#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	431	4,546	826	5.5	2,994	643	4.7	1,552	183	8.5
Team Rank		4th	10th	15th	14th	14th	13th	21st	45th	87th	7th
Opponent	11	120	2,253		3.3	848	427	2.0	1,405	262	5.4
Opponent Rank		63rd	5th		2nd	3rd	12th	2nd	67th	107th	18th
Net		+311	+2,293	+826	+2.2	+2,146	+216	+2.7	+147	-79	+3.1
Net Rank		4th	6th	15th	6th	7th	6th	6th	49th	110th	8th

Player Stats

Passing	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%
Tom Shuman T. Shuman	11	83	161	51.6	14.6	1,375	8.5	125.0	13	5	143.7	8.1	3.1
Dick Barvinchak D. Barvinchak	11	8	15	53.3	1.4	163	10.9	14.8	1	2	139.9	6.7	13.3
John Clark J. Clark	11	1	4	25.0	0.4	-3	-0.8	-0.3	0	0	18.7	0.0	0.0
John Cappelletti J. Cappelletti	11	1	2	50.0	0.2	17	8.5	1.5	0	0	121.4	0.0	0.0
Woody Petchel W. Petchel	11	0	1	0.0	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0

Rushing	GP	ATT	ATT/G	YDS	YPC	YDS/G	TD	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
John Cappelletti J. Cappelletti	11	286	26.0	1,522	5.3	138.4	17	292	1,591
Bob Nagle B. Nagle	11	77	7.0	343	4.5	31.2	7	80	362
Tom Donchez T. Donchez	11	58	5.3	299	5.2	27.2	2	61	331
Tom Shuman T. Shuman	11	44	4.0	-42	-1.0	-3.8	2
Walt Addie W. Addie	11	43	3.9	311	7.2	28.3	2	44	321
Woody Petchel W. Petchel	11	34	3.1	143	4.2	13.0	0
Rusty Boyle R. Boyle	11	28	2.5	125	4.5	11.4	2	29	122
Dick Barvinchak D. Barvinchak	11	21	1.9	33	1.6	3.0	1
John Huttenberger J. Huttenberger	11	19	1.7	93	4.9	8.5	1
Duane Taylor D. Taylor	11	16	1.5	44	2.8	4.0	1
Chuck Herd C. Herd	11	5	0.5	20	4.0	1.8	0	15	217
John Clark J. Clark	11	5	0.5	-16	-3.2	-1.5	1
Mike Pirogowicz M. Pirogowicz	11	4	0.4	16	4.0	1.5	1
Jim Scott J. Scott	11	2	0.2	24	12.0	2.2	0	10	174
Jim Eaise J. Eaise	11	1	0.1	1	1.0	0.1	0	6	93

Receiving	GP	REC	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
Gary Hayman G. Hayman	11	30	2.7	525	17.5	47.7	3
Dan Natale D. Natale	11	21	1.9	359	17.1	32.6	2	21	437
Chuck Herd C. Herd	11	10	0.9	197	19.7	17.9	5	15	217
Jim Scott J. Scott	11	8	0.7	150	18.8	13.6	2	10	174
John Cappelletti J. Cappelletti	11	6	0.5	69	11.5	6.3	0	292	1,591
Jim Eaise J. Eaise	11	5	0.5	92	18.4	8.4	1	6	93
Dave Bland D. Bland	11	3	0.3	85	28.3	7.7	1
Tom Donchez T. Donchez	11	3	0.3	32	10.7	2.9	0	61	331
Bob Nagle B. Nagle	11	3	0.3	19	6.3	1.7	0	80	362
Jerry Jeram J. Jeram	11	1	0.1	22	22.0	2.0	0
Walt Addie W. Addie	11	1	0.1	10	10.0	0.9	0	44	321
Rusty Boyle R. Boyle	11	1	0.1	-3	-3.0	-0.3	0	29	122
John Nessel J. Nessel	11	1	0.1	-5	-5.0	-0.5	0

