Ryan McGee Oct 21, 2026, 07:00 AM ET

Close

Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com

2-time Sports Emmy winner

2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year

Inspirational thought of the week:

It seems we lose the game

Before we even start to play

Who made these rules?

We're so confused

Easily led astray

Let me tell ya that

Everything is everything

Everything is everything

Everything is everything

Everything

After winter

Must come spring

Everything is everything

Yo

-- "Everything is Everything," Lauryn Hill

Here at Bottom 10 Headquarters, located behind the scrap heap where they toss all of the old 0-for-5 "College GameDay" picks graphics before anyone can go back and check them, we keep thinking about the words that were sent forth out of Austin after the Horns got hooked for the second straight weekend.

No, not the words that filled my inbox and social media timelines after we had Texas in the Coveted Fifth Spot last week. Besides, those weren't so much words as they were a series of @#!%!…