List of undefeated NCAA Division I football teams

This is a list of undefeated NCAA Division I football teams, which describes all teams that finished a college football season in the NCAA's Division I, or historic equivalent, without any losses.

Division I Football Bowl Subdivision

NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision is currently the highest division of play in college football. However this nomenclature and these categories of divisional play have only existed since 2006 and 1978, respectively. Prior to the formation of the NCAA in 1906, there was no differentiation between the level of play from one college to another, and thus all intercollegiate teams can be thought of as having played in the same division. Likewise, even after the formation of the NCAA, there was no differentiation into divisions until 1956, when play was separated in the upper "University" division and lower "Collegiate" division. In 1973, a three division reorganization occurred placing teams into NCAA Division I, Division II, or Division III. In 1978, Division I was further subdivided into Division I-A and Division I-AA. In 2006, these subdivisions were renamed Division I Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Subdivision, respectively.
The following categories represent the historical equivalents of the highest level of play over the history of college football, and the subsequent tables list the teams for each season that went undefeated while competing in these highest categories:

uncategorized 1869 to 1905
NCAA 1906 to 1955
NCAA University Division from 1956 until 1972
NCAA Division I from 1973 to 1977
NCAA Division I-A from 1978 to 2005
NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision from 2006–present
Undefeated and untied

These teams finished the season having won every game in which they played, thus completing a "perfect season".

Pre-1900

Year	Team	Record	Notes
1870	Princeton	1–0–0
1872	Princeton	1–0–0
1872	Yale	1–0–0
1873	Princeton	1–0–0
1874	Princeton	4–0–0
1874	Yale	3–0–0
1875	Harvard	4–0–0
1875	Princeton	2–0–0
1876	Rutgers	1–0–0
1876	Yale	3–0–0
1877	Amherst	1–0–0
1878	Princeton	6–0–0
1880	Michigan	1–0–0
1881	Georgetown	1–0–0
1881	Penn State	1–0–0
1882	Michigan	1–0–0
1882	Navy	1–0–0
1882	Yale	8–0–0
1883	California	2–0–0
1883	Princeton	4–0–0
1883	NYU	1–0–0
1883	Albion	1–0–0
1884	Michigan	2–0–0
1884	Navy	1–0–0
1884	Wabash	1–0–0
1884	Yale	9–0–0
1885	Albion	1–0–0
