A History of College Football's Worst Teams

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[@ease-l5330]

Great video. Never realized how awful Oregon St was for so long. Growing up in the 90s and 2000s i always remembered them being solid and a pain to play

[@T1MB05L1C3]

My dad went to OSU in the early 80s telling me how bad they were. I do him one better with Northern Colorado in the early to late 2010s

[@BJ-bd5fc]

Both Oregon schools were both pretty terrible during that era (it took Phil Knight money and the coolness of his Nike brand to help the Ducks out of their own pit of despair.)

[@davidrivera9743]

Both Kansas Schools until Bill Snyder came along went through their own awful spells.

[@nickhill934]

Iowa fan, I had a front row seat to a lot of ISU’s 1982-99 misery. Without a trace of hyperbole, they were easily in the running for worst major conference program of all time. To see what they’ve done under Campbell is truly remarkable, I don’t know if the general college fan has any idea or appreciation for it. Hell, sometimes I wonder if ISU fans themselves appreciate it! State of Iowa has extremely challenging demographics as far as building a winning FBS program. State population has essentially flatlined for something like 70 years with TWO FBS programs to support (one of the two, Iowa, definitely hogging most of the glory, historically). Yet, there they are, playing for the Big XII title, damn near a playoff team. Incredibly impressive.

[@madbrowniac7871]

@nickhill934: ISU needs to hang on to Matt Campbell as dearly as it can! Two other guys with The Cyclone Program did very well later on. Johnny Majors won The 1976 Natty at Pitt with Heisman Trophy Winner Tony Dorsett at RB. And speaking of Dallas Cowboys, a former Assistant in Ames eventually became the first Head Coach to win both a National Championship and a Super Bowl. His name of course is Jimmy Johnson. Then there's Matt Campbell himself who nabbed a couple of Rings while helping guide D3 Superpower Mount Union to two of their overall TWELVE Natties in just over three Decades!😂🤷‍♂️🏈B.W.

[@rydog7920]

@@madbrowniac7871one of Pete Carolls first jobs was a DB coach for ISU

[@madbrowniac7871]

@@rydog7920 Glad that you pointed that out as I never realized. You'd also have to include a guy named Larry Lacewell as a branch of "The Jimmy Johnson Coaching Tree." When Arkansas State was part of what was then known as D1AA he guided them to The 1984 National Championship. Eventually Coaches Lacewell and Johnson reunited on The Dallas Cowboys Staff. Their journey together started in Ames.🤔🏈B.W.

[@robertlinn4481]

I can't believe IU is in the playoffs. 6 years ago while I was there that would've never been a dream

[@ajk]

What's more amazing is....at 11-1, chances are even in the OLD system, they'd likely STILL be in.

[@banksavram]

@@ajkI can’t even imagine how chaotic this season would’ve been with only a 4 team playoff, Georgia and Oregon would be locks but there would’ve been legitimate cases for Penn State, Notre Dame, Texas, Indiana, Ohio State, Tennessee, and Boise State to take the last two spots. Knowing how much the committee sucks, though, it probably would’ve been Texas and Notre Dame that got the nod

[@brettanderson9633]

He mentioned Iowa State and didn't say anything about the Hawkeyes! That's all a Cyclone fan wants for Christmas!

[@brendanerdahl914]

As an Iowa State grad and lifelong fan, I was waiting for ISU to be mentioned. So happy for 10 wins, but I can’t believe it’s the first time ever 😭😭

[@wombat723]

Go Cyclones! Hopefully we keep building this program up and make the playoffs

[@royconestoga7326]

Go Hawks! Was definitely cheering for State in the Big XII championship game. Y’all did fantastic this year. Cheers.

[@wombat723]

Cheers man. Good luck in your bowl game!

[@montana262]

Always a good day when EMPIRE uploads another CFB video

[@augiegirl1]

2:18 I know what that feels like. My alma mater, Augustana in Sioux Falls, SD, was BY FAR the smallest school in the Division II North Central Conference, after Morningside dropped down to NAIA; in the early 2000s, Augie was 1700 students, while the next-smallest, University of South Dakota, was around 7000 & SDSU (yes, the same SDSU which is the 2-time FCS Champion) was around 8000; the largest school in the conference was St. Cloud State with 15,000. Augie just wasn't big enough to consistently compete with the larger schools in our conference in football & men’s basketball. My freshman year, 1997, Augie actually BEAT SDSU in football, & my senior year (2000-01), Augie won BOTH men’s basketball games against SDSU, in Sioux Falls & in Brookings!

