College Football Stat Leaders
Average defensive sacks recorded per game.
Seasons Covered
2016-2025
Current Leader
Utah (3.31)
Best Season
Oregon State 2019 (4.17)
Scope
Pac-12 • 2016
Crawl sibling stat pages without leaving the shared leaderboard template.
Route-specific context pulled from the current leaderboard, winner trend, and historical baseline.
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 2016 leaderboard, the visible range runs 3.31 to 2.25, with Utah setting the pace.
Pac-12 teams have claimed 100% of the yearly leaderboard wins in this filtered dataset, and Washington State is the latest winner at 2.38.
The gap from No. 1 Utah to No. 5 Arizona State is 1.06, which shows how tightly packed the top of this leaderboard is.
The yearly winning mark improved from 1.69 in 2024 to 2.38 in 2025, a swing of 0.69. Utah's current mark of 3.31 sits above the all-time average leader benchmark of 2.59 held by Utah.
Top 13 rows for the current route scope.
| 1 | Utah | Pac-12 Conference | 2016 | 3.31 |
| 2 | Washington | Pac-12 Conference | 2016 | 2.86 |
| 3 | Stanford | Pac-12 Conference | 2016 | 2.85 |
| 4 | Colorado | Pac-12 Conference | 2016 | 2.57 |
| 5 | Arizona State | Pac-12 Conference | 2016 | 2.25 |
| 6 | Oregon | Pac-12 Conference | 2016 | 2.17 |
| 7 | UCLA | Pac-12 Conference | 2016 | 2.08 |
| 8 | USC | Pac-12 Conference | 2016 | 2.00 |
| 9 | Arizona | Pac-12 Conference | 2016 | 1.83 |
| 10 | California | Pac-12 Conference | 2016 | 1.50 |
| 11 | Washington State | Pac-12 Conference | 2016 | 1.46 |
| 12 | Oregon State | Pac-12 Conference | 2016 | 1.42 |
| 13 | Fresno State | Pac-12 | 2016 | 1.17 |
Yearly winning values for the current filter scope.
| Season | Team | Conference at time | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Washington State | Pac-12 Conference | 2.38 |
| 2024 | Washington State | Pac-12 Conference | 1.69 |
| 2023 | UCLA | Pac-12 Conference | 3.23 |
| 2022 | Utah | Pac-12 Conference | 2.93 |
| 2021 | Utah | Pac-12 Conference | 3.00 |
| 2020 | Fresno State | Pac-12 | 4.00 |
| 2019 | Oregon State | Pac-12 Conference | 4.17 |
| 2018 | Stanford | Pac-12 Conference | 2.77 |
| 2017 | Stanford | Pac-12 Conference | 3.21 |
| 2016 | Utah | Pac-12 Conference | 3.31 |
Average across seasons for each team in the current filter scope.
| Rank | Team | Seasons | Average | Best Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Utah | 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 2.59 | 2016 (3.31) |
| 2 | USC | 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 2.35 | 2017 (3.14) |
| 3 | UCLA | 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 2.31 | 2023 (3.23) |
| 4 | Stanford | 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 2.29 | 2019 (3.25) |
| 5 | Washington | 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 2.29 | 2017 (2.92) |
| 6 | Oregon | 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 2.23 | 2019 (4.07) |
| 7 | Arizona State | 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 2.22 | 2017 (2.85) |
| 8 | Washington State | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 2.10 | 2019 (2.77) |
| 9 | Fresno State | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 2.05 | 2020 (4.00) |
| 10 | California | 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 1.99 | 2019 (3.23) |
| 11 | Colorado | 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 1.92 | 2016 (2.57) |
| 12 | Arizona | 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 1.76 | 2023 (2.62) |
| 13 | Oregon State | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 1.69 | 2019 (4.17) |
Utah ranks first at 3.31 in 2016.
Utah owns the strongest all-time average at 2.59 across 8 tracked seasons in this conference scope.
Washington 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.