1885	Michigan	3–0–0	Michigan was unscored upon.
1885	Princeton	9–0–0
1886	California	4–0–0
1886	Fordham	1–0–0
1886	Michigan	2–0–0	Michigan was unscored upon.
1887	Michigan	3–0–0	Michigan was unscored upon.
1887	Minnesota	2–0–0	Minnesota was unscored upon.
1887	Penn State	2–0–0	Penn State was unscored upon.
1887	Yale	9–0–0
1887	Hanover	2–0–0
1888	Colorado School of Mines	1–0–0
1888	Notre Dame	1–0–0
1888	USC	2–0–0
1888	Yale	13–0–0	Yale was unscored upon.
1889	Beloit	1–0–0
1889	Butler	2–0–0
1889	California	4–0–0
1889	Colorado School of Mines	1–0–0
1889	Miami	4–0–0
1889	Notre Dame	1–0–0
1889	Ohio State	1–0–0
1889	Princeton	10–0–0
1889	USC	2–0–0
1889	Colorado School of Mines	6–0–0
1890	Harvard	11–0–0
1890	Kentucky	1–0–0
1890	Nebraska	2–0–0
1890	Vanderbilt	1–0–0
1891	Albion	4–0–0
1891	Detroit	1–0–0
1891	Duke	3–0–0
1891	Purdue	4–0–0
1891	Wake Forest	1–0–0
1891	Yale	13–0–0
1892	Case Western Reserve	3–0–0
1892	Colgate	3–0–0
1892	Minnesota	5–0–0
1892	NC State	1–0–0
1892	Purdue	8–0–0
1892	USC	1–0–0
1892	Utah St.	1–0–0
1892	Wyoming	1–0–0
1892	Yale	13–0–0
1893	Case Western Reserve	4–0–0
1893	Fordham	4–0–0
1893	Maryland	6–0–0
1893	Minnesota	6–0–0
1893	NC State	2–0–0
1893	Princeton	11–0–0
1893	Texas	4–0–0
1894	North Dakota St.	2–0–0
1894	Columbia Physicians & Surgeons	3–0–0
1894	New Mexico State	2–0–0
1894	Penn	12–0–0
1894	USC	1–0–0
1894	Wyoming	3–0–0
1894	Yale	16–0–0
1894	Case Western Reserve	7–0–0
1895	Arkansas	1–0–0
1895	Bloomsburg	1–0–0
1895	Miami	3–0–0
1895	Hanover	2–0–0
1895	LSU	3–0–0
1895	Marquette	4–0–0
1895	Oregon	4–0–0
1895	Penn	14–0–0
1895	St. Bonaventure	4–0–0
1895	Texas	5–0–0	Texas was unscored upon.
1895	Tulsa	1–0–0
1895	Washington State	2–0–0
1895	Wyoming	1–0–0
1896	Fordham	1–0–0
1896	Georgia	4–0–0
1896	LSU	6–0–0
1896	NC State	1–0–0
1896	North Dakota	2–0–0
1896	Oklahoma	2–0–0
1896	St. John's	1–0–0
1896	Tennessee	4–0–0
1896	Wyoming	2–0–0
1897	Alabama	1–0–0
1897	Butler	1–0–0
1897	Buffalo	8–0–0
1897	Oklahoma	2–0–0
1897	Oregon State	2–0–0
1897	Penn	15–0–0
1897	Washington State	2–0–0
1897	Wichita State	1–0–0
1897	Wyoming	2–0–0
1898	Colorado School of Mines	9–0–0
1898	Detroit	5–0–0
1898	Drexel	7–0–0	Drexel was unscored upon.
1898	Harvard	11–0–0
1898	Kalamazoo	7–0–0	MIAA champions
1898	Kentucky	7–0–0	Kentucky was unscored upon.
1898	LSU	1–0–0
1898	Michigan	10–0–0
1898	North Carolina	9–0–0
1898	Oklahoma	2–0–0
1898	Tulsa	1–0–0
1899	Sewanee	12–0–0	Won five road games in six days.
1899	New Mexico State	1–0–0
1899	North Dakota	6–0–0
1899	Utah St.	1–0–0

