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Rank	Team	1st Downs	1st Downs Gained/Game	% of 1st Downs Gained on 1st Down	% of 1st Downs Gained on 2nd Down	% of 1st Downs Gained on 3rd Down	% of 1st Downs Gained on 4th Down
1	Adrian	33	33.0	24.2	27.3	24.2	24.2
2	Monmouth	313	31.3	36.7	32.3	24.9	6.1
3	Allen	29	29.0	41.4	41.4	13.8	3.4
4	North Texas	248	27.6	35.9	36.7	22.2	4.8
5	Tennessee	241	26.8	33.6	40.7	22.0	3.3
6	Indiana	267	26.7	34.1	36.0	27.3	2.6
7	USC	239	26.6	41.0	29.7	24.3	5.0
8	Mercer	212	26.5	34.9	38.2	25.9	0.9
9	Ole Miss	264	26.4	30.3	41.3	23.9	4.5
10	Montana State	236	26.2	33.9	39.8	23.3	3.0
11	Missouri	235	26.1	28.9	37.4	28.1	5.1
12	North Dakota State	260	26.0	35.8	36.5	23.8	3.5
13	Arkansas	233	25.9	38.6	36.1	23.2	2.1
14	Rutgers	257	25.7	31.1	37.0	23.0	8.9
15	Utah	204	25.5	24.0	42.2	27.9	5.9
16	Baylor	229	25.4	31.4	37.1	22.7	8.7
17	Jackson State	229	25.4	31.9	34.1	30.6	3.5
18	Georgia	228	25.3	28.5	41.2	26.8	3.5
19	Alabama State	202	25.3	41.1	36.1	21.3	1.5
20	Florida State	227	25.2	33.0	33.0	27.8	6.2
21	Western Carolina	225	25.0	39.1	30.2	25.8	4.9
22	East Carolina	199	24.9	26.1	38.2	31.7	4.0
23	Ohio State	220	24.4	33.6	38.2	24.5	3.2
24	Memphis	243	24.3	35.8	37.0	22.6	4.5
25	Idaho State	242	24.2	35.1	35.1	26.4	3.3
26	Oregon	217	24.1	34.1	31.8	27.2	6.9
27	Stony Brook	241	24.1	27.4	35.3	30.3	7.1
28	Vanderbilt	215	23.9	38.1	34.9	23.7	3.3
29	Texas State	214	23.8	21.5	41.6	30.8	6.1
30	Harvard	190	23.8	34.2	33.2	25.8	6.8
31	Texas A&M	190	23.8	40.0	31.6	25.3	3.2
32	SE Louisiana	213	23.7	32.4	39.0	24.9	3.8
33	Washington	213	23.7	34.7	35.2	26.3	3.8
34	Tarleton State	213	23.7	34.3	34.3	25.8	5.6
35	Delaware	213	23.7	28.6	36.2	28.6	6.6
36	Duke	189	23.6	33.9	38.1	20.6	7.4
37	Illinois State	236	23.6	33.1	38.6	24.2	3.8
38	Southern Illinois	235	23.5	34.5	34.0	27.2	4.3
39	Notre Dame	188	23.5	41.5	33.0	21.3	4.3
40	Cornell	188	23.5	28.2	43.1	23.4	5.3
41	North Carolina Central	235	23.5	33.6	36.2	26.4	3.8
42	Georgia Tech	211	23.4	37.4	34.6	25.6	1.9
43	TCU	211	23.4	33.2	32.7	29.4	4.7
44	Air Force	210	23.3	29.0	34.8	27.6	8.6
45	Youngstown State	209	23.2	30.1	39.2	24.9	5.7
46	Incarnate Word	232	23.2	27.2	36.6	28.4	7.8
47	Northern Arizona	208	23.1	38.0	31.3	24.0	6.7
48	South Florida	208	23.1	34.1	31.3	30.3	4.3
49	Idaho	231	23.1	32.5	35.9	25.1	6.5
50	West Georgia	231	23.1	32.0	29.0	33.8	5.2
51	Central Arkansas	231	23.1	32.9	36.8	25.5	4.8
52	Cincinnati	207	23.0	38.6	36.7	19.8	4.8
53	Miami	207	23.0	32.4	37.7	25.1	4.8
54	Presbyterian	228	22.8	37.3	37.3	21.1	4.4
55	St. Thomas (MN)	228	22.8	31.1	39.9	23.2	5.7
56	Tennessee Tech	205	22.8	35.6	39.0	22.0	3.4
57	Arkansas State	205	22.8	29.3	34.6	29.8	5.9
