The Decade's Least Dominant Teams

The Wimple has been chewing on the Dominance Ranking numbers the last few days, and unveils below the least dominant teams, statistically speaking, form 2000 through 2009. The Dominance Ranking, in case you missed it, is the sum of a team's national rank in scoring offense and scoring defense. The Wimple averaged all of the D-1A teams' Dominance Ranking for the last decade; here are the bottom 25:

(rank, ten-year average, team)
96., 85.0, Kent St.
97., 85.3, Rice
98., 85.8, Miss. St.
99., 85.9, San Jose St.
100., 86.8, UNLV
101., 87.0, North Texas
102., 88.2, Tulane
103., 88.3, Wyoming
104., 90.2, Arkansas St.
105., 90.5, Temple
106., 90.7, Indiana
107., 91.8, San Diego St.
108., 92.1, New Mexico St.
109., 93.5, SMU
110., 93.7, La.-Lafayette
111., 93.8, Buffalo
112., 96.0, La.-Monroe
113., 96.9, Utah St.
114., 98.7, Idaho
115., 100.2, Eastern Mich.
116., 100.3, Army
117., 103.3, Duke
118., 103.4, Baylor
119., 105.5, Florida Int'l*
120., 113.0, Western Kentucky.*

Among these bottom-dwellers, there have been a few bright spots, now and then, chief among them Temple's bowl run last year. Buffalo wasn't bad in '08, and Mississippi State and UNLV were likewise OK in 2000, as was Tulane in '02 and Kent State in '04. But otherwise, the aughts were hopeless and hapless for these 25 teams.

Interestingly, there are teams from every conference (even from the "mighty" SEC) in this ignominous list except the Pac-10 or Big East. Sadly for the Sun Belt conference, all but one of its members turn up in this post. There's a reason y'all always get mentioned, if at all, last.

*less than 10-year average, because these teams haven't played D-1A football fully ten years.