Box-score rates

CFBD season totals · 2004–2026

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Turnover margin / game — top 252026

Turnover margin / game vs third-down conversion138 teams · 2026

Higher is better on the x-axis; higher is better on the y-axis. Season totals divided by games played; rates from the pack's CFBD box scores, not opponent-adjusted.


1	New Mexico	Mountain West	2.57	38.9%	7
2	Notre Dame	FBS Independents	2.00	44.0%	7
3	Kentucky	SEC	1.63	33.7%	8
4	UCLA	Big Ten	1.57	46.9%	7
5	Northwestern	Big Ten	1.29	47.6%	7
6	Tulsa	American Athletic	1.25	33.3%	8
7	Colorado State	Pac-12	1.14	47.4%	7
8	Fresno State	Pac-12	1.14	36.1%	7
9	South Alabama	Sun Belt	1.00	40.4%	7
10	Alabama	SEC	0.88	43.2%	8
11	Massachusetts	Mid-American	0.88	32.3%	8
12	North Dakota State	Mountain West	0.88	40.2%	8
13	UTSA	American Athletic	0.88	42.3%	8
14	Cincinnati	Big 12	0.86	46.7%	7
15	Louisiana Tech	Sun Belt	0.86	45.4%	7
16	Louisville	ACC	0.86	45.6%	7
17	Nebraska	Big Ten	0.86	50.5%	7
18	Houston	Big 12	0.75	60.0%	8
19	James Madison	Sun Belt	0.75	36.5%	8
20	App State	Sun Belt	0.71	36.5%	7
21	Liberty	Conference USA	0.71	43.4%	7
22	Miami	ACC	0.71	54.5%	7
23	Middle Tennessee	Conference USA	0.71	25.6%	7
24	Missouri	SEC	0.71	41.4%	7
25	Oregon State	Pac-12	0.71	46.5%	7
26	UCF	Big 12	0.71	39.3%	7
27	Arkansas State	Sun Belt	0.63	42.4%	8
28	Boise State	Pac-12	0.57	51.1%	7
29	Coastal Carolina	Sun Belt	0.57	36.5%	7
30	Minnesota	Big Ten	0.57	34.0%	7
31	Penn State	Big Ten	0.57	36.2%	7
32	Purdue	Big Ten	0.57	43.8%	7
33	Indiana	Big Ten	0.50	43.6%	8
34	Louisiana	Sun Belt	0.50	41.3%	8
35	Memphis	American Athletic	0.50	42.3%	8
36	Virginia	ACC	0.50	32.4%	8
37	Army	American Athletic	0.43	49.4%	7
38	Boston College	ACC	0.43	37.5%	7
39	Duke	ACC	0.43	43.8%	7
40	Georgia	SEC	0.43	53.9%	7
41	Maryland	Big Ten	0.43	33.7%	7
42	South Florida	American Athletic	0.43	40.3%	7
43	Central Michigan	Mid-American	0.38	35.9%	8
44	Pittsburgh	ACC	0.38	41.8%	8
45	Tennessee	SEC	0.38	37.0%	8
46	Western Michigan	Mid-American	0.38	42.4%	8
47	Auburn	SEC	0.29	43.4%	7
48	BYU	Big 12	0.29	54.6%	7
49	Baylor	Big 12	0.29	39.3%	7
50	Delaware	Conference USA	0.29	33.0%	7
51	Florida	SEC	0.29	45.1%	7
52	Florida Atlantic	American Athletic	0.29	52.3%	7
53	Georgia Southern	Sun Belt	0.29	39.2%	7
54	Iowa State	Big 12	0.29	29.4%	7
55	North Texas	American Athletic	0.29	48.4%	7
56	Ohio State	Big Ten	0.29	44.3%	7
57	Texas Tech	Big 12	0.29	38.8%	7
58	Utah	Big 12	0.29	52.9%	7
59	Washington	Big Ten	0.29	33.3%	7
60	Wisconsin	Big Ten	0.29	43.3%	7
61	Hawai'i	Mountain West	0.25	39.1%	8
62	West Virginia	Big 12	0.25	47.9%	8
63	Arkansas	SEC	0.14	42.4%	7
64	Sam Houston	Conference USA	0.14	35.4%	7
65	Wake Forest	ACC	0.14	48.9%	7
66	California	ACC	0.13	36.7%	8
67	Miami (OH)	Mid-American	0.13	36.3%	8
68	San José State	Mountain West	0.13	30.9%	8
69	Stanford	ACC	0.13	33.9%	8
70	Toledo	Mid-American	0.13	44.2%	8
71	Air Force	Mountain West	0.00	52.9%	7
72	Eastern Michigan	Mid-American	0.00	38.6%	9
73	Kennesaw State	Conference USA	0.00	39.8%	7
74	Oregon	Big Ten	0.00	35.4%	7
75	Temple	American Athletic	0.00	41.7%	7
76	Texas A&M	SEC	0.00	42.1%	8
77	UAB	American Athletic	0.00	41.9%	7
