they werent able to make another run (fall?) at the title. Why? According to Chapter 13: Article X: Order 66 of the Bottom 10 rulebook, you only receive Fired Coach Bonus Points for getting your own coach fired, not getting Texas coach fired.8. UV-ugh (2-10)Remember my story about chasing the greased pig? Well, an hour after we were done, we realized there was a guy that who had been mashed into the mud during the scramble and was so covered up we hadnt noticed him. It took two chains hooked up to my pickup truck to get him out. His name was Lonnie. If the winner of the SEC East is Earl then the last-place finisher in the ACC Coastal is Lonnie.9. EC-Yew (3-9) As I was writing this, I was thinking that former ECU head coach Ruffin McNeill, whose firing is still wildly unpopular in Pirate Nation, is sitting somewhere and laughing like Jack Sparrow. Then I realized hes at Virginia.10. Ill-inois (3-9)I keep hearing from Big Ten fans bragging about the possibility of having two teams in the College Football Playoff. Oddly, they arent bragging about the possibility of having three teams in the Bottom 10. The Illinis 34-31 loss to Purdue on Oct. 8 is our version of Ohio State losing to Penn State.Waiting list: Pur-dont (3-9), Ucant (3-9), Rice (3-9), FA(not I)U (3-9), Marshall Blundering Herd (3-9), State of Kent (3-9), blaming the officials for ruining your Thanksgiving.Stitched Nike NFL Jerseys .Y. -- Buffalo Bills coach Doug Marrone has drawn on his Syracuse connections once again by hiring Rob Moore to take over as receivers coach. Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys China . The CFLs leading rusher kept adding to his gaudy numbers this season and scored the winning touchdown with just over two minutes to play. The New Westminster, B.C., native plowed three yards into the end zone for the last score of a heated, see-saw battle between the two teams with the best records in the CFL. http://www.nikecheapnfljerseys.com/ . Goals from Jerome Boateng, Franck Ribery and Thomas Mueller extended Bayerns unbeaten run to a record 37 matches. "This record is incredible," Bayern coach Pep Guardiola said. Nike NFL Jerseys China . -- Washington Redskins tight end Fred Davis was charged Thursday with driving while intoxicated, a day after he was suspended for an NFL substance-abuse policy violation. Authentic Nike NFL Jerseys . And follow TSN.ca right through Deadline Day for all the updates. From Pierre LeBrun While Anaheim GM Bob Murray said earlier this season he was not going to trade Jonas Hiller despite the fact hes an unrestricted free agent on July 1, some sources have told TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun that Murray might be willing to move another goalie.COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Marylands fast start was more than enough to make up for a sluggish second half on Saturday.Justin Jackson scored 19 points and fellow freshman Kevin Huerter added a career-high 14 as the Terrapins never trailed in a 66-56 victory over Saint Peters.Maryland (10-1) shot 68.4 percent from the floor in the first half as it won its second all-time meeting with the Peacocks. The Terps led by as many as 25 in the second half, but scored only 16 points in the final 14:22.It was kind of a boring game, Maryland coach Mark Turgeon said. They were using 30 seconds even though they were down 20, 25. Our guys kind of got caught up in it and we didnt finish the game the way we would have liked.Chazz Patterson led Saint Peters (4-5) with 13 points. Forward Quadir Welton, who was averaging a team-high 16 points for the Peacocks, was held to five points on 2 of 11 shooting against the Terps.Maryland opened on a 14-0 run, and Saint Peters didnt score its first points until 11:56 remained in the first half. The Peacocks never cut the margin to less than 10 the rest of the way.I thought for a noon game, they didnt come out sleepwalking, Saint Peters coach John Dunne said. I thought they might have. I thought their energy level was really, really good. They got real physical with us to start the game.Saint Peters trailed 61-40 with 4:26 to play before closing the game with a 16-5 spurt.In situations like that, you cant let it get to 24, Dunne said. You have to keep in the mid-teens so if you do make a run late, its a little more within striking distance.The Terps held a 14-5 scoring advantage off turnovers despite forcing Saint Peters into only 10 giveaways.It was Marylands first wire-to-wire victory against a Division I team this season and its third triumph in a row.ddddddddddddWere getting there in a lot of aspects, but we have to shore up some things, Turgeon said. Heading into Christmas, hopefully we can improve and play better Monday and get better during finals with practice. Our guys will compete when they need to compete, and thats really whats important.BIG PICTURESaint Peters: The Peacocks continued their all-or-little trend on offense. Theyve scored at least 80 points in all four of their victories, and have not surpassed 65 points in any of their five losses.Maryland: The Terrapins havent enjoyed many lopsided victories this season but were never in any trouble against the Peacocks as they became the first 10-win team in the Big Ten.STAT OF THE NIGHTGuard Melo Trimble passed Joe Smith on Marylands career scoring list. The junior ranks 27th in school history with 1,291 points, one more than the 1995 national player of the year.HUERTER HEATS UPMaryland freshman Kevin Huerter made three 3-pointers in the first half, a welcome sign for a team that entered the day ranked 298th in the country in 3-point percentage at .305. The Terps were 7 of 18 (38.9 percent) from the outside against Saint Peters.UP NEXTSaint Peters does not play for another eight days as it enters its final exam period. The Peacocks will play their last two games before Christmas in the New York area --- at home Dec. 18 against Elon and at St. Francis Brooklyn on Dec. 23.Maryland has a quick turnaround as it plays host to Jacksonville State on Monday. Mark Turgeon was the Gamecocks coach from 1998-2000, the first stop in a head coaching career that eventually brought him to Maryland. ' ' '