1900 to present

note: In 1917, 1918, 1943, and 1944, football teams from military training facilities competed alongside college programs

Undefeated with ties

These teams all finished the season with no losses, but with ties.

Year	Team	Record	Notes
1873	Harvard	1-0-1	-
1877	Princeton	2-0-1	-
1877	Yale	3-0-1	-
1878	Columbia	0-0-2	-
1879	Princeton	4-0-1	-
1879	Michigan	1-0-1	-
1879	Yale	3-0-2	-
1879	Navy	0-0-1	-
1880	Princeton	4-0-1	-
1880	Yale	4-0-1	-
1881	Princeton	7-0-2	-
1881	Yale	5-0-1	-
1881	Dartmouth	1-0-1	-
1883	Yale	3-0-1	-
1884	Yale	3-0-1	-
1884	Princeton	3-0-1	-
1884	Penn	3-0-1	-
1886	Wabash	2-0-1	-
1886	Yale	9-0-1	-
1886	Princeton	7-0-1	-
1888	Depauw	0-0-1	-
1889	South Dakota	1-0-1	-
1890	Butler	3-0-1	-
1890	Washington	0-0-1	-
1892	Stanford	4-0-2	-
1893	Auburn	3-0-2	-
1892	Stanford	9-0-1	-
1894	Penn State	6-0-1	-
1895	Stanford	4-0-1	-
1895	Washington	4-0-1	-
1896	Princeton	10-0-1	-
1896	Lafayette	11-0-1	-
1896	Texas A&M	2-0-1	-
1897	Auburn	2-0-1	-
1897	Yale	9-0-2	-
1897	Hanover	4-0-1	-
1898	Princeton	11-0-1	-
1899	Denver	0-0-1	-
1899	Ohio State	9-0-1	Ohio State allowed only five points.
1899	Harvard	10-0-1	-
1899	Chicago	16-0-2	-
1899	Iowa	8-0-1	-
1899	Wabash	1-0-1	-
1900	Iowa	7-0-1	-
1900	Minnesota	10-0-2	-
1901	Georgia Tech	4-0-1	-
1901	Marquette	4-0-1	-
1902	Texas A&M	7-0-2	-
1902	Yale	11-0-1	-
1903	Michigan	11-0-1	-
1903	Minnesota	14-0-1	-
1903	Stanford	8-0-3	-
1904	Colorado School of Mines	5-0-1	-
1904	Dartmouth	7-0-1	-
1904	Colorado School of Mines	4-0-1	-
1904	Albion	7-0-1	-
1905	Penn	12-0-1	-
1905	Georgia Tech	6-0-1	-
1905	Colorado School of Mines	5-0-1	-
1906	Colorado School of Mines	3-0-2	-
1906	Princeton	9-0-1	-
1906	Yale	9-0-1	-
1906	Clemson	4-0-3	-
1906	Colorado School of Mines	3-0-2	-
1906	Eastern Michigan	5-0-1	-
1907	Yale	9-0-1	-
1907	Notre Dame	6-0-1	-
1908	Albion	5-0-2	-
1908	Penn	11-0-1	-
1908	Harvard	9-0-1	-
1908	Chicago	5-0-1	-
1908	Kansas	12-0-1	-
1908	Virginia	7-0-1	-
1908	Washington	6-0-1	Part of NCAA Division I FBS record 64-game unbeaten streak
1909	Texas A&M	7-0-1	-
1909	Lafayette	7-0-1	-
1909	Penn State	5-0-2	-
1909	Missouri	7-0-1	-
1910	Harvard	8-0-1	-
1910	Michigan	3-0-3	-
1910	Vanderbilt	12-0-1	-
1910	Navy	8-0-1	-
1910	Michigan	3-0-3	-
1910	Baylor	6-0-2	-
1910	NC State	4-0-2	-
1911	Princeton	8-0-2	-
1911	Minnesota	6-0-1	-
1911	Penn State	8-0-1	-
1911	Navy	6-0-3	-
1911	Florida	5-0-1	-
1913	Washington & Jefferson	10-0-1	-
1914	Auburn	8-0-1	-
1914	Harvard	7-0-2	-
1914	Colorado School of Mines	5-0-1	-
1914	Nebraska	7-0-1	-
1914	Oregon State	7-0-2	-
1914	Washington	6-0-1	Part of NCAA Division I FBS record 64-game unbeaten streak
1915	Minnesota	6-0-1	-
1915	Georgia Tech	7-0-1	-
1915	Illinois	5-0-2	-
1916		7-0-1	-
