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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	Miami	286	28.6	39.9	31.1	25.2	3.8
2	Clark Atlanta	28	28.0	25.0	46.4	25.0	3.6
3	McKendree	27	27.0	33.3	33.3	29.6	3.7
4	Syracuse	266	26.6	30.1	33.8	28.9	6.8
5	Eastern Washington	236	26.2	28.0	37.3	30.9	3.8
6	Texas State	262	26.2	35.9	38.6	22.1	3.4
7	Sioux Falls	26	26.0	26.9	23.1	42.3	7.7
8	Ole Miss	257	25.7	36.6	37.4	21.4	4.7
9	Arkansas	256	25.6	40.2	32.4	24.2	3.1
10	Indiana	251	25.1	36.3	38.6	21.1	4.0
11	USC	251	25.1	35.5	37.1	24.3	3.2
12	Abilene Christian	276	25.1	34.8	33.0	28.6	3.6
13	Boise State	246	24.6	32.5	35.0	27.6	4.9
14	Penn State	245	24.5	39.2	32.7	25.3	2.9
15	Western Carolina	268	24.4	35.1	33.6	27.6	3.7
16	UCF	242	24.2	41.3	31.8	22.3	4.5
17	Ohio State	242	24.2	35.1	33.5	24.8	6.6
18	Montana State	266	24.2	32.3	36.5	28.2	2.6
19	Oregon	266	24.2	31.2	38.7	26.7	3.4
20	Tennessee	241	24.1	31.1	34.9	29.9	4.1
21	Montana	264	24.0	31.8	38.3	24.6	5.3
22	Alabama A&M	216	24.0	28.7	40.7	23.1	7.4
23	App State	216	24.0	33.8	37.0	23.6	5.6
24	Tulane	263	23.9	33.5	35.7	27.8	3.0
25	TCU	239	23.9	38.1	33.1	23.0	5.9
26	North Dakota State	239	23.9	27.6	38.5	29.3	4.6
27	Clemson	239	23.9	31.0	37.2	28.0	3.8
28	Davidson	238	23.8	30.3	29.0	30.7	10.1
29	Monmouth	261	23.7	34.5	31.4	24.5	9.6
30	Texas Tech	237	23.7	30.4	32.9	31.6	5.1
31	Washington State	237	23.7	33.8	38.4	22.8	4.6
32	Delaware	237	23.7	30.4	30.4	30.4	8.9
33	Jacksonville State	236	23.6	34.7	39.8	21.6	3.8
34	Army	212	23.6	27.4	39.6	25.9	7.1
35	William & Mary	212	23.6	35.8	34.9	25.0	4.2
36	Harvard	188	23.5	28.7	35.1	27.7	8.5
37	North Carolina	234	23.4	31.2	38.5	26.1	4.3
38	Liberty	210	23.3	32.9	39.0	25.2	2.9
39	LSU	232	23.2	34.9	30.2	31.5	3.4
40	North Texas	232	23.2	37.5	34.1	19.8	8.6
41	Texas	232	23.2	28.9	40.9	26.3	3.9
42	Memphis	255	23.2	31.4	38.0	25.9	4.7
43	Cornell	185	23.1	37.3	29.7	26.5	6.5
44	Idaho State	254	23.1	37.4	33.5	25.6	3.5
45	South Alabama	229	22.9	34.9	37.1	24.5	3.5
46	Western Illinois	251	22.8	31.9	36.3	25.9	6.0
47	SMU	228	22.8	37.3	32.5	26.3	3.9
48	UTSA	225	22.5	22.2	40.0	33.8	4.0
49	Southeast Missouri State	247	22.5	30.0	37.7	27.5	4.5
50	Iowa State	224	22.4	31.3	35.3	28.1	5.4
51	Louisiana	224	22.4	35.7	33.5	26.3	4.5
52	Alabama	224	22.4	34.4	36.2	25.9	3.6
53	Arizona State	223	22.3	30.9	35.9	28.7	4.5
54	Cincinnati	223	22.3	29.1	40.4	26.0	4.5
55	Maryland	223	22.3	33.2	31.8	29.1	5.8
56	Georgia	223	22.3	34.1	36.3	23.8	5.8
57	Washington	245	22.3	34.3	40.8	20.8	4.1
58	Yale	200	22.2	30.0	33.5	31.5	5.0
59	Brown	200	22.2	23.0	37.5	30.0	9.5
