#5 Penn State Nittany Lions

Team

	GP	PTS	YDS	PLY	AVG	RUSH YDS	RUSH ATT	RUSH AVG	PASS YDS	PASS ATT	PASS AVG
Team	11	454	5,211	798	6.5	3,563	619	5.8	1,648	179	9.2
Team Rank		3rd	3rd	37th	2nd	5th	14th	2nd	39th	98th	2nd
Opponent	11	131	3,133		4.1	1,601	483	3.3	1,532	282	5.4
Opponent Rank		68th	45th		35th	30th	29th	35th	88th	111th	27th
Net		+323	+2,078	+798	+2.4	+1,962	+136	+2.4	+116	-103	+3.8
Net Rank		3rd	5th	37th	2nd	6th	16th	4th	45th	112th	2nd

Player Stats

Passing	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%
John Hufnagel J. Hufnagel	11	86	136	63.2	12.4	1,185	8.7	107.7	10	6	151.9	7.4	4.4
Steve Joachim S. Joachim	11	16	41	39.0	3.7	399	9.7	36.3	7	3	162.5	17.1	7.3
Jack Koniszewski J. Koniszewski	11	1	1	100.0	0.1	64	64.0	5.8	1	0	967.6	100.0	0.0
Steve Stilley S. Stilley	11	0	1	0.0	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	1	-200.0	0.0	100.0

Rushing	GP	ATT	ATT/G	YDS	YPC	YDS/G	TD	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
Lydell Mitchell L. Mitchell	11	254	23.1	1,567	6.2	142.5	26	270	1,721
Franco Harris F. Harris	11	123	11.2	684	5.6	62.2	6	133	781
John Hufnagel J. Hufnagel	11	79	7.2	346	4.4	31.5	3
Tom Donchez T. Donchez	11	43	3.9	243	5.7	22.1	2	49	290
Steve Stilley S. Stilley	11	34	3.1	151	4.4	13.7	1	35	170
Ken Andrews K. Andrews	11	18	1.6	96	5.3	8.7	2	19	103
Steve Joachim S. Joachim	11	17	1.5	48	2.8	4.4	1
Carl Cayette C. Cayette	11	16	1.5	60	3.8	5.5	0
Bob Nagle B. Nagle	11	13	1.2	60	4.6	5.5	0	14	90
Bob Parsons B. Parsons	11	11	1.0	86	7.8	7.8	0	41	575
Glen Cole G. Cole	11	5	0.5	16	3.2	1.5	0	10	94
Jack Koniszewski J. Koniszewski	11	3	0.3	5	1.7	0.5	0
Jim Scott J. Scott	11	2	0.2	3	1.5	0.3	0	5	125

Receiving	GP	REC	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
Bob Parsons B. Parsons	11	30	2.7	489	16.3	44.5	5	41	575
Lydell Mitchell L. Mitchell	11	16	1.5	154	9.6	14.0	3	270	1,721
Scott Skarzynski S. Skarzynski	11	12	1.1	204	17.0	18.5	1
Franco Harris F. Harris	11	10	0.9	97	9.7	8.8	1	133	781
Bob Rickenbach B. Rickenbach	11	9	0.8	149	16.6	13.5	0
Chuck Herd C. Herd	11	6	0.5	224	37.3	20.4	3
Tom Donchez T. Donchez	11	6	0.5	47	7.8	4.3	0	49	290
Glen Cole G. Cole	11	5	0.5	78	15.6	7.1	1	10	94
Jim Scott J. Scott	11	3	0.3	122	40.7	11.1	1	5	125
John Hull J. Hull	11	2	0.2	15	7.5	1.4	0
Bob Nagle B. Nagle	11	1	0.1	30	30.0	2.7	1	14	90
Steve Stilley S. Stilley	11	1	0.1	19	19.0	1.7	1	35	170
Gary Debes G. Debes	11	1	0.1	13	13.0	1.2	1
Ken Andrews K. Andrews	11	1	0.1	7	7.0	0.6	0	19	103

