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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	303	27.5	38.9	34.7	20.5	5.6
5	Ole Miss	294	26.7	31.6	39.1	23.5	5.8
6	Tennessee	294	26.7	34.4	39.5	22.1	3.7
7	Mercer	262	26.2	33.6	37.8	27.5	1.1
8	Indiana	288	26.2	32.6	37.2	27.8	2.4
9	North Dakota State	310	25.8	37.1	35.8	23.2	3.5
10	Western Carolina	283	25.7	36.0	32.5	26.5	4.9
11	Utah	256	25.6	27.0	40.2	27.3	5.5
12	Georgia	279	25.4	28.0	43.4	25.1	3.6
13	Baylor	279	25.4	30.8	36.6	23.3	9.3
14	Arkansas	278	25.3	38.1	36.0	22.7	3.2
15	Montana State	276	25.1	34.8	38.8	23.2	3.3
16	USC	275	25.0	38.2	31.6	25.1	5.1
17	Florida State	274	24.9	31.4	35.4	27.4	5.8
18	Alabama State	224	24.9	41.1	35.3	21.9	1.8
19	Jackson State	272	24.7	30.5	36.0	29.4	4.0
20	Ohio State	271	24.6	33.9	39.1	23.2	3.3
21	Harvard	245	24.5	33.9	31.4	27.3	7.3
22	Vanderbilt	244	24.4	38.9	35.2	22.1	3.7
23	Missouri	268	24.4	28.7	38.4	28.0	4.5
24	Idaho State	292	24.3	36.3	34.2	25.7	3.8
25	Rutgers	267	24.3	31.1	36.3	24.0	8.6
26	Georgia Tech	266	24.2	36.5	36.5	24.8	1.9
27	Oregon	266	24.2	34.2	33.1	27.1	5.6
28	Florida Atlantic	265	24.1	31.7	29.1	24.9	14.3
29	Memphis	265	24.1	34.7	37.7	22.3	5.3
30	Texas State	264	24.0	22.0	43.2	29.9	4.9
31	East Carolina	239	23.9	26.4	39.3	29.7	4.6
32	Texas A&M	238	23.8	39.5	32.8	23.5	4.2
33	Alabama	261	23.7	32.6	32.6	28.4	6.5
34	Southern Illinois	283	23.6	32.9	35.0	28.3	3.9
35	Tarleton State	259	23.5	35.5	34.4	24.3	5.8
36	Stony Brook	282	23.5	27.7	34.4	30.9	7.1
37	Texas Tech	234	23.4	34.2	31.6	31.6	2.6
38	Miami	257	23.4	32.3	38.1	24.9	4.7
39	Washington	257	23.4	36.2	35.4	24.9	3.5
40	East Tennessee State	280	23.3	34.3	35.0	25.4	5.4
41	Youngstown State	256	23.3	32.0	37.1	25.4	5.5
42	Delaware	256	23.3	28.1	36.3	28.5	7.0
43	South Florida	255	23.2	34.1	32.9	29.0	3.9
44	UNLV	254	23.1	36.6	34.6	24.4	4.3
45	UC Davis	254	23.1	34.6	40.2	22.4	2.8
46	Arkansas State	229	22.9	30.6	34.1	28.4	6.6
47	Rhode Island	274	22.8	32.5	40.5	25.2	1.8
48	BYU	251	22.8	35.1	33.9	23.5	6.8
49	Southern Utah	251	22.8	31.5	37.5	25.5	5.6
50	James Madison	251	22.8	31.5	37.1	29.5	2.0
51	Virginia	250	22.7	30.0	28.8	36.4	4.4
52	West Georgia	250	22.7	31.6	29.6	33.2	5.6
53	North Carolina Central	272	22.7	33.8	35.3	26.8	4.0
54	Presbyterian	272	22.7	34.2	39.0	22.4	4.4
55	SE Louisiana	249	22.6	32.1	38.2	25.7	4.0
56	Air Force	249	22.6	27.7	36.9	26.9	8.4
57	Incarnate Word	248	22.5	27.0	37.1	28.2	7.7
58	TCU	248	22.5	31.9	36.3	27.4	4.4
59	Cornell	225	22.5	28.9	42.2	24.4	4.4
60	Illinois State	270	22.5	31.9	39.3	24.1	4.4
