2023 National Leaders Opponent First Downs - Games vs. FCS (I-AA) Teams Only through 01/08/2024
| Name | G | Rush | Pass | Penalty | Total | Total/G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clemson | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4.0 |
| 1 | Memphis | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4.0 |
| 3 | Utah | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 5.0 |
| 3 | Penn State | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5.0 |
| 5 | Florida | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 6.0 |
| 5 | Rutgers | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6.0 |
| 7 | Pittsburgh | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 7.0 |
| 7 | Syracuse | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 7.0 |
| 9 | Miami (Florida) | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 8.0 |
| 9 | Charlotte | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 8.0 |
| 9 | Louisiana-Lafayette | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8.0 |
| 9 | Louisville | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 8.0 |
| 9 | Oregon | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 8.0 |
| 9 | Indiana | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8.0 |
| 9 | Southern Mississippi | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 8.0 |
| 16 | James Madison | 1 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 9.0 |
| 16 | Air Force | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 9.0 |
| 16 | Sam Houston State | 1 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 9.0 |
| 19 | North Carolina State | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 10.0 |
| 19 | West Virginia | 1 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 10 | 10.0 |
| 19 | Rice | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 10.0 |
| 19 | SMU | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 10.0 |
| 19 | Kansas | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 10.0 |
| 19 | Kent State | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 10.0 |
| 19 | Arizona State | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 10.0 |
| 19 | Mississippi State | 1 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 10.0 |
| 19 | Baylor | 1 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 10.0 |
| 28 | Alabama | 1 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 11.0 |
| 28 | Michigan State | 1 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 11.0 |
| 28 | UCF | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 11.0 |
| 28 | San Jose State | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 11.0 |
| 28 | East Carolina | 1 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 11.0 |
| 33 | Texas A&M | 1 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 12 | 12.0 |
| 33 | Navy | 1 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 12 | 12.0 |
| 33 | Northern Illinois | 1 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 12.0 |
| 33 | Ohio State | 1 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 12 | 12.0 |
| 33 | Western Michigan | 1 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 12 | 12.0 |
| 33 | Notre Dame | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 12.0 |
| 33 | Jacksonville State | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 12.0 |
| 33 | Ball State | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 12.0 |
| 33 | Oregon State | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 12.0 |
| 33 | Auburn | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 12.0 |
| 33 | UAB | 1 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 12.0 |
| 33 | Georgia Southern | 1 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 12.0 |
| 45 | Kansas State | 1 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 13 | 13.0 |
| 45 | Ohio | 1 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 13 | 13.0 |
| 45 | Connecticut | 1 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 13 | 13.0 |
| 45 | Wake Forest | 1 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 13.0 |
| 49 | New Mexico State | 1 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 14 | 14.0 |
| 49 | Miami (Ohio) | 1 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 14 | 14.0 |
| 49 | Missouri | 1 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 14 | 14.0 |
| 49 | Boise State | 1 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 14 | 14.0 |
| 49 | UCLA | 1 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 14 | 14.0 |
| 49 | Florida State | 1 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 14.0 |
| 49 | Arkansas State | 1 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 14 | 14.0 |
| 49 | Duke | 1 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 14 | 14.0 |
| 49 | Georgia Tech | 1 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 14 | 14.0 |
| 49 | Vanderbilt | 1 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 14 | 14.0 |
| 59 | Kentucky | 1 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 15 | 15.0 |
| 59 | Hawai'i | 1 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 15 | 15.0 |
| 59 | TCU | 1 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 15 | 15.0 |
| 59 | Georgia | 1 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 15 | 15.0 |
| 59 | Mississippi | 1 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 15 | 15.0 |
| 59 | Temple | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 15.0 |
| 59 | Cincinnati | 1 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 15 | 15.0 |
| 59 | Virginia | 1 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 15 | 15.0 |
| 67 | BYU | 1 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 16 | 16.0 |
| 67 | Massachusetts | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 16.0 |
| 67 | Middle Tennessee | 1 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 16 | 16.0 |
| 67 | South Carolina | 1 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 16 | 16.0 |
| 67 | Old Dominion | 1 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 16.0 |
| 67 | Troy | 1 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 16 | 16.0 |
| 67 | LSU | 1 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 16 | 16.0 |
| 67 | Maryland | 1 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 16 | 16.0 |
| 67 | Coastal Carolina | 1 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 16 | 16.0 |
| 76 | Arizona | 1 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 17 | 17.0 |
| 76 | Akron | 1 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 17 | 17.0 |
| 76 | Louisiana-Monroe | 1 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 17 | 17.0 |
| 76 | Washington State | 1 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 17 | 17.0 |
| 76 | Toledo | 1 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 17.0 |
| 81 | Arkansas | 1 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 18 | 18.0 |
| 81 | Colorado State | 1 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 18 | 18.0 |
| 81 | Northwestern | 1 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 18 | 18.0 |
| 81 | Tulsa | 1 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 18 | 18.0 |
| 81 | Nevada | 1 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 18 | 18.0 |
| 86 | UTEP | 1 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 19 | 19.0 |
| 86 | Marshall | 1 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 19 | 19.0 |
| 86 | Florida Atlantic | 1 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 19 | 19.0 |
| 86 | Texas Tech | 1 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 19 | 19.0 |
| 86 | New Mexico | 1 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 19 | 19.0 |
| 86 | Tennessee | 1 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 19 | 19.0 |
| 86 | Iowa State | 1 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 19 | 19.0 |
| 86 | Oklahoma State | 1 | 7 | 11 | 1 | 19 | 19.0 |
| 86 | Appalachian State | 1 | 8 | 11 | 0 | 19 | 19.0 |
| 86 | UNLV | 1 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 19 | 19.0 |
| 96 | South Alabama | 1 | 3 | 15 | 2 | 20 | 20.0 |
| 96 | Bowling Green | 1 | 5 | 13 | 2 | 20 | 20.0 |
| 96 | Wyoming | 1 | 6 | 14 | 0 | 20 | 20.0 |
| 96 | North Carolina | 1 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 20 | 20.0 |
| 96 | North Texas | 1 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 20 | 20.0 |
| 96 | Louisiana Tech | 1 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 20 | 20.0 |
| 102 | Tulane | 1 | 4 | 14 | 3 | 21 | 21.0 |
| 102 | Eastern Michigan | 1 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 21 | 21.0 |
| 102 | Boston College | 1 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 21 | 21.0 |
| 102 | Army | 2 | 18 | 18 | 6 | 42 | 21.0 |
| 106 | California | 1 | 3 | 16 | 3 | 22 | 22.0 |
| 106 | Georgia State | 1 | 7 | 13 | 2 | 22 | 22.0 |
| 106 | Fresno State | 1 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 22 | 22.0 |
| 109 | Texas State | 1 | 6 | 14 | 3 | 23 | 23.0 |
| 109 | Stanford | 1 | 10 | 12 | 1 | 23 | 23.0 |
| 111 | Central Michigan | 1 | 2 | 20 | 2 | 24 | 24.0 |
| 111 | South Florida | 1 | 3 | 15 | 6 | 24 | 24.0 |
| 111 | San Diego State | 1 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 24 | 24.0 |
| 111 | Western Kentucky | 1 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 24 | 24.0 |
| 115 | Florida International | 1 | 8 | 14 | 5 | 27 | 27.0 |
| 115 | Buffalo | 1 | 8 | 15 | 4 | 27 | 27.0 |
| 117 | Utah State | 1 | 9 | 18 | 1 | 28 | 28.0 |