[@thesadjetfan]

Eminent Front while introducing Oregon State was a fantastic move.

[@teacherjoe7019]

The Oregon State streak began when they were a much better program than Oregon. It just took a boycott of players reacting to racist rules about haircuts and facial hair.

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​@@teacherjoe7019how were they racist?

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[@hazmatt8349]

It's weird growing up in ACC country that I always think of Duke as the bottom feeder over (under?) Wake Forest. Duke had a 55 year streak without a bowl win. The lows of the 90s/00s were so bad.

[@banksavram]

I thought for sure that duke would be included in this video, Northwestern not making the cut surprised me too but I guess he can only cover a certain amount of programs before the video gets too long

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Couldn't afford to keep the ole ball coach from going home.

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Me, a Rutgers fan... like the squidward window meme looking out at everyone having a good year and then seeing us be a stupid decision away from a ranked win this year at least...

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Thank you so much for highlighting my Beavs!! Not a lot of coverage understandably.

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[@dilburger6902]

Kansas State was the worst school in history until Bill Snyder showed up in 1989. First team to 500 losses, 3 winning seasons between 1945-1989, one bowl game in that period, and nearly kicked out of the Big 8. Hilarious that they aren’t mentioned. Lol

[@TheDom822]

Give Indiana another season or two, we’re only 5 losses ahead of Northwestern.

[@EisenSMT]

I'm not shocked we're the worst PAC team. My parents told me about the streak when I was younger, and how the football program was in serious danger of being canned for a while

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It's always nice to see my Beavers 🦫 talked about. In any context really

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[@demiller74]

‘97 Iowa State grad here… you forgot to talk about Jim Walden and the worn out rug Jack Trice had for a playing field by 1990. Lot of folks cut Jim slack because he is a nice guy, but I think he should have been fired sooner, as he ran the same play every offensive down. But maybe that’s part of the nature of the option.

[@cows543]

After this season of hell for me as a Purdue alum, seeing an IU player being front and center for the thumbnail of a video about worst college football teams ever feels cathartic

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Odom won’t help

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[@maxgarrett8135]

As an Indiana fan I never understood why people liked college football until now. This is fun

[@bens5661]

Vanderbilt doesn't have an athletics department, technically. In 2003, they moved it under their Division of Student Life. It's weird.

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[@kbrichmo8547]

Growing up in Bloomington I never ever cared about college football because we were so embarrassingly bad my entire life. This team has absolutely vaulted my interest in CF as a whole and its been great

[@mitchellburton20]

Like you said, Oregon State has been through this before. Our fan base is beyond loyal, even in down seasons. We had multiple sold out home games this season for a very average team. I think the fans just know there’s a bright future ahead, all things considered

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Congratulations, my team just made a bowl game for the first time in 8 years.

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[@toddsmith5715]

This video made me think of Kansas State. We all know what they did under Dan Snyder, and for the past thirty years or so, they've been a consistently competitive program. But that followed eighty plus years of utter futility, to the extent that they were the statistically worst program in Division I history up to 1989. If they could turn things around, anyone can.

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Thank you for these videos! Love from Arkansas

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[@ACiowa]

Correction Kansas state is probably the worst of the big 8/12. Petty sure Kansas state is the only conference opponent ISU has a winning record against. Problem is Dan Snyder raised their program from futility decades ago.

[@JOY-ux5fy]

Bill Snyder was the one that saved them, Dan Snyder did the absolute opposite with the NFL's Washington Redskins/Football Team/Commanders.

[@abelaldrich7831]

U mean Bill Snyder the savior of Kansas States program

[@cranjismcbasketball1638]

Indiana has a good chance to hand that most losses record off to Northwestern in the next couple of years if we keep Coach Cig. Right now IU has 714 losses and Northwestern has 709.

