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I-A Winning Percentage 1922-1971 (50 years)


(Teams not qualifying for the table are listed at the bottom.)

Rank Team name Winning
Percentage
Games
Won
Games
Lost
Games
Tied
Games
Played

1 Notre Dame 0.75670 356 107 22 485
2 Tennessee 0.74402 361 116 25 502
3 Alabama 0.73570 359 120 28 507
4 Army 0.70021 320 129 28 477
5 Southern Cal 0.69942 348 141 30 519
6 Texas 0.69703 342 143 20 505
7 Ohio State 0.69680 292 120 25 437
8 Michigan 0.68931 302 132 15 449
9 Oklahoma 0.67923 318 142 31 491
10 Miami-Ohio 0.66522 297 145 18 460

11 Penn State 0.65948 295 147 22 464
12 Dartmouth 0.65568 281 144 15 440
13 Princeton 0.64842 257 135 19 411
14 Boston College 0.64661 285 151 21 457
15 Michigan State 0.64447 274 146 23 443
16 Louisiana State 0.64145 312 168 29 509
17 Mississippi 0.63772 307 169 25 501
18 Bowling Green 0.63498 249 134 43 426
19 Duke 0.63238 300 170 21 491
20 Central Michigan 0.62854 258 149 17 424

21 Yale 0.62791 257 147 26 430
22 Arizona State 0.62442 261 153 20 434
23 Georgia Tech 0.62186 310 184 23 517
24 Syracuse 0.62084 269 160 22 451
25 Georgia 0.61969 308 184 26 518
26 Ohio 0.61866 258 155 21 434
27 Colorado 0.61255 274 170 18 462
28 Utah 0.61245 270 167 21 458
29 Holy Cross 0.60938 278 173 29 480
30 Southern Miss 0.60880 255 161 16 432

31 Minnesota 0.60682 254 160 26 440
32 Fresno State 0.60313 277 178 25 480
33 Nebraska 0.60146 277 180 21 478
34 Stanford 0.59368 270 181 24 475
35 Tulsa 0.59343 279 188 20 487
36 Washington 0.58932 274 187 26 487
37 Cornell 0.58803 242 167 17 426
38 North Texas 0.58734 256 176 26 458
39 Florida State 0.58434 139 97 13 249
40 Purdue 0.58409 243 169 28 440

41 Texas Christian 0.58285 285 199 35 519
42 Rutgers 0.58219 250 178 10 438
43 West Virginia 0.58198 274 193 27 494
44 Louisiana Tech 0.58079 256 182 20 458
45 Villanova 0.58061 257 183 19 459
46 Northern Illinois 0.57621 235 169 29 433
47 Arkansas 0.57609 282 205 19 506
48 Hawaii 0.57452 232 170 14 416
49 UCLA 0.57380 263 192 26 481
50 Oregon State 0.56959 254 189 24 467

51 Western Michigan 0.56707 225 170 15 410
52 Eastern Michigan 0.56427 206 156 27 389
53 Harvard 0.56355 224 171 22 417
54 Missouri 0.56250 259 198 31 488
55 California 0.56201 275 212 21 508
56 Auburn 0.56098 262 202 28 492
57 Miami-Florida 0.56078 235 182 19 436
58 Colgate 0.55856 235 183 26 444
59 Clemson 0.55773 260 204 21 485
60 Florida 0.55691 261 205 26 492

61 Houston 0.55660 143 113 9 265
62 Memphis 0.55530 230 182 22 434
63 Texas Tech 0.55430 258 205 25 488
64 Texas-El Paso 0.55239 230 184 25 439
65 Navy 0.55191 244 195 33 472
66 North Carolina 0.55061 260 210 24 494
67 Arizona 0.55000 237 192 21 450
68 Pittsburgh 0.54906 252 205 22 479
69 Utah State 0.54900 236 192 21 449
70 Akron 0.54699 216 177 22 415

71 Southern Methodist 0.54563 262 215 38 515
72 Pennsylvania 0.54358 229 191 16 436
73 Virginia Tech 0.54051 238 200 31 469
74 Cincinnati 0.53996 239 202 22 463
75 Ball State 0.53908 187 158 26 371
76 Vanderbilt 0.53742 243 207 31 481
77 Toledo 0.53302 217 189 18 424
78 Baylor 0.52572 245 220 21 486
79 Maryland 0.52410 250 226 22 498
80 Oregon 0.52376 230 208 25 463

