Phil Steele Blog • January 15, 2016

 

Defensive Plays per Game / Pace.

In today's blog we will take a look at a teams Defensive Plays per Game or Pace. Here you add the teams total def rush att to total def pass att then divide by the number of games played. By looking below at Wisconsin in their 13 games played held opponents to an avg 60.8 plays per game giving them the #1 rank on this list.

    Total Def
Rank TEAM NAME PPG
1 Wisconsin 60.8
2 San Diego St 61.6
3 Georgia Southern 61.8
4 Army 61.8
5 Air Force 61.9
6 Boston College 62.5
7 Rice 62.8
8 UTEP 62.8
9 Michigan 62.9
10 Georgia Tech 63.3
11 NC State 63.7
12 Pittsburgh 63.8
13 Michigan St 63.9
14 San Jose St 64.0
15 Alabama 64.2
16 Georgia 64.2
17 Clemson 64.5
18 Arkansas 64.5
19 Navy 64.5
20 Central Michigan 64.7
21 Wake Forest 65.3
22 Boise St 65.5
23 Western Michigan 65.5
24 Wyoming 65.9
25 Virginia 66.1
26 Stanford 66.1
27 Ohio 66.2
28 Florida 66.6
29 Virginia Tech 66.7
30 Notre Dame 66.9
31 Temple 66.9
32 Appalachian St 67.0
33 LSU 67.2
34 Rutgers 67.4
35 Colorado St 67.5
36 Vanderbilt 67.8
37 Penn St 67.9
38 Nebraska 68.1
39 Connecticut 68.2
40 Akron 68.3
41 Utah St 68.5
42 Iowa 68.7
43 Louisville 69.1
44 Ohio St 69.2
45 South Alabama 69.2
46 Tennessee 69.5
47 Missouri 69.8
48 Idaho 69.9
49 Houston 70.0
50 Miami, Fl 70.1
51 Texas A&M 70.2
52 USC 70.3
53 Northwestern 70.4
54 Cincinnati 70.5
55 Minnesota 70.5
56 Syracuse 70.6
57 BYU 70.6
58 UL Lafayette 70.7
59 Nevada 70.8
60 Utah 70.8
61 Tulane 70.9
62 UCF 70.9
63 Louisiana Tech 71.1
64 SMU 71.1
65 Kentucky 71.1
66 FIU 71.2
67 WKU 71.2
68 Southern Miss 71.3
69 South Carolina 71.3
70 New Mexico 71.6
71 Illinois 71.7
72 Washington 71.8
73 Miami, Oh 71.9
74 Kent St 72.0
75 Florida St 72.0
76 Washington St 72.2
77 Kansas St 72.5
78 USF 72.6
79 Arkansas St 72.8
80 Colorado 72.9
81 Buffalo 73.0
82 FAU 73.1
83 Mississippi St 73.5
84 UNLV 73.5
85 Duke 73.5
86 Iowa St 73.6
87 Memphis 73.8
88 Toledo 74.0
89 Eastern Michigan 74.0
90 Middle Tennessee 74.3
91 Arizona St 74.4
92 California 74.4
93 Texas St 74.4
94 UTSA 74.4
95 East Carolina 74.5
96 Fresno St 74.5
97 West Virginia 74.5
98 Troy 74.7
99 Purdue 74.8
100 Oregon St 74.8
101 ULM 75.3
102 North Texas 75.3
103 Auburn 75.5
104 Maryland 75.5
105 Charlotte 75.6
106 Oklahoma 76.1
107 Baylor 76.5
108 Georgia St 76.5
109 Ball St 76.7
110 Marshall 76.8
111 New Mexico St 76.9
112 Old Dominion 77.1
113 TCU 77.2
114 Oklahoma St 77.2
115 Bowling Green 77.4
116 Arizona 78.8
117 UMass 78.9
118 Mississippi 79.2
119 North Carolina 79.3
120 Texas Tech 79.3
121 Indiana 79.8
122 UCLA 80.4
123 Texas 80.4
124 Oregon 80.5
125 Kansas 80.6
126 Northern Illinois 80.7
127 Hawaii 80.8
128 Tulsa 81.5