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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	363	30.3	37.2	32.8	24.0	6.1
3	Allen	29	29.0	41.4	41.4	13.8	3.4
4	North Texas	331	27.6	38.4	35.7	20.5	5.1
5	Ole Miss	318	26.5	31.1	39.9	23.3	5.7
6	Mercer	262	26.2	33.6	37.8	27.5	1.1
7	Tennessee	314	26.2	33.1	38.5	24.5	3.5
8	North Dakota State	310	25.8	37.1	35.8	23.2	3.5
9	Indiana	310	25.8	32.6	38.1	27.1	2.3
10	Western Carolina	283	25.7	36.0	32.5	26.5	4.9
11	Alabama State	255	25.5	41.6	35.3	20.8	2.4
12	Baylor	304	25.3	31.6	37.2	22.4	8.9
13	Montana State	276	25.1	34.8	38.8	23.2	3.3
14	Vanderbilt	274	24.9	39.1	35.4	22.3	3.3
15	Utah	273	24.8	27.8	38.8	28.2	5.1
16	USC	297	24.8	38.0	32.0	25.3	4.7
17	Jackson State	272	24.7	30.5	36.0	29.4	4.0
18	Georgia	295	24.6	26.4	44.1	25.8	3.7
19	Florida State	295	24.6	33.2	34.2	26.4	6.1
20	East Carolina	269	24.5	25.7	38.7	31.2	4.5
21	Arkansas	293	24.4	37.2	36.5	23.2	3.1
22	Ohio State	293	24.4	32.4	38.2	25.3	3.8
23	Idaho State	292	24.3	36.3	34.2	25.7	3.8
24	Texas State	292	24.3	22.9	43.5	28.4	5.1
25	Rutgers	292	24.3	31.8	36.6	23.6	7.9
26	Texas Tech	266	24.2	33.1	30.5	33.1	3.4
27	Missouri	288	24.0	29.5	38.2	27.4	4.5
28	Florida Atlantic	285	23.8	32.3	28.8	24.9	14.0
29	South Florida	284	23.7	33.1	33.8	28.5	4.6
30	Miami	284	23.7	31.3	40.5	23.9	4.2
31	Southern Illinois	283	23.6	32.9	35.0	28.3	3.9
32	Tarleton State	259	23.5	35.5	34.4	24.3	5.8
33	Harvard	259	23.5	34.4	31.3	27.0	7.3
34	Oregon	282	23.5	32.6	33.7	27.7	6.0
35	Stony Brook	282	23.5	27.7	34.4	30.9	7.1
36	Memphis	281	23.4	33.5	39.1	22.4	5.0
37	Youngstown State	281	23.4	33.1	37.0	24.9	5.0
38	Delaware	281	23.4	29.2	36.7	27.0	7.1
39	East Tennessee State	280	23.3	34.3	35.0	25.4	5.4
40	UNLV	279	23.3	36.9	35.1	24.0	3.9
41	Texas A&M	255	23.2	38.4	33.7	23.5	4.3
42	Georgia Tech	278	23.2	35.6	37.1	25.2	1.8
43	UC Davis	254	23.1	34.6	40.2	22.4	2.8
44	Alabama	276	23.0	32.2	32.2	28.3	7.2
45	Air Force	276	23.0	25.4	37.3	28.6	8.7
46	Virginia	276	23.0	29.7	29.7	35.9	4.3
47	Arkansas State	253	23.0	30.0	34.8	28.9	5.9
48	James Madison	275	22.9	31.3	37.8	28.7	2.2
49	TCU	275	22.9	31.6	36.7	26.5	5.1
50	Washington	274	22.8	34.7	36.5	25.2	3.7
51	BYU	274	22.8	35.4	33.6	23.7	6.6
52	Southern Utah	251	22.8	31.5	37.5	25.5	5.6
53	Notre Dame	250	22.7	38.0	32.0	24.0	6.0
54	West Georgia	250	22.7	31.6	29.6	33.2	5.6
55	Presbyterian	272	22.7	34.2	39.0	22.4	4.4
56	North Carolina Central	272	22.7	33.8	35.3	26.8	4.0
57	Incarnate Word	248	22.5	27.0	37.1	28.2	7.7
58	Rhode Island	293	22.5	31.4	40.3	25.9	2.4
59	Cornell	225	22.5	28.9	42.2	24.4	4.4
60	Austin Peay	270	22.5	34.4	35.9	26.3	3.3
