An unfortunate state of college football resides in New Mexico

It’s the biggest weekend of the Bottom Ten season: two battles of the beaten, four resistible forces meeting four movable objects.

It’s the Lost Lobos of New Mexico (0-5) versus New Mexico State (0-4) in one Crummy Game of the Weak regional and wacky Western Kentucky (0-4) versus fumblin’ Florida International (0-4) in another. Check local listings to make sure these games are blacked out in your area.

Meanwhile, No. 5 Brigham Young (1-4), which is leaving the Mountain West Conference because the competition is too stiff, is waiting to move up.

So is Minnehaha (1-4), ranked No. 9 despite losing by just one point last week. Luckily for the Golden Garden Pests, the Bottom Ten’s primitive computers are not yet programmed to take score differentials into consideration.

Wreck, Record; Last Loss; Next Loss

1. New Mexico State (0-4); 0-59, Boise State; New Mexico

2. New Mexico (0-5); 20-38, Texas El Paso; New Mexico State

3. Western Kentucky (0-4); 12-24, South Florida; Florida International

4. Florida International (0-4); 17-44, Pitt; Western Kentucky

5. Brigham Young (1-4); 16-31, Utah State; San Diego State

6. Georgia (1-4); 27-29, Colorado; Tennessee

7. Akron (0-5); 14-50, Northern Illinois; Kent State

8. Eastern Michigan (0-5); 17-30, Ohio; Vanderbilt

9. Minnehaha (1-4); 28-29, Northwestern; Wisconsin

10. Rice (1-4); 31-42, Southern Methodist; Texas El Paso

11. Wyoming (2-3); 12. Nevada Las Vegas (1-4); 13. Washington State (1-4); 14. North Texas (1-4); 15. Memphis (1-4); 16. Colorado State (1-4); 17. Bowling on the Green (1-4); 18. Vanderbilt (1-3); 19. Out of the Office; 20. The Associated Press Top 25 poll (dropped Boise State from third to fourth after its 59-0 squeaker over New Mexico State).

Rout of the weak: Minnehaha (1-4) at Wisconsin (4-1).

Crummy game of the weak: New Mexico (0-5) at New Mexico State (0-4).

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