New Hampshire Wildcats
Coastal AthleticDurham, NHWildcat Stadium
2026: 2–6 (1–4 Coastal Athletic). Last: lost to Monmouth 42–21 at home. Next: at Merrimack, Saturday, Oct 24, noon ET.
- L 14–28at UAlbany
- L 3–66at Syracuse
- W 42–35Stonehill
- L 7–31Harvard
- L 13–20at Sacred Heart
- W 30–23Elon
- L 27–30at North Carolina A&T
- L 21–42Monmouth
- Oct 24at Merrimack
- Nov 7Rhode Island
- Nov 14Stony Brook
- Nov 21at Maine
New Hampshire has played football since 1893 and is officially 618–507–54; 357 of its 1,179 games are in our file. The College Football Hall of Fame holds 1 player and 1 coach from New Hampshire. The most-played rival is Dartmouth: 32 meetings, Dartmouth leads 19–12–1. This season, they’re 2–6.
Résumé
- All-time record
- 618–507–54 official; 190–162–5 on file; how we count
- Postseason
- 0–2 bowls, title games, playoff
- AP No. 1 finishes
- 0
- Weeks at No. 1
- 0 of 0 ranked
- Elo now
- 1250
- Computer rankings
- Massey No. 88 · Composite No. 90 in FCS, Oct 17; down 3 since Oct 11. From Massey Ratings
- Seasons
- 71 since 1897, 357 games
Identity
2026 season 2–6
RosterFull 2026 season| Date | Opponent | Result | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28 | at UAlbany | L 14–28 | 66% |
| Sep 5 | at Syracuse | L 3–66 | 30% |
| Sep 12 | vs Stonehill | W 42–35 | 72% |
| Sep 19 | vs Harvard | L 7–31 | 44% |
| Sep 26 | at Sacred Heart | L 13–20 | 49% |
| Oct 3 | vs Elon | W 30–23 | 46% |
| Oct 10 | at North Carolina A&T | L 27–30 | 67% |
| Oct 17 | vs Monmouth | L 21–42 | 44% |
| Oct 24 | at Merrimack | Preview | 46% |
| Nov 7 | vs Rhode Island | Preview | 36% |
| Nov 14 | vs Stony Brook | Preview | 47% |
| Nov 21 | at Maine | Preview | 48% |
Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.
This season, game by game
Players
The 2026 rosterThe moneyOn the 2026 team
- Trevor Barry101 tackles, 1 sack (leads New Hampshire in tackles)
- Brooks Bentley1,364 passing yards, 7 TD (leads New Hampshire in passing yards)
- Cohen Cook70 tackles, 1 INT
- Jackson Stone59 tackles, 0.5 sacks, 2 INT (leads New Hampshire in interceptions)
- Jocquez Smith460 rushing yards, 5 TD (leads New Hampshire in rushing yards)
- Myles Thomason354 rushing yards, 2 TD
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 New Hampshire.
Program strength since 1897
Best seasons everMost-played series
All rivalries- Dartmouth
12–19–1 in 32
- 2006 W 56–14
- 2007 W 52–31
- 2008 W 42–6
- 2009 W 44–14
- 2014 W 52–19
- 2016 L 21–22
- 2021 L 21–38
- 2022 W 14–0
- 2023 W 24–7
- 2025 L 20–27
Lost the last one.
- Maine
19–5 in 24
- 2015 W 22–6
- 2016 W 24–21
- 2017 W 24–23
- 2018 L 7–35
- 2019 W 28–10
- 2021 L 20–33
- 2022 W 42–41
- 2023 W 44–25
- 2024 W 27–9
- 2025 W 33–27
Won the last four; holds the Brice–Cowell Musket.
Next: Nov 21
- Rhode Island
16–6 in 22
- 2015 W 20–17
- 2016 W 39–17
- 2017 W 28–14
- 2018 L 21–24
- 2019 W 27–24
- 2021 L 3–28
- 2022 W 31–28
- 2023 L 28–34
- 2024 L 9–26
- 2025 L 27–38
Lost the last three.
