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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	368	28.3	38.9	32.1	25.5	3.5
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	350	26.9	31.7	34.9	27.4	5.7
5	Texas State	322	26.8	34.5	38.2	22.7	4.7
6	Sioux Falls	26	26.0	26.9	23.1	42.3	7.7
7	Arkansas	330	25.4	38.2	35.2	22.4	4.2
8	Eastern Washington	251	25.1	28.7	35.5	31.9	4.0
9	Texas Tech	326	25.1	32.5	31.3	31.9	4.3
10	Ole Miss	300	25.0	35.0	37.7	22.0	5.3
11	USC	324	24.9	37.0	36.4	23.5	3.1
12	Oregon	323	24.8	31.3	39.9	25.4	3.4
13	Western Carolina	296	24.7	34.5	33.4	28.0	4.1
14	Monmouth	294	24.5	36.4	32.0	23.1	8.5
15	Indiana	316	24.3	35.8	38.3	21.8	4.1
16	Penn State	339	24.2	38.1	33.3	23.9	4.7
17	Tennessee	314	24.2	32.2	34.4	29.9	3.5
18	Boise State	311	23.9	32.5	36.0	26.7	4.8
19	UCF	286	23.8	40.6	32.2	22.4	4.9
20	App State	261	23.7	35.6	35.2	23.8	5.4
21	Delaware	260	23.6	30.4	30.8	30.4	8.5
22	Alabama A&M	259	23.5	29.3	39.0	24.7	7.0
23	Harvard	188	23.5	28.7	35.1	27.7	8.5
24	Liberty	258	23.5	32.6	38.4	25.6	3.5
25	Texas	328	23.4	29.3	39.6	26.5	4.6
26	TCU	304	23.4	35.5	34.2	23.7	6.6
27	Idaho State	280	23.3	36.4	34.6	25.0	3.9
28	Clemson	326	23.3	31.6	37.4	27.3	3.7
29	Montana State	326	23.3	29.8	37.4	30.1	2.5
30	Abilene Christian	324	23.1	34.0	33.0	29.0	4.0
31	North Texas	277	23.1	36.5	34.3	22.0	7.2
32	Georgia	300	23.1	33.3	37.3	23.0	6.3
33	Georgia Tech	299	23.0	29.4	41.5	23.7	5.4
34	LSU	276	23.0	34.8	29.7	31.5	4.0
35	Memphis	299	23.0	30.4	38.1	27.4	4.0
36	Davidson	253	23.0	30.0	28.9	31.2	9.9
37	Washington State	299	23.0	34.8	38.5	21.7	4.7
38	UC Davis	298	22.9	33.2	40.9	24.5	1.3
39	Ohio State	298	22.9	33.6	34.6	25.2	6.7
40	Cornell	206	22.9	36.9	30.6	26.2	6.3
41	SMU	320	22.9	34.7	36.3	25.9	3.1
42	Western Illinois	274	22.8	31.4	36.9	25.5	6.2
43	North Dakota State	318	22.7	27.7	38.1	29.6	4.7
44	Jacksonville State	318	22.7	33.3	39.9	22.6	4.1
45	Brown	227	22.7	23.3	37.4	29.5	9.7
46	Arizona State	293	22.5	32.4	35.2	27.0	5.5
47	South Alabama	292	22.5	38.4	35.3	21.9	4.5
48	Montana	291	22.4	30.9	39.5	24.1	5.5
49	New Mexico	268	22.3	34.3	40.7	20.5	4.5
50	Cincinnati	268	22.3	29.9	40.3	25.4	4.5
51	BYU	290	22.3	36.2	38.3	19.3	6.2
52	Pittsburgh	290	22.3	34.1	37.2	24.8	3.8
53	Army	312	22.3	25.3	37.8	27.2	9.6
54	Yale	200	22.2	30.0	33.5	31.5	5.0
55	Iowa State	311	22.2	30.9	34.7	28.0	6.4
56	William & Mary	222	22.2	35.1	34.7	25.2	5.0
57	Baylor	266	22.2	34.2	30.5	27.4	7.9
58	South Carolina State	221	22.1	34.4	38.0	23.5	4.1