58	Western Kentucky	205	22.8	34.6	33.2	29.3	2.9
59	Colgate	204	22.7	30.4	35.8	29.4	4.4
60	Texas Tech	204	22.7	33.3	31.9	32.4	2.5
61	East Tennessee State	226	22.6	36.7	32.7	25.2	5.3
62	North Alabama	226	22.6	28.8	36.7	29.6	4.4
63	Virginia	226	22.6	31.9	29.2	34.1	4.4
64	Ohio	203	22.6	32.5	38.4	25.1	3.9
65	James Madison	202	22.4	29.2	38.1	30.7	2.0
66	UC Davis	202	22.4	34.2	41.1	22.3	2.5
67	Austin Peay	224	22.4	33.5	34.8	27.7	4.0
68	App State	179	22.4	27.9	39.7	24.0	8.4
69	UNLV	201	22.3	36.3	36.3	22.9	4.5
70	Rhode Island	223	22.3	32.3	40.8	24.7	2.2
71	BYU	200	22.2	35.5	33.0	23.0	7.5
72	Southern Utah	200	22.2	29.5	39.5	25.0	6.0
73	Florida Atlantic	199	22.1	30.7	27.1	26.1	16.1
74	Alabama	199	22.1	32.2	30.2	30.7	7.0
75	NC State	199	22.1	34.2	35.7	24.1	6.0
76	North Dakota	221	22.1	31.2	38.5	25.3	5.0
77	Southern Connecticut State	22	22.0	31.8	31.8	36.4	0.0
78	Jacksonville State	176	22.0	30.1	36.4	27.3	6.3
79	Elizabeth City State	22	22.0	27.3	36.4	22.7	13.6
80	Mississippi State	220	22.0	30.0	34.5	29.5	5.9
81	Arizona State	198	22.0	34.8	31.8	25.3	8.1
82	Bowie State	22	22.0	27.3	45.5	27.3	0.0
83	San José State	197	21.9	31.5	35.5	29.9	3.0
84	Oregon State	197	21.9	34.5	38.1	24.9	2.5
85	South Dakota State	175	21.9	32.0	38.9	26.3	2.9
86	Hawai'i	218	21.8	20.2	39.5	36.2	4.1
87	Iowa State	196	21.8	28.1	40.3	25.0	6.6
88	Clemson	196	21.8	34.7	33.7	22.4	9.2
89	Kansas	217	21.7	33.6	37.3	21.2	7.8
90	Nebraska	217	21.7	31.8	41.5	24.0	2.8
91	Delaware State	217	21.7	33.2	40.6	19.8	6.5
92	Southeast Missouri State	217	21.7	27.2	35.5	32.7	4.6
93	Illinois	195	21.7	30.8	39.0	24.6	5.6
94	UT Rio Grande Valley	195	21.7	42.6	30.3	25.6	1.5
95	Tulsa	173	21.6	26.6	31.8	31.2	10.4
96	Marshall	173	21.6	36.4	36.4	24.3	2.9
97	Boston College	216	21.6	31.0	37.0	25.5	6.5
98	Lehigh	194	21.6	34.0	35.6	27.8	2.6
99	Penn State	194	21.6	29.4	33.0	29.4	8.2
100	Boise State	193	21.4	28.0	34.2	30.1	7.8
101	UConn	214	21.4	30.8	36.4	27.6	5.1
102	Navy	171	21.4	29.2	39.2	25.7	5.8
103	Georgia Southern	171	21.4	32.7	35.1	29.2	2.9
104	Houston	213	21.3	31.9	31.5	30.5	6.1
105	Dartmouth	170	21.3	28.2	36.5	33.5	1.8
106	Tulane	169	21.1	38.5	30.2	29.0	2.4
107	South Carolina State	189	21.0	28.6	36.0	33.3	2.1
108	Chadron St	21	21.0	23.8	57.1	14.3	4.8
109	Montana	209	20.9	35.9	31.6	26.3	6.2
110	Louisville	188	20.9	33.0	35.6	28.7	2.7
111	Michigan	188	20.9	34.6	38.3	26.1	1.1
112	Murray State	188	20.9	30.9	35.6	25.5	8.0
113	Arizona	188	20.9	33.0	37.2	22.3	7.4
114	Old Dominion	167	20.9	38.3	34.1	25.2	2.4
115	Auburn	208	20.8	31.7	38.5	25.0	4.8
116	Pittsburgh	187	20.8	31.0	36.4	25.1	7.5
117	Oklahoma	187	20.8	29.9	38.0	28.3	3.7
118	Abilene Christian	207	20.7	35.7	30.0	30.4	3.9
