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	2.13	38.0%	8
2	UCLA	Big Ten	1.88	46.0%	8
3	Notre Dame	FBS Independents	1.75	43.5%	8
4	Kentucky	SEC	1.63	33.7%	8
5	Northwestern	Big Ten	1.25	46.5%	8
6	Tulsa	American Athletic	1.25	33.3%	8
7	Fresno State	Pac-12	1.13	37.2%	8
8	Louisiana Tech	Sun Belt	1.00	43.0%	8
9	Missouri	SEC	1.00	42.0%	8
10	North Dakota State	Mountain West	1.00	39.7%	9
11	Alabama	SEC	0.88	43.2%	8
12	Louisville	ACC	0.88	46.7%	8
13	Massachusetts	Mid-American	0.88	32.3%	8
14	UTSA	American Athletic	0.88	42.3%	8
15	Cincinnati	Big 12	0.75	44.5%	8
16	Colorado State	Pac-12	0.75	46.3%	8
17	Georgia	SEC	0.75	51.6%	8
18	Houston	Big 12	0.75	60.0%	8
19	Miami	ACC	0.75	54.5%	8
20	Penn State	Big Ten	0.75	36.4%	8
21	Arkansas State	Sun Belt	0.63	42.4%	8
22	Georgia Southern	Sun Belt	0.63	40.4%	8
23	Liberty	Conference USA	0.63	45.1%	8
24	Middle Tennessee	Conference USA	0.63	31.6%	8
25	Minnesota	Big Ten	0.63	32.1%	8
26	South Alabama	Sun Belt	0.63	40.7%	8
27	South Florida	American Athletic	0.63	40.2%	8
28	Washington	Big Ten	0.63	33.3%	8
29	Memphis	American Athletic	0.56	46.4%	9
30	Baylor	Big 12	0.50	39.9%	8
31	Duke	ACC	0.50	43.5%	8
32	Louisiana	Sun Belt	0.50	41.3%	8
33	Oregon State	Pac-12	0.50	44.7%	8
34	Western Michigan	Mid-American	0.44	40.7%	9
35	Boise State	Pac-12	0.38	51.8%	8
36	Central Michigan	Mid-American	0.38	35.9%	8
37	Delaware	Conference USA	0.38	34.9%	8
38	Iowa State	Big 12	0.38	33.0%	8
39	Nebraska	Big Ten	0.38	50.0%	8
40	Tennessee	SEC	0.38	37.0%	8
41	Troy	Sun Belt	0.38	32.8%	8
42	UCF	Big 12	0.38	35.6%	8
43	Indiana	Big Ten	0.33	40.2%	9
44	Virginia	ACC	0.33	30.0%	9
45	App State	Sun Belt	0.25	35.2%	8
46	Army	American Athletic	0.25	47.4%	8
47	Boston College	ACC	0.25	34.6%	8
48	Coastal Carolina	Sun Belt	0.25	35.7%	8
49	Florida Atlantic	American Athletic	0.25	52.7%	8
50	Hawai'i	Mountain West	0.25	39.1%	8
51	Maryland	Big Ten	0.25	34.9%	8
52	North Texas	American Athletic	0.25	49.5%	8
53	Ohio State	Big Ten	0.25	44.2%	8
54	Purdue	Big Ten	0.25	41.0%	8
55	Utah	Big 12	0.25	54.1%	8
56	Wake Forest	ACC	0.25	51.0%	8
57	West Virginia	Big 12	0.25	47.9%	8
58	James Madison	Sun Belt	0.22	36.9%	9
59	Pittsburgh	ACC	0.22	40.8%	9
60	San José State	Mountain West	0.22	31.7%	9
61	Auburn	SEC	0.13	44.2%	8
62	BYU	Big 12	0.13	50.5%	8
63	Iowa	Big Ten	0.13	39.2%	8
64	Miami (OH)	Mid-American	0.13	36.3%	8
65	Texas Tech	Big 12	0.13	38.6%	8
66	Toledo	Mid-American	0.13	44.2%	8
67	California	ACC	0.11	35.5%	9
68	Air Force	Mountain West	0.00	51.7%	8
69	Clemson	ACC	0.00	30.5%	8
70	Eastern Michigan	Mid-American	0.00	38.6%	9
71	Illinois	Big Ten	0.00	44.7%	8
