Abilene Christian Wildcats
UACAbilene, TXWildcat Stadium (TX)
2026: 4–4 (3–0 UAC). Last: won at North Alabama 31–28. Next: West Georgia, Saturday, Oct 31, 4 p.m. ET.
- L 14–21at Lamar
- L 10–33at No. 12 Texas Tech
- L 7–26Stephen F. Austin
- W 41–39at Idaho
- L 17–34Mercer
- W 35–7West Florida
- W 20–14Central Arkansas
- W 31–28at North Alabama
- Oct 31West Georgia
- Nov 7at Tarleton State
- Nov 14at Austin Peay
- Nov 21Eastern Kentucky
Abilene Christian has played football since 1919 and is officially 549–464–14; 191 of its 1,027 games are in our file. They have won five Texas Collegiate Athletic Conference titles (the last in 1953), plus four Lone Star Conference titles, two United Athletic Conference titles, two Texas Conference titles, one Western Athletic Conference title, one Gulf Coast Conference title, counting shared titles. Since 1967, the NFL Draft has taken 12 players from here in its first seven rounds, 0 of them in the first round. The College Football Hall of Fame holds 1 player from Abilene Christian. This season, they’re 4–4.
On this date in 2024Abilene Christian beat Eastern Kentucky 34–20 at home.
Résumé
- All-time record
- 549–464–14 official; 84–107 on file; how we count
- Postseason
- 0–0 bowls, title games, playoff
- AP No. 1 finishes
- 0
- Weeks at No. 1
- 0 of 0 ranked
- Elo now
- 1363
- Computer rankings
- Massey No. 16 · Composite No. 24 in FCS, Oct 17; up 5 since Oct 11. From Massey Ratings
- Conference titles
- 15 last in 2025
- Seasons
- 42 since 1925, 191 games
2026 season 4–4
RosterFull 2026 season| Date | Opponent | Result | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29 | at Lamar | L 14–21 | 52% |
| Sep 5 | at 12Texas Tech | L 10–33 | 11% |
| Sep 12 | vs Stephen F. Austin | L 7–26 | 46% |
| Sep 19 | at Idaho | W 41–39 | 54% |
| Sep 26 | vs Mercer | L 17–34 | 53% |
| Oct 3 | vs West Florida | W 35–7 | 55% |
| Oct 10 | vs Central Arkansas | W 20–14 | 71% |
| Oct 17 | at North Alabama | W 31–28 | 53% |
| Oct 31 | vs West Georgia | Preview | 75% |
| Nov 7 | at Tarleton State | Preview | 21% |
| Nov 14 | at Austin Peay | Preview | 33% |
| Nov 21 | vs Eastern Kentucky | Preview | 72% |
Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.
This season, game by game
Players
The 2026 rosterThe moneyOn the 2026 team
- Tucker Parks1,013 passing yards, 8 TD (leads Abilene Christian in passing yards)
- Javeon Wilcox65 tackles, 1 INT (leads Abilene Christian in interceptions)
- Dillon Williams68 tackles (leads Abilene Christian in tackles)
- Rovaughn Banks Jr.426 rushing yards, 1 TD (leads Abilene Christian in rushing yards)
- Darius Moore48 tackles, 1 sack
- Kortlin Rausaw46 tackles, 1.5 sacks
Program greats See all
Heisman finalists, College Football Hall of Famers, consensus All-Americans, national award winners and first-round picks, for what they did at Abilene Christian.
Photos: Wikimedia Commons, free licenses; credits on each player’s page.
Program strength since 1925
Best seasons everMost-played series
All rivalries- Stephen F. Austin
5–10 in 15
- 2019 W 31–24
- 2020 L 32–35
- 2021 L 27–41
- 2022 L 38–41
- 2022 L 21–24
- 2023 W 34–27
- 2024 L 19–32
- 2025 W 28–20
- 2025 L 34–41
- 2026 L 7–26
Lost the last two.
