NC State Football By The Numbers – End Of Regular Season Edition

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Here are the football season stats after the end of the regular season.

Team Statistics

Offense
Points Per Game: 28.4 (ACC Rank: 7, Nat’l Rank: 70)
High: 52
Low: 6

Rushing Yards: 116.9 (ACC Rank: 9, Nat’l Rank: 106)
Passing Yards: 304.0 (2, 20)
Total Offense: 420.9 (6, 51)

Defense
Points Per Game: 24.6 (ACC Rank: 3, Nat’l Rank: 45)
High: 62
Low: 6

Rushing Yards: 157.9 (ACC Rank: 7, Nat’l Rank: 59)
Passing Yards: 261.8 (9, 94)
Total Defense: 419.7 (8, 79)

Turnovers
Offense: 14 fumbles, 14 interceptions, 28 total
Defense: 8 fumbles, 16 interceptions, 24 total
Turnover Margin: -4

More Team National Rankings
Offense
Passing Efficiency – 71
Sacks Allowed – 105
Interceptions Thrown – 89
Fumbles Lost – 97
Turnovers Lost – 105
Tackles For Loss Allowed – 103
First Downs – 52
3rd Down Efficiency – 74
4th Down Efficiency – 52
Red Zone Efficiency – 69
Time Of Possession – 43

Defense
Pass Efficiency Defense – 47
Sacks – 20
Tackles For Loss – 10
Passes Intercepted – 17
Fumbles Recovered – 80
Turnovers Gained – 34
First Downs Allowed – 37
3rd Down Efficiency Defense – 1
4th Down Efficiency Defense – 31
Red Zone Efficiency Defense – 33

Special Teams
Net Punting – 85
Punt Returns – 49
Punt Return Defense – 73
Kickoff Returns – 38
Kickoff Return Defense – 17

Other
Turnover Margin Per Game – 78
Penalties – 83
Penalty Yards – 45

Attendance
Total Attendance (324,638) – ACC Rank: 6, Nat’l Rank: 44
Average Attendance (54,106) – 4, 37
Percent of Capacity (94.0) – 3, 36

Toughest Schedule (FBS Only)
Cumulative Opposition: 47-65 (.420) ACC Rank: 12, Nat’l Rank: 104

Individual Statistics

Rushing Leaders
Shadrach Thornton: 142 carries, 655 yards, 4.6 avg, 3 TD
Tony Creecy: 118 carries, 433 yards, 3.7 avg, 4 TD
Brandon Barnes: 44 carries, 125 yards, 2.8 avg, 1 TD
Mustafa Greene: 28 carries, 101 yards, 3.6 avg
James Washington: 27 carries, 77 yards, 2.9 avg, 1 TD

Receiving Leaders
Quintin Payton: 48 catches, 761 yards, 15.9 avg, 2 TD
Tobias Palmer: 46 catches, 670 yards, 14.6 avg, 6 TD
Bryan Underwood: 43 catches, 615 yards, 14.3 avg, 10 TD
Mario Carter: 31 catches, 333 yards, 10.7 avg, 2 TD
Rashard Smith: 16 catches, 265 yards, 16.6 avg, 4 TD

Passing
Mike Glennon: 295-511, 3648 yds, 30 TD, 14 Int, 57.7% Comp Pct, 131.59 rating
Manny Stocker: 0-2, 0 yds, 0 TD, O Int

Tackle Leaders
Earl Wolff: 110
Brandan Bishop: 99
Rickey Dowdy: 81
Sterling Lucas: 78
Dontae Johnson: 65

Tackles For Loss Leaders
Rickey Dowdy: 13.5
Darryl Cato-Bishop: 10
T.Y. McGill: 9
Art Norman: 8
Thomas Teal: 7

Sacks Leaders
Darryl Cato-Bishop: 6.5
Art Norman: 5.5
T.Y. McGill: 4
Rickey Dowdy: 3.5
Sterling Lucas: 2
A.J. Ferguson: 2
Brian Slay: 2

Interceptions
David Amerson: 5
Brandan Bishop: 3
Juston Burris: 3
Earl Wolff: 2
Hakim Jones: 1
Sterling Lucas: 1
C.J. Wilson: 1

Fumbles
Mike Glennon: 12 fumbles, 4 lost
Tobias Palmer: 4 fumbles, 4 lost
Shadrach Thornton: 2 fumble, 2 lost
Rashard Smith: 3 fumble, 1 lost
Brandon Barnes: 2 fumbles, 1 lost
Mario Carter: 1 fumble, 1 lost
Mustafa Greene: 1 fumble, 1 lost
Team: 1 fumble, 0 lost

Field Goals
Niklas Sade: 12 of 21, long of 50

Extra Points
Niklas Sade: 41 of 43

Punting
Wil Baumann: 71 punts, 39.3 avg, long of 60, 16 inside 20 yard line

Kickoffs
Niklas Sade: 66 KO, 63.9 avg, 40 touchbacks
Wil Baumann: 3 KO, 61.0 avg

Kickoff Return Leaders
Tobias Palmer: 38 returns, 25.2 avg, 1 TD
C.J. Wilson: 3 returns, 19.7 avg
Logan Winkles: 3 returns, 9.7 avg
Brandon Barnes: 1 returns, 7.0 avg

