College Football Stat Leaders
Average points scored per completed game.
Seasons Covered
2012-2025
Current Leader
SMU (37.2)
Best Season
UCF 2017 (48.2)
Scope
American • 2022
Crawl sibling stat pages without leaving the shared leaderboard template.
Route-specific context pulled from the current leaderboard, winner trend, and historical baseline.
Points per game turns completed game scores into a scoreboard-facing rate, which makes it the simplest way to compare how often elite offenses actually finish drives instead of just piling up empty yards. On this 2022 leaderboard, the visible range runs 37.2 to 35.3, with SMU setting the pace.
American teams have claimed 100% of the yearly leaderboard wins in this filtered dataset, and North Texas is the latest winner at 45.1.
The gap from No. 1 SMU to No. 5 Memphis is 1.9, which shows how tightly packed the top of this leaderboard is.
The yearly winning mark improved from 35.7 in 2024 to 45.1 in 2025, a swing of 9.4. SMU's current mark of 37.2 sits below the all-time average leader benchmark of 37.7 held by North Texas.
Top 12 rows for the current route scope.
| 1 | SMU | American Athletic Conference | 2022 | 37.2 |
| 2 | UTSA | American Athletic | 2022 | 36.8 |
| 3 | Houston | American Athletic Conference | 2022 | 36.1 |
| 4 | Tulane | American Athletic Conference | 2022 | 36.0 |
| 5 | Memphis | American Athletic Conference | 2022 | 35.3 |
| 6 | UCF | American Athletic Conference | 2022 | 32.9 |
| 7 | East Carolina | American Athletic Conference | 2022 | 32.5 |
| 8 | Tulsa | American Athletic Conference | 2022 | 30.6 |
| 9 | Cincinnati | American Athletic Conference | 2022 | 29.2 |
| 10 | South Florida | American Athletic Conference | 2022 | 28.0 |
| 11 | Navy | American Athletic Conference | 2022 | 21.9 |
| 12 | Temple | American Athletic Conference | 2022 | 21.9 |
Yearly winning values for the current filter scope.
| Season | Team | Conference at time | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | North Texas | American Athletic Conference | 45.1 |
| 2024 | Memphis | American Athletic Conference | 35.7 |
| 2023 | Memphis | American Athletic Conference | 39.4 |
| 2022 | SMU | American Athletic Conference | 37.2 |
| 2021 | SMU | American Athletic Conference | 38.4 |
| 2020 | UCF | American Athletic Conference | 42.2 |
| 2019 | UCF | American Athletic Conference | 43.4 |
| 2018 | Houston | American Athletic Conference | 43.9 |
| 2017 | UCF | American Athletic Conference | 48.2 |
| 2016 | South Florida | American Athletic Conference | 43.8 |
| 2015 | Houston | American Athletic Conference | 40.4 |
| 2014 | Memphis | American Athletic Conference | 36.2 |
| 2013 | Louisville | American Athletic Conference | 35.2 |
| 2012 | UTSA | American Athletic | 31.2 |
Average across seasons for each team in the current filter scope.
| Rank | Team | Seasons | Average | Best Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Texas | 2025, 2024, 2023 | 37.7 | 2025 (45.1) |
| 2 | Memphis | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 | 36.0 | 2017 (45.5) |
| 3 | Louisville | 2013 | 35.2 | 2013 (35.2) |
| 4 | UCF | 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 | 34.7 | 2017 (48.2) |
| 5 | Houston | 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 | 34.4 | 2018 (43.9) |
| 6 | SMU | 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 | 32.4 | 2019 (41.8) |
| 7 | Cincinnati | 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 | 30.8 | 2020 (37.5) |
| 8 | South Florida | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 | 28.8 | 2016 (43.8) |
| 9 | Tulsa | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014 | 28.3 | 2016 (42.5) |
| 10 | East Carolina | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014 | 28.3 | 2014 (35.8) |
| 11 | Tulane | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014 | 27.9 | 2022 (36.0) |
| 12 | Navy | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 | 27.8 | 2016 (37.9) |
| 13 | UTSA | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 | 27.6 | 2021 (36.9) |
| 14 | UAB | 2025, 2024, 2023 | 27.5 | 2023 (29.9) |
| 15 | Army | 2025, 2024 | 27.5 | 2024 (31.1) |
| 16 | Rutgers | 2013 | 26.5 | 2013 (26.5) |
| 17 | Florida Atlantic | 2025, 2024, 2023 | 26.4 | 2025 (29.5) |
| 18 | Temple | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 | 24.9 | 2018 (34.9) |
| 19 | Rice | 2025, 2024, 2023 | 23.6 | 2023 (29.5) |
| 20 | UConn | 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 | 19.0 | 2017 (23.6) |
| 21 | Charlotte | 2025, 2024, 2023 | 18.5 | 2024 (23.7) |
SMU ranks first at 37.2 in 2022.
North Texas owns the strongest all-time average at 37.7 across 3 tracked seasons in this conference scope.
North Texas is the most recent yearly winner in this conference scope, so the route combines the current leaderboard with a recent trend line instead of showing only one season snapshot.