59	Southeast Missouri State	265	22.1	29.4	37.7	27.5	4.9
60	Alabama	265	22.1	32.5	34.7	29.8	3.0
61	East Carolina	286	22.0	33.2	32.5	30.8	3.5
62	Texas A&M	286	22.0	34.3	35.0	28.0	2.8
63	Tulane	308	22.0	31.8	36.0	28.6	3.6
64	West Virginia	286	22.0	30.1	33.6	27.3	9.1
65	UAB	263	21.9	34.6	34.2	26.2	4.9
66	Louisville	263	21.9	31.9	43.3	21.7	3.0
67	UTSA	284	21.8	27.5	37.0	32.0	3.5
68	Rutgers	284	21.8	32.4	35.2	27.8	4.6
69	Kansas	262	21.8	29.8	36.6	29.0	4.6
70	Washington	262	21.8	34.0	40.8	21.0	4.2
71	South Dakota State	305	21.8	36.4	33.1	28.2	2.3
72	Utah State	260	21.7	34.6	34.6	25.4	5.4
73	Stony Brook	195	21.7	25.1	37.4	30.3	7.2
74	Sacramento State	238	21.6	30.3	38.7	28.2	2.5
75	South Carolina	259	21.6	31.3	36.7	27.4	4.2
76	Ohio	302	21.6	34.8	36.8	25.8	2.3
77	Incarnate Word	258	21.5	35.7	32.9	25.2	6.2
78	Auburn	257	21.4	35.8	36.6	24.1	3.5
79	Oregon State	257	21.4	26.1	35.8	28.8	8.9
80	Missouri	278	21.4	25.9	38.1	32.4	3.6
81	Mercyhurst	171	21.4	33.9	32.2	24.0	9.9
82	Youngstown State	256	21.3	21.5	40.6	32.0	5.9
83	Georgia Southern	277	21.3	33.9	31.0	30.7	4.3
84	Notre Dame	277	21.3	30.0	42.6	20.9	6.5
85	Northern Illinois	276	21.2	29.0	35.5	29.7	5.8
86	Arkansas State	276	21.2	26.8	38.0	29.3	5.8
87	Eastern Michigan	254	21.2	28.7	32.7	32.7	5.9
88	Illinois State	254	21.2	33.1	34.6	29.1	3.2
89	Kansas State	275	21.2	37.1	31.3	25.8	5.8
90	North Carolina	275	21.2	34.2	36.4	24.7	4.7
91	Nebraska	275	21.2	33.8	34.2	28.4	3.6
92	Lafayette	253	21.1	32.0	34.0	27.3	6.7
93	Missouri State	252	21.0	38.5	36.1	23.0	2.4
94	UNLV	293	20.9	36.5	31.4	27.0	5.1
95	Wake Forest	251	20.9	31.5	35.5	26.7	6.4
96	Bucknell	230	20.9	30.9	34.3	29.1	5.7
97	Pennsylvania	209	20.9	34.0	33.0	26.8	6.2
98	James Madison	271	20.8	32.5	35.8	27.7	4.1
99	Maryland	250	20.8	33.2	32.8	28.4	5.6
100	Louisiana	291	20.8	35.1	34.0	25.4	5.5
101	South Dakota	291	20.8	40.2	36.4	21.6	1.7
102	Stephen F. Austin	228	20.7	37.3	35.1	23.7	3.9
103	San José State	269	20.7	31.2	40.5	24.5	3.7
104	Oklahoma State	248	20.7	35.9	33.1	23.4	7.7
105	South Florida	267	20.5	31.8	33.3	29.2	5.6
106	Hampton	246	20.5	23.2	36.2	34.6	6.1
107	Florida	266	20.5	40.2	33.5	23.7	2.6
108	Tarleton State	266	20.5	31.2	42.5	23.3	3.0
109	Portland State	225	20.5	28.4	38.2	28.9	4.4
110	East Tennessee State	225	20.5	32.9	34.2	26.7	6.2
111	Georgetown	184	20.4	36.4	32.6	26.6	4.3
112	Troy	245	20.4	31.0	32.7	33.1	3.3
113	Southern Utah	243	20.3	27.2	37.9	32.5	2.5
114	Old Dominion	243	20.3	33.3	32.1	31.7	2.9
115	Illinois	243	20.3	30.0	37.9	27.2	4.5