Scoring	GP	RUSH	REC	TOT	PTS
Lydell Mitchell L. Mitchell	11	26	3	29	174
John Hufnagel J. Hufnagel	11	3		13	78
Steve Joachim S. Joachim	11	1		8	48
Franco Harris F. Harris	11	6	1	7	42
Bob Parsons B. Parsons	11	0	5	5	30
Chuck Herd C. Herd	11		3	3	18
Ken Andrews K. Andrews	11	2	0	2	12
Tom Donchez T. Donchez	11	2	0	2	12
Steve Stilley S. Stilley	11	1	1	2	12
Glen Cole G. Cole	11	0	1	1	6
Gary Debes G. Debes	11		1	1	6
Jack Koniszewski J. Koniszewski	11	0		1	6
Bob Nagle B. Nagle	11	0	1	1	6
Jim Scott J. Scott	11	0	1	1	6
Scott Skarzynski S. Skarzynski	11		1	1	6

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CFB 2026 Leaders

Pass Yards Leaders

635

Maiava

550

Weaver

525

Hedden

Rush Yards Leaders

280

Carter

227

Sheppard

200

Woodson

Rec Yards Leaders

234

Toney

222

Mosley

196

Duff

Pass TD Leaders

7

Heintschel

6

Boley

5

Weaver

Rush TD Leaders

5

Carter

3

Robinson

3

Anderson

Rec TD Leaders

4

Williams

3

Mosley

3

Toney

QB Rating Leaders

285.0

Hoover

281.3

Baker

272.0

Becht

Sack Leaders

3.5

Kinsler

3.0

Gilliam

3.0

Lester

CFB 2026 Rankings

PPG Rankings

80.0

73.0

71.0

70.0

66.0

Opp PPG Rankings

0.0

Total Yards Rankings

762.0

681.0

671.0

660.0

648.0

Rush Yards Rankings

569.0

506.0

465.0

431.0

365.0

364.0

Pass Yards Rankings

480.0

435.0

434.0

432.0

428.0

417.0

Sack Leaders

9.0

6.0

CFB 2026 Standings

	Southeastern	W	PCT
1	Alabama	1	1.000
2	Arkansas	1	1.000
3	Auburn	1	1.000
4	Florida	1	1.000
5	Georgia	1	1.000
6	Kentucky	1	1.000
7	LSU	1	1.000
8	Mississippi State	1	1.000
9	Missouri	1	1.000
10	Oklahoma	1	1.000
11	South Carolina	1	1.000
12	Tennessee	1	1.000
13	Texas	1	1.000
14	Texas A&M	1	1.000
15	Vanderbilt	1	1.000
16	Ole Miss	1	1.000

	Sun Belt	W	L	PCT
1	Appalachian State	1	0	1.000
2	Louisiana	1	0	1.000
3	Georgia Southern	1	0	1.000
4	Louisiana Tech	1	0	1.000
5	Georgia State	1	0	1.000
6	South Alabama	1	0	1.000
7	James Madison	1	0	1.000
8	Southern Miss	1	0	1.000
9	Old Dominion	1	0	1.000
10	Troy	1	0	1.000
11	Coastal Carolina	0	1	.000
12	Arkansas State	0	1	.000
13	Marshall	0	1	.000
14	Louisiana-Monroe	0	1	.000

	Big 12	W	L	PCT
1	Arizona	1	0	1.000
2	Arizona State	1	0	1.000
3	BYU	1	0	1.000
4	Cincinnati	1	0	1.000
5	Colorado	1	0	1.000
6	Houston	1	0	1.000
7	Iowa State	1	0	1.000
8	Kansas	1	0	1.000
9	Kansas State	1	0	1.000
10	Texas Tech	1	0	1.000
11	UCF	1	0	1.000
12	Utah	1	0	1.000
13	West Virginia	1	0	1.000
14	Baylor	0	1	.000
15	Oklahoma State	0	1	.000
16	TCU	0	1	.000