- Central Arkansas
4–6 in 10
- 2014 W 52–35
- 2016 L 27–58
- 2017 L 0–34
- 2018 L 7–16
- 2019 L 30–31
- 2021 L 21–42
- 2023 L 17–52
- 2024 W 41–34
- 2025 W 49–28
- 2026 W 20–14
Won the last three.
- West Texas
5–5 in 10
- 1944 L 6–41
- 1947 W 13–7
- 1948 L 19–41
- 1952 L 18–20
- 1957 L 2–12
- 1958 W 28–21
- 1982 W 33–29
- 1983 W 28–3
- 1984 L 10–14
- 1985 W 25–18
Won the last one.
| Opponent | Games | ACU record |
|---|---|---|
| Stephen F. Austin | 15 | 5–10 |
| Central Arkansas | 10 | 4–6 |
| West Texas | 10 | 5–5 |
| Incarnate Word | 9 | 3–6 |
| Lamar | 9 | 4–5 |
| Sam Houston | 8 | 2–6 |
| Houston Christian | 7 | 6–1 |
| McNeese | 6 | 1–5 |
Every opponent (68)
Every program Abilene Christian has played, A to Z, with Abilene Christian’s record against it. Each links to the series, game by game.
- Air Force 0–1
- Angelo State 1–1
- Arizona State 1–0
- Arkansas 0–1
- Army 0–1
- Austin Peay 2–0
- Ave Maria University 1–0
- Baylor 0–1
- Central Arkansas 4–6
- Colorado State 0–1
- Concordia (AL) 1–0
- Dayton 0–1
- Drake 0–2
- Eastern Kentucky 2–1
- Florida State 1–1
- Fresno State 0–1
- Georgia State 0–1
- Hardin Simmons 2–0
- Hawai’i 0–1
- Houston Christian 6–1
- Idaho 1–1
- Illinois State 0–1
- Incarnate Word 3–6
- Jacksonville State 0–1
- Lamar 4–5
- Louisiana Christian 1–0
- McMurry 1–0
- McNeese 1–5
- Memphis 0–2
- Mercer 1–1
- Mississippi State 0–1
- Missouri 0–1
- New Mexico 0–1
- New Mexico Highlands 1–0
- New Mexico State 0–1
- Nicholls 2–1
- North Alabama 3–1
- North Dakota 0–1
- North Dakota State 0–1
- North Texas 2–3
- Northern Arizona 1–1
- Northern Colorado 2–2
- Northwestern State 2–3
- Phoenix 1–0
- Pittsburg State 0–1
- Prairie View A&M 3–0
- Sam Houston 2–6
- SE Louisiana 2–3
- SMU 0–2
- Southern Utah 2–2
- Stephen F. Austin 5–10
- Tarleton State 4–2
- TCU 0–3
- Texas A&M 0–1
- Texas State 0–0 †
- Texas Tech 0–4
- Texas–Arlington 0–2
- Troy 1–0
- Tulsa 0–1
- UT Permian Basin 1–0
- Utah Tech 4–0
- UTEP 3–3
- Virginia 0–1
- West Florida 1–0
- West Georgia 2–0
- West Texas 5–5
- Western New Mexico 1–0
- Wichita State 0–1
Official records. † Without wins the NCAA vacated, or with forfeits counted. ‡ The rivalry’s own count, where it differs from the games on file.
Conference titles
15, counting shared titles- Western Athletic Conference 1
- 2022 (shared)
- Lone Star Conference 4
- 1973, 1977, 2008, 2010
- Gulf Coast Conference 1
- 1955 (shared)
- Texas Collegiate Athletic Conference 5
- 1939, 1940, 1946, 1950, 1953
- LSC South 3
- 2002, 2008, 2010
As the program counts them in its Wikipedia article, shared titles included, and listed under each conference’s current name (a Western Conference title of the 1900s counts as a Big Ten title); season pages use the name the conference had that year. A title the article files under a conference the team wasn’t in that season is listed under the one it was. Division titles include years the team tied for its division.