116	Hawai'i	243	20.3	25.5	41.6	27.2	5.8
117	Butler	243	20.3	29.6	35.8	30.9	3.7
118	Weber State	242	20.2	28.5	38.8	26.4	5.8
119	NC State	262	20.2	37.0	34.7	23.7	4.6
120	Colorado	262	20.2	35.5	36.6	24.0	3.8
121	Bowling Green	262	20.2	35.9	31.3	26.7	6.1
122	Northern Arizona	201	20.1	38.3	35.8	22.9	3.0
123	Ball State	240	20.0	35.4	26.7	32.1	5.8
124	Jackson State	259	19.9	35.9	33.6	24.7	5.8
125	Georgia State	239	19.9	32.2	38.9	24.7	4.2
126	Bryant	139	19.9	32.4	36.7	24.5	6.5
127	UConn	258	19.8	29.5	39.5	27.9	3.1
128	SE Louisiana	238	19.8	30.7	33.6	28.6	7.1
129	Nevada	257	19.8	31.1	32.7	30.4	5.8
130	Virginia	237	19.8	31.2	34.2	28.3	6.3
131	Gardner-Webb	236	19.7	33.9	29.7	26.7	9.3
132	Minnesota	235	19.6	32.3	33.2	30.2	4.3
133	Western Kentucky	274	19.6	31.0	31.8	29.9	7.3
134	North Dakota	234	19.5	33.3	31.2	31.2	4.3
135	Florida Atlantic	234	19.5	28.2	41.0	23.5	7.3
136	Massachusetts	233	19.4	29.6	33.9	30.5	6.0
137	Tulsa	233	19.4	33.9	29.2	31.8	5.2
138	North Carolina Central	213	19.4	37.1	33.3	25.4	4.2
139	Western Michigan	251	19.3	36.3	33.9	22.3	7.6
140	Boston College	251	19.3	26.7	35.1	31.5	6.8
141	California	251	19.3	37.5	30.3	28.3	4.0
142	Duquesne	212	19.3	28.8	33.0	29.2	9.0
143	Marshall	250	19.2	30.8	39.2	26.0	4.0
144	Richmond	192	19.2	26.0	39.6	29.7	4.7
145	Presbyterian	211	19.2	37.0	34.6	23.7	4.7
146	West Georgia	153	19.1	37.9	37.3	19.6	5.2
147	Lehigh	172	19.1	26.2	37.2	33.1	3.5
148	Columbia	191	19.1	31.9	34.6	28.8	4.7
149	Samford	191	19.1	25.1	44.5	27.2	3.1
150	Buffalo	229	19.1	27.1	40.2	26.2	6.1
151	Mercer	248	19.1	36.3	37.9	22.6	3.2
152	Oklahoma	248	19.1	26.2	35.9	31.0	6.5
153	Eastern Kentucky	228	19.0	22.8	43.0	31.1	3.1
154	Toledo	246	18.9	32.5	33.7	26.8	6.9
155	Southern Illinois	227	18.9	30.0	34.8	31.7	3.5
156	McNeese	227	18.9	35.2	35.7	24.7	4.4
157	Mississippi State	225	18.8	32.4	32.0	26.2	9.3
158	Michigan State	225	18.8	36.4	31.1	27.1	5.3
159	Lamar	225	18.8	32.9	35.1	26.7	5.3
160	Wisconsin	225	18.8	28.4	40.0	26.2	5.3
161	Dartmouth	187	18.7	25.1	39.6	31.0	4.3
162	Louisiana Tech	243	18.7	28.4	34.2	32.9	4.5
163	Kentucky	224	18.7	36.2	36.2	21.9	5.8
164	Nicholls	224	18.7	26.8	39.3	28.1	5.8
165	New Mexico State	222	18.5	29.3	33.8	34.2	2.7
166	Stanford	222	18.5	23.9	40.1	25.7	10.4
167	Virginia Tech	222	18.5	36.5	30.6	28.4	4.5
168	Eastern Illinois	222	18.5	29.7	37.8	27.5	5.0
169	Chattanooga	221	18.4	30.8	37.1	29.9	2.3
170	Howard	184	18.4	28.8	37.5	27.7	6.0
171	Coastal Carolina	238	18.3	30.7	37.0	29.0	3.4
