NC State Football By The Numbers – Post La Tech Edition

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Here are the football season stats and rankings after the Louisiana Tech win.

Team Statistics

Offense
Points Per Game: 40.0 (ACC Rank: 5, Nat’l Rank: 31)

Rushing Yards: 237.0 (ACC Rank: 5, Nat’l Rank: 30)
Passing Yards: 305.0 (3, 30)
Total Offense: 542.0 (3, 21)

Defense
Points Per Game: 14.0 (ACC Rank: 7, Nat’l Rank: 35)

Rushing Yards: 143.0 (ACC Rank: 7, Nat’l Rank: 35)
Passing Yards: 178.0 (9, 39)
Total Defense: 321.0 (8, 42)

Turnovers
Offense: 0 fumbles, 1 interceptions, 1 total
Defense: 4 fumbles, 0 interceptions, 4 total
Turnover Margin: +3

More Team National Rankings
Offense
3rd Down Conversion Pct – 32
4th Down Conversion Pct – N/A
1st Downs – 20
Sacks Allowed – 23
Passes Intercepted – 57
Red Zone Offense – 68
Tackles For Loss Allowed – 92
Pass Efficiency – 63

Defense
3rd Down Conversion Pct – 14
4th Down Conversion Pct – N/A
1st Downs – 32
Passes Intercepted – N/A
Red Zone Defense – 19
Sacks – 41
Pass Efficiency – 50
Tackles For Loss – 5

Special Teams
Kickoff Returns – 76
Kickoff Return Defense – 38
Net Punting – 79
Punt Returns – 69
Punt Return Defense – 74

Other
Penalties – 41
Penalty Yards – 50
Fumbles Lost – 1
Fumbles Recovered – 1
Time Of Possession – 1
Turnover Margin – 6
Turnovers Gained – 4
Turnovers Lost – 25

Attendance
Total Attendance (54,204) – ACC Rank: 2, Nat’l Rank: 24
Average Attendance (54,204) – 2, 24
Percent of Capacity (94.1) – 2, 27

Individual Statistics

Rushing Leaders
Matt Dayes: 17 att, 84 yards, 3 TD
Tony Creecy: 13 att, 47 yards, 1 TD
Bryant Shirreffs: 9 att, 34 yards
Milton Hall: 5 att, 28 yards
Rashard Smith: 3 att, 28 yards

Receiving Leaders
Marquez Valdes-Scantling: 4 rec, 87 yards
Rashard Smith: 5 rec, 82 yards
Tyler Purvis: 2 rec, 45 yards
Jurmichael Ramos: 1 rec, 28 yards
Asa Watson: 1 rec, 16 yards

Passing
Pete Thomas: 15-27, 212 yds, 0 TD, 1 Int, 55.6% Comp Pct, 114.10 rating
Brandon Mitchell: 3-3, 93 yds, 0 TD, 0 Int, 100.0% Comp Pct, 360.40 rating
Josh Taylor: 0-1, 0 yds, 0 TD, 0 Int

Tackle Leaders
Dontae Johnson – 8
Jarvis Byrd – 6
Zach Gentry – 6
Hakim Jones – 6
Robert Caldwell – 5

Tackles For Loss Leaders
Thomas Teal – 2
Brandon Pittman – 2
T.Y. McGill – 1.5
Robert Caldwell – 1
M.J. Salahuddin – 1
Monty Nelson – 1
Forrest West – 1

Sacks Leaders
T.Y. McGill – 1
Brandon Pittman – 1

Interceptions
none

Fumbles
none

Field Goals
Niklas Sade: 4 of 4, long of 45

Extra Points
Niklas Sade: 4 of 4

Punting
Wil Baumann: 4 punts, 40.0 avg, long of 53, 1 inside 20 yard line

Kickoffs
Niklas Sade: 9 KO, 64.6 avg, 7 touchbacks

Kickoff Return Leaders
Rashard Smith – 2 returns, 19.0 avg

Punt Return Leaders
Rashard Smith – 3 returns, 3.3 avg

Individual ACC & National Rankings (Nat’l Top 100)
Rashard Smith (All Purpose) – 4, 31
Pete Thomas (Completions Per Game) – 9, 71
Niklas Sade (Field Goals Per Game) – 1, 1
Jarvis Byrd (Forced Fumbles) – 1, 3
Dontae Johnson (Forced Fumbles) – 1, 3
Monty Nelson (Forced Fumbles) – 1, 3
Quinton Schooley (Forced Fumbles) – 1, 3
Darryl Cato-Bishop (Fumbles Recovered) – 1, 4
Carlos Gray (Fumbles Recovered) – 1, 4
Mike Rose (Fumbles Recovered) – 1, 4
Pete Thomas (Fumbles Recovered) – 1, 4
Rashard Smith (Kickoff Returns) – 8, 62
T.Y. McGill (Sacks) – 5, 32
Brandon Pittman (Sacks) – 5, 32
Pete Thomas (Passing Efficiency) – 7, 70
Pete Thomas (Passing Yards) – 6, 54
Pete Thomas (Passing Yards Per Game) – 6, 54
Niklas Sade (Points) – 4, 29
Rashard Smith (Punt Returns) – 10, 54
Will Baumann (Punting) – 7, 59
Marquez Valdes-Scantling (Receiving Yards) – 9. 67
Rashard Smith (Receiving Yards) – 11, 76
Marquez Valdes-Scantling (Receiving Yards Per Game) – 9. 67
Rashard Smith (Receiving Yards Per Game) – 11, 76
Rashard Smith (Receptions Per Game) – 9, 89
Matt Dayes (Rushing Yards) – 6, 77
Matt Dayes (Rushing Yards Per Game) – 6, 77
Matt Dayes (Scoring) – 1, 1
Niklas Sade (Scoring) – 3, 12
Dontae Johnson (Solo Tackles) – 9, 64
Monty Nelson (Tackles For Loss) – 4, 31
Thomas Teal (Tackles For Loss) – 4, 31
Pete Thomas (Total Offense) – 7, 65

