College football Bottom 10 after Week 4 – Clemson’s fall continues

Inspirational thought of the week:

Pale September
I wore the time like a dress that year
The autumn days swung soft around me like cotton on my skin
But as the embers of the summer lost their breath and disappeared
My heart went cold and only hollow rhythms resounded from within

— “Pale September,” Fiona Apple

Here at Bottom 10 Headquarters, located in the Miami poolside cabana where university semiotic specialists are studying Pat McAfee’s tan lines, we are sad because we know that for most of the nation, the days of jumping into any swimming pool are quickly coming to a close. The days remaining in September have dwindled into single digits, soon to be followed by single-digit temperatures in those pools.

For many, September can’t wrap up soon enough. I am of course speaking of the pumpkin spice cartel and the teams of the Bottom 10. The hopes that those teams carried into Week 0 have all but vanished. As October looms, they are already halfway or more to a cache of losses that will guarantee a sub-.500 season. The dreams they shared of earning a 6-6 berth to a December bowl game are nearly as bankrupt as the cryptocurrency bank that failed to make payment on their sponsorship of that bowl game.

But alas, all is not lost. No team in the FBS ranks has more than four losses. There’s still one more game weekend left in September. There is still time for a turnaround. Just make sure you don’t get so turned around that you wind up running the ball into the wrong end zone.

August 30, 2012: Kent State’s Andre Parker returns a muffed punt the wrong way against Towson and was tackled by his opponents. pic.twitter.com/koRDpRmydY

— This Day In Sports Clips (@TDISportsClips) August 30, 2025

With apologies to Andre Parker, Earth, Wind & Fire and Steve Harvey, here’s the last Bottom 10 rankings of September 2025.

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