60	Pittsburgh	222	22.2	34.2	38.7	22.5	4.5
61	UC Davis	244	22.2	33.2	42.2	24.2	0.4
62	Mercyhurst	155	22.1	35.5	32.3	22.6	9.7
63	Incarnate Word	221	22.1	35.3	31.7	26.2	6.8
64	Georgia Tech	220	22.0	29.5	40.5	24.1	5.9
65	BYU	220	22.0	35.5	40.5	16.4	7.7
66	Texas A&M	220	22.0	35.5	35.0	26.8	2.7
67	South Carolina State	176	22.0	30.7	39.2	25.6	4.5
68	Georgetown	175	21.9	36.6	32.0	27.4	4.0
69	Missouri State	240	21.8	37.9	37.1	23.3	1.7
70	UAB	218	21.8	32.6	34.4	27.5	5.5
71	UNLV	217	21.7	37.3	34.6	24.0	4.1
72	Wake Forest	217	21.7	32.3	36.9	24.4	6.5
73	Oregon State	217	21.7	25.8	35.9	29.5	8.3
74	Louisville	216	21.6	31.5	44.0	20.8	3.7
75	Eastern Michigan	237	21.5	29.1	33.8	30.8	6.3
76	New Mexico	237	21.5	35.0	39.2	21.5	4.2
77	Sacramento State	215	21.5	30.2	38.1	28.8	2.3
78	Arkansas State	215	21.5	27.9	37.2	29.8	5.1
79	South Dakota State	236	21.5	36.9	33.5	28.0	1.7
80	East Carolina	214	21.4	33.2	33.6	29.9	3.3
81	Kansas State	214	21.4	35.5	32.7	26.2	5.6
82	Pennsylvania	192	21.3	35.9	31.8	26.6	5.7
83	Youngstown State	256	21.3	21.5	40.6	32.0	5.9
84	Rutgers	213	21.3	35.7	32.4	26.8	5.2
85	Kansas	213	21.3	28.6	37.6	29.1	4.7
86	Missouri	213	21.3	24.9	40.4	31.9	2.8
87	Baylor	213	21.3	34.7	31.0	26.3	8.0
88	Northern Illinois	234	21.3	28.6	35.9	31.2	4.3
89	Notre Dame	211	21.1	28.4	43.1	21.3	7.1
90	Oklahoma State	211	21.1	34.1	32.7	25.1	8.1
91	Auburn	211	21.1	34.1	37.0	25.1	3.8
92	Colorado	211	21.1	33.6	37.0	24.6	4.7
93	West Virginia	211	21.1	29.9	35.1	26.1	9.0
94	Lafayette	231	21.0	31.2	33.8	28.1	6.9
95	South Dakota	210	21.0	39.0	39.0	21.0	1.0
96	Stephen F. Austin	210	21.0	35.7	36.7	24.3	3.3
97	Tuskegee	21	21.0	57.1	19.0	23.8	0.0
98	Northern Arizona	167	20.9	38.3	37.1	21.0	3.6
99	Utah State	208	20.8	35.1	34.1	24.5	6.3
100	Ball State	208	20.8	36.5	26.9	29.8	6.7
101	Illinois State	228	20.7	34.6	34.2	29.8	1.3
102	San José State	207	20.7	31.9	40.1	24.6	3.4
103	Stony Brook	165	20.6	24.8	36.4	31.5	7.3
104	Illinois	206	20.6	30.1	36.4	28.2	4.9
105	James Madison	205	20.5	32.2	36.1	28.3	3.4
106	Georgia Southern	205	20.5	32.7	32.7	30.2	4.4
107	Bowling Green	205	20.5	37.1	32.2	25.4	5.4
108	East Tennessee State	205	20.5	31.7	36.6	25.4	6.3
109	Hampton	225	20.5	24.0	34.2	35.6	6.2
110	Western Kentucky	204	20.4	32.8	29.4	29.4	8.3
111	Nebraska	204	20.4	34.3	31.4	30.9	3.4
112	Tarleton State	224	20.4	32.6	42.4	22.3	2.7
113	Butler	224	20.4	30.4	36.2	29.9	3.6
114	South Carolina	203	20.3	31.5	36.0	26.6	5.4
115	North Dakota	223	20.3	32.7	31.4	31.4	4.5
116	Virginia	202	20.2	31.2	33.7	29.2	5.9
117	Bucknell	202	20.2	32.2	32.2	30.7	5.0
