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The Tank Job of the Week is an award for the FBS team that did the best job of humiliating itself over the weekend. Whether they blew a large lead, choked away a spot in the limelight, lost a game they had absolutely no right losing, or completely screwed everything on a last second blunder, the TJOTW winner sets the gold standard in college football misery
Previous Winners
Week 0: Stanford Cardinal (Hawai’i 23-20)
Week 1: Alabama Crimson Tide (Florida State 31-17)
Week 2: Florida Gators (South Florida 18-16)
Week 3: UCLA Bruins (New Mexico 35-10)
Week 4: Illinois Fighting Illini (Indiana 63-10)
Week 5: Arkansas Razorbacks (Notre Dame 56-13)
Week 6: Penn State Nittany Lions (UCLA 42-37)
Week 7: Penn State Nittany Lions (Northwestern 22-21)
Week 8: Memphis Tigers (UAB 31-24)
Week 9: Mississippi State Bulldogs (Texas 45-38)
Week 10: Auburn Tigers (Kentucky 10-3)
Week 11: Washington Huskies (Wisconsin 13-10)
Week 12: South Carolina Gamecocks (Texas A&M 31-30)
Week 13 [TIE]: Florida State Seminoles (North Carolina State 21-11)
Week 13 [TIE]: Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (Pittsburgh 42-28)
Week 14: SMU Mustangs (California 38-35)
Week 15: Virginia Cavaliers (lost to Duke 27-20)
LAST WEEK: Sorry about the lack of effort last week, but thanks to everyone who still voted anyways. For the second time in three years, the playoff committee got a considerable amount of votes, the winner is of course Virginia, who activated the Duke Doomsday scenario, leading to not just James Madison heading to Eugene, but a complete meltdown out in South Bend.
Anyways, welcome to Tank Job of the Year, which of course is the annual award for the team that most successfully cratered their entire season. This isn’t an award for a team that had a good season, but let a bad loss or two keep them from it being truly successful. These are for the teams that absolutely snowballed their seasons into total avalanches of disaster. We have nine nominees, but a few more considered- like Clemson and LSU went from Top 10 to disappointing 7-5 seasons, but neither completely unravelled (well Clemson did but then salvaged things with a 4-game winning streak). Nor does this include Syracuse, because while their collapse into a 3-9 season was brutal, it was due to injuries literally crippling the team. If you disagree, of course, feel free to write-in any of them.
NOTE: For ease of counting, please use carats to make your vote, like this: <Team>. Thank you for participating!
And now the nominees for Tank Job of the Year Are…
ARKANSAS RAZORBACKS (2-10)
No one expected a conference championship or anything in Fayetteville, but things looked promising when the Hawgs beat their first two opponents by a combined score of 108-21. Then they dropped games to Ole Miss and Memphis with late fumbles, then were beat by Notre Dame so badly that Sam Pittman was shown the door, and Bobby Petrino took over. The Hawgs lost their next five games by single digits, then finally got taken out for good by Texas and Missouri.
BOSTON COLLEGE EAGLES (2-10)
Bill O’Brien had solid first year in Chestnut Hill, going 7-6 and falling short in an entertaining but sloppy Pinstripe Bowl against Nebraska. Calling his second season a sophomore slump would be an understatement, with the Eagles crashing and burning with ten straight losses, ranging from losing to Michigan State on a 2-point conversion in double overtime to a 41-point drubbing by Pitt. They did manage to beat a decimated Syracuse in the finale to bookend the season with wins, so there’s that.
FLORIDA GATORS (4-8)
Billy Napier and the Gators did the unthinkable in 2024, navigating a monster schedule to an 8-5 record and getting off the hot seat for the time being. And it all came rushing back in one disastrous stormy day with the Gators falling 18-16 to South Florida in just their second game. They did put enough together to wreck Texas’ playoff hopes, but in between getting shoved around by the SEC powerhouses, the Gators also found time to take their worst loss to Kentucky in 75 years and get trounced by Tennessee by 20. Oh, and Napier got fired after beating Mississippi State because Florida absolutely should have lost that one too.
FLORIDA STATE SEMINOLES (5-7)
In a way, this is a controversial nomination, because I think without the season opening win over Alabama raising expectations, this season would have been considered somewhat a disappointment, yet an improvement over last year’s 2-10 disaster. The bubble burst with a double overtime loss to Virginia, then close losses to Miami and Pittsburgh, before dropping a horrendous game to Stanford. The ‘Noles did have two chances to preserve bowl eligibility, but a TJOTW worthy pratfall on punt returns against NC State took away the first, and then they were dominated by Florida in the finale to finish out of the postseason.
LIBERTY FLAMES (4-8)
The Flames were near-consensus #1 in the Conference USA preseason media poll, but after an opening week win over Maine things quickly went downhill, with Liberty losing their next four. They did rebound and won their next three, but barely fell to FBS neophyte Missouri State, then lost their final three games in overtime to not even make bowl eligibility.
MARYLAND TERRAPINS (4-8)
In the late afternoon of October 4, Maryland sat at 4-0 and had a 20-0 lead over Washington with less than five minutes remaining in the third quarter. They imploded to the Huskies, then fell apart in the fourth quarter against Nebraska the following week, and lost to UCLA on a walk off field goal. They weren’t even within a single score for any of their remaining five games, and that fifth win they were so close to grabbing two months ago never materialized.
MASSACHUSETTS MINUTEMEN (0-12)
Like Kent State last year, UMass is an automatic nominee for going 0-12, but the Minutemen get the added bonus of getting to play those Golden Flashes, and getting trounced by last year’s winless disaster 42-6. They also lost to FCS Bryant, who ended up going 3-9. All in all, UMass was outscored 463-133, and the brightest spot on the season was a late lead against Buffalo that they couldn’t hold.
PENN STATE NITTANY LIONS (6-6)
After coming within a leprechaun’s whisker of the national championship game last year, things seemed lined up for Penn State to finally break through in 2025. Things started off well enough- the Lions won their first three games easily. Then Oregon came to town, and State sadly lived up to their reputation as being unable to win the big one, especially under James Franklin. And then the bottom completely dropped out, with Penn State falling to winless UCLA the next week, then were nipped by Northwestern the next week, costing Franklin his job in a spectacular collapse from playoff semifinalist to unemployed in just six games. Six games is also how long the PSU losing streak would last before they rebounded to nab their last three to salvage bowl eligibility.
SOUTH CAROLINA GAMECOCKS (4-8)
After narrowly missing the playoffs in 2024, Carolina entered this year hoping to take that final step into the bracket, even with a challenging schedule ahead of them. But their conference opener against Vanderbilt was a disaster, and the Gamecocks would crash and burn in SEC play with a 1-7 record, the losses coming by an average of over 12 points. Bowl eligibility died in a painful TJOTW-winning 27-point collapse against Texas A&M, and the season was finished off by Clemson in a Palmetto Bowl full of disappointment.