College Football Stat Leaders

ACC Points Per Opportunity Leaders

Source-provided offensive points per scoring opportunity.

Seasons Covered

2004-2025

Current Leader

Miami (4.96)

Best Season

Miami 2024 (4.96)

Scope

ACC

What The Numbers Say

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

How Points Per Opportunity Reads

Points per opportunity focuses on finishing drives after an offense creates a scoring chance, making it a red-zone and short-field complement to yardage and PPA. On this ACC leaderboard, the visible range runs 4.96 to 4.69, with Miami setting the pace.

ACC Context

ACC teams have claimed 100% of the yearly leaderboard wins in this filtered dataset, and NC State is the latest winner at 4.69.

Spread At The Top

The gap from No. 1 Miami to No. 5 NC State is 0.27, which shows how tightly packed the top of this leaderboard is.

Recent Trend And Baseline

The yearly winning mark slipped from 4.96 in 2024 to 4.69 in 2025, a swing of 0.27. Miami's current mark of 4.96 sits above the all-time average leader benchmark of 4.15 held by SMU.

Leaderboard

Top 25 rows for the current route scope.

Trend Chart

Yearly winning values for the current filter scope.

Line chart. Line chart with 1 data series: Points Per Opportunity. Categories include 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 18 more.

Historical Leaderboard

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

RankTeamSeasonsAverageBest Season
1SMU2025, 20244.152024 (4.41)
2Louisville2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 20143.872021 (4.45)
3Pittsburgh2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 20133.412021 (4.59)
4California2025, 20243.392025 (3.70)
5Stanford2025, 20243.342024 (3.67)
6Syracuse2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 20133.002024 (4.23)
7Clemson2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20042.172019 (4.58)
8North Carolina2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20042.122020 (4.75)
9Miami2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20042.082024 (4.96)
10NC State2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20042.072025 (4.69)
11Florida State2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20042.012023 (4.45)
12Georgia Tech2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20041.942024 (4.25)
13Wake Forest2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20041.902022 (4.73)
14Virginia2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20041.892021 (4.33)
15Boston College2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 20051.882024 (4.00)
16Virginia Tech2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20041.882023 (4.32)
17Duke2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20041.852025 (4.32)
18Maryland2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004-0.092009 (0.00)

Frequently Asked Questions

Who leads the ACC points per opportunity leaderboard?

Miami ranks first at 4.96.

Which ACC program has the best long-term points per opportunity profile?

SMU owns the strongest all-time average at 4.15 across 2 tracked seasons in this conference scope.

How does the ACC race compare with the recent trend?

NC State 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.