119	Villanova	165	20.6	32.7	35.8	26.1	5.5
120	Toledo	165	20.6	37.6	33.9	26.7	1.8
121	Gardner-Webb	206	20.6	33.5	35.9	23.3	7.3
122	Syracuse	206	20.6	30.1	39.8	23.8	6.3
123	Army	185	20.6	17.3	34.6	31.9	16.2
124	Yale	164	20.5	25.6	40.9	28.0	5.5
125	Stephen F. Austin	204	20.4	26.5	37.7	29.9	5.9
126	William & Mary	204	20.4	26.5	38.2	29.9	5.4
127	Southern Miss	163	20.4	30.1	38.7	27.6	3.7
128	Stetson	183	20.3	27.3	34.4	27.9	10.4
129	New Mexico	183	20.3	32.8	32.8	25.1	9.3
130	Lafayette	203	20.3	33.5	31.5	31.0	3.9
131	Purdue	203	20.3	30.0	37.9	25.6	6.4
132	Sacred Heart	162	20.3	26.5	37.0	31.5	4.9
133	LSU	162	20.3	30.9	39.5	25.9	3.7
134	Bethune-Cookman	162	20.3	30.2	44.4	23.5	1.9
135	Princeton	162	20.3	28.4	39.5	25.3	6.8
136	Utah State	182	20.2	37.4	35.2	24.2	3.3
137	Georgia State	182	20.2	26.9	34.6	31.9	6.6
138	Chattanooga	161	20.1	31.7	36.6	24.2	7.5
139	Brown	161	20.1	21.1	43.5	28.0	7.5
140	Drake	181	20.1	34.8	31.5	28.7	5.0
141	Florida International	181	20.1	29.8	35.9	27.6	6.6
142	Eastern Michigan	181	20.1	35.9	27.1	32.0	5.0
143	Kennesaw State	180	20.0	30.6	39.4	27.2	2.8
144	McKendree	20	20.0	25.0	35.0	35.0	5.0
145	Pennsylvania	160	20.0	25.6	39.4	31.9	3.1
146	Northwestern	180	20.0	26.7	34.4	33.3	5.6
147	Texas Southern	140	20.0	30.0	39.3	27.1	3.6
148	East Texas A&M	200	20.0	34.0	37.5	23.5	5.0
149	Edward Waters	20	20.0	40.0	30.0	25.0	5.0
150	Elon	199	19.9	37.2	34.2	25.6	3.0
151	South Alabama	179	19.9	25.7	33.5	31.8	8.9
152	UAB	159	19.9	32.1	31.4	30.8	5.7
153	Sacramento State	198	19.8	28.3	35.4	29.3	7.1
154	California	198	19.8	30.3	35.4	27.8	6.6
155	Prairie View A&M	178	19.8	36.5	34.8	24.2	4.5
156	San Diego State	177	19.7	32.8	39.5	22.6	5.1
157	Wyoming	157	19.6	33.8	35.7	26.8	3.8
158	McNeese	196	19.6	28.1	36.7	27.6	7.7
159	Buffalo	176	19.6	34.7	35.2	26.1	4.0
160	Fresno State	176	19.6	27.3	42.6	28.4	1.7
161	Mississippi Valley State	117	19.5	30.8	36.8	26.5	6.0
162	Morgan State	156	19.5	32.1	30.1	32.1	5.8
163	Kentucky	156	19.5	22.4	41.7	30.8	5.1
164	SMU	195	19.5	37.9	32.8	25.1	3.6
165	Michigan State	175	19.4	30.9	32.6	28.6	6.9
166	UCF	175	19.4	27.4	37.7	25.7	9.1
167	Western Michigan	175	19.4	28.0	32.6	33.1	6.3
168	Georgetown	194	19.4	27.8	29.9	37.6	4.6
169	Bryant	194	19.4	32.5	36.6	25.8	5.2
170	New Mexico State	155	19.4	31.0	24.5	40.6	3.9
171	Missouri State	174	19.3	39.1	34.5	24.1	2.3
172	UT Martin	193	19.3	31.6	31.6	34.2	2.6
173	New Haven	154	19.3	37.7	34.4	25.3	2.6
174	Middle Tennessee	173	19.2	34.1	33.5	27.7	4.6
175	Central Connecticut	192	19.2	31.3	39.6	27.6	1.6
176	Liberty	172	19.1	29.1	36.0	28.5	6.4
177	San Diego	191	19.1	28.3	35.1	31.9	4.7
178	UTSA	171	19.0	27.5	40.4	26.9	5.3