118	Florida	202	20.2	41.6	33.7	21.8	3.0
119	California	201	20.1	39.3	31.3	26.4	3.0
120	Ohio	221	20.1	34.8	34.8	27.1	2.7
121	Southern Utah	220	20.0	26.8	37.7	32.7	2.7
122	Wisconsin	200	20.0	29.0	39.0	26.5	5.5
123	SE Louisiana	219	19.9	30.6	32.9	28.8	7.8
124	Bryant	139	19.9	32.4	36.7	24.5	6.5
125	Duquesne	198	19.8	26.8	34.3	29.8	9.1
126	Kentucky	198	19.8	36.9	33.8	23.7	5.6
127	South Florida	198	19.8	32.8	32.8	28.3	6.1
128	UConn	198	19.8	29.3	41.4	26.3	3.0
129	NC State	197	19.7	34.5	35.5	24.9	5.1
130	Minnesota	197	19.7	32.0	33.5	29.9	4.6
131	Troy	196	19.6	30.6	33.2	33.7	2.6
132	Western Michigan	215	19.5	34.9	36.3	21.4	7.4
133	Weber State	215	19.5	29.3	37.2	27.4	5.6
134	Massachusetts	195	19.5	30.8	31.8	32.8	4.6
135	Eastern Kentucky	214	19.5	23.8	41.1	31.8	3.3
136	Nevada	214	19.5	29.4	31.3	33.2	6.1
137	Mississippi State	194	19.4	30.4	34.0	26.8	8.8
138	Hawai'i	213	19.4	25.8	41.8	26.3	6.1
139	Old Dominion	193	19.3	32.6	32.6	31.6	3.1
140	Mercer	212	19.3	37.7	36.8	22.6	2.8
141	Jackson State	192	19.2	34.9	33.3	25.0	6.8
142	Portland State	192	19.2	25.0	37.5	32.3	5.2
143	Tulsa	192	19.2	33.9	29.2	32.8	4.2
144	Gardner-Webb	211	19.2	33.2	32.2	26.1	8.1
145	West Georgia	153	19.1	37.9	37.3	19.6	5.2
146	North Alabama	191	19.1	36.1	36.6	22.5	4.7
147	Georgia State	191	19.1	30.4	40.8	25.1	3.7
148	Marshall	190	19.0	31.6	38.4	26.3	3.7
149	Richmond	171	19.0	25.1	41.5	28.1	5.3
150	Michigan State	189	18.9	36.0	31.2	27.5	5.3
151	Florida Atlantic	189	18.9	29.1	40.7	21.7	8.5
152	Fresno State	189	18.9	33.3	36.5	26.5	3.7
153	Boston College	189	18.9	27.0	33.9	32.3	6.9
154	Arizona	189	18.9	36.0	29.6	30.7	3.7
155	Eastern Illinois	207	18.8	29.5	38.2	27.5	4.8
156	Louisiana Tech	188	18.8	26.6	34.6	35.6	3.2
157	Presbyterian	188	18.8	36.2	34.0	25.0	4.8
158	Nicholls	205	18.6	27.8	38.5	27.8	5.9
159	Oklahoma	186	18.6	26.3	37.1	29.0	7.0
160	North Carolina Central	186	18.6	37.1	33.9	24.2	4.8
161	Columbia	167	18.6	29.9	34.1	31.1	4.8
162	Lindenwood	204	18.5	36.8	30.4	31.4	1.5
163	Lamar	204	18.5	31.9	35.8	27.5	4.9
164	McNeese	204	18.5	35.3	34.8	25.0	4.9
165	Lehigh	148	18.5	25.0	37.8	33.1	4.1
166	Chattanooga	203	18.5	30.0	37.4	30.0	2.5
167	Buffalo	203	18.5	26.6	41.9	24.1	6.9
168	Howard	184	18.4	28.8	37.5	27.7	6.0
169	Vanderbilt	184	18.4	29.9	33.7	33.2	3.3
170	Stanford	184	18.4	25.5	40.2	25.0	9.2
171	Samford	165	18.3	24.2	44.8	27.9	3.0
172	Sam Houston	183	18.3	27.3	38.3	30.1	4.4
173	Coastal Carolina	183	18.3	29.5	39.3	27.3	3.8
174	Virginia Tech	182	18.2	35.7	31.9	28.0	4.4
175	Southern Illinois	200	18.2	29.5	35.0	32.0	3.5
176	Stetson	163	18.1	24.5	39.3	28.8	7.4
