I made a couple updates to the poll code. I was curious who the bottom 25 teams would be, and in particular how far my Northwestern Wildcats had fallen after winning the Big Ten West last year. So I added an option to reverse the ranking.

To facilitate this, I removed FCS teams from the equation, which is how it originally was back in the Perl days. Otherwise, an FCS team which lost to a bad FBS team might appear in this ranking, even though only one of its games was taken into consideration.

So here it is, the worst 25 FBS teams. The ‘Cats come in at #17. Potential good news for them – the play the #3 Massachusetts Minutemen on Saturday!

1 - Akron (0-9) (-40.9375)
2 - New Mexico State (0-9) (-37.90625)
3 - UMass (1-9) (-35.296875)
4 - UTEP (1-8) (-33.203125)
5 - Old Dominion (1-9) (-32.625)
6 - South Alabama (1-8) (-32.609375)
7 - Rice (0-9) (-31.3515625)
8 - New Mexico (2-7) (-29.453125)
9 - Connecticut (2-8) (-25.33203125)
10 - UNLV (2-7) (-24.421875)
11 - Arkansas (2-8) (-23.6953125)
12 - UT San Antonio (4-5) (-23.2265625)
13 - East Carolina (3-7) (-22.9921875)
14 - Army (4-6) (-22.83984375)
15 - Northern Illinois (3-6) (-22.76171875)
16 - Kent State (3-6) (-20.123046875)
17 - Northwestern (1-8) (-19.3671875)
18 - Vanderbilt (2-7) (-18.390625)
19 - Colorado State (4-5) (-18.015625)
20 - North Texas (4-6) (-16.8193359375)
21 - Rutgers (2-7) (-16.37890625)
22 - Middle Tennessee (3-6) (-14.599609375)
23 - UAB (6-3) (-14.55859375)
24 - San José State (4-6) (-14.375)
25 - Florida International (5-5) (-14.11669921875)