	Pac-12	W	L	PCT
1	Colorado State	1	0	1.000
2	San Diego State	1	0	1.000
3	Washington State	0	1	.000
4	Boise State	0	1	.000
5	Fresno State	0	1	.000
6	Oregon State	0	1	.000
7	Texas State	0	1	.000
8	Utah State	0	1	.000

	Independent	W	L	PCT
1	UConn	1	0	1.000
2	Notre Dame	1	0	1.000

	Mid-American	W	L	PCT
1	Eastern Michigan	1	1	.500
2	Buffalo	1	0	1.000
3	UMass	1	0	1.000
4	Akron	0	1	.000
5	Ball State	0	1	.000
6	Bowling Green	0	1	.000
7	Central Michigan	0	1	.000
8	Kent State	0	1	.000
9	Miami (OH)	0	1	.000
10	Ohio	0	1	.000
11	Toledo	0	1	.000
12	Western Michigan	0	1	.000
13	Sacramento State	1	1	.500

	American Athletic	W	L	PCT
1	Memphis	2	0	1.000
2	Army	1	0	1.000
3	Navy	1	0	1.000
4	Rice	1	0	1.000
5	South Florida	1	0	1.000
6	Temple	1	0	1.000
7	Tulane	0	1	.000
8	UTSA	1	0	1.000
9	Charlotte	0	1	.000
10	East Carolina	0	1	.000
11	Florida Atlantic	0	1	.000
12	North Texas	0	1	.000
13	Tulsa	1	0	1.000
14	UAB	0	1	.000

	Atlantic Coast	W	L	PCT
1	Miami	1	0	1.000
2	Virginia	1	0	1.000
3	Duke	1	0	1.000
4	Florida State	1	0	1.000
5	North Carolina	1	0	1.000
6	Pittsburgh	1	0	1.000
7	Syracuse	1	0	1.000
8	Virginia Tech	1	0	1.000
9	Wake Forest	1	0	1.000
10	Louisville	0	1	.000
11	SMU	0	0
12	Boston College	0	1	.000
13	California	0	1	.000
14	Clemson	0	1	.000
15	Georgia Tech	0	1	.000
16	Stanford	1	1	.500
17	NC State	0	1	.000

	Mountain West	W	L	PCT
1	UNLV	1	1	.500
2	North Dakota State	2	0	1.000
3	Air Force	1	0	1.000
4	Nevada	1	0	1.000
5	San Jose State	1	1	.500
6	Northern Illinois	0	1	.000
7	New Mexico	1	0	1.000
8	UTEP	0	1	.000
9	Wyoming	0	1	.000
10	Hawai'i	0	2	.000

	Big 10	W	L	PCT
1	USC	2	0	1.000
2	Illinois	1	0	1.000
3	Indiana	1	0	1.000
4	Iowa	1	0	1.000
5	Maryland	1	0	1.000
6	Michigan	1	0	1.000
7	Michigan State	1	0	1.000
8	Minnesota	1	0	1.000
9	Nebraska	1	0	1.000
10	Northwestern	1	0	1.000
11	Ohio State	1	0	1.000
12	Oregon	1	0	1.000
13	Penn State	1	0	1.000
14	Purdue	1	0	1.000
15	UCLA	1	0	1.000
16	Washington	1	0	1.000
17	Wisconsin	0	1	.000
18	Rutgers	0	1	.000

	Conference USA	W	L	PCT
1	Delaware	1	0	1.000
2	Kennesaw State	1	0	1.000
3	Middle Tennessee	1	0	1.000
4	Jacksonville State	1	1	.500
5	New Mexico State	1	1	.500
6	Florida International	0	1	.000
7	Liberty	0	1	.000
8	Missouri State	0	1	.000
9	Sam Houston	0	1	.000
10	Western Kentucky	0	1	.000