Mark Schlabach is an author and columnist for ESPN.com

ESPN.com

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. Schlabach joined ESPN.com in July 2006 as a college football

College football

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 and college basketball

College basketball

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 columnist. He is notable during college football season for the weekly "Bottom 10

Bottom 10

The Bottom 10 is a week-by-week regular season "ranking" of the worst ten college football teams in the NCAA Division I FBS. ESPN.con writer Mark Schlabach writes the column each week and is the sole determiner of the teams which are listed.One of the running gags of the Bottom 10 is the "highly...

" article.

Schlabach graduated from the University of Georgia

University of Georgia

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. He is a member of Sigma Nu

Sigma Nu

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 fraternity. He spent nine years at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, covering University of Georgia, the Southeastern Conference

Southeastern Conference

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, the NFL, and NASCAR

NASCAR

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. Later, Schlabach spent two years at the Washington Post covering college football, college basketball, and boxing.

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