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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11 Responses to NC State Football By The Numbers – Post La Tech Edition

  1. vtpackfan 09/05/2013 at 3:59 PM #

    Matt Dayes leads the nation in scoring. Hopefully his TDs will stay up there. From what I saw of PT inside the 20 I wouldn’t fault coach in letting Matt or Rashard try to scamper it in often or settle for Sade’s FG.

  2. ryebread 09/05/2013 at 5:44 PM #

    I really appreciate this. Keep up the good work! It’d be great to plot some of the ACC and NCAA team rankings, both week over week but also against previous years.

  3. jrsr 09/05/2013 at 8:51 PM #

    GREAT job WV Wolf!

  4. ruffles31 09/05/2013 at 11:03 PM #

    Mitchell has a 360.40 qb rating. That has to be some sort of record.

  5. inhoc... 09/05/2013 at 11:14 PM #

    Credit Nate Irving for one HUGE TFL. Just saw him crush a Baltimore RB in the backfield as I was reading this.

  6. PackFamily 09/06/2013 at 8:45 AM #

    It’s a little concerning that the Defensive Secondary players again led the team in tackles. We really need our LB’s to start making plays and shoring up long runs. After watching our game on tv yesterday, they still are a weak spot. DJ Green was either out of position, blocked, or took the wrong angle on several plays.

  7. Greywolf 09/06/2013 at 8:55 AM #

    One high stat that’s not missed is sacks given up. Credit the coaches for designing an offense that suits our OL and the OL’s heroic effort in playing nearly the entire game without relief in the hot and humid conditions. One of us was critical of some players going directly to the locker room after the game. Let’s give those guys a break.

    It’s a little early to read too much in stats, however, we do seem to be somewhere in the area of 30th to 35th in national ranking. This team is only going to get better. I boldly predict top 25 before the season is over.

    This is not my first time to note Josh Taylor as a QB to be reckoned with. By November Pete Thomas might be considered the best 3rd team QB in the nation.

    Next week’s Post UR Spiders stats edition will reflect the correction the coaches and players put in after seeing the game film. Already the coaches have said that having to move Joe Thuney to tackle to fill in for Tyson Chandler cost us a TD or 2, referring to Thuney’s athleticism in getting out to block.

    Also not to be seen in the stats is Bryan Underwood’s lack of playing time. Doeren said Underwood’s drop of a catchable pass was the reason. Do you think maybe Doeren has a performance based program?

    This Saturday should be interesting for several reasons, not the least of which will be the distribution of RB playing time, distribution of QB playing time and DE playing time. I’ve heard that Doeren and the other coaches are not happy about the performance of the DEs.

    (Sarcasm alert) Sorry to ramble on about football, but basketball drills don’t do it for me this time of year.

  8. PackFamily 09/06/2013 at 9:28 AM #

    ^ RE: Underwood (and Payton). They were pretty quiet this game. I noticed their rather poor blocking on some of the outside passes. I wonder how well they are engaged in the new system. They didn’t look good in the first game. They were thrown to quite a bit in last year’s scheme and may not like having to play a different role this year. In addition, we have some good freshman who are stepping up. Performance based org indeed.

  9. Virginia Wolf 09/06/2013 at 11:09 AM #

    Greywolf, I agree, Basketball drills don’t do it for me ths time of year. The football team is exciting and thats my focus right now. However, that said, I’m concerned about the Richmond game. They are a very good football team. I think we’ll win but it will be a tough game. Go Pack!!!!

  10. Greywolf 09/06/2013 at 1:47 PM #

    Virginia Wolf, for sure Richmond has a good team and we must be aware and play well to win. I am confident that our new coaching staff is hard at work preparing the Pack for the Richmond short passing game. We might have a surprise or 2 for the Spiders.

    These games are good for finding out the things like Pack Family pointed to above.

    This seems to be a very innovative coaching staff on both sides of the ball. I may have not been seeing what I thought I was seeing but at times Johnson was inside almost playing as an LB while Jarvis Byrd was covering a WR. Makes sense to play it that way.

    Can’t wait to see how the QB situation turns out.

  11. Pack78 09/06/2013 at 3:25 PM #

    Great video on the La. Tech win:

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