[@scarface1367]

Once the season ends we have to know where the formula :tm: would rank the best and worst teams

[@Drew25t]

Amazing video as always

[@Swift1303-z4p]

This is such a good video seriously

[@someoneelse745]

I'm surprised you didn't mention the second worse ACC team. Those boo devils have been great lately

[@lawson8678]

as a wake forest fan i’ve been spoiled w the 6 bowl games😢

[@queenofthesalt5199]

My dad bet about $75 at the beginning of the season that IU would make the playoffs. We got our 10K payout last Tuesday.

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[@logotzip3967]

it's pretty incredible what matt campbell has done for iowa state. without him they're probably the worst power conference program ever.

[@estebantrevino8940]

As an Arizona football fan, I feel like we should be on here and it’s disrespectful to leave us off this list

[@robertjack4329]

Honerable mention to Kansas St. Worst record all time until the 90s.

[@ianhuelsbeck8215]

What was that passing motion 2:44

[@zhangconan]

I had to rewind to make sure my eyes were working correctly

[@themontgomeryc]

never seen a sidearm throw?

[@davidfence6939]

Thankfully Lou Holtz and Steve Spurrier saved us from this list. To a lesser exten Paul Dietzel, Jim Carlen, and Joe Morrison (RIP).

[@timothystamm3200]

No mention of Wake Forest being bad getting immortalized in the song "Deacon Blues" by Steely Dan? Missed opportunity.

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the child like joy i get knowing i can sit down after work and watch new empire

[@gigaj2368]

Wake Forest was so beaten down this year, they got boat raced by Ole Miss, and decided that was enough, and cancelled the return trip to Oxford in 2025. I wouldn't say that is rock bottom, but it's pretty damning when it happens

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Return of the King

[@tobin1677]

Fun Iowa State fact: Iowa State is the reason a safety gives the ball back to the scoring team. In 1925, while winning 7-0 Iowa State's QB took the snap and ran backwards into the endzone before kneeling and giving up a safety. At the time scoring a safety gave the ball back to the team who had the ball previously, so with a score of 7-2 Iowa State took the ball back, and proceeded to use this strategy to burn off time and run the clock down before eventually winning 7-6. The rule was changed the following season

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High quality channel.

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Great video!

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Guys wake up Empire just dropped

[@Cole2OO5]

As someone that’s born in Iowa, I am not surprised that Iowa state got mentioned, however I am surprised that he didn’t mentioned Minnesota

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What a way to start the day.

[@randm4246]

Just for context, Magic Johnson had a talk show called "The Magic Hour" back in the late 90's. It was cancelled after 8 weeks due to poor ratings. What were those ratings you ask? 2 million viewers per night. those were raw viewers not differentiated by a demographic group, but I'm more than willing to bet that he was getting at least two to three times what current late night shows are getting currently in the key demos.

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The 2024 season will go down as when the matrix broke itself

[@UNoWhoitis23]

Great video as always but i feel like this year is an anomaly personally for the smaller schools. My reasoning being I'm an Arkansas fan for now at least they try my patience thats for sure but unfortunately with this new era of NIL it's making schools like ours become feeder teams for the bigger schools in our conference. Essentially Arkansas Kentucky and Vanderbilt may do well one year and seem to be building momentum but with players being able to transfer every year it makes the best players from those teams seek better deals with Alabama Georgia Lsu Ole miss etc. Ultimately leaving us high and dry and having to rebuild year after year. Arkansas alone has seen close to 30 trasfers and while some may say its a culture issue and that may be true. We're not the only ones experiencing that I believe teams like Kentucky are as well. So it seems to just be the influence of NIL and the transfer portal in my opinion at least. Don't wanna make this seem like I'm hating on your opinion I think you make the best college football content personally.

[@davisvoelzke8011]

Wake isn’t technically the worst! Let’s goo

[@mitchbabineau7494]

Empire goated🔥

[@ms651156]

5 straight minutes of Iowa State slander? This video is wildcat approved.

[@CardboardClam]

Babe wake up. More peak has dropped.

[@thehaunted8055]

Empire strikes back

[@Goobster-f7j]

What about Rutgers and Kansas

[@davidrivera9743]

There was Terry Shea awful, but just mediocre for a long period of time. 3-7, 4-6 with occasionally better.