61	Austin Peay	270	22.5	34.4	35.9	26.3	3.3
62	Notre Dame	224	22.4	39.3	33.5	21.9	5.4
63	Northern Arizona	246	22.4	39.0	32.5	20.7	7.7
64	Western Kentucky	246	22.4	32.5	35.8	28.9	2.8
65	Tulsa	223	22.3	29.1	32.3	29.1	9.4
66	Central Arkansas	267	22.3	33.7	37.1	24.3	4.9
67	Cincinnati	244	22.2	39.3	34.4	19.7	6.6
68	Duke	221	22.1	30.8	37.6	22.2	9.5
69	Iowa State	221	22.1	26.7	39.4	26.2	7.7
70	Mississippi State	243	22.1	29.2	35.4	29.6	5.8
71	Michigan	243	22.1	32.9	37.0	29.2	0.8
72	UConn	265	22.1	31.7	36.6	26.8	4.9
73	Elizabeth City State	22	22.0	27.3	36.4	22.7	13.6
74	Bowie State	22	22.0	27.3	45.5	27.3	0.0
75	Southern Connecticut State	22	22.0	31.8	31.8	36.4	0.0
76	Marshall	219	21.9	36.5	38.4	22.8	2.3
77	Idaho	262	21.8	32.8	35.5	25.6	6.1
78	Boise State	240	21.8	26.7	37.5	29.2	6.7
79	Ohio	240	21.8	31.7	37.9	25.0	5.4
80	Boston College	240	21.8	31.3	37.1	25.0	6.7
81	Old Dominion	218	21.8	37.6	35.3	24.8	2.3
82	Stephen F. Austin	261	21.8	30.3	36.4	28.4	5.0
83	Tennessee Tech	239	21.7	34.7	38.9	23.0	3.3
84	Kennesaw State	239	21.7	28.5	41.4	25.9	4.2
85	South Dakota State	217	21.7	29.5	39.2	25.3	6.0
86	Jacksonville State	216	21.6	30.1	38.9	25.5	5.6
87	North Alabama	259	21.6	27.8	37.1	29.3	5.4
88	Illinois	236	21.5	29.7	40.3	25.0	5.1
89	Clemson	236	21.5	37.3	33.1	20.8	8.9
90	Penn State	236	21.5	30.5	34.3	27.1	8.1
91	North Dakota	257	21.4	31.1	37.0	26.5	5.4
92	Oregon State	214	21.4	33.2	37.9	26.6	2.3
93	Kansas	235	21.4	34.5	36.6	21.7	7.2
94	Murray State	235	21.4	30.2	36.2	26.0	7.7
95	Navy	192	21.3	28.1	40.6	25.5	5.7
96	Tulane	213	21.3	37.6	31.9	26.8	3.8
97	Arizona State	234	21.3	34.2	32.5	25.2	8.1
98	Abilene Christian	255	21.3	35.3	31.4	29.8	3.5
99	Delaware State	255	21.3	32.5	41.6	20.0	5.9
100	Nebraska	233	21.2	30.9	39.9	26.2	3.0
101	Colgate	233	21.2	29.6	36.1	30.0	4.3
102	Prairie View A&M	233	21.2	40.3	33.5	22.3	3.9
103	Montana	254	21.2	32.3	33.1	28.0	6.7
104	St. Thomas (MN)	254	21.2	30.7	39.4	24.8	5.1
105	UAB	211	21.1	29.4	32.7	31.3	6.6
106	South Alabama	231	21.0	27.3	33.8	30.7	8.2
107	UT Rio Grande Valley	231	21.0	42.0	30.7	26.0	1.3
108	Southern Miss	210	21.0	30.0	37.6	28.6	3.8
109	Chadron St	21	21.0	23.8	57.1	14.3	4.8
110	Lehigh	230	20.9	32.2	38.3	26.5	3.0
111	Auburn	230	20.9	31.7	38.3	25.7	4.3
112	Arizona	230	20.9	32.2	37.0	23.5	7.4
113	Utah State	230	20.9	37.4	33.0	26.5	3.0
114	Pennsylvania	209	20.9	23.9	41.6	31.6	2.9
115	East Texas A&M	250	20.8	34.4	34.8	26.0	4.8
116	San José State	229	20.8	30.6	35.4	30.1	3.9
117	Hawai'i	228	20.7	19.7	40.4	36.0	3.9