61	Western Kentucky	269	22.4	32.7	36.4	28.3	2.6
62	Northern Arizona	246	22.4	39.0	32.5	20.7	7.7
63	Boise State	267	22.3	27.7	34.8	31.1	6.4
64	Central Arkansas	267	22.3	33.7	37.1	24.3	4.9
65	Ohio	266	22.2	31.6	36.8	25.6	6.0
66	Duke	243	22.1	30.0	37.9	22.2	9.9
67	South Dakota State	243	22.1	30.9	37.0	25.9	6.2
68	Old Dominion	243	22.1	38.7	34.2	25.1	2.1
69	UConn	265	22.1	31.7	36.6	26.8	4.9
70	Mississippi State	264	22.0	28.8	35.2	30.7	5.3
71	SE Louisiana	264	22.0	31.8	37.9	26.1	4.2
72	Elizabeth City State	22	22.0	27.3	36.4	22.7	13.6
73	Bowie State	22	22.0	27.3	45.5	27.3	0.0
74	Tulsa	242	22.0	29.3	32.6	28.9	9.1
75	Southern Connecticut State	22	22.0	31.8	31.8	36.4	0.0
76	Illinois State	285	21.9	32.3	38.2	24.6	4.6
77	Kansas	263	21.9	33.5	36.9	23.2	6.5
78	Idaho	262	21.8	32.8	35.5	25.6	6.1
79	Kennesaw State	262	21.8	29.0	40.5	26.3	4.2
80	Stephen F. Austin	261	21.8	30.3	36.4	28.4	5.0
81	Cincinnati	261	21.8	39.5	34.9	19.5	6.1
82	Tulane	239	21.7	37.7	32.6	26.4	3.3
83	North Alabama	259	21.6	27.8	37.1	29.3	5.4
84	Iowa State	237	21.5	26.2	40.1	26.2	7.6
85	Boston College	258	21.5	32.2	36.0	25.6	6.2
86	Georgia Southern	236	21.5	32.6	34.7	29.7	3.0
87	Jacksonville State	236	21.5	31.8	36.9	25.4	5.9
88	Marshall	236	21.5	37.7	37.7	22.5	2.1
89	Tennessee Tech	257	21.4	33.9	40.1	23.0	3.1
90	Clemson	257	21.4	36.6	33.5	21.8	8.2
91	Murray State	235	21.4	30.2	36.2	26.0	7.7
92	Penn State	256	21.3	31.6	34.4	25.4	8.6
93	North Dakota	277	21.3	31.4	37.2	26.4	5.1
94	Villanova	234	21.3	32.5	36.8	25.2	5.6
95	Delaware State	255	21.3	32.5	41.6	20.0	5.9
96	Abilene Christian	276	21.2	34.1	32.2	28.6	3.3
97	Navy	212	21.2	28.3	39.2	26.9	5.7
98	Colgate	233	21.2	29.6	36.1	30.0	4.3
99	UAB	233	21.2	29.2	32.2	32.2	6.4
100	Prairie View A&M	233	21.2	40.3	33.5	22.3	3.9
101	Montana	254	21.2	32.3	33.1	28.0	6.7
102	St. Thomas (MN)	254	21.2	30.7	39.4	24.8	5.1
103	Arizona	254	21.2	30.7	36.6	25.2	7.5
104	South Alabama	253	21.1	28.9	33.6	30.0	7.5
105	UT Rio Grande Valley	231	21.0	42.0	30.7	26.0	1.3
106	Chadron St	21	21.0	23.8	57.1	14.3	4.8
107	Houston	251	20.9	32.3	31.5	29.1	7.2
108	Illinois	251	20.9	30.7	40.2	24.3	4.8
109	NC State	251	20.9	31.5	36.3	25.1	7.2
110	Oregon State	230	20.9	33.5	37.8	26.1	2.6
111	Lehigh	230	20.9	32.2	38.3	26.5	3.0
112	Pennsylvania	209	20.9	23.9	41.6	31.6	2.9
113	Michigan	250	20.8	33.2	37.2	28.8	0.8
114	East Texas A&M	250	20.8	34.4	34.8	26.0	4.8
115	Yale	229	20.8	23.6	41.9	28.8	5.7
116	SMU	249	20.8	35.7	34.5	26.1	3.2
117	Florida International	249	20.8	34.5	32.5	25.7	7.2
118	Utah State	249	20.8	39.4	32.9	24.9	2.8
119	South Carolina State	228	20.7	28.1	36.4	33.3	2.2
120	Auburn	248	20.7	31.5	36.7	27.0	4.8
