NC State Football By The Numbers – Post Central Michigan Edition

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Here are the season stats after the Central Michigan win.

Team Statistics

Offense
Points Per Game: 32.0 (ACC Rank: 5, Nat’l Rank: 48)
High: 43
Low: 14

Rushing Yards: 116.2 (ACC Rank: 9, Nat’l Rank: 97)
Passing Yards: 258.7 (6, 41)
Total Offense: 374.8 (11, 79)

Defense
Points Per Game: 30.2 (ACC Rank: 12, Nat’l Rank: 89)
High: 45
Low: 13

Rushing Yards: 172.3 (ACC Rank: 10, Nat’l Rank: 85)
Passing Yards: 239.8 (9, 83)
Total Defense: 412.2 (11, 88)

Turnovers
Offense: 7 fumbles, 4 interceptions, 11 total
Defense: 6 fumbles, 12 interceptions, 18 total
Turnover Margin: +7

More Team ACC & National Rankings
Offense
Passing Efficiency – 6, 33
Sacks Allowed – 12, 107
Interceptions Thrown – 5, 39
Fumbles Lost – 12, 97
Turnovers Lost – 11, 84
Tackles For Loss Allowed – 5, 56
First Downs – 9, 83
3rd Down Efficiency – 8, 60
4th Down Efficiency – 5, 58
Red Zone Efficiency – 5, 45
Time Of Possession – 8, 71

Defense
Pass Efficiency Defense – 7, 59
Sacks – 2, 16
Tackles For Loss – 7, 52
Passes Intercepted – 1, 2
Fumbles Recovered – 2, 24
Turnovers Gained – 1, 3
First Downs Allowed – 9, 66
3rd Down Efficiency Defense – 10, 85
4th Down Efficiency Defense – 8, 54
Red Zone Efficiency Defense – 11, 88

Special Teams
Net Punting – 6, 50
Punt Returns – 2, 10
Kickoff Returns – 3, 43
Turnover Margin Per Game – 1, 13

Attendance
Total Attendance (223,519) – ACC Rank: 4, Nat’l Rank: 25
Average Attendance (55,880) – 4, 33
Percent of Capacity (97.0%) – 3, 30

Toughest Schedule (FBS Only)
Cumulative Opposition: 22-19 (.537) ACC Rank: 9, Nat’l Rank: 52
Future Opposition: 13-14 (.481) ACC Rank: 10, Nat’l Rank: 66
Past Opposition: 9-5 (.643) ACC Rank: 4, Nat’l Rank: 25

Individual Statistics

Rushing Leaders
James Washington: 92 carries, 409 yards, 4.4 avg, 5 TD
Curtis Underwood: 42 carries, 226 yards, 5.4 avg, 1 TD
Tony Creecy: 34 carries, 159 yards, 4.7 avg
Brandon Barnes: 3 carries, 10 yards, 3.3 avg

Receiving Leaders
T.J. Graham: 21 catches, 484 yards, 23.0 avg, 4 TD
Tobias Palmer: 19 catches, 210 yards, 11.1 avg, 2 TD
James Washington: 23 catches, 204 yards, 8.9 avg
Jay Smith: 16 catches, 172 yards, 10.8 avg, 2 TD
George Bryan: 10 catches, 113 yards, 11.3 avg, 2 TD

Passing
Mike Glennon: 124-193, 1486 yds, 16 TD, 4 Int, 64.2% Comp Pct, 152.1 rating
Tyler Brosius: 8-13, 66 yards, 1 TD, 0 Int, 61.5% Comp Pct, 129.6 rating

QB Rating Record Watch
Going into the season, Philip Rivers held the school record for career QB rating (minimum 100 attempts) at 144.16. Currently Mike Glennon’s career QB rating stands at 144.21.

Glennon’s season rating of 152.1 is the 2nd best behind Rivers’ senior year (170.5), just ahead of Russell Wilson’s sophomore year (147.8).

Tackle Leaders
Earl Wolff: 60
Audie Cole: 54
Brandan Bishop: 38
David Amerson: 34
Markus Kuhn: 28

Tackles For Loss Leaders
Audie Cole: 7.5
D.J. Green: 5
Darryl Cato-Bishop: 4.5
Markus Kuhn: 4
Brian Slay: 3
Art Norman: 3
Terrell Manning: 3

Sacks Leaders
Darryl Cato-Bishop: 3
Brian Slay: 2.5
Audie Cole: 2.5
Art Norman: 2
Markus Kuhn: 1.5
Terrell Manning: 1.5

Interceptions
David Amerson: 6
Brandan Bishop: 3
Earl Wolff: 1
D.J. Green: 1
Terrell Manning: 1

Fumbles
T.J. Graham: 5 fumbles, 2 lost
Mike Glennon: 4 fumbles, 2 lost
Curtis Underwood: 2 fumbles, 2 lost
James Washington: 2 fumbles, 1 lost
Team: 1 fumble, 0 lost

Field Goals
Niklas Sade: 4 of 6, long of 45

Extra Points
Niklas Sade: 24 of 26

Punting
Wil Baumann: 23 punts, 38.9 avg, long of 50, 8 inside 20 yard line
J. Ellis Flint: 3 punts, 35.3 avg, long of 38, 0 inside 20 yard line

Kickoffs
Niklas Sade: 34 KO, 63.2 avg, 3 touchbacks, 1 out of bounds

Kickoff Return Leaders
T.J. Graham: 26 returns, 24.2 avg
Tobias Palmer: 2 returns, 10.5 avg
C.J. Wilson: 1 return, 21.0 avg
Mario Carter: 1 returns, 10.0 avg