[@Fender178]

I would say a honorable mention belongs to the Rutgers Scarlet Knights .492 all time Winning %. Yeah Vandy had some good seasons with James Franklin at the helm which is how he got the Penn St job.

[@ftwsam2246]

14:37 don't tell me that was Chad Ochocinco 😂.

[@99TS]

that team also had tj houshmandzadeh the beavs had the bengals 2000s receiving core in that season

[@ftwsam2246]

@99TS yeah Ocho talked about it on nightcap, and he told this story of when he dropped it at the 1. 😱🤣

[@newsaxonyproductions7871]

Pop Warner coaching at ISU was a twist 🤯 Also, I had no idea that ISU is considered the worst team the original seven Big XII schools! I mean, even better than Kansas??

[@alswelkjeaer]

Might want to look at K-State before Snyder.

[@davidrivera9743]

​@@alswelkjeaer agreed awful football then.

[@pokesNTexans]

I’m so confused why 1980’s Iowa state is wearing red and yellow helmets AT THE SAME TIME

[@cyclONEnation56]

Bro you didn’t HAVE to lead off with my clones lol #RollClones 🌪️

[@cyclONEnation56]

With that being said, if you find yourself looking for an underdog in a world of big money & major brands, pick the cyclones! A passionate fanbase that loves the team and fans. Stop by and tailgate, tell the people you meet your visiting and I’ll bet ya you never drink your own beer.

[@BrotherhoodGaming13]

I really don't know if you are wrong or right yet, but the first round of the college playoffs kind of gave us a hint the big teams aren't going away anytime soon

[@nickinportland]

What’s funny is nobody in the big 12 would consider Iowa State the worst. At all

[@bridqer5573]

How close was WSU to being included? I'm glad we ain't but I was expecting to hear you finally talk about them 😭

[@empireonyt15]

when i was initially compiling teams WSU was exactly at .500 all time

[@davidrivera9743]

Not close. You guys are better than Oregon and Oregon State with occasional pops of good stuff ( Rypien, Garcia, Bledsoe, the trip to San Diego where they gave a Jim McMahon led Byu squad trouble )

[@brycehawes38]

God I love Diego pavia

[@cows543]

21:24 PURDUE MENTIONED

[@jimmaloney1121]

How about Northwestern, Temple, Columbia, and Prairie View?

[@Becauseimme]

PAC-12 forever FIGHT ON!✌️

[@lutrid]

Part 2 please!!!

[@jamisondinkins7292]

22:11 bros phone went off while recording😭

[@BB-mo9sf]

That's real shit.

[@jtmassecure4488]

You sound exactly like the KZbinr Alternate history hub

[@Law0086]

BYU starts to ring a bell in a way. Crazy how success can come to so called bottom feeder when the rules are changed.

[@FishyFLCL]

Whew , good no Syracuse

[@bostonsports8080]

I'm honestly just surprised Kansas & UConn weren't there.

[@davidrivera9743]

UConn was an fcs/1AA school until recently.

[@Seabassty]

As a beavers fan being in the thumbnail is disheartening

[@juiceisloose-h9w]

U gotta do Northwestern

[@YOSSARIAN313]

Dennis green won coach of the year for winning 3 games at northwestern

[@mrscechy8625]

IOWA STATE MENTIONED RAAAAH

[@TheRepublicofKnowledge]

No we need the worst Group of 5 😟

[@YOSSARIAN313]

New Mexico State or Kent state is probably the worst

[@SamuelMcCorkle]

Empire, have my children with me

[@vbsbazooka4195]

watching this video from my dorm room at iowa state university go cyclones

[@lakecityransom]

Lets go Indiana win the playoff. That'd be great. 😅

[@Donny_DeVito]

I hate to break it to folks, the best 10 programs will still be there in this “new era”. If anything, the dogshit format of the 12 team playoff is only allowing for the 3-4th best teams in the Big10 or SEC to get a 2nd or 3rd chance at making it in - a team that would end Cinderella runs quickly.

[@poggerspantsw5715]

Where is UMass?

[@GhostNinjaCuBeE]

Kansas?