The Bottom 10 inspirational thought of the week:

Oh well, she told me on Sunday she was checkin' me out.

Along about Monday she was nowhere about.

And here it is Tuesday, I ain't had no news.

I got them gone but not forgotten blues.

-- Hank Williams, "Long Gone Lonesome Blues"

November is indeed a lonely time for the Bottom 10.

In the early weeks of the season, even those teams that lose on a regular basis still garner the occasional look or two from the larger college football nation. Even after two, three, or four L's on one's permanent record, there remains the faint glimmer of, "Don't worry, boys, we can turn this around!" Back in the day, even the worst teams were still allowed a tiny taste of the late autumn spotlight, even if it was swung their way only in the name of morbid curiosity.

But these are not those days. No, in this new era of the game, every smidgen of November attention has been hijacked by the College Football Playoff rankings, the Death Star to the Bottom 10's band of reckless rebels.

Few truly understand the sting of that loneliness. Hank Williams did. If he were still with us, he'd be bunkered in here at Bottom 10 HQ, located in a long-forgotten storage closet behind a rack of Mel Kiper Jr.'s hair products. Hank would embrace the pain of our one-win teams. He would likely liken their loss of attention to how his art form, country music, has been hijacked, as well, taken over by bro-bands and their rehashed faux-hawk tales of red Solo cups and dirt roads.

Well, you can have your big, gold trophies, big-time bowl games and big arena sing-alongs. Here in the Bottom 10, we don't wear spangly jeans and listen to Florida-Georgia Line. We listen to Hank, wipe away our tears with old tearaway jerseys, and watch Georgia State toe the line. Again.

Hey, someone has to.

With apologies to Steve Harvey and The Hillbilly Shakespeare, here's this week's Bottom 10.

1. SMU (0-7)

Sources tell me that the Stangs filed an appeal with the NCAA to be awarded a W for their successful Halloween weekend date with Open Date University. Sadly, no one was there to return their call because they were off investigating a Division II waterskiing team for accepting free burritos at a booster-connected Del Taco. Speaking of gooey messes of yum, this weekend SMU travels to Tulsa for the Bottom 10 Bowl of the Week.

2. Georgia State (1-8)

Georgia State Not Southern traveled to Boone, North Carolina, and went down in a snowy heap to former Bottom 10 regular Appy ... I mean, Appalachian State 44-0. During the loss, the Panthers racked up 62 yards of offense, including six yards rushing. When they returned home to Atlanta, they demanded an emergency meeting with the GSU engineering department to figure out how to make the Georgia Dome roof portable, so as to be prepared for future road games in inclement weather. Then they realized GSU doesn't have an engineering department.

3. Troy (1-8)

Troy faced off against Georgia Southern Not State to continue its gauntlet of former Southern Conference powerhouses. This week it hosts Georgia State Not Southern. Win or lose, its reward will be a trip to one-win Idaho. What I'm trying to say here is that by the end of these two games, the bottom quarter of the Sun Belt standings might implode and swallow us all up like a black hole.

4. State of Kent (1-7)

On Tuesday night, the Golden Flashes will attempt to become just the fourth eight-loss team of the 2014 FBS season as it withstands a rocket attack from Toledo as MACtion launches on ESPNU at 8 p.m. ET. In fact, if you are reading this after the game has already happened, feel free to correct their record as written above by painting Wite-Out onto your computer screen and scribbling an 8 over the 7 in 1-7.

5. UGH-A (6-2)

The coveted No. 5 spot goes to the Daw(ful)gs for the second time this season after losing to a Florida team that just two weeks ago was the college football equivalent of that flaming bag of surprise that the jerky neighborhood kids leave on your porch every Halloween. Thanks to UGA's annual vapor lock performance, the leader in the SEC East is now Missouri, who lost to Indiana, who lost to Bowling Green, who lost to Western Kentucky, who is currently sixth in the Conference USA East. That whirring you hear is from SEC haters printing out that last paragraph to fax to members of the College Football Playoff selection committee.

6. Tulsa (1-7)

The Golden Hurricane joined the quickly growing ranks of the dreaded asterisk-stained "not eligible for postseason" list thanks to a 40-20 loss at Memphis. As mentioned earlier, Tulsa hosts SMU this weekend in an American Athletics Conference of Athletic Americans clash. Should SMU pull off the upset, then the AACAA, which currently features six three-win teams at the top, could possibly have four one-win teams at the bottom. Using Common Core math from my daughter's homework, all of that somehow adds up to the number eleventy.

7. The Boys From Oopsilanti (2-7)

Eastern Michigan rolled into the the Bottom 10 last week and immediately started swerving like an Ypsilanti-built Corvair at too-high speeds. They dropped the first leg of their Michigan Maelstrom of Misery, losing to Central Michigan 38-7. This weekend, both Eastern and Western have the weekend off to prepare for their showdown on Nov. 15, after which Western plays Central, who also has this weekend off. During the triple open date, Eastern Michigan should play North Central Michigan College, Western Michigan should play Southwestern Michigan College, and Central Michigan should play Michigan Theological Seminary.

8. My Hammy of Ohio (2-8)

"Wait!" We could hear you asking five spots ago. "If Kent State would become the fourth team to reach eight wins, then who, pray tell, was the first?" The first prey told they were an eight-game loser was Troy, on Friday night. "Wait!" We can hear you asking now. "Who was the second?" That was these guys, Kent's MAC East buddies, the red-raced RedHawks of My Hammy with the parenthetical OH, losing 41-10 to Western Michigan. "Wait!" We can hear you asking right this second. "Who was the third ocho perdedores?!" That was Georgia State Not Southern, later that night. "Wait!" We hear you asking one more time. ... Actually, we're just ignoring you now.

9. 9.The Kansasowa State Jayclones (2-6)

The top half of the Big 12 is ranked in the AP Top 25, and this weekend, the conference's top four teams will slug it out for a potential College Football Playoff slot. Meanwhile, in Lawrence, the Jayhawks and Cyclones will slug it out for the conference basement, which isn't actually a basement at all, since the building has a dozen floors but only 10 teams. Weird, right?

10. UNLV (2-7)

It's been awhile since someone from the Mountain West wandered in off the open range and into the Bottom 10, but the Rebs just ran into the room after their 31-28 loss to former Bottom 10 resident New Mexico. Losing via a just-short field goal is always heartbreaking. Losing to a team that had just five yards passing is mind-bending. We're already counting down the days until the Rebs' visit to Huh-waii on Nov. 23 for what might very well be for the Bottom 10 Western Division crown. A crown we got with a kids meal from Burger King.

Waiting List: Van-duh-rbilt (3-6), Huh-waii (2-7), Warshington State (2-7), Virginia Blech (4-5), doing a handshake "Psych!" at the 50-yard line (Maryland), trying to attack a goalpost (Georgia Tech's Buzz).