North Dakota Fighting Hawks
MVFCGrand Forks, NDAlerus Center
2026: 6–2 (3–1 MVFC). Last: beat South Dakota State 21–10 at home. Next: at South Dakota, Saturday, Oct 24, 2 p.m. ET.
- W 42–21Long Island University
- W 62–26St. Thomas (MN)
- W 47–23at Portland State
- L 7–34at Nebraska
- W 42–35at Indiana State
- W 55–28Murray State
- L 17–24at Northern Iowa
- W 21–10South Dakota State
- Oct 24at South Dakota
- Oct 31at Youngstown State
- Nov 7Illinois State
- Nov 21Southern Illinois
North Dakota has played football since 1894 and is officially 694–446–30; 246 of its 1,170 games are in our file. They have won 24 North Central Conference titles (the last in 2006), plus one Missouri Valley Football Conference title, one Big Sky Conference title, one Great West Conference title, counting shared titles. The College Football Hall of Fame holds 2 players from North Dakota. The most-played rival is Minnesota: 20 meetings, Minnesota leads 20–0. This season, they’re 6–2.
Résumé
- All-time record
- 694–446–30 official; 114–131–1 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
- 1441
- Computer rankings
- Massey No. 6 · Composite No. 12 in FCS, Oct 17; up 2 since Oct 11. From Massey Ratings
- Conference titles
- 27 last in 2020
- Bowl record
- 4–0 official, bowls only
- Seasons
- 62 since 1898, 246 games
Identity
- Fight song
- Fight On Sioux
2026 season 6–2
RosterFull 2026 season| Date | Opponent | Result | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27 | vs Long Island University | W 42–21 | 70% |
| Sep 5 | vs St. Thomas (MN) | W 62–26 | 67% |
| Sep 12 | at Portland State | W 47–23 | 77% |
| Sep 19 | at Nebraska | L 7–34 | 27% |
| Sep 26 | at Indiana State | W 42–35 | 68% |
| Oct 3 | vs Murray State | W 55–28 | 89% |
| Oct 10 | at Northern Iowa | L 17–24 | 64% |
| Oct 17 | vs South Dakota State | W 21–10 | 49% |
| Oct 24 | at South Dakota | Preview | 39% |
| Oct 31 | at Youngstown State | Preview | 40% |
| Nov 7 | vs Illinois State | Preview | 55% |
| Nov 21 | vs Southern Illinois | Preview | 75% |
Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.
This season, game by game
On the 2026 team
- Jerry Kaminski1,742 passing yards, 21 TD (leads North Dakota in passing yards)
- Charles Langama514 rushing yards, 6 TD (leads North Dakota in rushing yards)
- Matt Lawson396 rushing yards, 3 TD
- Deng Deng34 catches, 518 yards, 2 TD (leads North Dakota in receiving yards)
- Braden Mohr29 tackles, 7.5 sacks (leads North Dakota in sacks)
- Ethan Boll50 tackles, 1 sack (leads North Dakota in tackles)
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 North Dakota.
Photos: Wikimedia Commons, free licenses; credits on each player’s page.
Program strength since 1898
Best seasons everMost-played series
All rivalries- Minnesota
0–20 in 20
- 1920 L 3–41
- 1921 L 0–19
- 1922 L 0–22
- 1923 L 0–27
- 1924 L 0–14
- 1925 L 0–25
- 1926 L 0–51
- 1927 L 10–57
- 1973 L 14–41
- 1974 L 30–42
Lost the last 10.
- Montana
5–11 in 16
- 1960 L 14–21
- 1962 W 14–8
- 2010 L 17–27
- 2013 L 17–55
- 2014 L 15–18
- 2015 L 16–42
- 2017 L 17–41
- 2018 W 41–14
- 2024 W 27–24
- 2025 L 23–24
Lost the last one.
- South Dakota
5–6 in 11
- 2010 L 17–27
- 2011 W 38–37
- 2016 W 47–44
- 2017 L 7–45
- 2020 W 21–10
- 2021 L 13–20
- 2022 W 28–19
- 2023 L 10–14
- 2024 L 36–42
- 2025 L 21–26
Lost the last three.
