College Football Stat Leaders

2012 Big Ten Points Per Game Leaders

Average points scored per completed game.

Seasons Covered

2004-2025

Current Leader

Ohio State (37.2)

Best Season

Ohio State 2019 (46.9)

Scope

Big Ten • 2012

Browse Metrics

Crawl sibling stat pages without leaving the shared leaderboard template.

What The Numbers Say

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

How Points Per Game Reads

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 2012 leaderboard, the visible range runs 37.2 to 29.8, with Ohio State setting the pace.

Big Ten Context

Big Ten teams have claimed 100% of the yearly leaderboard wins in this filtered dataset, and Indiana is the latest winner at 41.6.

Spread At The Top

The gap from No. 1 Ohio State to No. 5 Michigan is 7.3, which shows how tightly packed the top of this leaderboard is.

Recent Trend And Baseline

The yearly winning mark improved from 41.3 in 2024 to 41.6 in 2025, a swing of 0.3. Ohio State's current mark of 37.2 sits above the all-time average leader benchmark of 36.6 held by Ohio State.

Leaderboard

Top 12 rows for the current route scope.

1Ohio StateBig Ten Conference201237.2
2NebraskaBig Ten Conference201234.8
3NorthwesternBig Ten Conference201231.7
4IndianaBig Ten Conference201230.8
5MichiganBig Ten Conference201229.8
6WisconsinBig Ten Conference201229.6
7Penn StateBig Ten Conference201229.1
8PurdueBig Ten Conference201228.7
9MinnesotaBig Ten Conference201222.1
10Michigan StateBig Ten Conference201220.0
11IowaBig Ten Conference201219.3
12IllinoisBig Ten Conference201216.7

Trend Chart

Yearly winning values for the current filter scope.

Historical Leaderboard

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

RankTeamSeasonsAverageBest Season
1Ohio State2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 200436.62019 (46.9)
2Oregon2025, 202435.92025 (36.9)
3USC2025, 202433.02025 (35.8)
4Michigan2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 200430.42022 (40.4)
5Penn State2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 200429.92017 (41.1)
6Wisconsin2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 200429.42011 (44.1)
7Washington2025, 202428.72025 (34.1)
8Nebraska2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 201128.02014 (37.8)
9Indiana2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 200427.72025 (41.6)
10Michigan State2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 200426.52014 (43.0)
11Maryland2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 201426.22023 (29.7)
12Minnesota2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 200425.92005 (35.8)
13Iowa2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 200425.82020 (31.8)
14Purdue2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 200425.52007 (34.3)
15Illinois2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 200423.82010 (32.5)
16Northwestern2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 200423.62005 (32.3)
17Rutgers2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 201421.62024 (28.9)
18UCLA2025, 202418.32024 (18.4)

Frequently Asked Questions

Who leads the Big Ten points per game leaderboard in 2012?

Ohio State ranks first at 37.2 in 2012.

Which Big Ten program has the best long-term points per game profile?

Ohio State owns the strongest all-time average at 36.6 across 22 tracked seasons in this conference scope.

How does the Big Ten race compare with the recent trend?

Indiana 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.