The trenches
| Pass rush | sack rate | stopped behind the line | faces | sacks allowed | pairing |
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| NDSU pass rush | 4.9% 8276th | 8.2% 18279th | faces | — | — |
| pass rush | — | — | faces NDSU | 2.8% 7223rd | — |
sacks from CFBD play-by-play; college has no charted pressure, and these rates are not opponent-adjusted Measured on 7,926 team-games 2022–25: a college line's sacks-allowed rate carries +0.27 into its next game and a defence's sack rate only +0.10 — the line is most of this. The pairing predicts the game's sack rate +0.27, yards per dropback −0.16 and points added per play −0.15. Heaviest quarter of pairings against lightest: 7.8% vs 4.2% sack rate, 6.1 vs 7.2 yards per dropback.
null with the ball
| offence vs NDSU defence | offence | NDSU defence | rank gap |
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NDSU with the ball
| NDSU offence vs defence | NDSU offence | defence | rank gap |
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| points added per play | 0.15770th | — | — |
| success rate | 0.400107th | — | — |
| explosiveness (points added on successful plays) | 1.41415th | — | — |
| rush: points added per play | 0.04099th | — | — |
| rush: success rate | 0.349131st | — | — |
| rush: explosiveness | 1.08125th | — | — |
| pass: points added per play | 0.37738th | — | — |
| pass: success rate | 0.48538th | — | — |
| pass: explosiveness | 1.79420th | — | — |
| standard downs: success rate | 0.456103rd | — | — |
| passing downs: success rate | 0.275101st | — | — |
| line yards per rush (the O-line) | 2.826107th | — | — |
| rushes stopped at or behind the line | 0.19194th | — | — |
| short-yardage conversion rate | 0.69297th | — | — |
| points per trip inside the 40 | 4.08360th | — | — |
| havoc allowed (TFL, forced fumbles, breakups per play) | 0.11532nd | — | — |
| havoc allowed by the front seven | 0.06928th | — | — |
| havoc allowed by the secondary | 0.04654th | — | — |
| average starting field position (yards from own goal) | 70.40072nd | — | — |
Rank gap = the defence's FBS rank minus the offence's on the same measure: +60 means the offence ranks 60 places better than the defence it faces. Unit against unit only — college has no player charting to name a matchup by.