Player Dossier

2025-2025

Northern Illinois

Jake Ference

P • 6'0" • 188 lbs • St. Louis, MO, USA

Impact contributor

Jake Ference shows a productive multi-phase profile across the tracked sample.

Usage / Role

Role sample still building

lowfeatured

Impact Production

Production sample still building

lowelite

Reliability

100

Regular contributor with several takeover games

lowhigh

Star Power

85

Elite ceiling indicators

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Northern Illinois

25

Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
1
Program Path
Northern Illinois
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Kent State

Player Story

Jake Ference built his college career in 2025 as a punter from St. Louis, MO wearing No. 36, spending time with Northern Illinois. The clearest part of Jake Ference's career was his field-position work: 30 punts,...

Read the story

Jake Ference, P. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Northern Illinois. Jake Ference shows a productive multi-phase profile across the tracked sample.

Quick Answers

Jake Ference quick answers

Latest team and position
Northern Illinois · P
Career Touchdowns
0
Tracked sample
1 unique seasons · 1 entries · 7 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Northern Illinois
Top game
Kent State
Latest roster
No. 36 · Freshman

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTDPrimaryOverall
2025 Regular SeasonNorthern Illinois700100

Related Context

Jake Ference is listed as a P for Northern Illinois. Detailed college production data is limited on CFB Track.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Northern Illinois paired 0 primary output with — efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with — efficiency.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Kent State

Loss with a strong all-around stat line. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

Filter the strongest season sample, inspect game-level shape, and then drop into the full log without losing the story of the year.

Season Explorer

Understand the selected season before dropping into the full game log.

2025 Regular Season · Northern Illinois

Games

7

Primary Metric / G

0

Efficiency

Usage

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Kent State

Hover a point or expand a game row to keep the active game context visible here.

Active game

Hover over a point

Hover or select a game to keep its context visible here without the page shifting around.

Game-by-Game Trend

Follow how the selected stat changes from one game to the next. Spikes mark standout outings, while dips show quieter weeks.

1234567

Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Eastern Michigan: 0. Ohio: 0. Ball State: 0. Toledo: 0. Massachusetts: 0. Western Michigan: 0. Kent State: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.

Scatter view is hidden because this season does not have enough game-to-game variety yet.

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Wins0 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 5 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

7 games

Featured metric

Touchdowns

Top game by takeover score

Kent State

Best efficiency game

— vs Kent State

Result
Fri 11/28vs Kent StateL 31-35
Wed 11/19vs Western MichiganL 19-35
Thu 11/13@ MassachusettsW 45-3
Thu 11/6@ ToledoL 3-42
Sat 10/25vs Ball StateW 21-7
Sat 10/18@ OhioL 21-48
Sat 10/11@ Eastern MichiganL 10-16

Player Story

Jake Ference story

Jake Ference built his college career in 2025 as a punter from St. Louis, MO wearing No. 36, spending time with Northern Illinois. The clearest part of Jake Ference's career was his field-position work: 30 punts, 1,310 punting yards, and 6 punts inside the 20 across 7 career games in the available record. That gives Jake Ference's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

  1. 1

    Northern Illinois

    2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2025 Regular SeasonNorthern Illinois0

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 130 Kent State

Week 14 · L 31-35 · Conference game

Loss with a strong all-around stat line.

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

0 primary-metric impact.

#2

vs No. 78 Western Michigan

Week 13 · L 19-35 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Loss with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

#3

@ No. 136 Massachusetts

Week 12 · W 45-3 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Win with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

#4

@ No. 48 Toledo

Week 11 · L 3-42 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Loss with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

#5

vs No. 132 Ball State

Week 9 · W 21-7 · Conference game

0

Touchdowns

0 takeover

Win with a strong all-around stat line.

0 primary-metric impact.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Northern Illinois

0 primary output · efficiency · usage

100

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games