College Football Stat Leaders
Average defensive sacks recorded per game.
Seasons Covered
2016-2025
Current Leader
James Madison (3.38)
Best Season
Troy 2019 (3.75)
Scope
Sun Belt • 2023
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 2023 leaderboard, the visible range runs 3.38 to 2.54, with James Madison setting the pace.
Sun Belt teams have claimed 100% of the yearly leaderboard wins in this filtered dataset, and Arkansas State is the latest winner at 3.00.
The gap from No. 1 James Madison to No. 5 Marshall is 0.85, which shows how tightly packed the top of this leaderboard is.
The yearly winning mark slipped from 3.15 in 2024 to 3.00 in 2025, a swing of 0.15. James Madison's current mark of 3.38 sits above the all-time average leader benchmark of 3.12 held by James Madison.
Top 14 rows for the current route scope.
| 1 | James Madison | Sun Belt Conference | 2023 | 3.38 |
| 2 | Troy | Sun Belt Conference | 2023 | 3.29 |
| 3 | Texas State | Sun Belt Conference | 2023 | 2.92 |
| 4 | Louisiana | Sun Belt Conference | 2023 | 2.62 |
| 5 | Marshall | Sun Belt Conference | 2023 | 2.54 |
| 6 | App State | Sun Belt Conference | 2023 | 2.50 |
| 7 | Georgia State | Sun Belt Conference | 2023 | 2.23 |
| 8 | Southern Miss | Sun Belt Conference | 2023 | 2.08 |
| 9 | South Alabama | Sun Belt Conference | 2023 | 2.00 |
| 10 | UL Monroe | Sun Belt Conference | 2023 | 2.00 |
| 11 | Arkansas State | Sun Belt Conference | 2023 | 1.77 |
| 12 | Georgia Southern | Sun Belt Conference | 2023 | 1.77 |
| 13 | Coastal Carolina | Sun Belt Conference | 2023 | 1.54 |
| 14 | Old Dominion | Sun Belt | 2023 | 1.46 |
Yearly winning values for the current filter scope.
| Season | Team | Conference at time | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Arkansas State | Sun Belt Conference | 3.00 |
| 2024 | James Madison | Sun Belt Conference | 3.15 |
| 2023 | James Madison | Sun Belt Conference | 3.38 |
| 2022 | James Madison | Sun Belt Conference | 3.45 |
| 2021 | Troy | Sun Belt Conference | 3.17 |
| 2020 | Georgia State | Sun Belt Conference | 3.20 |
| 2019 | Troy | Sun Belt Conference | 3.75 |
| 2018 | Troy | Sun Belt Conference | 3.00 |
| 2017 | New Mexico State | Sun Belt Conference | 3.38 |
| 2016 | Arkansas State | Sun Belt Conference | 3.31 |
Average across seasons for each team in the current filter scope.
| Rank | Team | Seasons | Average | Best Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | James Madison | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 | 3.12 | 2022 (3.45) |
| 2 | Troy | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 2.77 | 2019 (3.75) |
| 3 | Marshall | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 | 2.58 | 2022 (2.85) |
| 4 | App State | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 2.50 | 2019 (3.29) |
| 5 | Arkansas State | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 2.29 | 2016 (3.31) |
| 6 | Southern Miss | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 | 2.26 | 2022 (3.00) |
| 7 | Old Dominion | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 2.20 | 2025 (3.00) |
| 8 | New Mexico State | 2017, 2016 | 2.15 | 2017 (3.38) |
| 9 | Louisiana | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 2.10 | 2019 (3.14) |
| 10 | Georgia State | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 2.03 | 2020 (3.20) |
| 11 | Coastal Carolina | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 | 1.99 | 2020 (2.67) |
| 12 | UL Monroe | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 1.88 | 2018 (2.83) |
| 13 | South Alabama | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 1.79 | 2021 (2.67) |
| 14 | Texas State | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 1.72 | 2023 (2.92) |
| 15 | Georgia Southern | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 1.67 | 2021 (2.17) |
James Madison ranks first at 3.38 in 2023.
James Madison owns the strongest all-time average at 3.12 across 4 tracked seasons in this conference scope.
Arkansas 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.