1916	Georgia Tech	8-0-1	-
1916	Oregon	7-0-1	-
1916	Tennessee	8-0-1	-
1916	Colorado State	5-0-2	-
1916	Washington	6-0-1	Part of NCAA Division I FBS record 64-game unbeaten streak
1917		6-0-2	-
1917	Ohio State	8-0-1	-
1917	Washington State	6-0-1	-
1917	Utah State	7-0-1	-
1918		5-0-1	-
1918	Naval Station Great Lakes	6-0-2	-
1919	Harvard	9-0-1	-
1920	Oklahoma	6-0-1	-
1920	Georgia	8-0-1	-
1920	Harvard	8-0-1	-
1920	Pittsburgh	6-0-2	-
1920	Princeton	6-0-1	-
1920	Penn State	7-0-2	-
1921	Washington & Jefferson	10-0-1	-
1921	Vanderbilt	7-0-1	-
1921	Penn State	8-0-2	-
1921	California	9-0-1	-
1922	West Virginia	10-0-1	-
1922	Michigan	6-0-1	-
1922	Vanderbilt	8-0-1	-
1922	Army	8-0-2	-
1923	California	9-0-1	-
1923	Kansas	5-0-3	-
1923	King	8-0-1	-
1923	Texas	8-0-1	-
1924	California	8-0-2	-
1924	Connecticut	6-0-2	-
1924	Dartmouth	7-0-1	-
1924	Gonzaga	5-0-2	-
1924	Yale	6-0-2	-
1925	Colgate	7-0-2	-
1925	North Dakota State	5-0-2	-
1925	Tulane	9-0-1	-
1926	Alabama	9-0-1	-
1926	Stanford	10-0-1	-
1926	Navy	9-0-1	-
1926	SMU	8-0-1	-
1926	Brown	9-0-1	-
1927	Illinois	10-0-1	-
1927	Minnesota	6-0-2	-
1927	Texas A&M	8-0-1	-
1927		7-0-2	-
1927	Tennessee	8-0-1	-
1928	USC	9-0-1	-
1928	Tennessee	9-0-1	-
1928	Utah	5-0-2	-
1929		8-0-2	-
1929	TCU	9-0-1	-
1929	Tennessee	9-0-1	-
1929	SMU	6-0-4	-
1930	Michigan	8-0-1	-
1930	Marquette	8-0-1	-
1932	Auburn	9-0-1	-
1932	Western Michigan	6-0-1	-
1933	Michigan	7-0-1	-
1933	LSU	7-0-3	-
1935	Case Western Reserve	9-0-1	-
1936	Alabama	8-0-1	-
1937	Pittsburgh	9-0-1	-
1937	California	10-0-1	-
1937	Fordham	7-0-1	-
1937	Villanova	8-0-1	-
1937	Dartmouth	7-0-2	-
1937	Holy Cross	8-0-2	-
1937	Marshall	9-0-1	-
1938	Villanova	8-0-1	-
1939	USC	8-0-2	-
1939	UCLA	6-0-4	-
1939	Duquesne	8-0-1	-
1940	Mississippi State	10-0-1	-
1941	Notre Dame	8-0-1	-
1941	Utah	6-0-2	-
1944	USC	8-0-2	-
1945	Eastern Michigan	5-0-1	-
1945	Indiana	9-0-1	-
1946	Notre Dame	8-0-1	-
1946	Army	9-0-1	-
1947	Miami	9-0-1	-
1947	SMU	9-0-2	-
1947	Penn State	9-0-1	-
1947	Penn	7-0-1	-
1948	Notre Dame	9-0-1	-
1948	Army	8-0-1	-
1950	Clemson	9-0-1	-
1951	Illinois	9-0-1	-
1951	Georgia Tech	11-0-1	-
1953	Notre Dame	9-0-1	-
1954	Virginia Poletechnic	8-0-1	-
1956	Texas A&M	9-0-1	-
1957	VMI	9-0-1	-
1958	Army	8-0-1	-
1958	Auburn	9-0-1	-
1958	Air Force	9-0-2	-
1960	Ole Miss	10-0-1	-
1961	Ohio State	8-0-1	-
1963		9-0-1	-
1966	Notre Dame	9-0-1	-
1966	Michigan State	9-0-1	-
1969	USC	10-0-1	-
1970	Nebraska	11-0-1	-
1973	Michigan	10-0-1	-
1973	Ohio State	10-0-1	-
1973	Oklahoma	10-0-1	-
1974	Miami	10-0-1	-
1979	Central Michigan	10-0-1	-
1979	USC	11-0-1	-
1982	SMU	11-0-1	-
1985	Fresno State	11-0-1	-
1987	Syracuse	11-0-1	-
1990	Georgia Tech	11-0-1	-
1992	Michigan	9-0-3	-
1994	Texas A&M	10-0-1	-
1995	Toledo	11-0-1	-

