NC State Football By The Numbers – Post Clemson Edition

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Here are the football season stats and rankings after the Thursday night Clemson game.

Team Statistics

Offense
Scoring Offense: 25.7 (ACC Rank: 10, Nat’l Rank: 81)
Hi: 40
Low: 14

Rushing Yards: 196.7 (ACC Rank: 5, Nat’l Rank: 52)
Passing Yards: 258.0 (7, 46)
Total Offense: 454.7 (6, 51)

Defense
Scoring Defense: 20.3 (ACC Rank: 8, Nat’l Rank: 42)
Hi: 26
Low: 14

Rushing Yards: 110.0 (ACC Rank: 5, Nat’l Rank: 26)
Passing Yards: 240.7 (13, 76)
Total Defense: 350.7 (9, 42)

Turnovers
Offense: 3 fumbles, 4 interceptions, 7 total
Defense: 6 fumbles, 0 interceptions, 6 total
Turnover Margin: -1

More Team National Rankings
Offense
3rd Down Conversion Pct – 66
4th Down Conversion Pct – 7
1st Downs – 84
Sacks Allowed – 94
Passes Intercepted – 79
Red Zone Offense – 63
Tackles For Loss Allowed – 96
Pass Efficiency – 84

Defense
3rd Down Conversion Pct – 87
4th Down Conversion Pct – 87
1st Downs – 50
Passes Intercepted – N/A
Red Zone Defense – 93
Sacks – 35
Pass Efficiency – 80
Tackles For Loss – 5

Special Teams
Kickoff Returns – 114
Kickoff Return Defense – 40
Net Punting – 47
Punt Returns – 86
Punt Return Defense – 38

Other
Penalties – 105
Penalty Yards – 97
Fumbles Lost – 71
Fumbles Recovered – 3
Time Of Possession – 12
Turnover Margin – 88
Turnovers Gained – 57
Turnovers Lost – 82

Attendance
Total Attendance (162,341) – ACC Rank: 3, Nat’l Rank: 24
Average Attendance (54,114) – 5, 40
Percent of Capacity (94.0) – 3, 42

Toughest Schedule
Past Opposition: 1-2 (.333) – ACC Rank: 12, Nat’l Rank: 91
Future Opposition: 13-13 (.500) – 13, 66
Cumulative Oppositon: 14-15 (.483) – 13, 68

Individual Statistics

Rushing Leaders
Matt Dayes: 37 att, 143 yards, 3 TD
Tony Creecy: 31 att, 107 yards, 1 TD
Bryant Shirreffs: 17 att, 93 yards, 1 TD
Pete Thomas: 25 att, 75 yards, 1 TD
Bryan Underwood: 2 att, 54 yards

Receiving Leaders
Marquez Valdes-Scantling: 14 rec, 201 yards
Rashard Smith: 17 rec, 196 yards
Bryan Underwood: 8 rec, 56 yards
Jurmichael Ramos: 3 rec, 51 yards
Quintin Payton: 5 rec, 49 yards

Passing
Pete Thomas: 59-94, 662 yds, 0 TD, 4 Int, 62.8% Comp Pct, 113.41 rating
Brandon Mitchell: 3-3, 93 yds, 0 TD, 0 Int, 100.0% Comp Pct, 360.40 rating
Bryant Shirreffs: 3-3, 19 yds, 1 TD, 0 Int, 100.0% Comp Pct, 263.20 rating
Josh Taylor: 0-1, 0 yds, 0 TD, 0 Int

Tackle Leaders
Robert Caldwell – 31
Hakim Jones – 22
Dontae Johnson – 20
D.J. Green – 19
Justin Burriss – 15

Tackles For Loss Leaders
Robert Caldwell – 5
Thomas Teal – 3.5
Monty Nelson – 3.5
Art Norman – 3.0
T.Y. McGill – 2.5

Sacks Leaders
Art Norman – 2
T.Y. McGill – 1
Brandon Pittman – 1
Thomas Teal – 1
Carlos Gray – 1
Mike Rose – 1