Next: Oct 24
| Opponent | Games | UND record |
|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 20 | 0–20 |
| Montana | 16 | 5–11 |
| South Dakota | 11 | 5–6 |
| South Dakota State | 9 | 2–7 |
| Southern Utah | 8 | 4–4 |
| Northern Colorado | 8 | 8–0 |
| North Dakota State | 8 | 1–7 |
| Idaho State | 8 | 5–3 |
Rivals the program names: North Dakota State, South Dakota.
Every opponent (77)
Every program North Dakota has played, A to Z, with North Dakota’s record against it. Each links to the series, game by game.
- Abilene Christian 1–0
- Arizona State 0–1
- Army 0–1
- Black Hills State 1–0
- Boise State 0–1
- Bowling Green 0–1
- Cal Poly 4–1
- Central Arkansas 1–0
- Creighton 1–1
- Detroit Mercy 1–2
- Drake 5–0
- Eastern Washington 0–4
- Fresno State 0–1
- George Washington 1–2
- Idaho 0–4
- Idaho State 5–3
- Illinois State 3–1
- Indiana State 4–1
- Iowa 0–1
- Iowa State 0–1
- James Madison 0–1
- Kansas State 0–1
- Kentucky 0–1
- Lamar 1–0
- Long Island University 1–0
- Minnesota 0–20
- Mississippi Valley State 1–0
- Missouri State 3–2
- Montana 5–11
- Montana State 3–3
- Montana Western 1–0
- Murray State 4–0
- Nebraska 0–3
- Nicholls 0–1
- North Dakota State 1–7
- Northeastern State 1–0
- Northern Arizona 4–2
- Northern Colorado 8–0
- Northern Illinois 0–1
- Northern Iowa 4–2
- Northwestern State 2–0
- Oregon 0–0–1
- Portland State 6–1
- Richmond 0–1
- Robert Morris 1–0
- Sacramento State 2–3
- Saint Louis 2–0
- Sam Houston 2–0
- San Diego 1–0
- San Diego State 0–1
- San José State 0–1
- Sioux Falls 1–1
- South Dakota 5–6
- South Dakota State 2–7
- Southern Illinois 2–3
- Southern Oregon 1–0
- Southern Utah 4–4
- St. Cloud State 1–0
- St. Thomas (MN) 1–0
- Stephen F. Austin 0–1
- Stony Brook 2–1
- Tarleton State 0–1
- TCU 0–1
- Tennessee Tech 1–0
- Texas A&M–Kingsville 1–0
- Texas Tech 0–1
- UC Davis 3–4
- Utah 0–1
- Utah State 0–1
- UTEP 0–1
- Valparaiso 2–0
- Washington 0–1
- Weber State 1–5
- Western Illinois 3–0
- Wisconsin 0–3
- Wyoming 1–0
- Youngstown State 3–1
Conference titles
27, counting shared titles- Missouri Valley Football Conference 1
- 2020 (shared)
- Big Sky Conference 1
- 2016 (shared)
- Great West Conference 1
- 2011 (shared)
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 1894–1917 and 1919–1921
- North Central Conference 1973–2007
- Great West Conference 2008–2011
- Big Sky 2012–2017
- Independent 2018–2019
- MVFC since 2020
- 2008Joined the Great West Conference from the North Central Conference in football. Source
- 2012Joined the Big Sky from the Great West Conference, announced November 1, 2010. Source
- 2018Went independent from the Big Sky in football, announced January 26, 2017. Source
- 2020Joined the MVFC from independence in football, announced January 26, 2017. Source
North Dakota’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
- 2
- Coaches
- 0
| 2025 | Jim Kleinsasser TE |
| 1999 | Jim LeClair LB |
In the NFL Draft
By college- Drafted, rounds 1–7
- 8 since 1966
- First-round picks
- 0
The school
University of North Dakota- Enrollment
- 15,019 11,033 undergraduates, fall 2024
- Where
- Grand Forks, North Dakota
- Public or private
- Public Research 1
- Founded
- 1883
- Graduates’ median earnings
- $63,552 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.
Voices
play-by-play- from 1998Ed Schultz radio
From the announcers’ Wikipedia articles (CC BY-SA), with the years as each article gives them: those in Wikipedia’s North Dakota football announcers category, and any whose article names them the program’s play-by-play voice. Television network crews and announcers whose articles give no years are left out.