Teams with multiple undefeated seasons

Teams ordered by the number of undefeated seasons in the top division. Teams in italics no longer compete in Division I FBS.

Team	Undefeated	Perfect
Yale	30	16
Princeton	29	18
Michigan	23	15
Notre Dame	22	13
USC	16	9
Harvard	14	8
Oklahoma	13	11
Penn State	14	8
North Dakota State	12	10
Alabama	12	10
Auburn	12	7
Washington	12	7
Nebraska	11	9
Miami	11	6
Minnesota	11	6
Texas	10	9
Colorado School of Mines	10	6
Ohio State	9	6
Washington State	9	4
Georgia Tech	9	3
Texas A&M	9	3
LSU	8	7
Pittsburgh	8	6
Penn	8	4
Army	8	4
Central Michigan	8	6
Utah	7	5
Tennessee	7	4
Dartmouth	7	3
Case Western Reserve	6	5
Western Michigan	6	5
Clemson	6	4
Illinois	6	3
California	6	2
Utah St.	6	4
Cornell	5	5
Eastern Michigan	5	3
SMU	5	1
Colorado	4	4
Toledo	4	3
Chicago	4	2
Iowa	4	2
Lafayette	4	2
Vanderbilt	4	1
Arizona State	3	3
Florida State	3	3
Miami	3	3
Purdue	3	3
Rutgers	3	3
Saint Louis	3	3
Wisconsin	3	3
Michigan State	3	2
Oregon State	3	2
Georgia	3	2
TCU	3	2
Tulane	3	2
Navy	3	0
Washington & Jefferson	3	0
Arkansas	2	2
Arkansas St.	2	2
Boise State	2	2
Marshall	2	2
Maryland	2	2
Colorado College	2	2
Ole Miss	2	1
Connecticut	2	1
Colorado State	2	1
Drexel	2	2
Duquesne	2	1
Kansas	2	1
Memphis	2	1
Stanford	2	1
Syracuse	2	1
UCLA	2	1
USNTC Bainbridge	2	2
Villanova	2	0

Coaches with multiple undefeated seasons

Coaches ordered by the number of undefeated seasons in the top division.

Team	Undefeated	Perfect
Gil Dobie	14	11
Fielding H. Yost	9	6
Earl Blaik	7	3
John Heisman	7	3
Frank Leahy	7	3
Bernie Bierman	6	5
Howard Jones	6	4
Glenn Scobey Warner	6	4
Cleveland L. Abbott	6	2
Robert Neyland	6	1
Joe Paterno	5	5
Knute Rockne	5	5
Ike Armstrong	5	3
Percy Haughton	5	2
Hugo Bezdek	5	1
Bud Wilkinson	4	4
Bear Bryant	4	3
Bennie Owen	4	3
Elton Rynearson	4	3
Warren B. Woodson	4	3
Dana X. Bible	4	2
Walter Camp	4	2
Woody Hayes	4	2
Amos Alonzo Stagg	4	2
Robert Zuppke	4	2
Dan McGugin	4	1
Francis Schmidt	4	0

Division I Football Championship Subdivision

This section covers teams that competed in the second tier of Division I since it was split in 1978:

Division I-AA from 1978 to 2005
Football Championship Subdivision from 2006

Note that Division I FCS features a single-elimination championship tournament, reducing the likelihood of multiple teams finishing the season with undefeated records. However, several conferences voluntarily do not compete in the tournament, thus there exists a chance to have multiple undefeated teams in the same year.
In both lists in this section, teams in bold competed in the I-AA or FCS playoffs, thereby winning the national title.

Undefeated and untied

These teams finished the season with no losses or ties in Division I-AA or FCS football since 1978.

Year	Team	Record	Coach
1982		13–0–0	Kidd
1984		11–0	Thomas
1986	Penn	10–0–0	Zubrow
1987	Holy Cross	11–0–0	Duffner
1989	Georgia Southern	15–0–0	Russell
1991	Holy Cross	11–0–0	Duffner
1993	Penn	10–0–0	Bagnoli
1994	Penn	9–0–0	Bagnolli
1996	Marshall	15–0	Pruett
1996		11–0	Kelly
1996	Dartmouth	11–0	Lyons
2000	Davidson	11–0	Susan
2000	Robert Morris	10–0	Walton
2001		10-0	Fleming
2001		9–0	Murphy
2003	Penn	10-0	Bagnoli
2004	Harvard	10–0	Murphy
2009	South Alabama	7–0	Jones
2010	South Alabama	10–0	Jones
2013	North Dakota State	15–0	Bohl
2014	Harvard	10–0	Murphy
2017	North Carolina A&T	12-0	Broadway
2018	Princeton	10–0	Surace
2018	North Dakota State	15–0	Klieman
2019	North Dakota State	16–0	Entz

Undefeated with ties

These teams finished the season with no losses, but with ties, in Division I-AA or FCS football since 1978.

Year	Team	Record	Coach
1991		11–0–1	Markham
1994		14–0–1	Tressel

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