179	Kentucky State	19	19.0	31.6	26.3	36.8	5.3
180	Saginaw Valley State	19	19.0	31.6	42.1	26.3	0.0
181	Lindenwood	189	18.9	32.3	36.0	25.9	5.8
182	Duquesne	189	18.9	28.6	37.6	27.5	6.3
183	Washington State	170	18.9	32.4	36.5	25.3	5.9
184	Fordham	188	18.8	28.7	29.8	33.5	8.0
185	South Dakota	188	18.8	27.1	44.1	26.6	1.6
186	Minnesota	169	18.8	35.5	33.1	29.6	1.8
187	Eastern Illinois	169	18.8	33.1	34.9	28.4	3.6
188	Louisiana Tech	150	18.8	34.7	36.7	25.3	3.3
189	Bucknell	187	18.7	34.2	32.1	29.9	3.7
190	Long Island University	168	18.7	30.4	33.3	31.5	4.8
191	New Hampshire	186	18.6	23.7	40.9	27.4	8.1
192	Troy	167	18.6	28.7	26.9	35.3	8.4
193	Akron	167	18.6	32.3	40.1	22.8	4.8
194	Butler	167	18.6	23.4	35.3	35.3	6.0
195	UCLA	167	18.6	34.1	31.1	25.7	9.0
196	Maine	185	18.5	26.5	43.2	23.8	6.5
197	Kansas State	166	18.4	27.7	36.1	28.9	7.2
198	Richmond	166	18.4	27.7	36.1	31.9	4.2
199	Miami (OH)	165	18.3	37.6	33.9	23.0	5.5
200	Colorado State	165	18.3	26.1	42.4	24.8	6.7
201	Northern Colorado	183	18.3	25.7	40.4	28.4	4.9
202	Texas	146	18.3	31.5	35.6	30.8	2.1
203	Florida	146	18.3	31.5	42.5	22.6	3.4
204	Virginia Tech	146	18.3	32.2	32.9	29.5	5.5
205	Samford	164	18.2	23.8	40.9	31.1	4.3
206	Utah Tech	182	18.2	22.0	37.4	34.1	6.6
207	Wagner	182	18.2	28.0	39.6	28.6	3.8
208	Campbell	182	18.2	25.8	41.2	28.6	4.4
209	Central Michigan	163	18.1	32.5	35.0	25.8	6.7
210	Temple	181	18.1	32.6	37.0	24.9	5.5
211	Furman	181	18.1	34.3	34.3	29.8	1.7
212	Morehead State	199	18.1	35.7	41.2	21.6	1.5
213	Lincoln (PA)	18	18.0	33.3	22.2	44.4	0.0
214	Northern Michigan	18	18.0	5.6	50.0	33.3	11.1
215	Dayton	162	18.0	33.3	25.3	29.0	12.3
216	West Virginia	179	17.9	27.9	37.4	24.6	10.1
217	Norfolk State	179	17.9	35.2	41.9	17.3	5.6
218	Davidson	178	17.8	29.2	34.8	28.1	7.9
219	Iowa	142	17.8	26.8	37.3	29.6	6.3
220	Stanford	177	17.7	35.6	25.4	32.8	6.2
221	Cal Poly	159	17.7	39.0	30.2	25.8	5.0
222	Alcorn State	159	17.7	34.6	35.2	26.4	3.8
223	Coastal Carolina	141	17.6	24.1	41.1	30.5	4.3
224	Florida A&M	141	17.6	26.2	36.2	31.9	5.7
225	Colorado	176	17.6	24.4	40.9	31.3	3.4
226	Grambling	174	17.4	30.5	36.8	28.7	4.0
227	UL Monroe	156	17.3	33.3	34.0	26.9	5.8
228	Merrimack	156	17.3	21.8	40.4	31.4	6.4
229	Maryland	156	17.3	28.8	34.6	32.1	4.5
230	Mercyhurst	155	17.2	29.7	30.3	30.3	9.7
231	Southern	155	17.2	22.6	33.5	37.4	6.5
232	Western Illinois	155	17.2	28.4	41.3	23.9	6.5
233	Eastern Washington	172	17.2	27.3	36.0	29.7	7.0
234	Wake Forest	154	17.1	39.0	24.0	31.8	4.5
235	Alabama A&M	154	17.1	31.8	33.8	28.6	5.8
236	Hampton	171	17.1	26.9	35.7	31.0	6.4
237	Greensboro College	17	17.0	17.6	41.2	35.3	5.9
238	Weber State	169	16.9	29.6	33.7	34.3	2.4
239	Charlotte	152	16.9	34.2	26.3	32.2	7.2