Punt Return Leaders
Rashard Smith: 33 returns, 9.4 avg, 1 TD

Individual ACC & National Rankings (Nat’l Top 100)
Shadrach Thornton (Rushing) – 4, 83
Mike Glennon (Pass Efficiency) – 6, 64
Mike Glennon (Total Offense) – 2, 23
Quintin Payton (Receiving Yards Per Game) – 12, 89
David Amerson (Interceptions) – 1, 11
Justin Burris (Interceptions) – 10, 71
Brandan Bishop (Interceptions) – 10, 71
Wil Baumann (Punting) – 9, 84
Rashard Smith (Punt Returns) – 5, 34
Tobias Palmer (Kickoff Returns) – 5, 36
Niklas Sade (Field Goals) – 8, 63
Tobias Palmer (All-Purpose Runners) – 4, 23
Darryl Cato-Bishop (Sacks) – 6, 64
Art Norman (Sacks) – 11, 97
Earl Wolff (Tackles) – 5, 43
Brandan Bishop (Tackles) – 10, 75
Rickey Dowdy (Tackles For Loss) – 5, 43

Top 10 Active NCAA Career Leader Rankings
David Amerson:
Interceptions: 1
Interception Yards: 5
Interception TDs: 6
Interceptions Per Game: 2

Brandan Bishop:
Interceptions: 9

C.J. Wilson:
Interception TDs: 6

Wil Baumann:
Punts Per Game: 10

Earl Wolff:
Solo Tackles: 9

About WV Wolf

Graduated from NCSU in 1996 with a degree in statistics. Born and inbred in West "By God" Virginia and now live in Raleigh where I spend my time watching the Wolfpack, the Mountaineers and the Carolina Hurricanes as well as making bar graphs for SFN. I'm @wvncsu on the Twitter machine.

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12 Responses to NC State Football By The Numbers – End Of Regular Season Edition

  1. Deacon Blues 12/06/2012 at 10:39 AM #

    This says it all:

    Toughest Schedule (FBS Only)
    Cumulative Opposition: 47-65 (.420) ACC Rank: 12, Nat’l Rank: 104

  2. the_phisherman 12/06/2012 at 10:50 AM #

    Deacon beat me to it

  3. compsciwolf 12/06/2012 at 11:51 AM #

    Average across the board is what strikes me.

    The aberrations?

    The weak schedule, as pointed out.

    And 3rd down efficiency defense. Not sure where the #1 ranking come from there, given all the other numbers.

    Also, Bryan Underwood is a touchdown machine. A TD every 4.3 catches is impressive.

  4. Old MacDonald 12/06/2012 at 12:18 PM #

    How is it possible that we had the easiest FBS schedule in the ACC? We played FSU, Clemson, Miami, and UNC. UNC played in the Coastal and did not play Clemson or FSU. That does not make sense to me.

  5. DC_wolf 12/06/2012 at 12:30 PM #

    Me four, I was just about to paste in the same stat, Deacon. The cumulative FBS schedule may or may not have been a metric DY looked @ (but probably) – if the tipping point wasn’t the UVa loss (forshadowed by the “loss” @ UMD) it would have to be a stat like this.

    I liked O’Brien, the way he conducted himself & ran a clean program – but you can’t deny the major impetus to the regime change was the hope of winning those games we should be winning – on paper or otherwise.

  6. compsciwolf 12/06/2012 at 1:22 PM #

    On the schedule, look at who we played on the bottom (FBS schools): Tennessee, UConn, South Alabama, Virginia, Wake Forest, Maryland, and Boston College.

    4 decent to good teams do not outweigh 7 not-so-good to bad teams. None of the 7 teams listed above are going to a bowl game this year. Of the 4 teams we played that are going bowling (or would be if not for sanctions), we lost three of those games, with the one exception of FSU (almost forgot about that one). Pretty sad when you look at things this way.

  7. WV Wolf 12/06/2012 at 2:17 PM #

    I don’t quite come up with the same opponent cumulative record that the NCAA does (the numbers from the NCAA are in the entry). They come up with 47-65, I come up with 47-64. Not sure what game I’m missing.

    But anyway, if you remove 1-AA games and the actual games against State, only 3 of our 11 1-A opponents had a winning record (FSU, Clemson, UNC).

    Florida St: 9-1
    Clemson: 8-2
    UNC: 6-4
    Miami: 5-5
    UConn: 5-6
    Wake: 4-6
    Tennessee: 3-7
    Maryland: 3-7
    Virginia: 2-8
    BC: 1-9
    S Alabama: 1-9

    UNC’s SOS was 90th at 50-61. Their 3 non-conf 1-A opponents (minus 1-AA and UNC games) had a record of 15-15, State’s 3 non-conf 1-A opponents (minus 1-AA and State games) was 9-22. Louisville gives their SOS a boost.

  8. Wulfpack 12/06/2012 at 2:42 PM #

    A year to forget (outside of the hiring of DD, of course).

  9. 61Packer 12/06/2012 at 3:23 PM #

    Give TOB credit for achieving in just half the time what HWSNBN achieved at NCSU.

  10. Deacon Blues 12/06/2012 at 3:56 PM #

    ^ DY gets the credit for it being only half the time.

  11. VaWolf82 12/06/2012 at 4:20 PM #

    The change in turnover margin from last year is the one thing that stands out to me.

    2011 was +14
    2012 was -4

    Last year’s regular season entry
    http://www.statefansnation.com/index.php/archives/2011/11/30/nc-state-football-by-the-numbers-post-maryland-edition-2/

  12. compsciwolf 12/07/2012 at 5:40 AM #

    @WV Wolf

    My guess is you’re missing a game of someone against South Alabama.

    They are listed as having a 2-11 record

    http://www.usajaguars.com/schedule.aspx?path=football

    I’m not going to run through all the schools they played and see which are FBS and which not, but that’s my guess. Also not sure how they ended up with 13 games total.

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