Season by season
National champions| Season | Record | Conf. | AP pre | AP final | Coach | Elo | SP+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 6–2 | 3–1 | 1441 | ||||
| 2025 | 8–6 | 5–3 | 1434 | ||||
| 2024 | 5–7 | 2–6 | 1320 | ||||
| 2023 | 7–5 | 5–3 | 1369 | ||||
| 2022 | 7–5 | 5–3 | 1381 | ||||
| 2021 | 5–6 | 3–5 | 1366 | ||||
| 2020 | 5–2 | 1409 | |||||
| 2019 | 7–5 | 1337 | |||||
| 2018 | 6–5 | 1316 | |||||
| 2017 | 3–8 | 2–6 | 1257 | ||||
| 2016 | 9–3 | 8–0 | 1444 | ||||
| 2015 | 7–4 | 5–3 | 1350 | ||||
| 2014 | 5–7 | 3–5 | 1212 | ||||
| 2013 | 3–8 | 2–7 | 1175 | ||||
| 2012 | 0–1 | 1324 | |||||
| 2011 | 8–3 | 3–1 | 1347 | ||||
| 2010 | 3–7 | 0–3 | 1214 | ||||
| 2009 | 6–5 | 2–2 | 1271 | ||||
| 2008 | 3–1 | 1261 | |||||
| 2007 | 1–0 | 1226 | |||||
| 2006 | 1–0 | 1202 | |||||
| 1979 | 1–0 | 1178 | |||||
| 1976 | 0–1 | 1127 | |||||
| 1974 | 0–1 | 1125 | |||||
| 1973 | 0–1 | 1118 |
Every season back to 1898 (37 more)
| Season | Record | Conf. | AP pre | AP final | Coach | Elo | SP+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 1–0 | 1135 | |||||
| 1961 | 0–1 | 1100 | |||||
| 1960 | 0–1 | 1109 | |||||
| 1959 | 1–0 | 1127 | |||||
| 1954 | 0–1 | 1081 | |||||
| 1950 | 0–1 | 1089 | |||||
| 1948 | 0–1 | 1085 | |||||
| 1941 | 0–1 | 1115 | |||||
| 1940 | 0–2 | 1134 | |||||
| 1938 | 1–1 | 1164 | |||||
| 1937 | 0–2 | 1142 | |||||
| 1936 | 2–1 | 1176 | |||||
| 1935 | 1–1 | 1146 | |||||
| 1934 | 1–0 | 1153 | |||||
| 1933 | 0–2 | 1109 | |||||
| 1931 | 0–0–1 | 1135 | |||||
| 1930 | 0–1 | 1140 | |||||
| 1929 | 1–0 | 1165 | |||||
| 1927 | 0–2 | 1075 | |||||
| 1926 | 0–2 | 1085 | |||||
| 1925 | 0–1 | 1088 | |||||
| 1924 | 0–2 | 1087 | |||||
| 1923 | 0–1 | 1089 | |||||
| 1922 | 0–1 | 1089 | |||||
| 1921 | 0–1 | 1091 | |||||
| 1920 | 0–1 | 1092 | |||||
| 1919few games on file | 0–1 | 1093 | |||||
| 1916few games on file | 0–1 | 1094 | |||||
| 1915few games on file | 0–1 | 1094 | |||||
| 1914few games on file | 0–1 | 1094 | |||||
| 1913few games on file | 0–1 | 1094 | |||||
| 1906few games on file | 0–1 | 1095 | |||||
| 1905few games on file | 0–1 | 1095 | |||||
| 1904few games on file | 0–1 | 1095 | |||||
| 1901few games on file | 0–1 | 1094 | |||||
| 1900few games on file | 0–1 | 1093 | |||||
| 1898few games on file | 0–1 | 1094 |
Officially 694–446–30 since 1894 (per Wikipedia, through the 2025 season); game by game here, 114–131–1 (246 of its 1,170 games are on file). Our file starts in 1898; the program began in 1894. Some games are missing from our source.
No season on file for 1899, 1902–03, 1907–12, 1917–18, 1928, 1932, 1939, 1942–47, 1949, 1951–53, 1955–58, 1963–72, 1975, 1977–78, 1980–2005: 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.