121	Southern Miss	227	20.6	30.4	37.0	28.6	4.0
122	Dartmouth	206	20.6	26.2	35.0	35.4	3.4
123	Lafayette	247	20.6	30.0	34.0	32.4	3.6
124	Nebraska	246	20.5	30.5	39.0	26.8	3.7
125	App State	225	20.5	27.1	40.4	24.4	8.0
126	Southeast Missouri State	245	20.4	27.8	33.9	33.1	5.3
127	Arizona State	245	20.4	33.9	32.7	25.3	8.2
128	Sacramento State	244	20.3	27.5	36.9	27.5	8.2
129	UTSA	244	20.3	30.3	37.7	27.0	4.9
130	Central Connecticut	264	20.3	33.0	36.0	27.7	3.4
131	Liberty	243	20.3	30.5	36.6	27.6	5.4
132	Gardner-Webb	243	20.3	35.8	34.6	22.2	7.4
133	Georgia State	243	20.3	27.2	36.2	30.0	6.6
134	Hawai'i	243	20.3	20.6	39.5	36.2	3.7
135	Texas Southern	182	20.2	30.2	41.2	25.3	3.3
136	Stetson	222	20.2	26.1	35.6	28.4	9.9
137	New Mexico State	222	20.2	30.6	27.5	38.3	3.6
138	Eastern Michigan	222	20.2	33.3	31.1	31.1	4.5
139	San José State	242	20.2	29.3	36.8	30.2	3.7
140	Louisville	242	20.2	33.9	37.2	26.0	2.9
141	Western Michigan	241	20.1	28.6	36.5	29.5	5.4
142	McNeese	240	20.0	26.3	37.1	29.2	7.5
143	McKendree	20	20.0	25.0	35.0	35.0	5.0
144	Brown	200	20.0	23.5	43.0	25.5	8.0
145	Edward Waters	20	20.0	40.0	30.0	25.0	5.0
146	Toledo	220	20.0	37.7	34.1	26.8	1.4
147	Missouri State	239	19.9	39.7	33.1	23.8	3.3
148	Chattanooga	199	19.9	31.2	37.2	23.6	8.0
149	California	238	19.8	27.7	37.4	29.0	5.9
150	Buffalo	237	19.8	32.9	35.0	27.8	4.2
151	Drake	237	19.8	36.3	33.3	25.7	4.6
152	William & Mary	237	19.8	26.2	38.8	30.0	5.1
153	Army	217	19.7	18.4	33.6	31.3	16.6
154	Sacred Heart	197	19.7	27.9	35.0	32.0	5.1
155	South Dakota	236	19.7	30.5	40.7	26.3	2.1
156	Syracuse	235	19.6	27.2	40.4	26.0	6.4
157	Bethune-Cookman	176	19.6	32.4	42.0	23.3	2.3
158	Pittsburgh	234	19.5	31.2	37.6	23.9	7.3
159	Middle Tennessee	234	19.5	32.1	35.0	29.1	3.8
160	Northwestern	233	19.4	27.5	33.9	32.2	6.4
161	Akron	213	19.4	33.3	38.5	23.0	5.2
162	Elon	232	19.3	35.8	34.9	25.9	3.4
163	Campbell	231	19.3	27.7	39.8	29.0	3.5
164	Purdue	231	19.3	28.6	37.2	27.7	6.5
165	New Haven	154	19.3	37.7	34.4	25.3	2.6
166	New Mexico	231	19.3	32.5	32.9	25.5	9.1
167	Princeton	192	19.2	25.0	38.5	28.1	8.3
168	Washington State	230	19.2	30.9	35.7	27.0	6.5
169	UT Martin	230	19.2	31.7	31.3	34.3	2.6
170	Kentucky	210	19.1	22.9	42.9	28.6	5.7
171	Dayton	210	19.1	31.9	26.7	30.0	11.4
172	Kentucky State	19	19.0	31.6	26.3	36.8	5.3
173	Saginaw Valley State	19	19.0	31.6	42.1	26.3	0.0
174	Morgan State	190	19.0	32.1	31.6	31.1	5.3
175	Oklahoma	227	18.9	30.8	36.6	29.5	3.1
176	Lindenwood	227	18.9	33.5	36.6	24.7	5.3
177	Richmond	208	18.9	29.3	32.7	31.7	6.3
178	Michigan State	226	18.8	32.3	34.1	27.0	5.8
179	Fresno State	226	18.8	26.5	41.6	28.3	3.5
180	LSU	207	18.8	30.4	39.6	26.6	3.4