78	UConn	FBS Independents	0.00	40.7%	7
79	UNLV	Mountain West	0.00	41.3%	7
80	Illinois	Big Ten	-0.14	45.8%	7
81	Iowa	Big Ten	-0.14	36.8%	7
82	NC State	ACC	-0.14	52.5%	7
83	Oklahoma State	Big 12	-0.14	35.8%	7
84	Ole Miss	SEC	-0.14	44.9%	7
85	Troy	Sun Belt	-0.14	33.7%	7
86	Tulane	American Athletic	-0.14	38.1%	7
87	Bowling Green	Mid-American	-0.25	39.0%	8
88	LSU	SEC	-0.25	51.7%	8
89	San Diego State	Pac-12	-0.25	33.3%	8
90	USC	Big Ten	-0.25	50.5%	8
91	Arizona	Big 12	-0.29	54.6%	7
92	Florida International	Conference USA	-0.29	46.4%	7
93	Kansas State	Big 12	-0.29	54.5%	7
94	North Carolina	ACC	-0.29	40.5%	7
95	Syracuse	ACC	-0.29	42.6%	7
96	UTEP	Mountain West	-0.29	24.7%	7
97	Ball State	Mid-American	-0.38	34.6%	8
98	Buffalo	Mid-American	-0.38	38.6%	8
99	Missouri State	Conference USA	-0.43	36.5%	7
100	SMU	ACC	-0.43	45.4%	7
101	South Carolina	SEC	-0.43	46.5%	7
102	Southern Miss	Sun Belt	-0.43	31.5%	7
103	TCU	Big 12	-0.43	43.8%	7
104	Texas	SEC	-0.43	39.2%	7
105	UL Monroe	Sun Belt	-0.43	29.2%	7
106	Western Kentucky	Conference USA	-0.43	40.7%	7
107	Kent State	Mid-American	-0.50	36.7%	8
108	Ohio	Mid-American	-0.50	49.0%	8
109	Old Dominion	Sun Belt	-0.50	33.6%	8
110	Virginia Tech	ACC	-0.50	40.0%	8
111	Wyoming	Mountain West	-0.50	33.7%	8
112	Arizona State	Big 12	-0.57	30.1%	7
113	Clemson	ACC	-0.57	31.7%	7
114	East Carolina	American Athletic	-0.57	31.0%	7
115	Florida State	ACC	-0.57	42.2%	7
116	Jacksonville State	Conference USA	-0.57	46.3%	7
117	Kansas	Big 12	-0.57	36.4%	7
118	Michigan	Big Ten	-0.57	38.5%	7
119	Mississippi State	SEC	-0.57	41.6%	7
120	New Mexico State	Conference USA	-0.71	37.8%	7
121	Northern Illinois	Mountain West	-0.71	29.5%	7
122	Texas State	Pac-12	-0.71	55.5%	7
123	Utah State	Pac-12	-0.71	36.2%	7
124	Michigan State	Big Ten	-0.75	37.9%	8
125	Rice	American Athletic	-0.75	31.3%	8
126	Georgia State	Sun Belt	-0.86	45.6%	7
127	Georgia Tech	ACC	-0.86	33.8%	7
128	Navy	American Athletic	-0.86	43.2%	7
129	Vanderbilt	SEC	-0.88	40.7%	8
130	Akron	Mid-American	-1.00	40.6%	8
131	Oklahoma	SEC	-1.00	35.4%	7
132	Rutgers	Big Ten	-1.00	41.1%	7
133	Washington State	Pac-12	-1.00	30.4%	8
134	Sacramento State	Mid-American	-1.13	32.7%	8
135	Marshall	Sun Belt	-1.14	40.2%	7
136	Colorado	Big 12	-1.29	36.5%	7
137	Nevada	Mountain West	-1.29	39.6%	7
138	Charlotte	American Athletic	-1.71	30.6%	7

138 of 138 teams · rank follows turnover margin / game · click a column to sort

Method

Source: starter_pack/data/season_stats/<season>.csv (CFBD season totals) — 22 season files, FBS membership from the pack's advanced season stats. Totals are divided by games played; conversion rates divide made by attempted. Seasons before 2013 have no sack counts, so those rates are blank rather than zero.

Sacks and tackles for loss are credited to a team's defense; the "allowed" columns are what its opponents recorded against it. The bar chart ranks the top 25 in the chosen metric and the scatter plots each rate against its mirror; the table sorts on any column and filters to the team search. Nothing here is opponent-adjusted or part of the prediction model; the as-of-week version of these rates was tested against the model in analysis/box_stats_gate.py.