177	Central Arkansas	163	18.1	31.3	43.6	22.7	2.5
178	Dayton	181	18.1	24.3	32.6	35.9	7.2
179	Edinboro University	18	18.0	5.6	55.6	33.3	5.6
180	Dartmouth	162	18.0	22.8	38.9	34.6	3.7
181	Catawba	18	18.0	33.3	33.3	33.3	0.0
182	Holy Cross	198	18.0	29.3	38.4	28.3	4.0
183	Maine	197	17.9	32.0	36.0	28.4	3.6
184	Toledo	197	17.9	33.5	33.0	27.9	5.6
185	UT Martin	197	17.9	36.0	31.0	27.9	5.1
186	Navy	179	17.9	27.4	41.3	24.0	7.3
187	Florida A&M	161	17.9	34.8	31.7	31.1	2.5
188	Tennessee State	196	17.8	29.6	38.3	29.1	3.1
189	New Hampshire	195	17.7	28.7	40.5	25.1	5.6
190	Central Michigan	195	17.7	39.0	26.7	26.7	7.7
191	Central Connecticut	177	17.7	24.9	39.5	31.1	4.5
192	Florida International	177	17.7	40.1	32.8	20.3	6.8
193	Utah	177	17.7	35.6	31.1	28.8	4.5
194	Northern Iowa	176	17.6	31.8	38.1	24.4	5.7
195	Southern	158	17.6	26.6	35.4	34.2	3.8
196	Furman	158	17.6	27.2	34.2	34.8	3.8
197	Arkansas-Pine Bluff	158	17.6	38.0	35.4	24.7	1.9
198	Austin Peay	175	17.5	29.1	37.7	29.7	3.4
199	Idaho	175	17.5	37.1	36.6	22.9	3.4
200	Towson	175	17.5	32.0	39.4	24.6	4.0
201	UCLA	175	17.5	28.6	34.3	32.6	4.6
202	New Mexico State	175	17.5	30.3	33.7	33.1	2.9
203	Robert Morris	175	17.5	33.7	38.3	23.4	4.6
204	Akron	192	17.5	32.8	37.0	27.6	2.6
205	Air Force	174	17.4	17.2	35.1	35.1	12.6
206	Iowa	173	17.3	34.1	31.8	32.9	1.2
207	Michigan	172	17.2	22.1	39.5	32.0	6.4
208	Colorado State	172	17.2	29.1	38.4	27.3	5.2
209	Duke	172	17.2	31.4	42.4	23.3	2.9
210	The Citadel	172	17.2	24.4	34.9	32.6	8.1
211	Campbell	189	17.2	27.0	36.0	32.3	4.8
212	UAlbany	171	17.1	33.9	32.2	28.7	5.3
213	Virginia St	17	17.0	29.4	29.4	41.2	0.0
214	Miami (OH)	187	17.0	33.7	41.2	22.5	2.7
215	Rhode Island	186	16.9	36.0	30.6	29.6	3.8
216	San Diego State	169	16.9	28.4	31.4	31.4	8.9
217	Long Island University	169	16.9	31.4	34.3	27.8	6.5
218	Drake	135	16.9	29.6	37.0	31.9	1.5
219	Charlotte	168	16.8	35.1	35.7	23.8	5.4
220	Elon	184	16.7	34.2	37.0	22.8	6.0
221	Colgate	166	16.6	28.9	37.3	25.9	7.8
222	Middle Tennessee	166	16.6	34.9	30.7	29.5	4.8
223	Rice	166	16.6	27.7	39.2	29.5	3.6
224	UTEP	166	16.6	28.3	37.3	30.1	4.2
225	Prairie View A&M	148	16.4	33.8	35.1	27.7	3.4
226	Merrimack	148	16.4	30.4	33.8	31.8	4.1
227	Wyoming	164	16.4	29.3	28.7	34.8	7.3
228	Sacred Heart	180	16.4	27.2	41.7	26.7	4.4
229	San Diego	163	16.3	35.0	33.1	28.2	3.7
230	Villanova	179	16.3	29.6	40.2	25.1	5.0
231	Alcorn State	146	16.2	24.0	43.2	30.1	2.7
232	Texas A&M-Commerce	145	16.1	25.5	31.7	37.2	5.5
233	Temple	161	16.1	28.0	31.7	34.8	5.6
234	Upper Iowa University	16	16.0	6.3	43.8	31.3	18.8
235	Fordham	144	16.0	29.2	38.2	22.9	9.7