Punt Return Leaders
T.J. Graham: 8 returns, 18.5 avg, 1 TD
Rashard Smith: 1 return, 6.0 avg

Individual ACC & National Rankings (Nat’l Top 100)
James Washington (Rushing) – ACC Rank: 11, Nat’l Rank: 82
Mike Glennon (Pass Efficiency) – 6, 31
Mike Glennon (Total Offense) – 5, 49
T.J. Graham (Receiving Yards Per Game) – 7, 48
David Amerson (Interceptions) – 1, 1
Brandan Bishop (Interceptions) – 3, 17
Wil Baumann (Punting) – 6, 69
T.J. Graham (Punt Returns) – 1, 4
T.J. Graham (Kickoff Returns) – 4, 40
Niklas Sade (Field Goals) – 9, 90
T.J. Graham (All Purpose Runners) – 1, 2
Brian Slay (Sacks) – 13, 86
Darryl Cato-Bishop (Sacks) – 13, 86
Audie Cole (Sacks) – 14, 93
Earl Wolff (Tackles) – 4, 20
Audie Cole (Tackles) – 8, 40
Audie Cole (Tackles For Loss) – 3, 44

Top 10 Active NCAA Career Leaders
C.J. Wilson:
Interception-TDs: 5

David Amerson:
Interceptions Per Game: 10

T.J. Graham:
Punt Returns: 5
Punt Return Yards: 6
Punt Return TDs: 3
Kickoff Returns: 4
Kickoff Return Yards: 5
Kickoff Return TDs: 9
Kickoff Returns Per Game: 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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11 Responses to NC State Football By The Numbers – Post Central Michigan Edition

  1. WV Wolf 10/12/2011 at 10:07 AM #

    I found some of our defensive rankings interesting.

    We’re getting to the QB, 16th in the nation in sacks.
    Our secondary is 2nd in the nation in interceptions.
    We’re 3rd in the nation at turnovers forced.

    You would think a defense that forces turnovers and gets to the quarterback would be a pretty good defense but yet in total defense we’re 88th in the nation.

  2. JasonP 10/12/2011 at 10:11 AM #

    WV Wolf, I think it’s b/c those stats come against the pass. Against the run the defense struggles mightily. And, I don’t know if total defense takes into account opponents’ success on 3rd and 4th downs, but that stat would place State’s defense nationally somewhere in the abyss.

  3. WV Wolf 10/12/2011 at 10:23 AM #

    Our run defense is 85th and our pass defense is 83rd so it’s not that our run defense is our weakness. 3rd and 4th down defense stats are listed in the entry.

    I just found it interesting that in some key areas for defensive success we’re ranked highly but yet our defense overall sucks.

  4. kab2011 10/12/2011 at 11:20 AM #

    Keep in mind 12 of these turnovers were against Liberty & Central Michigan. I would like to fins a silver lining somewhere too, but the bottom line is this: Poor Recruiting, Bad Offensive running schemes, poor Pass Def, avg to less than avg Coaching = Poor performance

  5. TheCOWDOG 10/12/2011 at 11:24 AM #

    44.44% 3rd down stoppage is woeful when factoring in 2 FCS opponents.

  6. 4in12 10/12/2011 at 11:43 AM #

    The thing that stood out to me is that 3 of the top 5 tacklers are in the secondary.

    edit – make that 3 of the top 4

  7. baxter 10/12/2011 at 12:21 PM #

    Would anyone be interested in a trailing 3 game performance stat tracker? I was thinking about putting one together on Sunday’s to look at, so we can see not only State’s trailing 3 game performance but also the upcoming opponents or entire division / conference.

    If anyone is interested, I’ll start compiling.

  8. baxter 10/12/2011 at 12:28 PM #

    3rd Conversion against FBS competition:
    CMU: 3 of 10 (30%), State: 7-15 (46.6%)
    GT: 4 of 12 (33%), State: 5 – 14 (35.7%)
    Cincy: 9 of 16 (56.25%), State: 6 – 16 (37.5%)
    WF: 8 of 16 (50%), State: 5 -14 (35.7%)

    So kind of what I was talking about earlier, if we look at the trailing, we went from 50-56% conversion, down to the low 30’s on defense, but our past offensive performance in the mid 30’s suggests to me that CMU was an anomaly. We could for example, put GT’s 33% performance and then compare its previous 3 games to see if they were trending down, up, did State outperform them etc

  9. Wolfy__79 10/12/2011 at 4:55 PM #

    inside those numbers there are some 3rd and longs that really killed us. forget the scoring, those were absolute killers… that ulitimately led to points most of the time. i’ve seen some decent play out of the defense… sadly followed by giving up 3rd and long.

    the long run at the end of the central mich game is evidence to me that our defense while “experienced,” is playing like a young defense. i think there are areas on d that we’ll see improve thru the year and into next. that said, do i want archer to be around for another season? HELL NO!

    all in all, i think where the team is now collectively.. is where they should have been at the start of the season. my question is, will we see a repeat of the 2010 performance in 2012?

  10. 3boys 10/12/2011 at 6:04 PM #

    Gotta love pack fans – still with a sorry home schedule so far we are 4th in the conference in attendance.

  11. 61Packer 10/12/2011 at 9:09 PM #

    Thanks, guys.

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