College Football Stat Leaders
Average defensive tackles for loss recorded per game.
Seasons Covered
2016-2025
Current Leader
James Madison (8.73)
Best Season
Arkansas State 2016 (10.15)
Scope
Sun Belt • 2022
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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 2022 leaderboard, the visible range runs 8.73 to 6.31, with James Madison setting the pace.
Sun Belt teams have claimed 100% of the yearly leaderboard wins in this filtered dataset, and Texas State is the latest winner at 7.23.
The gap from No. 1 James Madison to No. 5 Marshall is 2.42, which shows how tightly packed the top of this leaderboard is.
The yearly winning mark slipped from 7.46 in 2024 to 7.23 in 2025, a swing of 0.23. James Madison's current mark of 8.73 sits above the all-time average leader benchmark of 7.68 held by James Madison.
Top 14 rows for the current route scope.
| 1 | James Madison | Sun Belt Conference | 2022 | 8.73 |
| 2 | Southern Miss | Sun Belt Conference | 2022 | 7.85 |
| 3 | Arkansas State | Sun Belt Conference | 2022 | 6.42 |
| 4 | Texas State | Sun Belt Conference | 2022 | 6.42 |
| 5 | Marshall | Sun Belt Conference | 2022 | 6.31 |
| 6 | Old Dominion | Sun Belt | 2022 | 6.17 |
| 7 | South Alabama | Sun Belt Conference | 2022 | 6.15 |
| 8 | Georgia State | Sun Belt Conference | 2022 | 6.08 |
| 9 | Coastal Carolina | Sun Belt Conference | 2022 | 6.08 |
| 10 | UL Monroe | Sun Belt Conference | 2022 | 5.75 |
| 11 | App State | Sun Belt Conference | 2022 | 5.67 |
| 12 | Troy | Sun Belt Conference | 2022 | 5.57 |
| 13 | Louisiana | Sun Belt Conference | 2022 | 4.54 |
| 14 | Georgia Southern | Sun Belt Conference | 2022 | 3.77 |
Yearly winning values for the current filter scope.
| Season | Team | Conference at time | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Texas State | Sun Belt Conference | 7.23 |
| 2024 | Texas State | Sun Belt Conference | 7.46 |
| 2023 | James Madison | Sun Belt Conference | 8.85 |
| 2022 | James Madison | Sun Belt Conference | 8.73 |
| 2021 | App State | Sun Belt Conference | 7.93 |
| 2020 | Georgia State | Sun Belt Conference | 7.40 |
| 2019 | Georgia Southern | Sun Belt Conference | 8.08 |
| 2018 | Troy | Sun Belt Conference | 7.69 |
| 2017 | Troy | Sun Belt Conference | 8.62 |
| 2016 | Arkansas State | Sun Belt Conference | 10.15 |
Average across seasons for each team in the current filter scope.
| Rank | Team | Seasons | Average | Best Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | James Madison | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 | 7.68 | 2023 (8.85) |
| 2 | Troy | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 6.95 | 2017 (8.62) |
| 3 | Arkansas State | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 6.94 | 2016 (10.15) |
| 4 | New Mexico State | 2017, 2016 | 6.70 | 2017 (7.31) |
| 5 | Marshall | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 | 6.39 | 2024 (6.62) |
| 6 | Old Dominion | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 6.27 | 2019 (7.75) |
| 7 | App State | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 6.12 | 2021 (7.93) |
| 8 | Southern Miss | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 | 5.94 | 2022 (7.85) |
| 9 | Texas State | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 5.87 | 2023 (8.15) |
| 10 | Georgia Southern | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 5.71 | 2019 (8.08) |
| 11 | Coastal Carolina | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 | 5.71 | 2019 (7.67) |
| 12 | UL Monroe | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 5.60 | 2018 (6.75) |
| 13 | South Alabama | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 5.54 | 2019 (7.33) |
| 14 | Georgia State | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 5.24 | 2020 (7.40) |
| 15 | Louisiana | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 | 5.01 | 2016 (6.15) |
James Madison ranks first at 8.73 in 2022.
James Madison owns the strongest all-time average at 7.68 across 4 tracked seasons in this conference scope.
Texas 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.