College Football Stat Leaders

2008 Offensive PPA Leaders

Source-provided CFBD Predicted Points Added per offensive play.

Seasons Covered

2004-2025

Current Leader

Texas Tech (0.232)

Best Season

LSU 2023 (0.483)

Scope

All Conferences • 2008

Browse Metrics

Crawl sibling stat pages without leaving the shared leaderboard template.

Total Yards Per Game Passing Yards Per Game Rushing Yards Per Game Points Per Game Offensive PPA Defensive PPA Turnover Margin Havoc Rate

Season Selector

All-Time 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004

Conference Selector

All Conferences ACC Big 12 Big Ten Conference USA MAC Mountain West Pac-12 SEC Sun Belt

Summary

Offensive PPA is an efficiency metric rather than a volume metric, so the top teams here are usually the ones that create value per snap instead of simply running more plays than everybody else.

Offensive PPA pages track college football teams in 2008 using a shared leaderboard template with season winners, all-time context, and trend lines across 2004 through 2025.

Texas Tech sits atop the current leaderboard at 0.232, giving the page an immediate answer for fans comparing the top teams in this metric.

Ohio State owns the strongest average across 22 seasons at 0.209, while Vanderbilt anchors the recent year-by-year trend view.

Texas Tech currently headlines this route, while Vanderbilt supplies the most recent yearly-winner checkpoint in 2025, giving the page both snapshot and trend context.

What The Numbers Say

Route-specific context pulled from the current leaderboard, winner trend, and historical baseline.

How Offensive PPA Reads

Offensive PPA is CFBD's source-provided per-play scoring-value metric, so this page verifies local mapping, scale, and display rather than recreating the underlying play-level model. On this 2008 leaderboard, the visible range runs 0.232 to 0.150, with Texas Tech setting the pace.

Conference Context

Big 12 Conference places 3 of the current top 5 teams, while Southeastern Conference owns the most recent yearly winner slot in the trend table.

Spread At The Top

The gap from No. 1 Texas Tech to No. 5 Oklahoma is 0.082, which shows how tightly packed the top of this leaderboard is.

Recent Trend And Baseline

The yearly winning mark improved from 0.406 in 2024 to 0.413 in 2025, a swing of 0.007. Texas Tech's current mark of 0.232 sits above the all-time average leader benchmark of 0.209 held by Ohio State.

Leaderboard

Top 25 rows for the current route scope.


1	Texas Tech	Big 12 Conference	2008	0.232
2	Houston	Conference USA	2008	0.198
3	Texas	Big 12 Conference	2008	0.181
4	Florida	Southeastern Conference	2008	0.151
5	Oklahoma	Big 12 Conference	2008	0.150
6	Oklahoma State	Big 12 Conference	2008	0.148
7	Tulsa	Conference USA	2008	0.147
8	Ball State	Mid-American Conference	2008	0.144
9	USC	Pacific-10 Conference	2008	0.144
10	BYU	Mountain West Conference	2008	0.143
11	Georgia	Southeastern Conference	2008	0.137
12	Texas State	Southland Conference	2008	0.134
13	Penn State	Big Ten Conference	2008	0.127
14	Missouri	Big 12 Conference	2008	0.126
15	Rice	Conference USA	2008	0.123
16	Nebraska	Big 12 Conference	2008	0.120
17	Boise State	Western Athletic Conference	2008	0.117
18	Wisconsin	Big Ten Conference	2008	0.114
19	Kansas	Big 12 Conference	2008	0.107
20	Fresno State	Pac-12	2008	0.096
21	Utah	Mountain West Conference	2008	0.094
22	TCU	Mountain West Conference	2008	0.094
23	Baylor	Big 12 Conference	2008	0.093
24	Kent State	Mid-American Conference	2008	0.092
25	Central Michigan	Mid-American Conference	2008	0.087

Trend Chart

Yearly winning values for the current filter scope.

Yearly Winners

Season	Team	Conference at time	Value
2025	Vanderbilt	Southeastern Conference	0.413
2024	Miami	Atlantic Coast Conference	0.406
2023	LSU	Southeastern Conference	0.483
2022	USC	Pac-12 Conference	0.400
2021	Coastal Carolina	Sun Belt Conference	0.451
2020	Kent State	Mid-American Conference	0.458
2019	LSU	Southeastern Conference	0.414
2018	Oklahoma	Big 12 Conference	0.481
2017	Oklahoma	Big 12 Conference	0.419
2016	Oklahoma	Big 12 Conference	0.376
2015	James Madison	Coastal Athletic Association Football Conference	0.378
2014	Oregon	Pac-12 Conference	0.389
2013	Florida State	Atlantic Coast Conference	0.272
2012	Alabama	Southeastern Conference	0.181
2011	Wisconsin	Big Ten Conference	0.213
2010	Wisconsin	Big Ten Conference	0.212
2009	Nevada	Western Athletic Conference	0.175
2008	Texas Tech	Big 12 Conference	0.232
2007	Florida	Southeastern Conference	0.207
2006	Hawai'i	Western Athletic Conference	0.226
2005	Texas State	Southland Conference	0.269
2004	Louisiana	Sun Belt Conference	0.130

Historical Leaderboard

Average across seasons for each team in the current filter scope.

Rank	Team	Seasons	Average	Best Season
1	Ohio State	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004	0.209	2021 (0.432)
2	Oregon	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004	0.202	2023 (0.469)
3	Alabama	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004	0.199	2020 (0.433)
4	Oklahoma	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004	0.195	2018 (0.481)
5	Delaware	2025	0.193	2025 (0.193)
6	Texas Tech	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004	0.187	2016 (0.303)
7	USC	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004	0.184	2022 (0.400)
8	Georgia	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004	0.182	2023 (0.399)
9	Louisville	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004	0.174	2017 (0.336)
10	Missouri State	2025	0.171	2025 (0.171)
11	Air Force	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004	0.169	2020 (0.311)
12	Navy	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004	0.169	2019 (0.349)
13	Boise State	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004	0.164	2024 (0.331)
14	LSU	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004	0.163	2023 (0.483)
15	Notre Dame	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004	0.157	2023 (0.342)
16	Texas A&M	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004	0.157	2020 (0.287)
17	BYU	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004	0.151	2020 (0.416)
18	Ole Miss	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004	0.150	2024 (0.356)
19	Texas	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004	0.149	2021 (0.306)
20	Toledo	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004	0.149	2016 (0.339)
21	Memphis	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004	0.148	2017 (0.327)
22	Old Dominion	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013	0.145	2014 (0.260)
23	North Carolina	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004	0.144	2020 (0.393)
24	Oklahoma State	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004	0.143	2017 (0.304)
25	Florida	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004	0.143	2020 (0.319)

Frequently Asked Questions

Who leads college football in offensive ppa in 2008?

Texas Tech ranks first at 0.232 in 2008.

Why does the 2008 offensive ppa season stand out?

The top of the 2008 leaderboard is separated by 0.082 from No. 1 to No. 5, which shows whether this season had a runaway leader or a tightly packed race.

How does the 2008 leader compare with the all-time average benchmark?

Texas Tech's 2008 mark of 0.232 clears the all-time average leader benchmark of 0.209 held by Ohio State.