NC State Football By The Numbers – Post Wake Edition

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Here are the football season stats and rankings after the Wake win.

Team Statistics

Offense
Points Per Game: 26.6 (ACC Rank: 7, Nat’l Rank: 71)
High: 52
Low: 6

Rushing Yards: 116.8 (ACC Rank: 9, Nat’l Rank: 107)
Passing Yards: 291.0 (3, 27)
Total Offense: 407.8 (7, 59)

Defense
Points Per Game: 22.3 (ACC Rank: 2, Nat’l Rank: 30)
High: 44
Low: 6

Rushing Yards: 136.8 (ACC Rank: 3, Nat’l Rank: 35)
Passing Yards: 259.2 (10, 95)
Total Defense: 396.0 (7, 61)

Turnovers
Offense: 12 fumbles, 13 interceptions, 25 total
Defense: 8 fumbles, 11 interceptions, 19 total
Turnover Margin: -6

More Team National Rankings
Offense
Passing Efficiency – 81
Sacks Allowed – 110
Interceptions Thrown – 99
Fumbles Lost – 99
Turnovers Lost – 108
Tackles For Loss Allowed – 108
First Downs – 48
3rd Down Efficiency – 76
4th Down Efficiency – 48
Red Zone Efficiency – 56
Time Of Possession – 41

Defense
Pass Efficiency Defense – 56
Sacks – 10
Tackles For Loss – 7
Passes Intercepted – 28
Fumbles Recovered – 60
Turnovers Gained – 41
First Downs Allowed – 25
3rd Down Efficiency Defense – 3
4th Down Efficiency Defense – 31
Red Zone Efficiency Defense – 18

Special Teams
Net Punting – 65
Punt Returns – 49
Punt Return Defense – 81
Kickoff Returns – 60
Kickoff Return Defense – 15

Other
Turnover Margin Per Game – 93
Penalties – 84
Penalty Yards – 58

Attendance
Total Attendance (271,618) – ACC Rank: 6, Nat’l Rank: 46
Average Attendance (54,324) – 4, 37
Percent of Capacity (94.3) – 3, 34

Toughest Schedule (FBS Only)
Cumulative Opposition: 39-51 (.433) ACC Rank: 12, Nat’l Rank: 93
Future Opposition: 9-9 (.500) ACC Rank: 6, Nat’l Rank: 54
Past Opposition: 30-42 (.417) ACC Rank: 11, Nat’l Rank: 99

Individual Statistics

Rushing Leaders
Shadrach Thornton: 93 carries, 436 yards, 4.7 avg, 2 TD
Tony Creecy: 116 carries, 434 yards, 3.7 avg, 4 TD
Brandon Barnes: 32 carries, 104 yards, 3.3 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: 42 catches, 669 yards, 15.9 avg, 1 TD
Bryan Underwood: 40 catches, 588 yards, 14.7 avg, 10 TD
Tobias Palmer: 32 catches, 396 yards, 12.4 avg, 1 TD
Rashard Smith: 14 catches, 240 yards, 17.1 avg, 3 TD
Asa Watson: 20 catches, 236 yards, 11.8 avg, 1 TD

Passing
Mike Glennon: 239-417, 2910 yds, 22 TD, 13 Int, 57.3% Comp Pct, 127.11 rating
Manny Stocker: 0-2, 0 yds, 0 TD, O Int

Tackle Leaders
Brandan Bishop: 83
Earl Wolff: 82
Rickey Dowdy: 70
Sterling Lucas: 61
Dontae Johnson: 51

Tackles For Loss Leaders
Rickey Dowdy: 11.5
T.Y. McGill: 9
Darryl Cato-Bishop: 7
Rodman Noel: 6
Thomas Teal: 6
Art Norman: 6

Sacks Leaders
Darryl Cato-Bishop: 5.5
Art Norman: 4.5
T.Y. McGill: 4
Rickey Dowdy: 3.5
Sterling Lucas: 2
A.J. Ferguson: 2
Brian Slay: 2

Interceptions
David Amerson: 4
Brandan Bishop: 2
Earl Wolff: 1
Hakim Jones: 1
Sterling Lucas: 1
Juston Burris: 1
C.J. Wilson: 1

Fumbles
Tobias Palmer: 4 fumbles, 4 lost
Mike Glennon: 10 fumbles, 3 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
Shadrach Thornton: 1 fumble, 1 lost
Team: 1 fumble, 0 lost

