College Football Stat Leaders

2022 Big 12 Sacks Per Game Leaders

Average defensive sacks recorded per game.

Seasons Covered

2016-2025

Current Leader

Texas Tech (2.23)

Best Season

Baylor 2019 (4.43)

Scope

Big 12 • 2022

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 Yards Allowed Per Game Sacks Per Game Tackles For Loss Per Game Third Down Conversion Rate Points Per Opportunity Offensive PPA Defensive PPA Turnover Margin Havoc Rate

Season Selector

All-Time 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016

Conference Selector

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

Summary

This pass-rush leaderboard is most useful when paired with havoc and defensive efficiency, because a high sack total can come from talent, opponent dropback volume, or frequent passing-down leads.

Sacks Per Game pages track Big 12 teams in 2022 using a shared leaderboard template with season winners, all-time context, and trend lines across 2016 through 2025.

Texas Tech sits atop the current leaderboard at 2.23, giving the page an immediate answer for fans comparing the top teams in this metric.

Oklahoma State owns the strongest average across 10 seasons at 2.44, while Texas Tech anchors the recent year-by-year trend view.

Texas Tech currently headlines this route, while Texas Tech 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 Sacks Per Game Reads

Sacks per game captures pass-rush production and the ability to end opponent drives with negative plays, though it should be read with opponent pass volume and game script. On this 2022 leaderboard, the visible range runs 2.23 to 2.08, with Texas Tech setting the pace.

Big 12 Context

Big 12 teams have claimed 100% of the yearly leaderboard wins in this filtered dataset, and Texas Tech is the latest winner at 2.93.

Spread At The Top

The gap from No. 1 Texas Tech to No. 5 Texas is 0.15, which shows how tightly packed the top of this leaderboard is.

Recent Trend And Baseline

The yearly winning mark slipped from 3.00 in 2024 to 2.93 in 2025, a swing of 0.07. Texas Tech's current mark of 2.23 sits below the all-time average leader benchmark of 2.44 held by Oklahoma State.

Leaderboard

Top 10 rows for the current route scope.


1	Texas Tech	Big 12 Conference	2022	2.23
2	West Virginia	Big 12 Conference	2022	2.17
3	Oklahoma	Big 12 Conference	2022	2.15
4	Kansas State	Big 12 Conference	2022	2.14
5	Texas	Big 12 Conference	2022	2.08
6	TCU	Big 12 Conference	2022	2.00
7	Oklahoma State	Big 12 Conference	2022	1.92
8	Baylor	Big 12 Conference	2022	1.85
9	Kansas	Big 12 Conference	2022	1.85
10	Iowa State	Big 12 Conference	2022	1.50

Trend Chart

Yearly winning values for the current filter scope.

Yearly Winners

Season	Team	Conference at time	Value
2025	Texas Tech	Big 12 Conference	2.93
2024	Colorado	Big 12 Conference	3.00
2023	West Virginia	Big 12 Conference	2.54
2022	Texas Tech	Big 12 Conference	2.23
2021	Oklahoma State	Big 12 Conference	4.07
2020	Oklahoma	Big 12 Conference	3.36
2019	Baylor	Big 12 Conference	4.43
2018	Oklahoma State	Big 12 Conference	3.00
2017	TCU	Big 12 Conference	2.93
2016	Texas	Big 12 Conference	3.42

Historical Leaderboard

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

Rank	Team	Seasons	Average	Best Season
1	Oklahoma State	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016	2.44	2021 (4.07)
2	Oklahoma	2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016	2.32	2020 (3.36)
3	Utah	2025, 2024	2.27	2025 (2.62)
4	TCU	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016	2.26	2016 (3.31)
5	West Virginia	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016	2.20	2019 (3.33)
6	Texas	2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016	2.19	2016 (3.42)
7	Kansas State	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016	2.19	2020 (2.80)
8	Baylor	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016	2.18	2019 (4.43)
9	Colorado	2025, 2024	2.08	2024 (3.00)
10	Arizona State	2025, 2024	2.06	2025 (2.62)
11	Texas Tech	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016	2.00	2025 (2.93)
12	Iowa State	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016	1.94	2019 (3.15)
13	Houston	2025, 2024, 2023	1.94	2025 (2.15)
14	UCF	2025, 2024, 2023	1.87	2025 (2.08)
15	Kansas	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016	1.79	2016 (2.33)
16	Arizona	2025, 2024	1.64	2024 (1.67)
17	Cincinnati	2025, 2024, 2023	1.59	2025 (1.69)
18	BYU	2025, 2024, 2023	1.53	2025 (2.14)

Frequently Asked Questions

Who leads the Big 12 sacks per game leaderboard in 2022?

Texas Tech ranks first at 2.23 in 2022.

Which Big 12 program has the best long-term sacks per game profile?

Oklahoma State owns the strongest all-time average at 2.44 across 10 tracked seasons in this conference scope.

How does the Big 12 race compare with the recent trend?

Texas Tech 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.