118	Houston	228	20.7	32.5	31.1	30.3	6.1
119	South Carolina State	228	20.7	28.1	36.4	33.3	2.2
120	Georgia Southern	207	20.7	32.4	36.7	28.5	2.4
121	Georgia State	227	20.6	27.3	35.2	30.4	7.0
122	Villanova	206	20.6	33.0	36.4	25.2	5.3
123	Dartmouth	206	20.6	26.2	35.0	35.4	3.4
124	Lafayette	247	20.6	30.0	34.0	32.4	3.6
125	NC State	225	20.5	32.9	35.6	25.3	6.2
126	Southeast Missouri State	245	20.4	27.8	33.9	33.1	5.3
127	Pittsburgh	224	20.4	32.1	37.5	23.2	7.1
128	Florida International	224	20.4	30.4	34.8	26.8	8.0
129	SMU	224	20.4	36.6	33.9	25.9	3.1
130	Sacramento State	244	20.3	27.5	36.9	27.5	8.2
131	App State	203	20.3	27.1	39.9	24.6	8.4
132	Syracuse	223	20.3	28.3	39.9	25.6	6.3
133	UTSA	223	20.3	30.5	38.1	26.5	4.9
134	Central Connecticut	243	20.3	33.7	36.6	27.2	2.5
135	Gardner-Webb	243	20.3	35.8	34.6	22.2	7.4
136	Texas Southern	182	20.2	30.2	41.2	25.3	3.3
137	Kentucky	202	20.2	22.8	42.6	28.7	5.9
138	Toledo	202	20.2	37.6	33.7	27.2	1.5
139	Army	202	20.2	17.8	34.2	32.2	15.8
140	Eastern Michigan	202	20.2	34.2	29.2	32.2	4.5
141	Missouri State	222	20.2	39.6	34.2	23.0	3.2
142	Stetson	222	20.2	26.1	35.6	28.4	9.9
143	New Mexico State	201	20.1	30.3	26.9	38.8	4.0
144	Western Michigan	221	20.1	29.9	35.3	29.4	5.4
145	McNeese	240	20.0	26.3	37.1	29.2	7.5
146	McKendree	20	20.0	25.0	35.0	35.0	5.0
147	Yale	200	20.0	25.5	40.0	29.5	5.0
148	Brown	200	20.0	23.5	43.0	25.5	8.0
149	Edward Waters	20	20.0	40.0	30.0	25.0	5.0
150	Chattanooga	199	19.9	31.2	37.2	23.6	8.0
151	LSU	199	19.9	30.2	39.7	26.6	3.5
152	Liberty	218	19.8	31.2	36.2	26.6	6.0
153	William & Mary	237	19.8	26.2	38.8	30.0	5.1
154	Drake	217	19.7	35.5	33.6	26.3	4.6
155	Buffalo	217	19.7	33.2	34.6	28.1	4.1
156	South Dakota	217	19.7	29.0	41.5	26.7	2.3
157	New Mexico	217	19.7	32.3	32.3	26.7	8.8
158	Sacred Heart	197	19.7	27.9	35.0	32.0	5.1
159	Northwestern	216	19.6	27.3	34.3	32.4	6.0
160	Louisville	216	19.6	33.8	36.6	27.3	2.3
161	Bethune-Cookman	176	19.6	32.4	42.0	23.3	2.3
162	Middle Tennessee	215	19.5	33.5	34.4	27.9	4.2
163	Purdue	215	19.5	28.8	38.1	26.5	6.5
164	California	214	19.5	29.0	35.5	29.0	6.5
165	Akron	213	19.4	33.3	38.5	23.0	5.2
166	Elon	232	19.3	35.8	34.9	25.9	3.4
167	Oklahoma	212	19.3	31.1	36.3	29.2	3.3
168	Campbell	231	19.3	27.7	39.8	29.0	3.5
169	New Haven	154	19.3	37.7	34.4	25.3	2.6
170	Princeton	192	19.2	25.0	38.5	28.1	8.3
171	UT Martin	230	19.2	31.7	31.3	34.3	2.6
172	Dayton	210	19.1	31.9	26.7	30.0	11.4
173	Kentucky State	19	19.0	31.6	26.3	36.8	5.3
174	Saginaw Valley State	19	19.0	31.6	42.1	26.3	0.0
