College Football Stat Leaders
Average defensive tackles for loss recorded per game.
Seasons Covered
2016-2025
Current Leader
Oregon State (5.25)
Best Season
Oregon State 2019 (8.75)
Scope
Pac-12 • 2025
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Route-specific context pulled from the current leaderboard, winner trend, and historical baseline.
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 5.25 to 5.15, with Oregon State setting the pace.
Pac-12 teams have claimed 100% of the yearly leaderboard wins in this filtered dataset, and Oregon State is the latest winner at 5.25.
The gap from No. 1 Oregon State to No. 3 Fresno State is 0.10, which shows how tightly packed the top of this leaderboard is.
The yearly winning mark improved from 5.00 in 2024 to 5.25 in 2025, a swing of 0.25. Oregon State's current mark of 5.25 sits below the all-time average leader benchmark of 6.22 held by Utah.
Top 3 rows for the current route scope.
| 1 | Oregon State | Pac-12 Conference | 2025 | 5.25 |
| 2 | Washington State | Pac-12 Conference | 2025 | 5.23 |
| 3 | Fresno State | Pac-12 | 2025 | 5.15 |
Yearly winning values for the current filter scope.
| Season | Team | Conference at time | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Oregon State | Pac-12 Conference | 5.25 |
| 2024 | Washington State | Pac-12 Conference | 5.00 |
| 2023 | UCLA | Pac-12 Conference | 8.08 |
| 2022 | Utah | Pac-12 Conference | 5.86 |
| 2021 | Utah | Pac-12 Conference | 7.00 |
| 2020 | Colorado | Pac-12 Conference | 8.17 |
| 2019 | Oregon State | Pac-12 Conference | 8.75 |
| 2018 | Utah | Pac-12 Conference | 7.64 |
| 2017 | Oregon | Pac-12 Conference | 7.23 |
| 2016 | Utah | Pac-12 Conference | 7.77 |
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 | 6.22 | 2016 (7.77) |
| 2 | Arizona State | 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 6.12 | 2019 (8.00) |
| 3 | UCLA | 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 6.02 | 2023 (8.08) |
| 4 | Fresno State | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 5.84 | 2019 (7.58) |
| 5 | USC | 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 5.71 | 2019 (7.23) |
| 6 | Washington State | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 5.70 | 2017 (7.08) |
| 7 | Colorado | 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 5.59 | 2020 (8.17) |
| 8 | Arizona | 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 5.51 | 2019 (6.58) |
| 9 | Oregon | 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 5.50 | 2019 (7.86) |
| 10 | Washington | 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 5.40 | 2019 (6.85) |
| 11 | Stanford | 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 5.35 | 2019 (7.75) |
| 12 | California | 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 5.25 | 2019 (8.08) |
| 13 | Oregon State | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 5.05 | 2019 (8.75) |
Oregon State ranks first at 5.25 in 2025.
Utah owns the strongest all-time average at 6.22 across 8 tracked seasons in this conference scope.
Oregon 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.