Old Dominion football coach Bobby Wilder calls his squad “the best 1-5 team in America,” and for the most part, he’s probably right.
Among the seven Football Bowl Subdivision schools with 1-5 records, USA Today only rates Vanderbilt from the SEC and UCLA from the Pac-12 slightly higher than ODU. The Monarchs are well ahead of Georgia Tech, UConn, South Alabama and Rutgers.
That’s in part because ODU has played a tough schedule, and could have won road games against Virginia, Virginia Tech and Marshall. All three were close in the fourth quarter, but the Monarchs generally did themselves in with mistakes.