Article On the 10 Worst Football Programs
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Aside from the fact that you now probably have a malware infestation on your computer and somewhere in china there's a guy hitting your Amex limit, any such list without UConn on it is just wrong.
Aside from the fact that you now probably have a malware infestation on your computer and somewhere in china there's a guy hitting your Amex limit, any such list without UConn on it is just wrong.
FWIW, here are the 10 Best and 10 Worst programs from 2000 to 2014 going by Final Sagarin Rank:
10 Worst (P5 Teams)
1. Duke
2. Indiana
3. Connecticut
4. Vanderbilt
5. Kansas
6. Illinois
7. Rutgers
8. Baylor
9. Kentucky
10. Syracuse
10 Best (P5 Teams)
1. Oklahoma
2. LSU
3. Ohio State
4. USC
5. Oregon
6. Florida State
7. Florida
8. Georgia
9. Texas
10. Virginia
5 Worst All Div 1A
1. Florida International
2. Eastern Michigan
3. New Mexico State
4. Idaho
5. Buffalo
10 Worst (P5 Teams)
1. Duke
2. Indiana
3. Connecticut
4. Vanderbilt
5. Kansas
6. Illinois
7. Rutgers
8. Baylor
9. Kentucky
10. Syracuse
10 Best (P5 Teams)
1. Oklahoma
2. LSU
3. Ohio State
4. USC
5. Oregon
6. Florida State
7. Florida
8. Georgia
9. Texas
10. Virginia
5 Worst All Div 1A
1. Florida International
2. Eastern Michigan
3. New Mexico State
4. Idaho
5. Buffalo
Over the last 10 years the ranks change a little:
10 Worst Teams, 2005 to 2014 (P5)
1. Indiana
2. Duke
3. Colorado
4. Syracuse
5. Washington State
6. Purdue
7. Illinois
8. Connecticut
9. Kansas
10. Iowa State
10 Worst Teams, 2005 to 2014 (P5)
1. Indiana
2. Duke
3. Colorado
4. Syracuse
5. Washington State
6. Purdue
7. Illinois
8. Connecticut
9. Kansas
10. Iowa State
In case you're wondering, here is where we rank in the last 10 years:
50th among Div 1A programs
Average 10 Year Rank of 52
47. Pittsburgh
48. Boston College
49. Baylor
50. Rutgers
51. Mississippi
52. North Carolina
53. Washington
--We've come a long way but we have a long way to go to escape being firmly entrenched in mediocrity. 21 teams ranked lower than us but 50 ranked higher.
--The fact that we were ranked around some other better-established programs we used to lag behind says either bad things about them or good things about us or a little bit of both. On the other hand, the fact that both Baylor and Ole Miss are playing way above us at this point shows how it is possible to up the quality of your play in a shorter time than the decades some of our fans seem to expect.
50th among Div 1A programs
Average 10 Year Rank of 52
47. Pittsburgh
48. Boston College
49. Baylor
50. Rutgers
51. Mississippi
52. North Carolina
53. Washington
--We've come a long way but we have a long way to go to escape being firmly entrenched in mediocrity. 21 teams ranked lower than us but 50 ranked higher.
--The fact that we were ranked around some other better-established programs we used to lag behind says either bad things about them or good things about us or a little bit of both. On the other hand, the fact that both Baylor and Ole Miss are playing way above us at this point shows how it is possible to up the quality of your play in a shorter time than the decades some of our fans seem to expect.
In the last 10 years North Texas is the 6th worst team on average among all Div 1A teams. New Mexico State is dead last. Who would've though that could happen in a state so loaded with talent like New Mexico?
The worst teams over the last 10 years seem to show a few things:
--5 of the 10 worst programs over that period are from the midwest (Indiana, Purdue, Illinois, Iowa State, Kansas). Population growth is not keeping up in the midwest and the result might be reflected in all these bad teams. The bottom tier programs in the region have especially slim pickings to recruit from and are suffering as a result.
--the ACC is well-represented near the bottom: 4 of the teams from 11th to 20th worst are from that conference (Wake Forest, Virginia, North Carolina, NC State) and another one, Maryland, was in that conference until last year. Three more teams are in the next worst group of ten.
--Northwestern and Minnesota are also in the group from 11th to 20th worst. That makes 5 Big Ten teams among the 20 worst in the last decade. The Big Ten is becoming very much a conference of Haves and Have Nots with a small middle class (at this point probably Iowa and Rutgers and maybe Maryland). Hopefully our geography will help us avoid the downward spiral seemingly afflicting so many other Big Ten teams.
--Unsurprisingly the SEC dominates the Top 10 with 4 teams, but falls off after that. It's even more of a conference of Haves and Have Nots than the Big Ten, only the SEC's Have Nots are not quite as poor as those from the Big Ten.
--the PAC 12 is not particularly the 2nd best conference over the last 10 years. Oregon and USC appear in the Top 10 and then no other programs appear until Stanford and Arizona State at 24 and 25, and newcomer Utah at 26. The Big Ten has the same number of teams in the Top 30, and newcomer Nebraska at 20. And Michigan stumbled during the last 10 years but that has probably come to an end.
--5 of the 10 worst programs over that period are from the midwest (Indiana, Purdue, Illinois, Iowa State, Kansas). Population growth is not keeping up in the midwest and the result might be reflected in all these bad teams. The bottom tier programs in the region have especially slim pickings to recruit from and are suffering as a result.
--the ACC is well-represented near the bottom: 4 of the teams from 11th to 20th worst are from that conference (Wake Forest, Virginia, North Carolina, NC State) and another one, Maryland, was in that conference until last year. Three more teams are in the next worst group of ten.
--Northwestern and Minnesota are also in the group from 11th to 20th worst. That makes 5 Big Ten teams among the 20 worst in the last decade. The Big Ten is becoming very much a conference of Haves and Have Nots with a small middle class (at this point probably Iowa and Rutgers and maybe Maryland). Hopefully our geography will help us avoid the downward spiral seemingly afflicting so many other Big Ten teams.
--Unsurprisingly the SEC dominates the Top 10 with 4 teams, but falls off after that. It's even more of a conference of Haves and Have Nots than the Big Ten, only the SEC's Have Nots are not quite as poor as those from the Big Ten.
--the PAC 12 is not particularly the 2nd best conference over the last 10 years. Oregon and USC appear in the Top 10 and then no other programs appear until Stanford and Arizona State at 24 and 25, and newcomer Utah at 26. The Big Ten has the same number of teams in the Top 30, and newcomer Nebraska at 20. And Michigan stumbled during the last 10 years but that has probably come to an end.
I'm not saying the slower growth has not affected anything, but it's not like any of those programs dropped off a cliff in the last 10, 15 or even 25 years. 3 of those 5 have never been good (Indiana, Iowa State, Kansas). Purdue had a solid-to-above-average run with Joe Tiller, but beyond that has been garbage since the late 60's. Illinois was really good in the first part of last century, had a pop in the 80's and early 90's and that's about it.
The B1G's problem is that too many programs, Indiana and Purdue having been the worst but certainly not only offenders, have been happy to sit back, collect their fat revenue checks and not actually try and compete. They should be winning these battles, but they're not willing to do so.
The 10 worst in the article only drew from P5 conferences. Had it included the G5 conferences as well, the entire list would likely have been different, adding in schools like EMU, UNLV, FAU, FIU, Buffalo, New Mexico State, UNM, Idaho, San Jose State, etc.
But one common thread among most of the 10 on the list is that they are basketball-first schools.
But one common thread among most of the 10 on the list is that they are basketball-first schools.
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