181	Florida A&M	188	18.8	33.0	34.0	27.1	5.9
182	Duquesne	225	18.8	32.0	36.4	25.8	5.8
183	San Diego State	225	18.8	31.1	40.4	23.1	5.3
184	Bryant	225	18.8	31.6	36.0	26.2	6.2
185	Furman	224	18.7	34.4	33.0	30.4	2.2
186	Wake Forest	223	18.6	35.4	28.3	30.5	5.4
187	Long Island University	204	18.5	32.4	32.4	31.4	3.9
188	Louisiana Tech	204	18.5	31.9	35.8	28.4	3.9
189	San Diego	222	18.5	27.9	36.9	31.1	4.1
190	Fordham	222	18.5	29.7	30.2	32.9	7.2
191	Georgetown	222	18.5	27.9	31.5	36.5	4.1
192	Maryland	221	18.4	31.2	33.9	30.8	4.1
193	UCF	221	18.4	27.1	36.2	27.1	9.5
194	Mississippi Valley State	147	18.4	29.9	39.5	24.5	6.1
195	Miami (OH)	220	18.3	38.2	34.1	22.7	5.0
196	New Hampshire	238	18.3	23.1	39.5	29.0	8.4
197	Butler	201	18.3	23.9	36.3	33.8	6.0
198	Florida	201	18.3	33.3	39.8	23.4	3.5
199	Texas	201	18.3	31.8	36.3	29.4	2.5
200	Bucknell	219	18.3	32.0	33.3	30.6	4.1
201	Troy	219	18.3	28.8	26.9	36.5	7.3
202	Mercyhurst	200	18.2	35.0	28.5	28.0	8.5
203	Kansas State	218	18.2	27.5	36.2	27.5	8.7
204	Southern	199	18.1	26.1	34.7	33.7	5.5
205	Morehead State	217	18.1	35.0	41.9	20.3	2.8
206	Maine	217	18.1	28.6	42.4	22.6	6.5
207	Norfolk State	217	18.1	35.9	40.1	18.4	5.5
208	Lincoln (PA)	18	18.0	33.3	22.2	44.4	0.0
209	Northern Michigan	18	18.0	5.6	50.0	33.3	11.1
210	Colorado State	216	18.0	28.7	39.4	25.5	6.5
211	Cal Poly	198	18.0	34.8	31.8	28.3	5.1
212	Alcorn State	198	18.0	33.8	34.8	27.3	4.0
213	Iowa	197	17.9	26.4	40.1	27.9	5.6
214	Davidson	214	17.8	29.9	34.6	27.6	7.9
215	Northern Colorado	214	17.8	26.2	40.7	28.5	4.2
216	Temple	214	17.8	31.3	36.4	26.6	5.6
217	Virginia Tech	196	17.8	32.7	30.1	30.1	7.1
218	Merrimack	195	17.7	22.1	39.0	32.8	6.2
219	Wagner	212	17.7	28.8	39.2	28.3	3.8
220	Eastern Washington	212	17.7	26.4	36.8	30.2	6.6
221	Western Illinois	194	17.6	29.9	38.7	24.7	6.7
222	Columbia	176	17.6	24.4	35.2	32.4	8.0
223	Central Michigan	210	17.5	30.0	37.1	25.7	7.1
224	Alabama A&M	192	17.5	32.3	31.8	30.7	5.2
225	Wyoming	192	17.5	33.3	33.3	28.1	5.2
226	Minnesota	209	17.4	32.5	33.5	31.6	2.4
227	Marist	208	17.3	29.8	39.4	24.0	6.7
228	UL Monroe	208	17.3	34.6	35.1	25.5	4.8
229	Utah Tech	207	17.3	20.8	39.6	33.3	6.3
230	West Virginia	207	17.3	28.0	37.2	25.6	9.2
231	South Carolina	189	17.2	33.9	31.2	26.5	8.5
232	Stanford	206	17.2	34.0	24.3	35.0	6.8
233	Coastal Carolina	188	17.1	25.0	38.8	30.9	5.3
234	UAlbany	170	17.0	25.9	41.2	25.3	7.6
235	Eastern Illinois	187	17.0	32.1	36.4	28.3	3.2
236	UCLA	204	17.0	30.9	34.8	27.0	7.4
237	Colorado	204	17.0	25.0	38.2	33.3	3.4
238	Greensboro College	17	17.0	17.6	41.2	35.3	5.9
239	Grambling	204	17.0	31.4	35.8	28.9	3.9
240	Nicholls	203	16.9	31.0	31.5	31.0	6.4