Interceptions
none

Fumbles
Bryant Shirreffs – 1 fumble, 1 lost
Pete Thomas – 1 fumble, 1 lost
Marquez Valdes-Scantling – 1 fumble, 1 lost
Shadrach Thornton – 1 fumble

Field Goals
Niklas Sade: 7 of 8, long of 48

Extra Points
Niklas Sade: 8 of 8

Punting
Wil Baumann: 13 punts, 40.9 avg, long of 53, 4 inside 20 yard line

Kickoffs
Niklas Sade: 17 KO, 64.8 avg, 15 touchbacks

Kickoff Return Leaders
Johnathan Alston – 5 returns, 16.2 avg
Rashard Smith – 4 returns, 22.5 avg
Shadrach Thornton – 1 return, 5.0 avg

Punt Return Leaders
Rashard Smith – 5 returns, 5.4 avg

Individual ACC & National Rankings (Nat’l Top 100)
Rashard Smith (All Purpose) – 8, 63

Pete Thomas (Completion Percentage) – 5, 55

Pete Thomas (Completions Per Game) – 3, 37

Niklas Sade (Field Goal Percentage) – 7, 39

Niklas Sade (Field Goals Per Game) – 2, 7

Jarvis Byrd (Forced Fumbles) – 1, 5
Dontae Johnson (Forced Fumbles) – 6, 53
Monty Nelson (Forced Fumbles) – 6, 53
Quinton Schooley (Forced Fumbles) – 6, 53
Art Norman (Forced Fumbles) – 6, 53

Darryl Cato-Bishop (Fumbles Recovered) – 7, 41
Carlos Gray (Fumbles Recovered) – 7, 41
Art Norman (Fumbles Recovered) – 7, 41
Mike Rose (Fumbles Recovered) – 7, 41
Pete Thomas (Fumbles Recovered) – 7, 41
Forrest West (Fumbles Recovered) – 7, 41

Rashard Smith (Kickoff Returns) – 5, 55

Art Norman (Sacks) – 12, 49

Pete Thomas (Passing Efficiency) – 10, 91

Pete Thomas (Passing Yards) – 9, 70

Pete Thomas (Passing Yards Per Game) – 6, 49

Pete Thomas (Passing Yards Per Completion) – 10, 67

Rashard Smith (Punt Returns) – 7, 64

Will Baumann (Punting) – 8, 57

Marquez Valdes-Scantling (Receiving Yards Per Game) – 11, 87
Rashard Smith (Receiving Yards Per Game) – 13, 97

Marquez Valdes-Scantling (Receptions Per Game) – 5, 57
Rashard Smith (Receptions Per Game) – 11, 96

Matt Dayes (Rushing TDs) – 4, 62

Niklas Sade (Scoring) – 5, 38
Matt Dayes (Scoring) – 8, 70

Robert Caldwell (Tackles For Loss) – 8, 49

Pete Thomas (Total Offense) – 6, 50

Thomas Caldwell (Total Tackles) – 1, 24

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 – Post Clemson Edition

  1. Khan 09/26/2013 at 4:45 PM #

    Good job, man.

    We need to add a stat showing points scored but not counted. It would be like “hidden yardage”, only, hidden points. If they would unhide more of our points, we might win more games. 🙂

  2. TheCOWDOG 09/26/2013 at 4:51 PM #

    LMAO…Khan.

    I was waiting in the tall grass for the first nitwit to espouse “mediocre” or something to that general line.

    Nice pull, instead.

  3. Khan 09/27/2013 at 9:57 AM #

    CD, I saw you there, or at least , I thought I did. You looked like you were standing juuuust out of bounds. But admittedly, I was 30 yards away and there were a couple of big folks directly in my line of sight, but I pulled the trigger anyway. 😀

    I’m actually pleasantly surprised at how well our D held up, especially after the Richmond game. The tough thing was watching 3rd and short, and knowing that we were going to give that up. But other than that, I felt good about the effort.