Next: Nov 7
| Opponent | Games | UNH record |
|---|---|---|
| Dartmouth | 32 | 12–19–1 |
| Maine | 24 | 19–5 |
| Rhode Island | 22 | 16–6 |
| UAlbany | 15 | 9–6 |
| Brown | 15 | 1–14 |
| William & Mary | 14 | 5–9 |
| Villanova | 14 | 8–6 |
| Holy Cross | 14 | 9–5 |
Rivals the program names: Maine, Dartmouth.
The trophy it holds: Brice–Cowell Musket (Maine, since 2022). Who holds each comes from the games on file; the trophies from Wikipedia.
Every opponent (82)
Every program New Hampshire has played, A to Z, with New Hampshire’s record against it. Each links to the series, game by game.
- Andover 0–1
- Army 1–1
- Ball State 1–1
- Bates 0–1–1
- Bethune-Cookman 1–0
- Boston College 1–1
- Bowdoin 0–3
- Brown 1–14
- Bryant 3–0
- Campbell 1–0
- Central Arkansas 1–0
- Central Connecticut 5–0
- Central Michigan 0–3
- Chattanooga 1–0
- Colby 0–1
- Colgate 3–2
- Colorado 0–1
- Cornell 0–1
- Dartmouth 12–19–1
- Delaware 5–5
- Duquesne 1–0
- Elon 8–2
- Exeter 0–1
- Florida International 0–1
- Fordham 2–0
- Georgia Southern 2–0
- Georgia State 1–0
- Hampton 1–0
- Harvard 0–9
- Hofstra 7–0
- Holy Cross 9–5
- Illinois State 0–1
- Iona 2–0
- James Madison 5–7
- Kent State 0–1
- Lafayette 2–0
- Lehigh 4–1
- Maine 19–5
- Marshall 1–0
- Massachusetts 4–7–1
- McNeese 1–0
- Middlebury 1–0
- Minnesota 0–1
- MIT 0–1
- Monmouth 4–1
- Montana State 0–1
- North Carolina A&T 0–1
- North Carolina Central 1–1
- North Dakota State 0–1
- Northeastern 4–2
- Northern Iowa 0–2
- Northwestern 1–0
- Old Dominion 0–1
- Pittsburgh 0–2
- Rhode Island 16–6
- Rhodes 3–0
- Richmond 5–4
- Rutgers 1–0
- Sacred Heart 0–1
- Saint Francis 1–0
- San Diego State 0–1
- San José State 0–1
- South Dakota State 0–2
- Southern Illinois 1–0
- Stonehill 3–0
- Stony Brook 9–3
- Syracuse 0–1
- Toledo 0–2
- Towson 9–4
- Tufts 2–3
- UAlbany 9–6
- UC Davis 1–0
- UCF 0–1
- UConn 0–0–1
- UT Martin 0–1
- Vermont 0–0–1
- Villanova 8–6
- Western Michigan 0–1
- William & Mary 5–9
- Wofford 0–1
- WPI 1–0
- Yale 0–1
Conferences
- Independent 1893–1917 and 1919–1922
- New England Conference 1923–1939, 1941–1942 and 1946
- Yankee Conference 1978–1996
- Atlantic 10 1997–2006
- CAA 2007–2022
- Coastal Athletic Conference since 2023
- 1997Joined the Atlantic 10 from the Yankee Conference in football. Source
- 2007Joined the CAA from the Atlantic 10 in football. Source
New Hampshire’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
- 1
| 2026 | Jerry Azumah RB |
| 2016 | Bill Bowes coach, career 1972–1998 |
In the NFL Draft
By college- Drafted, rounds 1–7
- 9 since 1982
- First-round picks
- 0
The school
University of New Hampshire-Main Campus- Enrollment
- 13,554 11,355 undergraduates, fall 2024
- Where
- Durham, New Hampshire
- Public or private
- Public Research 1
- Founded
- 1866
- Graduates’ median earnings
- $66,479 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.
