Next-to-last in a sentence as an adjective

My next-to-last submission turned up [dead] the moment I submitted it even though the linked site wasn as far as I know neither spammy nor off-topic.

How would that work?You could sign that you trust your next-to-last hops to deliver traffic to you but transitive delivery isn't guaranteed and not every chain of valid hops is actually workable as a route capacity-wise.

Next-to-last definitions

adjective

next to the last; "the author inadvertently reveals the murderer in the penultimate chapter"; "the figures in the next-to-last column"

See also: penultimate

adjective

used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college; "the junior class"; "a third-year student"

See also: third-year