175	Morgan State	190	19.0	32.1	31.6	31.1	5.3
176	New Hampshire	227	18.9	23.8	40.5	28.6	7.0
177	Lindenwood	227	18.9	33.5	36.6	24.7	5.3
178	Richmond	208	18.9	29.3	32.7	31.7	6.3
179	Washington State	208	18.9	28.8	38.0	26.4	6.7
180	Virginia Tech	189	18.9	33.3	30.7	29.6	6.3
181	Fresno State	207	18.8	27.1	42.0	28.5	2.4
182	Bryant	225	18.8	31.6	36.0	26.2	6.2
183	Duquesne	225	18.8	32.0	36.4	25.8	5.8
184	San Diego State	206	18.7	30.1	41.3	23.3	5.3
185	Furman	224	18.7	34.4	33.0	30.4	2.2
186	UCF	205	18.6	27.3	37.1	26.3	9.3
187	Long Island University	204	18.5	32.4	32.4	31.4	3.9
188	San Diego	222	18.5	27.9	36.9	31.1	4.1
189	Georgetown	222	18.5	27.9	31.5	36.5	4.1
190	Fordham	222	18.5	29.7	30.2	32.9	7.2
191	Michigan State	203	18.5	32.5	33.5	27.1	5.9
192	Louisiana Tech	184	18.4	32.1	37.0	27.2	3.8
193	Butler	201	18.3	23.9	36.3	33.8	6.0
194	Bucknell	219	18.3	32.0	33.3	30.6	4.1
195	Texas	182	18.2	32.4	34.6	30.2	2.7
196	Kansas State	200	18.2	28.5	35.0	28.0	8.5
197	Mercyhurst	200	18.2	35.0	28.5	28.0	8.5
198	Southern	181	18.1	24.3	33.1	36.5	6.1
199	Miami (OH)	199	18.1	38.2	33.7	22.6	5.5
200	Colorado State	199	18.1	27.6	39.7	26.6	6.0
201	Maine	217	18.1	28.6	42.4	22.6	6.5
202	Morehead State	217	18.1	35.0	41.9	20.3	2.8
203	Norfolk State	217	18.1	35.9	40.1	18.4	5.5
204	Lincoln (PA)	18	18.0	33.3	22.2	44.4	0.0
205	Florida A&M	162	18.0	30.9	34.6	29.0	5.6
206	Northern Michigan	18	18.0	5.6	50.0	33.3	11.1
207	Cal Poly	198	18.0	34.8	31.8	28.3	5.1
208	West Virginia	198	18.0	27.8	37.4	25.3	9.6
209	Alcorn State	198	18.0	33.8	34.8	27.3	4.0
210	Central Michigan	197	17.9	30.5	37.1	24.9	7.6
211	Coastal Carolina	179	17.9	25.1	39.7	30.7	4.5
212	Mississippi Valley State	125	17.9	30.4	36.8	26.4	6.4
213	Davidson	214	17.8	29.9	34.6	27.6	7.9
214	Northern Colorado	214	17.8	26.2	40.7	28.5	4.2
215	Minnesota	196	17.8	34.2	33.2	30.1	2.6
216	Wake Forest	196	17.8	35.7	26.5	31.6	5.6
217	Wyoming	178	17.8	32.0	34.3	28.7	5.1
218	Merrimack	195	17.7	22.1	39.0	32.8	6.2
219	Iowa	177	17.7	27.7	39.5	27.1	5.7
220	Florida	177	17.7	32.8	40.7	23.7	2.8
221	Eastern Washington	212	17.7	26.4	36.8	30.2	6.6
222	Wagner	212	17.7	28.8	39.2	28.3	3.8
223	Troy	194	17.6	28.4	26.3	37.1	7.7
224	Maryland	194	17.6	29.4	35.6	30.4	4.6
225	Western Illinois	194	17.6	29.9	38.7	24.7	6.7
226	Columbia	176	17.6	24.4	35.2	32.4	8.0
227	Temple	193	17.5	33.2	35.2	25.9	5.7
228	Alabama A&M	192	17.5	32.3	31.8	30.7	5.2
229	Stanford	191	17.4	35.6	25.1	33.5	5.8
230	Marist	208	17.3	29.8	39.4	24.0	6.7
231	Utah Tech	207	17.3	20.8	39.6	33.3	6.3