Season by season
National champions| Season | Record | Conf. | AP pre | AP final | Coach | Elo | SP+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2–6 | 1–4 | 1250 | ||||
| 2025 | 8–5 | 6–2 | 1409 | ||||
| 2024 | 8–5 | 6–2 | 1379 | ||||
| 2023 | 6–5 | 4–3 | 1377 | ||||
| 2022 | 9–4 | 7–1 | 1383 | ||||
| 2021 | 3–8 | 2–6 | 1207 | ||||
| 2020 | 0–1 | 1341 | |||||
| 2019 | 6–5 | 5–3 | 1390 | ||||
| 2018 | 4–7 | 3–5 | 1347 | ||||
| 2017 | 9–5 | 5–3 | 1417 | ||||
| 2016 | 8–5 | 6–3 | 1429 | ||||
| 2015 | 7–5 | 5–3 | 1396 | ||||
| 2014 | 12–2 | 8–0 | 1561 | ||||
| 2013 | 8–5 | 6–2 | 1467 | ||||
| 2012 | 8–4 | 6–2 | 1422 | ||||
| 2011 | 8–4 | 6–2 | 1475 | ||||
| 2010 | 7–3 | 4–2 | 1541 | ||||
| 2009 | 10–3 | 6–2 | 1521 | ||||
| 2008 | 11–2 | 6–2 | 1531 | ||||
| 2007 | 7–5 | 4–4 | 1428 | ||||
| 2006 | 10–4 | 5–4 | 1510 | ||||
| 2005 | 11–2 | 7–1 | 1515 | ||||
| 2004 | 11–2 | 7–2 | 1489 | ||||
| 2003 | 5–7 | 3–6 | 1283 | ||||
| 2002 | 0–1 | 1302 |
Every season back to 1897 (46 more)
| Season | Record | Conf. | AP pre | AP final | Coach | Elo | SP+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 1–0 | 1328 | |||||
| 1979 | 1–0–2 | 0–0–1 | 1256 | ||||
| 1978 | 0–1 | 1174 | |||||
| 1977 | 1–0 | 1197 | |||||
| 1976 | 1–1 | 1165 | |||||
| 1973 | 1–1 | 1101 | |||||
| 1972 | 0–1 | 1091 | |||||
| 1969 | 0–1 | 1088 | |||||
| 1968 | 0–1 | 1091 | |||||
| 1965 | 0–1 | 1090 | |||||
| 1964 | 0–1 | 1090 | |||||
| 1961 | 0–1 | 1091 | |||||
| 1960 | 0–1 | 1091 | |||||
| 1957 | 0–1 | 1087 | |||||
| 1956 | 0–1 | 1086 | |||||
| 1939 | 0–1 | 1085 | |||||
| 1935 | 0–2 | 1084 | |||||
| 1934 | 0–2 | 1091 | |||||
| 1933 | 0–1 | 1100 | |||||
| 1932 | 0–2 | 1106 | |||||
| 1931 | 0–2 | 1120 | |||||
| 1930 | 1–0 | 1141 | |||||
| 1929 | 0–2 | 1087 | |||||
| 1928 | 0–1 | 1090 | |||||
| 1927 | 0–1 | 1089 | |||||
| 1926 | 0–1 | 1091 | |||||
| 1925 | 0–1 | 1089 | |||||
| 1924 | 0–1 | 1090 | |||||
| 1923 | 0–1 | 1091 | |||||
| 1922 | 0–2 | 1089 | |||||
| 1921 | 0–1 | 1093 | |||||
| 1919few games on file | 0–1 | 1093 | |||||
| 1917few games on file | 0–1 | 1093 | |||||
| 1916few games on file | 0–1 | 1093 | |||||
| 1911few games on file | 0–1 | 1093 | |||||
| 1908few games on file | 0–1 | 1095 | |||||
| 1907few games on file | 0–1 | 1097 | |||||
| 1906few games on file | 0–1–1 | 1098 | |||||
| 1905 | 2–4–2 | 1095 | |||||
| 1904 | 2–5 | 1101 | |||||
| 1903few games on file | 1–0 | 1127 | |||||
| 1902few games on file | 1–0 | 1095 | |||||
| 1901few games on file | 0–3 | 1051 | |||||
| 1900few games on file | 0–2 | 1060 | |||||
| 1898few games on file | 0–2 | 1059 | |||||
| 1897few games on file | 0–1 | 1090 |
Officially 618–507–54 since 1893 (per Wikipedia, rechecked weekly); game by game here, 190–162–5 (357 of its 1,179 games are on file). Our file starts in 1897; the program began in 1893. Some games are missing from our source.
No season on file for 1899, 1909–10, 1912–15, 1918, 1920, 1936–38, 1940–55, 1958–59, 1962–63, 1966–67, 1970–71, 1974–75, 1981–2001: 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.