240	Nicholls	168	16.8	29.8	30.4	33.9	6.0
241	Northern Iowa	168	16.8	28.0	33.9	35.7	2.4
242	Towson	168	16.8	28.6	33.3	31.5	6.5
243	UAlbany	151	16.8	25.8	41.7	23.8	8.6
244	Arkansas-Pine Bluff	134	16.8	23.1	35.1	38.8	3.0
245	Lamar	133	16.6	31.6	36.1	27.1	5.3
246	Marist	164	16.4	27.4	40.2	25.0	7.3
247	Portland State	163	16.3	33.1	34.4	29.4	3.1
248	UTEP	130	16.3	28.5	33.1	26.9	11.5
249	Bowling Green	162	16.2	33.3	31.5	32.7	2.5
250	Virginia St	16	16.0	31.3	50.0	18.8	0.0
251	Columbia	128	16.0	23.4	35.2	32.0	9.4
252	Massachusetts	128	16.0	28.1	39.1	29.7	3.1
253	Rice	159	15.9	20.8	39.6	31.4	8.2
254	North Carolina	127	15.9	31.5	32.3	28.3	7.9
255	Holy Cross	158	15.8	25.3	38.0	29.7	7.0
256	Louisiana	142	15.8	30.3	27.5	38.0	4.2
257	Oklahoma State	142	15.8	26.8	28.9	38.0	6.3
258	South Carolina	126	15.8	32.5	27.8	29.4	10.3
259	Valparaiso	141	15.7	29.1	33.3	34.0	3.5
260	Wisconsin	141	15.7	27.7	37.6	26.2	8.5
261	Nevada	140	15.6	37.1	27.1	29.3	6.4
262	Houston Christian	154	15.4	28.6	37.7	28.6	5.2
263	Howard	138	15.3	26.8	36.2	32.6	4.3
264	Sam Houston	138	15.3	34.8	34.8	23.9	5.8
265	Eastern Kentucky	150	15.0	30.7	36.0	29.3	3.3
266	Wofford	119	14.9	31.9	28.6	34.5	5.0
267	St. Francis (PA)	132	14.7	37.1	31.8	25.8	5.3
268	The Citadel	117	14.6	32.5	29.9	29.9	7.7
269	Stonehill	143	14.3	21.0	32.2	35.7	11.2
270	Charleston Southern	142	14.2	24.6	35.9	34.5	4.9
271	North Carolina A&T	141	14.1	29.8	29.8	39.0	1.4
272	Northeastern State	14	14.0	21.4	50.0	14.3	14.3
273	Robert Morris	108	13.5	25.0	38.9	32.4	3.7
274	VMI	134	13.4	27.6	39.6	30.6	2.2
275	Indiana State	120	13.3	24.2	42.5	30.0	3.3
276	Tennessee State	133	13.3	27.1	35.3	34.6	3.0
277	Ball State	119	13.2	22.7	36.1	34.5	6.7
278	Northern Illinois	118	13.1	22.9	28.0	35.6	13.6
279	Pace	13	13.0	53.8	23.1	15.4	7.7
280	Savannah St	13	13.0	23.1	46.2	30.8	0.0
281	Kent State	110	12.2	28.2	30.9	30.9	10.0
282	Thomas More College	24	12.0	20.8	41.7	29.2	8.3
283	Miles College	12	12.0	33.3	25.0	41.7	0.0
284	Bentley	12	12.0	8.3	41.7	33.3	16.7
285	Hanover College	11	11.0	27.3	18.2	54.5	0.0
286	Northwestern State	106	10.6	26.4	37.7	31.1	4.7
287	Morehouse College	10	10.0	20.0	40.0	30.0	10.0
288	Fayetteville State	10	10.0	20.0	20.0	60.0	0.0
289	American International	10	10.0	30.0	20.0	40.0	10.0
290	Upper Iowa University	10	10.0	30.0	30.0	40.0	0.0
291	Lane College	9	9.0	33.3	44.4	22.2	0.0
292	ERSKINE	9	9.0	44.4	22.2	22.2	11.1
293	Lincoln (CA)	26	8.7	26.9	38.5	26.9	7.7
294	Ferrum	8	8.0	25.0	62.5	12.5	0.0
295	Central State (OH)	7	7.0	14.3	28.6	57.1	0.0
296	Western Connecticut St	6	6.0	50.0	33.3	16.7	0.0
297	Tuskegee	5	5.0	20.0	40.0	40.0	0.0
298	Sul Ross State	8	4.0	12.5	50.0	37.5	0.0