College Football Yards per Point
Thru 9/22/12
Listed below are the yards per point numbers for college football thru 9/22. Now, you must keep in mind that early season numbers can be greatly distorted due to insufficient number of Games having been played and the cupcake Schedule some teams (Florida State) have played. Those out of whack numbers will come back down to earth over the next couple of weeks. You really need 4 Games against legitimate opponents for these numbers to be worth looking at.
That being said, you can still get a quick glimpse at these teams and get a feel for how they are performing on both sides of the ball. The first row is the offensive yards per point number. The 2nd row is the defensive ypp number and the last row is the differential.
The lower the number on offense, the better that offense is. The higher the number on defense, the better that defense is. Good teams have low offensive numbers and high defensive numbers. Anything less than 14 on offense is very good. The defensive numbers start to look good at anything higher than 16. The best college football defensive units will have a number of between 19 and 25 when all is said and done and the best offensive units will be 13 or less.
Team Air Force 13.6364 14.46667 0.830303 Akron 12.7306 11.06667 -1.66389 Alabama 10.119 34.90566 24.78661 Arizona 15.4167 15.8 0.383333 Arizona St. 11.3317 21.40625 10.07453 Arkansas 14.8113 12.63912 -2.1722 Arkansas St. 15.2147 12.22642 -2.98829 Army 15.8571 11.175 -4.68214 Auburn 17.0171 17.84255 0.82541 Ball St. 13.45 13.66667 0.216667 Baylor 11.0858 16.58923 5.503456 Boise St. 18.0355 25.29915 7.263612 Boston Coll. 15.692 17.69545 2.003439 Bowling Green 26.344 15.10769 -11.2363 Buffalo 13.7387 12.30294 -1.43573 BYU 14.4118 19.68 5.268235 California 14.7842 13.88065 -0.90353 Cent. Michigan 14.7082 12.45455 -2.25363 Cincinnati 16.3333 39.76471 23.43137 Clemson 12.6795 17.35294 4.673454 Colorado 14.8426 12.1134 -2.72915 Colorado St. 18.5 14.72 -3.78 Connecticut 13.687 13.92157 0.234612 Duke 11.3307 12.82836 1.49767 East Carolina 16.6755 16.87451 0.198978 East. Michigan 17.5633 13.57576 -3.98753 Florida 13.3607 23.82813 10.46747 Florida Atlantic 21.7969 14.70154 -7.09534 Florida Intl. 14.6852 10.91736 -3.76783 Florida St. 10.2043 18.4 8.195737 Fresno St. 12.145 15.42918 3.284146 Georgia 11.1579 20.80606 9.648166 Georgia Tech 11.9833 17.31455 5.331221 Hawaii 11.5017 9.8075 -1.69421 Houston 20.6608 13.08049 -7.58031 Idaho 19.8988 11.88889 -8.00992 Illinois 13.0491 12.47308 -0.57598 Indiana 14.9528 17.07512 2.12234 Iowa 17.4537 17.24324 -0.21042 Iowa St. 15.3214 26.16822 10.8468 Kansas 17.619 19.08696 1.467909 Kansas St. 10.6543 22.89032 12.236 Kent St. 13.8462 14.932 1.085846 Kentucky 16.3478 13.80345 -2.54438 LA LAfayette 10.9881 17.10438 6.116247 LA Monroe 14.6023 12.3416 -2.26071 Louisiana Tech 9.8117 13.56948 3.757782 Louisville 12.8806 17.86842 4.987824 LSU 11.2468 19.36893 8.122113 Marshall 13.6829 11.89252 -1.7904 Maryland 13.216 11.87727 -1.33869 Massachusetts 29.9205 11.46047 -18.46 Memphis 13.4888 14.00862 0.519831 Miami (FL) 12.7761 13.91692 1.140804 Miami (OH) 16.202 15.63259 -0.56943 Michigan 13.8175 14.63043 0.812891 Michigan St. 19.3 19.78814 0.488136 Middle Tenn. St. 12.6336 16.32794 3.694302 Minnesota 13.6242 18.30357 4.67941 Mississippi 13.2609 14.46899 1.208123 Mississippi St. 11.0833 26.31579 15.23246 Missouri 12.0345 12.45098 0.416498 N.C. State 13.7193 20.62025 6.900955 Navy 21.1036 12.10345 -9.00018 Nebraska 11.1711 18.54211 7.370971 Nevada 12.6659 16.65965 3.99374 New Mexico 11 13.83282 2.832817 New Mexico St. 12.2396 13.49275 1.25317 North Carolina 12.08 17.63934 5.559344 North Texas 19.6211 14.89712 -4.72393 Northern Illinois 12.9708 16.33182 3.361039 Northwestern 13.0128 19.86486 6.852085 Notre Dame 13.6163 32.36667 18.75039 Ohio 12.7397 17.91667 5.176941 Ohio St. 11.2963 22.82081 11.52451 Oklahoma 13.1823 19.31973 6.137422 Oklahoma St. 11.0225 12.22744 1.204965 Oregon 10.8144 19.18033 8.365934 Oregon St. 23.1081 24.11111 1.003003 Penn St. 17.2045 22.9085 5.703951 Pittsburgh 16.6143 14.08696 -2.52738 Purdue 11.8463 20.92857 9.082224 Rice 13.7405 11.93886 -1.80166 Rutgers 14.8074 24.21875 9.411343 San Diego St. 13.0262 14.14179 1.115552 San Jose St. 12.3286 16.07798 3.74941 SMU 14.4981 15.72269 1.22459 South Alabama 21.8182 12.92181 -8.89637 South Carolina 11.6887 30.64286 18.95415 South Florida 16.566 15.8898 -0.67624 Southern Miss 16.6294 12.3577 -4.27171 Stanford 11.7723 21.61224 9.839968 Syracuse 18.0556 12.11864 -5.93691 TCU 14.1487 62.25581 48.10713 Temple 10.2333 17.02575 6.792418 Tennessee 13.4151 16.14403 2.728889 Texas 10.432 20.51875 10.0867 Texas A&M 10.2733 22.73984 12.4665 Texas St. 14.4815 13.16667 -1.31481 Texas Tech 11.8827 16.03 4.147296 Toledo 14.7931 19.72653 4.933427 Troy 19.7154 16.73643 -2.97898 Tulane 27.3014 13.05556 -14.2458 Tulsa 11.9677 15.02222 3.05448 UAB 22.5329 11.12051 -11.4124 UCF 11.1343 16.00461 4.870323 UCLA 16.2676 19.33486 3.067257 UNLV 15.2075 14.24232 -0.96523 USC 12.7879 20.0289 7.241023 Utah 12.9696 15.46948 2.499918 Utah St. 16.0113 18.95172 2.940403 UTEP 16.5381 15.27304 -1.26506 UTSA 10.4935 15.4875 4.993994 Vanderbilt 17.6147 14.90909 -2.70559 Virginia 17.0872 13.79661 -3.29055 Virginia Tech 12.631 22.16216 9.531128 W. Michigan 14.2321 14.54733 0.315182 Wake Forest 14.0123 14.33333 0.320988 Washington 12.3834 15.53182 3.148419 Washington St. 15.0323 16.83929 1.807028 West Virginia 11.1839 17.87892 6.694991 West. Kentucky 13.8247 12.00858 -1.81609 Wisconsin 14.5488 18.31461 3.76577 Wyoming 14.3273 13.69697 -0.6303