Texas Crashes Into Bottom 10 After Red River Loss — SkimNews
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- Texas landed at No. 5 in the Bottom 10 after losing the Red River Rivalry to Oklahoma despite entering as a touchdown favorite; Oklahoma had previously lost to Michigan, the previous occupant of the fifth position.
- Charlotte held the No. 1 spot at 0-6 on the season, remaining the lone winless team in the rankings with the writer joking that a Charlotte airport banner advertising 49ers football "dropped out of the ceiling and attacked" him.
- UTEP dropped to 1-5 after losing the "Pillow Fight of the Week" 30-13 to then-seventh-ranked Nevada, with the writer describing Nevada's defensive front as extras from "Mad Max."
- Ball State collected $875,000 to play at Northwestern's newly opened Ryan Field, which cost $875 million to build, and lost 45-14 despite a 1% win probability from ESPN Analytics.
- Bowling Green beat Sacramento State to open MAC play 2-0 for the first time in more than a decade, a result the column notes is especially notable given Sacramento State's unconventional placement in the conference.
- Northern Illinois (0-5) and ULM (0-5) rounded out the winless contingent, with the writer confessing he keeps clicking the MAC instead of the Mountain West when searching for the Huskies.
- Akron was teased as the "ore derves" before a stretch of MACtion games against Kent State and a potential rematch with Sacramento State for the "Pillow Fight of the Week of the Year of the Century."
Why it matters: Texas reaching the Bottom 10 at 4-1 underscores how steep the fall from preseason contender to weekly embarrassment can be — the Horns were favored by a touchdown in the Red River Rivalry and lost to an Oklahoma team that had just been beaten by Michigan. The Ball State–Northwestern payday gap ($875K game fee vs. $875M stadium) crystallizes the widening financial asymmetry between Power conference facilities and Group of Five opponents visiting them.
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