College Football Stat Leaders

2025 ACC Tackles For Loss Per Game Leaders

Average defensive tackles for loss recorded per game.

Seasons Covered

2016-2025

Current Leader

Pittsburgh (7.69)

Best Season

Miami 2019 (11.54)

Scope

ACC • 2025

Browse Metrics

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Total Yards Per GamePassing Yards Per GameRushing Yards Per GamePoints Per GameYards Allowed Per GameSacks Per GameTackles For Loss Per GameThird Down Conversion RatePoints Per OpportunityOffensive PPADefensive PPATurnover MarginHavoc Rate

What The Numbers Say

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

How Tackles For Loss Per Game Reads

Tackles for loss per game measures how often a defense creates negative snaps before an offense can stay on schedule. On this 2025 leaderboard, the visible range runs 7.69 to 6.38, with Pittsburgh setting the pace.

ACC Context

ACC teams have claimed 100% of the yearly leaderboard wins in this filtered dataset, and Pittsburgh is the latest winner at 7.69.

Spread At The Top

The gap from No. 1 Pittsburgh to No. 5 Miami is 1.32, which shows how tightly packed the top of this leaderboard is.

Recent Trend And Baseline

The yearly winning mark slipped from 8.92 in 2024 to 7.69 in 2025, a swing of 1.23. Pittsburgh's current mark of 7.69 sits below the all-time average leader benchmark of 8.02 held by Miami.

Leaderboard

Top 17 rows for the current route scope.

1PittsburghAtlantic Coast Conference20257.69
2Wake ForestAtlantic Coast Conference20257.38
3DukeAtlantic Coast Conference20256.71
4ClemsonAtlantic Coast Conference20256.54
5MiamiAtlantic Coast Conference20256.38
6SMUAtlantic Coast Conference20256.31
7Florida StateAtlantic Coast Conference20256.08
8LouisvilleAtlantic Coast Conference20255.92
9North CarolinaAtlantic Coast Conference20255.08
10NC StateAtlantic Coast Conference20255.08
11StanfordAtlantic Coast Conference20254.92
12Virginia TechAtlantic Coast Conference20254.92
13Georgia TechAtlantic Coast Conference20254.85
14SyracuseAtlantic Coast Conference20254.83
15VirginiaAtlantic Coast Conference20254.79
16CaliforniaAtlantic Coast Conference20254.62
17Boston CollegeAtlantic Coast Conference20253.83

Trend Chart

Yearly winning values for the current filter scope.

Line chart. Line chart with 1 data series: Tackles For Loss Per Game. Categories include 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 6 more.

Yearly Winners

SeasonTeamConference at timeValue
2025PittsburghAtlantic Coast Conference7.69
2024DukeAtlantic Coast Conference8.92
2023Florida StateAtlantic Coast Conference7.00
2022ClemsonAtlantic Coast Conference7.57
2021PittsburghAtlantic Coast Conference8.07
2020PittsburghAtlantic Coast Conference10.00
2019MiamiAtlantic Coast Conference11.54
2018MiamiAtlantic Coast Conference10.31
2017Wake ForestAtlantic Coast Conference8.08
2016ClemsonAtlantic Coast Conference8.67

Historical Leaderboard

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

RankTeamSeasonsAverageBest Season
1Miami2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 20168.022019 (11.54)
2Clemson2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 20167.772019 (9.27)
3Pittsburgh2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 20167.382020 (10.00)
4Wake Forest2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 20166.742017 (8.08)
5Virginia Tech2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 20166.722019 (8.46)
6NC State2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 20166.642019 (8.50)
7SMU2025, 20246.552024 (6.79)
8Florida State2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 20166.382021 (7.17)
9Duke2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 20166.362024 (8.92)
10Louisville2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 20166.192019 (7.92)
11Syracuse2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 20165.972021 (7.00)
12Boston College2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 20165.872019 (9.54)
13North Carolina2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 20165.732019 (8.08)
14Virginia2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 20165.492019 (8.29)
15California2025, 20245.232024 (5.85)
16Georgia Tech2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 20165.232019 (7.00)
17Stanford2025, 20245.082024 (5.25)

Frequently Asked Questions

Who leads the ACC tackles for loss per game leaderboard in 2025?

Pittsburgh ranks first at 7.69 in 2025.

Which ACC program has the best long-term tackles for loss per game profile?

Miami owns the strongest all-time average at 8.02 across 10 tracked seasons in this conference scope.

How does the ACC race compare with the recent trend?

Pittsburgh 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.