232	Grambling	188	17.1	30.3	37.2	28.7	3.7
233	Eastern Illinois	187	17.0	32.1	36.4	28.3	3.2
234	UAlbany	170	17.0	25.9	41.2	25.3	7.6
235	Colorado	187	17.0	25.1	39.6	32.1	3.2
236	Greensboro College	17	17.0	17.6	41.2	35.3	5.9
237	Nicholls	203	16.9	31.0	31.5	31.0	6.4
238	Samford	186	16.9	24.2	40.3	31.7	3.8
239	South Carolina	169	16.9	32.5	30.2	28.4	8.9
240	Portland State	202	16.8	33.7	32.7	30.2	3.5
241	Towson	184	16.7	27.2	34.2	32.1	6.5
242	Northern Iowa	200	16.7	27.0	36.0	32.5	4.5
243	Weber State	200	16.7	30.0	33.5	33.0	3.5
244	UCLA	183	16.6	31.1	33.3	27.3	8.2
245	Rice	183	16.6	20.8	41.0	30.6	7.7
246	UL Monroe	181	16.5	33.7	34.3	26.5	5.5
247	Valparaiso	181	16.5	33.1	34.3	29.8	2.8
248	UTEP	164	16.4	29.3	31.7	28.0	11.0
249	Arkansas-Pine Bluff	163	16.3	23.9	34.4	36.8	4.9
250	Lamar	163	16.3	33.1	35.6	26.4	4.9
251	Hampton	195	16.3	27.2	35.9	30.3	6.7
252	Bowling Green	178	16.2	32.0	30.9	33.1	3.9
253	Howard	178	16.2	31.5	31.5	33.1	3.9
254	Nevada	178	16.2	37.6	28.1	27.5	6.7
255	Oklahoma State	178	16.2	29.2	29.8	35.4	5.6
256	North Carolina	161	16.1	32.9	30.4	29.8	6.8
257	Houston Christian	177	16.1	28.8	36.7	29.9	4.5
258	Louisiana	160	16.0	30.0	28.1	37.5	4.4
259	Massachusetts	160	16.0	25.6	39.4	31.3	3.8
260	Virginia St	16	16.0	31.3	50.0	18.8	0.0
261	Sam Houston	175	15.9	38.3	32.6	22.3	6.3
262	Charlotte	174	15.8	33.3	27.6	32.2	6.9
263	Holy Cross	187	15.6	24.1	39.6	29.4	7.0
264	The Citadel	155	15.5	31.6	31.6	29.7	7.1
265	Wofford	152	15.2	30.3	30.9	33.6	5.3
266	Wisconsin	166	15.1	27.1	36.1	28.3	8.4
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	Charleston Southern	172	14.3	26.2	39.5	30.2	4.1
270	Indiana State	157	14.3	28.0	40.1	26.8	5.1
271	Stonehill	168	14.0	23.8	33.3	32.7	10.1
272	Northeastern State	14	14.0	21.4	50.0	14.3	14.3
273	Northern Illinois	153	13.9	23.5	30.1	32.0	14.4
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	Ball State	146	13.3	21.2	36.3	35.6	6.8
277	Tennessee State	159	13.3	26.4	35.2	34.6	3.8
278	Robert Morris	131	13.1	25.2	41.2	29.8	3.8
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	142	12.9	29.6	33.1	28.9	8.5
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	Northwestern State	136	11.3	25.0	38.2	28.7	8.1
286	Hanover College	11	11.0	27.3	18.2	54.5	0.0
287	American International	10	10.0	30.0	20.0	40.0	10.0
288	Upper Iowa University	10	10.0	30.0	30.0	40.0	0.0
289	Morehouse College	10	10.0	20.0	40.0	30.0	10.0
290	Fayetteville State	10	10.0	20.0	20.0	60.0	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