    Offensively, we seemed to over-formation at times. But, generally, I feel pretty optimisitc about things over the long term.

  4. tjfoose1 09/27/2013 at 11:42 AM #

    Ha ha. I was thinking along the same lines.

    How about a ref screw job category? You could do total count, avg per game count, total yards, avg yards per game, and avg yards per screw. Then the same with points as with yards.

    But c’mon folks, we finally got an ACC opener at home. Did you really think that wouldn’t be offset one way or another?

  5. tjfoose1 09/27/2013 at 11:44 AM #

    “The tough thing was watching 3rd and short, and knowing that we were going to give that up”

    I found myself thinking that about 3rd and long, not 3rd and short.

  6. Greywolf 09/27/2013 at 12:23 PM #

    “Offensively, we seemed to over-formation at times. ”

    Khan, I don’t think it’s about the formation but is more about causing confusion on the defensive side of the ball. It would be easy to say, Yeah but we are getting confused ourselves. Confusing ourselves will stop with practice. How much practice time can our opponents devote to not being confused by the shifting, the covering and uncovering? The covering and uncovering is the most dangerous IMO. I can hear the thinking on the otherside of the ball: 82 is my responsibility, now he’s not eligible, who do I cover. Oh shit. the guy in motion is coming into my area, etc., etc., etc. I really believe Canada is here because Doeren is letting him do his thing.

    And when is the last time you have seen a Clempson defense let a runner like Underwood go 80 yards with nothing more than a hand on his back as he blew by the defender? And it’s going to get better and better as we get more accustomed to it.

    This is not y9our father’s Oldsmobile.

  7. packalum44 09/27/2013 at 12:31 PM #

    Not directly related:

    I got to hang with Andre Brown and Marcus Kuhn last night at an alumni event. They attended Coach Gott’s caravan stop in NYC.

    Brown and Kuhn are great people. Brown in particular surprised me with his articulation and cheerful demeanor. My memories of him are recklessly plowing over defenders and I won’t ever forget his 250 yard performance against Southern Miss (which I brought up 2 or 3 times, didn’t seem to bother him). But he’s got a bit of charm to him and a small gap in his teeth, the combination of which reminded me of Strahan.

    I told Coach Gott and his agent (who was there and also represents Avent and Dorehn) that he should hire Jim Harrick when Lutz leaves. Talking about Harrick brought the biggest smile to Gott’s face. He really adores him.

    I realize many don’t care for Harrick’s past but I don’t personally care and would not be surprised if Harrick was on staff one day. He’s a basketball savant or so Gott says.

  8. Tyler_Durden 09/27/2013 at 1:57 PM #

    If the ACC didn’t have a rep for the worst football refs after State and KLEMPSUM, last night’s Tech v Tech game might have sealed the deal.

  9. Greywolf 09/27/2013 at 3:02 PM #

    Those refs were giving us the business…

    I know it’s not PC but I thought that with the exception of The Call the Clempson game was fairly well called. The timeouts that hurt us weren’t on the referee, They just were doing their job. The reviews were IMO non-controversial; Just goes to show that a bad action by one gives the whole a bad name, be it officiating or the team.

    I still like Swinney and always will after reading about him in college. The way he took care of his mother while he went to school was touching to me.

    Now go ahead and roast me.

  10. tjfoose1 09/27/2013 at 5:06 PM #

    Drop the rule that allows timeouts to be called from the sideline. Make it like it used to be, in the good ol’ days, when I had to walk 10 miles to school, uphill, both ways, in the snow all year ’round.

  11. Greywolf 09/27/2013 at 5:43 PM #

    some rule change like no timeouts from the sideline after offense is set at line of scrimmage Or no time outs from sidelines inside the last 5 seconds on the play clock. Actually putting the game back in the hands of the players might be a good idea at the college level.

  12. Wulfpack 09/27/2013 at 8:53 PM #

    Very much like Dabo as well. What’s not to like? Kids love playing for him, and he doesn’t back down from anyone. He has obviously been hugely successful following the Bowden days.

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