236	Purdue	157	15.7	41.4	30.6	26.8	1.3
237	Murray State	172	15.6	29.7	30.8	32.0	7.6
238	Wagner	172	15.6	29.1	33.1	31.4	6.4
239	Mississippi Valley State	171	15.5	29.8	34.5	29.2	6.4
240	Marist	171	15.5	28.7	36.8	26.3	8.2
241	Cal Poly	155	15.5	25.2	41.3	28.4	5.2
242	Princeton	123	15.4	26.0	33.3	34.1	6.5
243	North Carolina A&T	168	15.3	26.8	36.3	30.4	6.5
244	Tennessee Tech	168	15.3	31.0	35.7	29.2	3.6
245	Indiana State	168	15.3	28.0	32.1	32.7	7.1
246	Wofford	167	15.2	36.5	31.7	25.7	6.0
247	Delaware State	151	15.1	31.8	33.1	29.1	6.0
248	Northwestern	151	15.1	31.8	35.1	27.2	6.0
249	Southern Miss	150	15.0	39.3	32.0	20.0	8.7
250	Western Oregon	30	15.0	26.7	43.3	26.7	3.3
251	Winston-Salem	15	15.0	46.7	20.0	33.3	0.0
252	Houston	148	14.8	35.8	31.1	26.4	6.8
253	Grambling	147	14.7	29.3	40.8	27.2	2.7
254	Florida State	146	14.6	29.5	31.5	24.7	14.4
255	Stonehill	146	14.6	23.3	39.7	28.8	8.2
256	Northern Colorado	160	14.5	22.5	40.6	31.3	5.6
257	Alabama State	130	14.4	32.3	34.6	30.8	2.3
258	Morgan State	85	14.2	27.1	34.1	32.9	5.9
259	Black Hills State	14	14.0	28.6	42.9	21.4	7.1
260	Charleston Southern	154	14.0	31.2	39.0	24.0	5.8
261	Kentucky State	14	14.0	35.7	28.6	35.7	0.0
262	UL Monroe	139	13.9	24.5	36.0	30.2	9.4
263	St. Thomas (MN)	138	13.8	34.1	32.6	26.8	6.5
264	Norfolk State	124	13.8	25.0	37.9	32.3	4.8
265	Kennesaw State	137	13.7	26.3	26.3	42.3	5.1
266	Bethune-Cookman	136	13.6	26.5	39.7	25.7	8.1
267	Houston Christian	135	13.5	27.4	32.6	37.8	2.2
268	Texas Southern	81	13.5	30.9	33.3	33.3	2.5
269	St. Francis (PA)	121	13.4	36.4	31.4	28.1	4.1
270	Morehead State	145	13.2	33.1	31.7	30.3	4.8
271	Utah Tech	118	13.1	33.1	36.4	28.0	2.5
272	North Greenville	13	13.0	38.5	30.8	23.1	7.7
273	Roosevelt	13	13.0	38.5	46.2	15.4	0.0
274	Miles College	13	13.0	23.1	46.2	30.8	0.0
275	Central State (OH)	13	13.0	15.4	53.8	23.1	7.7
276	Central Washington	13	13.0	15.4	30.8	53.8	0.0
277	Kent State	134	12.2	33.6	36.6	23.1	6.0
278	Shorter	12	12.0	33.3	8.3	50.0	8.3
279	Valparaiso	116	11.6	33.6	29.3	33.6	3.4
280	VMI	123	11.2	28.5	34.1	30.1	7.3
281	Virginia Union	11	11.0	27.3	27.3	36.4	9.1
282	Northern State	11	11.0	27.3	9.1	63.6	0.0
283	Northwestern State	115	10.5	31.3	31.3	33.9	3.5
284	Lincoln (CA)	31	10.3	25.8	35.5	38.7	0.0
285	Lane College	10	10.0	50.0	20.0	10.0	20.0
286	Hanover College	8	8.0	25.0	12.5	50.0	12.5
287	St. Anselm	8	8.0	25.0	50.0	25.0	0.0
288	West Virginia Wesleyan	7	7.0	28.6	28.6	28.6	14.3
289	UVA Wise	6	6.0	16.7	16.7	66.7	0.0
290	Augustana University (SD)	6	6.0	33.3	16.7	50.0	0.0
291	Savannah St	1	1.0	0.0	100.0	0.0	0.0