Field Goals
Niklas Sade: 10 of 16, long of 50

Extra Points
Niklas Sade: 32 of 33

Punting
Wil Baumann: 60 punts, 40.4 avg, long of 61, 14 inside 20 yard line

Kickoffs
Niklas Sade: 52 KO, 64.0 avg, 31 touchbacks
Wil Baumann: 3 KO, 61.0 avg

Kickoff Return Leaders
Tobias Palmer: 29 returns, 23.2 avg, 1 TD
C.J. Wilson: 3 returns, 19.7 avg
Brandon Barnes: 1 returns, 7.0 avg

Punt Return Leaders
Rashard Smith: 30 returns, 9.2 avg, 1 TD
Tobias Palmer: 1 return, 0.0 avg

Individual ACC & National Rankings (Nat’l Top 100)
Mike Glennon (Pass Efficiency) – 6, 67
Mike Glennon (Total Offense) – 4, 34
Quintin Payton (Receiving Yards Per Game) – 9, 72
Bryan Underwood (Receiving Yards Per Game) – 11, 92
David Amerson (Interceptions) – 2, 15
Wil Baumann (Punting) – 8, 75
Rashard Smith (Punt Returns) – 6, 35
Tobias Palmer (Kickoff Returns) – 9, 64
Niklas Sade (Field Goals) – 8, 61
Tobias Palmer (All-Purpose Runners) – 7, 60
Darryl Cato-Bishop (Sacks) – 7, 69
Art Norman (Sacks) – 12, 100
Brandan Bishop (Tackles) – 6, 63
Earl Wolff (Tackles) – 7, 70
Rickey Dowdy (Tackles For Loss) – 5, 46
T.Y. McGill (Tackles For Loss) – 11, 98

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

Brandan Bishop:
Interceptions: 9

C.J. Wilson:
Interception TDs: 6

Wil Baumann:
Punts Per Game: 10

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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7 Responses to NC State Football By The Numbers – Post Wake Edition

  1. ryebread 11/15/2012 at 10:44 AM #

    Don’t look now, but that much maligned defense is second in the ACC in points per game allowed. To me, points allowed are the single most important stat for a defense. I think that’s even more impressive given how many turnovers we’ve had on offense (as those really put pressure on a defense).

    If they’re still in second after Clemson, then we will have played a great game. Here’s to hoping.

  2. On The Beach 11/15/2012 at 12:23 PM #

    I agree that it’s good that we are number 2 in point allowed, but, what has me perplexed is the fact that we are 10th/95th in “allowed passing yards”. If you had asked me preseason, I would have thought this would have been one of our strengths.

  3. WolftownVA81 11/15/2012 at 12:41 PM #

    Other than a few defensive stats, we’re nowhere near top 25 nationally. Thank for the info. Being informed is good – even if it makes you feel bad.

  4. VaWolf82 11/15/2012 at 12:51 PM #

    Just like last year, State is very average on both sides of the ball. The biggest difference that I see between this year and last was that State was one of the national leaders in turnover margin….and ranks 93rd this year.

  5. Deacon Blues 11/15/2012 at 2:09 PM #

    ^ I don’t think I would call our D Average. They are playing great on 3rd and in the red zone. If the TO margin was in our favor it would be a better season fo sho.

    The O on the other hand is a different story.

  6. ADVENTUROO 11/15/2012 at 2:53 PM #

    Interesting numbers….a bit much to comprehend. Read them twice. Without doing any fancy stuff like trying to come up with a weighted average on the rankngs, our “raw” or my perceived average would be about 8 or so in the ACC. There was only ONE top 25 stat and that was Amerson’s interceptions.

    The attendance numbers surprised me, just from my casual obervations of the crowd. Those numbers were also surprising when you looked at the national rankings.

    NOW…..the interesting thing is that IF attendace dropped by MORE than 2040 (Reg Season Tickets are $294), then TOB’s buyout…..hypothetically speaking of course, would then pass the Break Even basis. ($600,000 / $294).

    2040 disgruntled ticket holders (or some combination of lost Season Ticket sales and individual game tickets) is NOT that far fetched.

    Looking at the number (above) and my calculations, the remainder of the season will be TOUGH. If the economy does not improve, if the Team does not improve…..all IF’s but there are not a LOT of PRO’s to put on the list for TOB.

    I am still on the fence, but cold hard facts and logic are beginning to sink in. Debbie Yow’s decision might not be as tough as I thought….who KNOWS….not I. I predicted that we would have a new president.

  7. the_phisherman 11/15/2012 at 5:13 PM #

    If I’m reading this correctly, we are 6-4 with the easiest schedule in the ACC. That’s pathetic.

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