172	Florida A&M	201	18.3	36.8	31.8	29.4	2.0
173	Lindenwood	219	18.3	36.5	30.6	31.5	1.4
174	Arizona	219	18.3	34.2	27.4	34.2	4.1
175	Colorado State	236	18.2	28.8	36.4	27.1	7.6
176	Fresno State	236	18.2	33.9	36.0	26.7	3.4
177	Catawba	18	18.0	33.3	33.3	33.3	0.0
178	Dayton	198	18.0	25.3	31.8	35.4	7.6
179	Edinboro University	18	18.0	5.6	55.6	33.3	5.6
180	Air Force	216	18.0	17.1	36.6	36.1	10.2
181	Stetson	180	18.0	23.9	38.9	30.0	7.2
182	Holy Cross	215	17.9	28.8	37.2	30.2	3.7
183	North Alabama	197	17.9	37.6	35.5	22.3	4.6
184	Sam Houston	232	17.8	24.6	39.7	30.6	5.2
185	San Diego State	214	17.8	29.4	31.3	31.3	7.9
186	Florida International	214	17.8	39.3	32.7	21.0	7.0
187	Tennessee State	231	17.8	31.6	36.4	28.6	3.5
188	Rice	213	17.8	29.1	39.0	28.6	3.3
189	Michigan	213	17.8	22.5	36.6	35.2	5.6
190	Vanderbilt	230	17.7	30.9	33.5	31.7	3.9
191	UCLA	212	17.7	29.7	34.4	32.1	3.8
192	Idaho	212	17.7	38.7	37.7	20.3	3.3
193	Central Connecticut	194	17.6	25.3	39.7	30.9	4.1
194	Central Michigan	211	17.6	39.8	25.6	26.5	8.1
195	Drake	158	17.6	27.8	38.0	31.0	3.2
196	UAlbany	193	17.5	34.2	32.1	29.0	4.7
197	Northern Iowa	193	17.5	32.1	38.3	23.8	5.7
198	Southern	175	17.5	27.4	34.3	34.3	4.0
199	Central Arkansas	175	17.5	31.4	43.4	22.9	2.3
200	Navy	227	17.5	25.6	40.5	27.3	6.6
201	Towson	192	17.5	31.3	39.6	25.5	3.6
202	Akron	209	17.4	32.5	36.8	28.2	2.4
203	Arkansas-Pine Bluff	174	17.4	36.2	34.5	27.6	1.7
204	Middle Tennessee	208	17.3	34.1	30.8	29.3	5.8
205	Furman	173	17.3	26.0	35.8	34.7	3.5
206	Austin Peay	189	17.2	29.1	38.1	29.1	3.7
207	Maine	204	17.0	31.9	36.8	27.5	3.9
208	Virginia St	17	17.0	29.4	29.4	41.2	0.0
209	UT Martin	220	16.9	35.9	28.6	30.5	5.0
210	Campbell	203	16.9	26.1	36.9	32.5	4.4
211	Duke	203	16.9	32.5	41.9	23.2	2.5
212	Elon	203	16.9	35.5	36.5	22.7	5.4
213	The Citadel	186	16.9	23.1	34.4	34.9	7.5
214	San Diego	186	16.9	34.9	32.3	28.5	4.3
215	Rhode Island	186	16.9	36.0	30.6	29.6	3.8
216	Long Island University	169	16.9	31.4	34.3	27.8	6.5
217	Colgate	184	16.7	28.3	38.6	26.1	7.1
218	Miami (OH)	234	16.7	33.8	39.7	23.5	3.0
219	Robert Morris	182	16.5	34.1	39.0	22.5	4.4
220	Iowa	215	16.5	32.6	34.4	31.6	1.4
221	Texas A&M-Commerce	132	16.5	25.0	31.8	37.9	5.3
222	Wyoming	198	16.5	29.3	29.3	33.8	7.6
223	Utah	197	16.4	34.0	32.5	28.9	4.6
224	Mississippi Valley State	197	16.4	29.4	34.0	29.9	6.6
225	Sacred Heart	180	16.4	27.2	41.7	26.7	4.4
226	Villanova	196	16.3	29.6	40.3	25.5	4.6
227	UTEP	196	16.3	29.1	34.7	32.1	4.1
228	New Hampshire	212	16.3	28.8	37.7	26.4	7.1
