The Bottom Ten/NCAA Week 3
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Get out your history books, because The Bottom Ten has a couple of entries this week.
First, the MAC – the preseason pick for coveted Bottom Ten Conference of the Year Honors – makes up 70% of the survey, a record for one conference. In fact, MAC occupation of the Week 3 survey is so great, that our pollsters report circuits and fuses in their TitleTrak Radar have been blowing up all week.
Elsewhere, for the first time ever there is a tie for the Continental Cup – issued to the team with the longest all-division losing streak in NATO – as both Hilbert and Maine Maritime have lost 26 straight. Where the hell Maine Maritime came from is anyone’s guess, but some research shows they did not have a program for the first three seasons of the decade, and only played three games last year and were ineligible to be ranked.
This week’s fiasco:
1. UMess (0-2; lost to Bryant 27-26)
Mitigating Factors: Minutemen back in natural habitat, sitting squarely on B-10 throne following 6th-straight loss…Special teams key as botched extra point in 1st quarter prevents UMess from having shot to win in overtime…Strong finishing kick sees Minutement get outscored 17-6 in 2nd half…UMess already a statistical juggernaut, ranking 110th or worse in ten (10) official NCAA stat categories.
FunFact: With guaranteed losses to Big Ten, SEC schools coming up, Minutemen should be in top form for rigors of MAC play.
Next Loss: at Iowa
