The trenches
| Pass rush | sack rate | stopped behind the line | faces | sacks allowed | pairing |
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| NIU pass rush | 3.9% 10292nd | 9.6% 19848th | faces | — | — |
| pass rush | — | — | faces NIU | 10.7% 122133rd | — |
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 NIU defence | offence | NIU defence | rank gap |
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NIU with the ball
| NIU offence vs defence | NIU offence | defence | rank gap |
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| points added per play | -0.121137th | — | — |
| success rate | 0.362127th | — | — |
| explosiveness (points added on successful plays) | 1.19090th | — | — |
| rush: points added per play | -0.112134th | — | — |
| rush: success rate | 0.381117th | — | — |
| rush: explosiveness | 0.87793rd | — | — |
| pass: points added per play | 0.007122nd | — | — |
| pass: success rate | 0.366118th | — | — |
| pass: explosiveness | 1.414108th | — | — |
| standard downs: success rate | 0.442114th | — | — |
| passing downs: success rate | 0.215131st | — | — |
| line yards per rush (the O-line) | 2.560130th | — | — |
| rushes stopped at or behind the line | 0.210113th | — | — |
| short-yardage conversion rate | 0.76558th | — | — |
| points per trip inside the 40 | 1.545137th | — | — |
| havoc allowed (TFL, forced fumbles, breakups per play) | 0.177118th | — | — |
| havoc allowed by the front seven | 0.132132nd | — | — |
| havoc allowed by the secondary | 0.04551st | — | — |
| average starting field position (yards from own goal) | 72.30043rd | — | — |
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.