229	Merrimack	163	16.3	30.7	32.5	33.1	3.7
230	Charlotte	195	16.3	35.4	34.9	24.1	5.6
231	Prairie View A&M	160	16.0	31.9	35.0	30.0	3.1
232	Upper Iowa University	16	16.0	6.3	43.8	31.3	18.8
233	Indiana State	191	15.9	28.3	32.5	31.9	7.3
234	Alcorn State	158	15.8	24.1	41.8	31.0	3.2
235	Wagner	172	15.6	29.1	33.1	31.4	6.4
236	Tennessee Tech	187	15.6	31.0	35.3	29.4	3.7
237	Temple	187	15.6	29.9	32.6	31.6	5.9
238	Marist	171	15.5	28.7	36.8	26.3	8.2
239	Florida State	186	15.5	28.0	33.9	26.3	11.8
240	Northwestern	186	15.5	30.1	34.9	30.1	4.8
241	Princeton	139	15.4	25.2	32.4	36.0	6.5
242	Southern Miss	185	15.4	40.0	31.4	21.1	7.6
243	Delaware State	167	15.2	31.1	34.1	28.7	6.0
244	Purdue	182	15.2	39.6	31.3	26.4	2.7
245	Murray State	181	15.1	29.8	29.3	33.1	7.7
246	Houston	181	15.1	34.3	33.1	26.0	6.6
247	North Carolina A&T	180	15.0	28.3	34.4	29.4	7.8
248	Tuskegee	30	15.0	53.3	26.7	16.7	3.3
249	Western Oregon	30	15.0	26.7	43.3	26.7	3.3
250	Winston-Salem	15	15.0	46.7	20.0	33.3	0.0
251	Wofford	179	14.9	36.3	32.4	25.1	6.1
252	UL Monroe	178	14.8	25.8	36.0	29.2	9.0
253	Northern Colorado	178	14.8	22.5	39.3	32.0	6.2
254	Houston Christian	162	14.7	29.6	31.5	35.8	3.1
255	Cal Poly	162	14.7	24.7	41.4	29.0	4.9
256	Fordham	147	14.7	28.6	38.1	23.8	9.5
257	Grambling	147	14.7	29.3	40.8	27.2	2.7
258	Texas Southern	101	14.4	28.7	33.7	35.6	2.0
259	Bethune-Cookman	157	14.3	26.8	38.2	27.4	7.6
260	Charleston Southern	171	14.3	30.4	40.4	24.0	5.3
261	Morgan State	85	14.2	27.1	34.1	32.9	5.9
262	St. Thomas (MN)	154	14.0	35.7	31.8	26.6	5.8
263	Black Hills State	14	14.0	28.6	42.9	21.4	7.1
264	Kentucky State	14	14.0	35.7	28.6	35.7	0.0
265	Stonehill	153	13.9	23.5	39.2	28.8	8.5
266	Norfolk State	139	13.9	26.6	37.4	31.7	4.3
267	St. Francis (PA)	138	13.8	34.1	31.9	29.7	4.3
268	Utah Tech	137	13.7	32.1	35.0	29.9	2.9
269	Kennesaw State	163	13.6	27.0	27.0	41.7	4.3
270	Alabama State	148	13.5	31.8	35.8	29.7	2.7
271	Central State (OH)	13	13.0	15.4	53.8	23.1	7.7
272	Central Washington	13	13.0	15.4	30.8	53.8	0.0
273	Miles College	13	13.0	23.1	46.2	30.8	0.0
274	Morehead State	156	13.0	32.7	32.7	29.5	5.1
275	North Greenville	13	13.0	38.5	30.8	23.1	7.7
276	Roosevelt	13	13.0	38.5	46.2	15.4	0.0
277	Shorter	12	12.0	33.3	8.3	50.0	8.3
278	Kent State	143	11.9	33.6	38.5	21.7	5.6
279	Valparaiso	131	11.9	36.6	28.2	32.1	3.1
280	VMI	136	11.3	27.9	33.1	31.6	7.4
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	124	10.3	29.8	31.5	35.5	3.2
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