Conferences
- Independent 1919–1924
- Texas Conference 1933–1942 and 1946–1953
- Independent 1954 and 1957–1963
- Lone Star Conference 1982–2012
- Independent 2013
- Southland Conference 2014–2020
- Western Athletic Conference 2021–2022
- UAC since 2023
- 2013Went independent from the Lone Star Conference in football. Source
- 2014Joined the Southland Conference from independence in football. Source
- 2021Joined the Western Athletic Conference from the Southland Conference, announced January 14, 2021. Source
- 2023Joined the UAC from the Western Athletic Conference in football. Source
Abilene Christian’s football conferences by season, from CollegeFootballData.com’s memberships (renamed conferences keep the name of the time). The moves and their announcement dates from Wikipedia’s lists of NCAA Division I conference changes; the year is the first season in the new conference. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
In the Hall of Fame
Every inductee- Players
- 1
- Coaches
- 0
| 1996 | Wilbert Montgomery RB |
In the NFL Draft
By college- Drafted, rounds 1–7
- 12 since 1967
- First-round picks
- 0
The school
Abilene Christian University- Enrollment
- 5,219 3,263 undergraduates, fall 2024
- Where
- Abilene, Texas
- Public or private
- Private nonprofit; Research 2
- Founded
- 1906
- Graduates’ median earnings
- $55,736 10 years after starting
Enrollment, place and Carnegie research tier from the National Center for Education Statistics (IPEDS, public domain). Earnings from the US Department of Education’s College Scorecard (CC BY 4.0): the median for students who received federal aid and were working, not in school. Founding year from Wikidata. Every school’s in the data.
Books
Books: Open Library (CC0), filed under the program’s Library of Congress subject heading; most-reissued first, each linked to its page there.
Season by season
National champions| Season | Record | Conf. | AP pre | AP final | Coach | Elo | SP+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4–4 | 3–0 | 1363 | ||||
| 2025 | 9–5 | 7–1 | 1429 | ||||
| 2024 | 9–5 | 7–1 | 1385 | ||||
| 2023 | 5–6 | 3–3 | 1316 | ||||
| 2022 | 7–4 | 4–2 | 1363 | ||||
| 2021 | 5–6 | 3–1 | 1260 | ||||
| 2020 | 1–5 | 0–1 | 1217 | ||||
| 2019 | 5–7 | 4–5 | 1283 | ||||
| 2018 | 6–5 | 5–4 | 1301 | ||||
| 2017 | 2–9 | 2–7 | 1165 | ||||
| 2016 | 2–9 | 2–7 | 1174 | ||||
| 2015 | 3–7 | 3–5 | 1247 | ||||
| 2014 | 5–6 | 3–4 | 1320 | ||||
| 2013 | 6–5 | 1294 | |||||
| 2007 | 1–0 | 1233 | |||||
| 1985 | 1–0 | 1203 | |||||
| 1984 | 0–1 | 1186 | |||||
| 1983 | 1–0 | 1223 | |||||
| 1982 | 1–0 | 1166 | |||||
| 1980 | 0–1 | 1094 | |||||
| 1972 | 0–1 | 1098 | |||||
| 1971 | 0–2 | 1120 | |||||
| 1964 | 0–1 | 1161 | |||||
| 1963 | 1–0 | 1205 | |||||
| 1962 | 1–0 | 1186 |
Every season back to 1925 (17 more)
Officially 549–464–14 since 1919 (per Wikipedia, rechecked weekly); game by game here, 84–107 (191 of its 1,027 games are on file). Our file starts in 1925; the program began in 1919. Some games are missing from our source.
No season on file for 1926–29, 1931–40, 1943, 1945–46, 1950, 1953, 1955, 1965–70, 1973–79, 1981, 1986–2006, 2008–12: the program may not have played, or our source may be missing them.
Records are computed from every game on file at CollegeFootballData.com, whose coverage of the earliest seasons can be incomplete. Elo is this site’s own rating; see how it works on the records page.