241	Samford	186	16.9	24.2	40.3	31.7	3.8
242	Portland State	202	16.8	33.7	32.7	30.2	3.5
243	Towson	184	16.7	27.2	34.2	32.1	6.5
244	Northern Iowa	200	16.7	27.0	36.0	32.5	4.5
245	Weber State	200	16.7	30.0	33.5	33.0	3.5
246	Bowling Green	198	16.5	30.3	34.3	31.3	4.0
247	Nevada	198	16.5	40.4	26.8	26.3	6.6
248	Valparaiso	181	16.5	33.1	34.3	29.8	2.8
249	Sam Houston	197	16.4	38.1	34.0	21.3	6.1
250	UTEP	180	16.4	28.9	31.7	28.9	10.6
251	Arkansas-Pine Bluff	163	16.3	23.9	34.4	36.8	4.9
252	North Carolina	179	16.3	33.0	30.2	30.7	6.1
253	Rice	195	16.3	21.0	40.5	30.8	7.7
254	Hampton	195	16.3	27.2	35.9	30.3	6.7
255	Howard	178	16.2	31.5	31.5	33.1	3.9
256	Houston Christian	177	16.1	28.8	36.7	29.9	4.5
257	Massachusetts	177	16.1	25.4	39.5	31.6	3.4
258	Lamar	177	16.1	32.8	34.5	26.0	5.1
259	Virginia St	16	16.0	31.3	50.0	18.8	0.0
260	Oklahoma State	191	15.9	28.3	31.4	34.6	5.8
261	Louisiana	175	15.9	29.7	28.0	37.7	4.6
262	Holy Cross	187	15.6	24.1	39.6	29.4	7.0
263	The Citadel	155	15.5	31.6	31.6	29.7	7.1
264	Wofford	152	15.2	30.3	30.9	33.6	5.3
265	Charlotte	182	15.2	34.1	27.5	31.9	6.6
266	Wisconsin	179	14.9	26.3	35.8	29.1	8.9
267	Eastern Kentucky	177	14.8	29.4	35.0	31.6	3.4
268	St. Francis (PA)	162	14.7	35.8	32.1	25.9	6.2
269	Northern Illinois	176	14.7	23.3	32.4	31.3	13.1
270	Charleston Southern	172	14.3	26.2	39.5	30.2	4.1
271	Indiana State	157	14.3	28.0	40.1	26.8	5.1
272	Northeastern State	14	14.0	21.4	50.0	14.3	14.3
273	Stonehill	168	14.0	23.8	33.3	32.7	10.1
274	North Carolina A&T	165	13.8	29.7	30.9	38.2	1.2
275	VMI	164	13.7	29.3	38.4	29.3	3.0
276	Kent State	161	13.4	30.4	33.5	27.3	8.7
277	Ball State	160	13.3	22.5	35.6	35.6	6.3
278	Tennessee State	159	13.3	26.4	35.2	34.6	3.8
279	Robert Morris	131	13.1	25.2	41.2	29.8	3.8
280	Pace	13	13.0	53.8	23.1	15.4	7.7
281	Savannah St	13	13.0	23.1	46.2	30.8	0.0
282	Tuskegee	26	13.0	23.1	46.2	30.8	0.0
283	Thomas More College	24	12.0	20.8	41.7	29.2	8.3
284	Miles College	12	12.0	33.3	25.0	41.7	0.0
285	Bentley	12	12.0	8.3	41.7	33.3	16.7
286	Northwestern State	136	11.3	25.0	38.2	28.7	8.1
287	Hanover College	11	11.0	27.3	18.2	54.5	0.0
288	Morehouse College	10	10.0	20.0	40.0	30.0	10.0
289	Fayetteville State	10	10.0	20.0	20.0	60.0	0.0
290	American International	10	10.0	30.0	20.0	40.0	10.0
291	Upper Iowa University	10	10.0	30.0	30.0	40.0	0.0
292	Lane College	9	9.0	33.3	44.4	22.2	0.0
293	ERSKINE	9	9.0	44.4	22.2	22.2	11.1
294	Lincoln (CA)	26	8.7	26.9	38.5	26.9	7.7
295	Ferrum	8	8.0	25.0	62.5	12.5	0.0
296	Central State (OH)	7	7.0	14.3	28.6	57.1	0.0
297	Western Connecticut St	6	6.0	50.0	33.3	16.7	0.0
298	Sul Ross State	8	4.0	12.5	50.0	37.5	0.0