72	Kennesaw State	Conference USA	0.00	37.8%	8
73	Ole Miss	SEC	0.00	50.5%	8
74	Sam Houston	Conference USA	0.00	35.4%	8
75	Stanford	ACC	0.00	31.2%	9
76	Syracuse	ACC	0.00	40.3%	8
77	Texas A&M	SEC	0.00	42.1%	8
78	UConn	FBS Independents	0.00	40.6%	8
79	Wisconsin	Big Ten	0.00	41.8%	8
80	Arizona	Big 12	-0.13	52.4%	8
81	Florida	SEC	-0.13	43.7%	8
82	Kansas State	Big 12	-0.13	53.0%	8
83	NC State	ACC	-0.13	51.7%	8
84	Oregon	Big Ten	-0.13	36.4%	8
85	Southern Miss	Sun Belt	-0.13	30.9%	8
86	UNLV	Mountain West	-0.13	41.7%	8
87	San Diego State	Pac-12	-0.22	34.5%	9
88	USC	Big Ten	-0.22	49.5%	9
89	Arkansas	SEC	-0.25	43.1%	8
90	East Carolina	American Athletic	-0.25	31.3%	8
91	Florida International	Conference USA	-0.25	44.2%	8
92	LSU	SEC	-0.25	51.7%	8
93	Missouri State	Conference USA	-0.25	36.5%	8
94	Oklahoma State	Big 12	-0.25	39.8%	8
95	TCU	Big 12	-0.25	42.7%	8
96	Temple	American Athletic	-0.25	39.6%	8
97	UAB	American Athletic	-0.25	39.7%	8
98	Bowling Green	Mid-American	-0.33	39.7%	9
99	Arizona State	Big 12	-0.38	30.9%	8
100	Ball State	Mid-American	-0.38	34.6%	8
101	Buffalo	Mid-American	-0.38	38.6%	8
102	North Carolina	ACC	-0.38	44.2%	8
103	Texas	SEC	-0.38	39.6%	8
104	Tulane	American Athletic	-0.38	40.9%	8
105	Utah State	Pac-12	-0.38	39.1%	8
106	Georgia State	Sun Belt	-0.50	43.9%	8
107	Michigan	Big Ten	-0.50	43.9%	8
108	Mississippi State	SEC	-0.50	40.2%	8
109	New Mexico State	Conference USA	-0.50	39.4%	8
110	Northern Illinois	Mountain West	-0.50	33.3%	8
111	Ohio	Mid-American	-0.50	49.0%	8
112	Oklahoma	SEC	-0.50	36.5%	8
113	Texas State	Pac-12	-0.50	53.4%	8
114	UTEP	Mountain West	-0.50	26.5%	8
115	Virginia Tech	ACC	-0.50	40.0%	8
116	Western Kentucky	Conference USA	-0.50	39.4%	8
117	Wyoming	Mountain West	-0.50	33.7%	8
118	Sacramento State	Mid-American	-0.56	33.1%	9
119	Georgia Tech	ACC	-0.63	30.6%	8
120	Jacksonville State	Conference USA	-0.63	47.3%	8
121	Kansas	Big 12	-0.63	36.1%	8
122	Marshall	Sun Belt	-0.63	36.8%	8
123	SMU	ACC	-0.63	45.5%	8
124	UL Monroe	Sun Belt	-0.63	31.3%	8
125	Michigan State	Big Ten	-0.75	37.9%	8
126	Navy	American Athletic	-0.75	41.9%	8
127	Rice	American Athletic	-0.75	31.3%	8
128	South Carolina	SEC	-0.75	47.8%	8
129	Old Dominion	Sun Belt	-0.78	34.1%	9
130	Rutgers	Big Ten	-0.88	40.0%	8
131	Vanderbilt	SEC	-0.88	40.7%	8
132	Kent State	Mid-American	-0.89	36.1%	9
133	Washington State	Pac-12	-0.89	34.1%	9
134	Akron	Mid-American	-1.00	40.6%	8
135	Florida State	ACC	-1.00	39.0%	8
136	Charlotte	American Athletic	-1.25	33.7%	8
137	Colorado	Big 12	-1.25	38.2%	8
138	Nevada	Mountain West	-1.63	38.4%	8

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.