On Saturday, Illinois State recorded the seventh FCS over FBS upset of 2018, and as we begin to head into conference play, it makes one wonder — which FCS program has won the most FBS games, all-time? Well, the answer is below.
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The I-AA/FCS level began in 1978, so … sorry Harvard and Princeton, all of those incredible wins against the monsters of today's Power Five conferences won't count in this chart. When the levels split in 1978, a lower scholarship amount was agreed upon with the schools that wanted to go I-AA/FCS. Some schools wanted to take the expenses down a notch and agreed to play with smaller rosters, and thus the FCS of today was born.
Also in the early years, some programs had a tough time deciding at which level they wanted to stick, so there are some results below that may surprise you … like Bucknell beating Cornell in 1980 being on this list. But in 1980, the Ivy League considered itself to be upper division (today's FBS). That changed in the early 1980s.
So take a look at the full list:
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THE LIST
| FCS TEAM | WINS | LAST TIME | VS |
| Youngstown St. | 20 | 2012 | Pittsburgh |
| Northwestern St. | 17 | 2014 | Louisiana Tech |
| Delaware | 15 | 2007 | Navy |
| Northern Iowa | 11 | 2016 | Iowa St. |
| Eastern Washington | 9 | 2016 | Washington State |
| North Dakota St. | 9 | 2016 | Iowa |
| Indiana St. | 9 | 2014 | Ball State |
| Illinois St. | 8 | 2018 | Colorado State |
| Western Illinois | 8 | 2017 | Coastal Carolina |
| New Hampshire | 8 | 2017 | Ga. Southern |
| McNeese St. | 8 | 2013 | South Florida |
| Lehigh | 8 | 2002 | Buffalo |
| James Madison | 7 | 2017 | East Carolina |
| Citadel | 7 | 2015 | South Carolina |
| Eastern Kentucky | 7 | 2014 | Miami-Ohio |
| Montana | 7 | 2003 | Idaho |
| Eastern Illinois | 6 | 2016 | Miami-Ohio |
| Richmond | 6 | 2016 | Virginia |
| Furman | 6 | 2015 | UCF |
| Idaho St. | 5 | 2017 | Nevada |
| Jacksonville St. | 5 | 2013 | Georgia St. |
| Cal Poly | 5 | 2012 | Wyoming |
| William & Mary | 5 | 2009 | Virginia |
| SE Louisiana | 5 | 1981 | Louisiana-Monroe |
| Lafayette | 5 | 1981 | Columbia |
| Maine | 4 | 2018 | Western Kentucky |
| Villanova | 4 | 2018 | Temple |
| Tennessee St. | 4 | 2017 | Georgia State |
| Portland St. | 4 | 2015 | North Texas |
| Nicholls St. | 4 | 2018 | Kansas |
| Montana St. | 4 | 2006 | Colorado |
| Colgate | 4 | 2003 | Buffalo |
| Bucknell | 4 | 1980 | Cornell |
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