Saint John’s (MN) Johnnies

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2026: 6–⁠0 (5–⁠0 Minnesota). Last: beat Concordia (MN) 33–⁠23 at home. Next: at Carleton, Saturday, Oct 24, 2 p.m. ET.

  1. W 24–⁠21Wisconsin La Crosse
  2. W 77–⁠0Hamline
  3. W 72–⁠0at Augsburg
  4. W 42–⁠16Bethel (MN)
  5. W 62–⁠6at Macalester
  6. W 33–⁠23Concordia (MN)
  7. Oct 24at Carleton
  8. Oct 31Gustavus Adolphus
  9. Nov 7at St. Scholastica
  10. Nov 14at St. Olaf

Saint John’s (MN) has played football since at least 2022 and is 44–⁠7 in the 51 games on record. The College Football Hall of Fame holds 1 player and 1 coach from Saint John’s (MN). This season, they’re 6–⁠0.

Résumé

Record on file
44–⁠7 .863; how we count
Postseason
2–⁠0 bowls, title games, playoff
AP No. 1 finishes
0
Weeks at No. 1
0 of 0 ranked
Elo now
1312
Best season by Elo
2024 rated 1354
Seasons
5 since 2022, 51 games

2026 season 6–⁠0

RosterFull 2026 season

Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.

This season, game by game

Saint John’s (MN)‘s Elo through 2026: 1220 going into the opener, 1312 after the latest game.12251250127513001325Elo 1220 going in; beat Wisconsin La Crosse 24–21Elo 1230 going in; beat Hamline 77–0Elo 1237 going in; beat Augsburg 72–0Elo 1257 going in; beat Bethel (MN) 42–16Elo 1284 going in; beat Macalester 62–6Elo 1299 going in; beat Concordia (MN) 33–23Now: Elo 1312 after the latest game1312
Elo going into each game, then after the latest. Filled dots: wins; open: losses.

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 Saint John’s (MN).

Program strength since 2022

Best seasons ever
Saint John’s (MN) end-of-season Elo from 2022 to 2026, best in 2024 at 1354.130015001700190020252024 peak: Elo 1354
End-of-season Elo. Dashed line: 1500, an average FBS team.

Most-played series

All rivalries
OpponentGamesSTJM record
Concordia (MN)66–⁠0
Bethel (MN)64–⁠2
Augsburg55–⁠0
Every opponent (19)

Every program Saint John’s (MN) has played, A to Z, with Saint John’s (MN)‘s record against it. Each links to the series, game by game.

Conferences

  1. Minnesota Conference since 2014
  • 1993Joined the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference from the Liberty Football Conference in football. Source
  • 1998Went independent from the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference in football. Source
  • 2000Joined the NEC from independence in football. Source
  • 2002Went independent from the NEC in football. Source
  • 2003Joined the Dropped football from independence in football. Source

Saint John’s (MN)‘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
2025Blake Elliott WR
2006John Gagliardi coach, career 1949–⁠2012

In the NFL Draft

By college
Drafted, rounds 1–⁠7
1 since 2020
First-round picks
0

Season by season

National champions
SeasonRecordConf.AP preAP finalCoachEloSP+
20266–⁠05–⁠01312
202510–⁠28–⁠11330
202411–⁠18–⁠01354
20238–⁠26–⁠11275
20229–⁠26–⁠11226

All 5 seasons on file are complete, game by game: every win and loss in the record has its game here.

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.