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I-A Winning Percentage 1940-1949 (10 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 0.87629 82 9 6 97
2 Michigan 0.82065 74 15 3 92
3 Texas 0.77941 78 21 3 102
4 Army 0.77717 68 17 7 92
5 Tennessee 0.76374 67 19 5 91
6 William & Mary 0.74719 64 20 5 89
7 Penn State 0.74138 62 20 5 87
8 Georgia 0.73394 78 27 4 109
9 Alabama 0.73118 66 23 4 93
10 Pennsylvania 0.71951 57 21 4 82

11 Oklahoma 0.71000 69 27 4 100
12 Northern Illinois 0.70988 54 20 7 81
13 Minnesota 0.68750 60 27 1 88
14t Boston College 0.68605 57 25 4 86
14t Mississippi State 0.68605 57 25 4 86
16 Duke 0.66848 59 28 5 92
17 Tulsa 0.66832 66 32 3 101
18 Ohio State 0.66667 57 27 6 90
19 Georgia Tech 0.65385 68 36 0 104
20 Nevada-Reno 0.64835 57 30 4 91

21 Bowling Green 0.63372 52 29 5 86
22 Utah 0.63333 54 30 6 90
23 Michigan State 0.63125 47 26 7 80
24 Cornell 0.62921 55 32 2 89
25 Rice 0.62500 63 37 4 104
26 Virginia 0.62222 53 31 6 90
27 Louisiana Tech 0.62209 52 31 3 86
28 Southern Cal 0.62121 57 33 9 99
29 Miami-Ohio 0.61957 55 33 4 92
30 Missouri 0.61386 60 37 4 101

31 Louisiana State 0.61340 57 35 5 97
32 Louisiana-Lafayette 0.61047 50 31 5 86
33 Wake Forest 0.60938 57 36 3 96
34 Vanderbilt 0.60795 52 33 3 88
35 Villanova 0.60674 53 34 2 89
36 North Carolina 0.60500 58 37 5 100
37 West Texas A&M 0.60000 51 34 0 85
38 Texas Tech 0.58879 61 42 4 107
39 Oklahoma State 0.58421 53 37 5 95
40 Brown 0.58046 48 34 5 87

41 Miami-Florida 0.57979 53 38 3 94
42 Southern Methodist 0.57282 55 40 8 103
43 Clemson 0.56915 51 38 5 94
44 California 0.56000 55 43 2 100
45 Lafayette 0.55422 45 36 2 83
46 Mississippi 0.55294 46 37 2 85
47 Colorado 0.54598 46 38 3 87
48 Kentucky 0.54396 47 39 5 91
49 Maryland 0.54255 48 40 6 94
50 Yale 0.54118 45 38 2 85

51 Holy Cross 0.53125 47 41 8 96
52 Dartmouth 0.52976 43 38 3 84
53 Denver 0.52577 46 41 10 97
54 Pacific 0.52427 52 47 4 103
55 Washington 0.52273 44 40 4 88
56 Navy 0.52222 44 40 6 90
57t Indiana 0.52174 46 42 4 92
57t Fresno State 0.52174 43 39 10 92
59 West Virginia 0.52083 48 44 4 96
60 Tulane 0.51685 44 41 4 89

61 Texas A&M 0.51471 50 47 5 102
62 Bucknell 0.51136 43 41 4 88
63 Drake 0.50556 43 42 5 90
64 Texas Christian 0.50500 47 46 7 100
65 Baylor 0.49390 38 39 5 82
66 Northwestern 0.48876 42 44 3 89
67 Saint Marys 0.48864 42 44 2 88
68t UCLA 0.48485 47 50 2 99
68t Kansas 0.48485 45 48 6 99
70 North Carolina State 0.47423 43 48 6 97

71 Columbia 0.47126 40 45 2 87
72 Temple 0.46552 36 42 9 87
73 Utah State 0.46296 36 42 3 81
74 South Carolina 0.45977 36 43 8 87
75 Purdue 0.45556 40 48 2 90
76 Wisconsin 0.45000 38 47 5 90
77 Iowa State 0.44886 37 46 5 88
78 Richmond 0.44505 38 48 5 91
79t Illinois 0.44022 38 49 5 92
79t VMI 0.44022 38 49 5 92

81 Colgate 0.43976 33 43 7 83
82 Arkansas 0.43137 42 56 4 102
83 New Mexico 0.43085 37 50 7 94
84 Auburn 0.42614 34 47 7 88
85 Marquette 0.41573 36 51 2 89
86 Pittsburgh 0.40449 35 52 2 89
87 Florida 0.40116 33 50 3 86
88 Iowa 0.39080 33 52 2 87
89 Nebraska 0.37363 34 57 0 91
90 Kansas State 0.17204 14 75 4 93

Teams not qualifying for the Win % table

Team Reason
disqualified
Team Reason
disqualified

Akron 61 games Arizona 75 games
Arizona State 74 games Arkansas State 58 games
Ball State 65 games Boston University 62 games
Brigham Young 66 games Carnegie Tech 1940 last
Centenary 1941 last Central Michigan 72 games

Cincinnati 78 games Colorado State 71 games
Creighton 1942 last Davidson 72 games
Detroit 74 games Duquesne 54 games
East Carolina 50 games Eastern Michigan 60 games
Florida State 23 games Fordham 57 games

Furman 64 games George Washington 62 games
Georgetown 62 games Gonzaga 1941 last
Hardin-Simmons 75 games Harvard 79 games
Haskell 1946 last Hawaii 60 games
Houston 42 games Idaho 70 games

Kent 58 games Louisiana-Monroe 77 games
Louisville 59 games Loyola-Los Angeles 68 games
Manhattan 1942 last Marshall 69 games
Memphis 58 games Montana 69 games
New Mexico State 70 games New York U 66 games

North Texas 70 games Ohio 68 games
Oregon 76 games Oregon State 79 games
Princeton 75 games Rutgers 78 games
Saint Louis 78 games San Francisco 74 games
San Jose State 79 games Santa Clara 63 games

Sewanee 1941 last Southern Miss 63 games
Stanford 69 games Syracuse 75 games
Texas-El Paso 68 games The Citadel 58 games
Toledo 71 games Virginia Tech 76 games
Washington-Missouri 1942 last Washington & Lee 65 games

Washington State 76 games Western Michigan 75 games
Wyoming 65 games

What the "reason disqualified" values mean:
  • "n last" - Team's last data was in year n, before the end of the range (1949).
  • "n first" - Team's first data was in year n, after the start of the range (1940).
  • "n games" - Team had only n games in the specified range of years, below the required 80.


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