Most 100-yard rushing games in a single college football season

Every game of every major-college team since 1869 is from James Howell's college football scores, the source College Football Streak King also builds on; from 1936 the games come through Streak King's own file, which carries the AP rank of both teams at kickoff from the College Poll Archive, that site's researched corrections and the head coach of every game. A team's games count from the seasons Howell lists it as major-college (his "FBS or the equivalent" list, back to the 1869 Rutgers–Princeton game), so Washington's 1908–15 seasons under Gil Dobie, for instance, are not here, and neither are a coach's games at a school that wasn't major that year (Brian Kelly's Grand Valley State years, Jim Tressel's Youngstown State years). "Major-college" is the honest wall; the boards say "as a major-college head coach" where it bites.

The head coach of a game is CFBD's coach of record resolved game by game against the results in Streak King (its researched rulings cover mid-season changes and interims) from 1936, and before that the coach Wikipedia's coach lists name for the season (one coach per season; a season with a mid-season change or co-coaches has no coach of record, and 3.6% of team-games have none). The pre-1936 coach file is in the repository under CC BY-SA 4.0, as Wikipedia's license asks. The coach ledger runs on the same games from 1869, but its first coach of record is Lucius Littauer, Harvard's in 1881, the sport's first head coach. Teams before him were run by their captains, so a coach board "since 1869" has no games before 1881.

A player's games are ESPN's box scores, as published by cfbfastR (sportsdataverse), CC BY 4.0, 2004 to today, joined to the same game spine for the ranks. Passing, rushing, receiving, interceptions, returns, kicking and punting are in every game from 2004; fumbles from 2016; kick returns from 2009; tackles, sacks and passes defended from 2024. A board whose stat forces a later start says so in the sentence, and the careers from before sit out, counted on the board. Positions are ESPN's roster position where it has one (every roster is blank before 2014), else read off the box score: a quarterback throws, a running back carries, and a receiver from before 2014 is listed with the wide receivers whether or not he was a tight end.

A game is a game the entity took part in: a coach's game, a program's game, a player's game with a line in the box score (there is no starter flag in a football box score, so a quarterback's "wins" are his team's results in the games he threw, ran or caught in). A win is the result of a game in the sequence; a tie is neither. "First N games at one school" is one tenure: a coach who left and came back has two. "Team games of a season" count the team's schedule, so a player who sat one has a gap the window still counts; a season that is over fills a longer window whole, so a 9-game 1936 ranks on a 12-game board as "all 9 games", and a career that is over fills a longer window the same way. Bowls and the playoff are in by default, the way coaches' records and (since 2002) the NCAA's season totals count them; the word beside the window switches to the regular season only. Conference championship games are regular-season games.

Ranked and top-10 read the AP poll in effect at kickoff, from 1936; before 1950 a game before the season's first poll has no rank in effect, and sits a coach or a program out of those boards for that window. A road game is one away from home and not at a neutral site. "Won by 21 or more" and "one-score" read the final margin. A clean line ("no interceptions thrown", "no fumbles") counts only in a game the player had ten pass attempts or five touches in. Ranks are competition ranks, ties included. "Still inside the window" lists the entities that haven't played the whole window yet, with their total so far. The panel reads a row against a peer: where their curves met, and what the subject needs over the next five games to match the peer there; the peer rides in the url, so a shared link opens the same comparison. A coach's, a team's or a player's page lists every comparison it leads, worded at the point where it stands out most.

The boards reproduce the NCAA record book's famous numbers where the box scores and the spine can: Kirby Smart's 100th win in his 117th game, Joe Paterno's 409 and his 200th win in game 246, Bear Bryant's 323, Tom Osborne's 255-49-3, Knute Rockne's 105-12-5, Oklahoma's 47 straight, LSU's 726 points in 2019, Joe Burrow's 5,671 yards and 60 touchdowns, Ashton Jeanty's 2,601, Case Keenum's 19,217, Ja'Marr Chase's 1,780. The repository's gate checks them on every build.

Every number here is an on-field result. The NCAA vacates wins (Paterno's 111, since restored; Bobby Bowden's 12; Nick Saban's five from 2007; Brian Kelly's 21 at Notre Dame) and these boards don't, so Saban reads 297 wins where the NCAA says 292, and his first 100 games at Alabama read 84 wins. A forfeit stands as it was played. The NCAA counts a tie as half a win in a winning percentage and lists George Woodruff's 100th win in his 109th game where Howell's Penn pages reach it in his 111th. Chris Petersen's 100th win is his 117th game here and at Washington; the NCAA's book says 118. Walter Camp has 68 wins through five seasons here and 69 in the NCAA's count.

ESPN's box scores have holes a season total can show: four 2006 Hawai'i home games never existed at ESPN, so Colt Brennan reads 42 touchdown passes for 2006 where the NCAA has 58, and one 2007 Texas Tech game is missing, which leaves Graham Harrell 48 completions and Michael Crabtree 15 catches short of the record book; a few depth players' receiving lines are missing inside games before 2008. A game the spine has and ESPN doesn't is a gap the season windows count. Sacks count against a quarterback's rushing yards, as the NCAA counts them (Harrell's 2007 rushing is negative). Reggie Bush's 2005 is here as played; the NCAA vacated it. A player whose first ESPN season is 2004 and whose career ran fewer than four seasons from it may have played before 2004 and sits out the career boards (his seasons still rank on the season boards); Adrian Peterson, a 2004 freshman, is one of them until a receipt says so.

A career window favors the game as it was played before 1900: seasons of twelve games against colleges, athletic clubs and high schools, scores of 100 to nothing, and a coach who stayed a decade undefeated. So "most wins through the first 100 games" reads George Woodruff, Fielding Yost and Walter Camp before any living coach, and the modern names on these boards are the ones who were great from game one. The era word in the sentence is how to ask the fair question; its cuts are the game's own: 1880 and eleven-man football, 1906 and the forward pass, 1936 and the AP poll, 1958 and the two-point conversion, 1978 and Division I-A, 1998 and the BCS, 2014 and the College Football Playoff, 2024 and the twelve-team playoff. A stat's own wall (ranks from 1936, fumbles from 2016, tackles from 2024) is the first choice when it is later than the ledger's start. Before 1880 the games weren't eleven-man football and a third of the 1870s rows are ones Howell marks unverified; they are here because they are the record, and the era word takes them out.