81 Louisiana-Lafayette 0.52141 234 214 19 467
82 San Jose State 0.52083 225 206 25 456
83 Pacific 0.51760 240 223 20 483
84 Arkansas State 0.51493 193 181 28 402
85 Wyoming 0.51364 216 204 20 440
86 Tulane 0.51031 235 225 25 485
87 Kentucky 0.50830 233 225 24 482
88 Texas A&M 0.50598 238 232 32 502
89 Illinois 0.50563 215 210 19 444
90 Wisconsin 0.50112 208 207 31 446

91 Furman 0.50109 220 219 20 459
92 Temple 0.49773 202 204 35 441
93 South Carolina 0.49593 231 235 25 491
94 New Mexico 0.49464 220 225 21 466
95 New Mexico State 0.49444 214 219 17 450
96 Rice 0.49408 241 247 19 507
97 Louisville 0.49398 200 205 10 415
98 William & Mary 0.49392 155 159 15 329
99 Mississippi State 0.49034 216 225 25 466
100 East Carolina 0.48742 150 158 10 318

101 Colorado State 0.48529 205 218 19 442
102 Northwestern 0.48409 205 219 16 440
103 Washington State 0.47812 203 223 31 457
104 Louisiana-Monroe 0.47802 166 182 16 364
105 Kent 0.47455 174 194 25 393
106 Oklahoma State 0.47449 219 244 27 490
107 Kansas 0.46534 206 239 31 476
108 Iowa 0.46339 191 223 23 437
109 The Citadel 0.46321 136 158 5 299
110 VMI 0.46037 214 253 25 492

111 Brown 0.45565 197 237 17 451
112 Wake Forest 0.45558 207 250 27 484
113 Marshall 0.45556 192 232 26 450
114 Nevada-Reno 0.45521 175 212 26 413
115 Columbia 0.45270 192 234 18 444
116 Virginia 0.44853 201 250 25 476
117 Richmond 0.43465 136 179 14 329
118 Brigham Young 0.42807 173 235 23 431
119 North Carolina State 0.42727 198 270 27 495
120 Iowa State 0.41978 177 250 28 455

121 Davidson 0.41761 173 246 24 443
122 Indiana 0.39616 163 255 25 443
123 Idaho 0.38657 160 258 14 432
124 Kansas State 0.34829 152 294 22 468

Teams not qualifying for the Win % table

Team Reason
disqualified
Team Reason
disqualified

Air Force 32% years Boise State 8% years
Boston University 1964 last Bucknell 1949 last
Buffalo 18% years Carnegie Tech 1940 last
Centenary 1941 last Centre 1926 last
Chicago 1939 last Colorado College 1937 last

Colorado Mines 1937 last Creighton 1942 last
Dayton 34% years Denver 1960 last
Detroit 1964 last Drake 1958 last
Duquesne 1950 last Fordham 1954 last
Fullerton State 1970 first George Washington 1966 last

Georgetown 1950 last Gonzaga 1941 last
Grinnell 1938 last Hardin-Simmons 1963 last
Haskell 1946 last Lafayette 1949 last
Long Beach State 1955 first Loyola 1939 last
Loyola-Los Angeles 1951 last Manhattan 1942 last

Marquette 1960 last Montana 1963 last
Montana State 1937 last Nevada-Las Vegas 8% years
New York U 1951 last Northern Colorado 1937 last
Saint Louis 1949 last Saint Marys 1950 last
San Diego State 6% years San Francisco 1951 last

Santa Clara 1952 last Sewanee 1941 last
Southwestern 1927 last Washington-Missouri 1942 last
Washington & Jefferson 1934 last Washington & Lee 1953 last
West Texas A&M 1970 last Western State 1937 last
Wichita 1950 first Xavier 1964 first

What the "reason disqualified" values mean:
  • "n last" - Team's last data was in year n, before the end of the range (1971).
  • "n first" - Team's first data was in year n, after the start of the range (1922).
  • "n% years" - Team had data for only n% of years in the range, below the required 50%.


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