Scoring	GP	RUSH	REC	TOT	PTS
John Cappelletti J. Cappelletti	11	17	0	17	102
Tom Shuman T. Shuman	11	2		15	90
Bob Nagle B. Nagle	11	7	0	7	42
Chuck Herd C. Herd	11	0	5	5	30
Gary Hayman G. Hayman	11		3	3	18
Dan Natale D. Natale	11	1	2	3	18
Walt Addie W. Addie	11	2	0	2	12
Dick Barvinchak D. Barvinchak	11	1		2	12
Rusty Boyle R. Boyle	11	2	0	2	12
Tom Donchez T. Donchez	11	2	0	2	12
Jim Scott J. Scott	11	0	2	2	12
Dave Bland D. Bland	11		1	1	6
John Clark J. Clark	11	1		1	6
Jim Eaise J. Eaise	11	0	1	1	6
John Huttenberger J. Huttenberger	11	1		1	6
Mike Pirogowicz M. Pirogowicz	11	1		1	6
Duane Taylor D. Taylor	11	1		1	6

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CFB 2026 Leaders

Pass Yards Leaders

1,499

Maiava

1,453

Jennings

1,423

Atkinson

Rush Yards Leaders

644

Sheppard

600

Baugh

592

Riley

Rec Yards Leaders

617

Smith

585

Legree

564

Toney

Pass TD Leaders

14

Taylor

14

Mensah

14

Maiava

Rush TD Leaders

11

Baugh

9

Hawkins

9

Knight

Rec TD Leaders

7

Duff

7

Dixon

7

Smith

QB Rating Leaders

228.2

Mensah

209.1

Stockton

204.6

Hoover

Sack Leaders

7.5

Simmons

7.0

Umanmielen

6.5

Hopkins

CFB 2026 Rankings

PPG Rankings

54.8

53.5

51.8

48.0

47.5

45.0

Opp PPG Rankings

8.0

8.3

8.5

9.0

9.8

10.3

Total Yards Rankings

588.8

550.8

548.3

533.3

532.8

523.8

Rush Yards Rankings

355.7

333.7

332.3

294.8

281.5

281.3

Pass Yards Rankings

392.5

365.3

365.0

361.3

347.3

346.5

Sack Leaders

18.0

17.0

15.0

CFB 2026 Standings

	Southeastern	W	L	PCT
1	Alabama	4	0	1.000
2	Florida	4	0	1.000
3	Georgia	4	0	1.000
4	Mississippi State	4	0	1.000
5	Texas	4	0	1.000
6	Ole Miss	3	1	.750
7	Auburn	3	1	.750
8	Kentucky	3	1	.750
9	LSU	3	1	.750
10	Missouri	3	1	.750
11	Tennessee	3	1	.750
12	Vanderbilt	3	1	.750
13	Arkansas	2	2	.500
14	Oklahoma	2	2	.500
15	South Carolina	2	2	.500
16	Texas A&M	2	2	.500

	Pac-12	W	L	PCT
1	Boise State	3	1	.750
2	Fresno State	3	1	.750
3	Colorado State	2	2	.500
4	Oregon State	2	2	.500
5	Texas State	2	2	.500
6	San Diego State	1	3	.250
7	Utah State	1	3	.250
8	Washington State	1	3	.250

	Big 10	W	L	PCT
1	UCLA	4	0	1.000
2	Indiana	4	0	1.000
3	Iowa	4	0	1.000
4	Nebraska	4	0	1.000
5	Minnesota	3	1	.750
6	Ohio State	3	1	.750
7	Oregon	3	1	.750
8	Wisconsin	3	1	.750
9	USC	4	1	.800
10	Michigan	3	1	.750
11	Penn State	3	1	.750
12	Washington	3	1	.750
13	Northwestern	2	1	.667
14	Illinois	2	2	.500
15	Maryland	2	2	.500
16	Michigan State	2	2	.500
17	Purdue	1	3	.250
18	Rutgers	1	3	.250

	Big 12	W	L	PCT
1	Cincinnati	4	0	1.000
2	Texas Tech	4	0	1.000
3	Utah	4	0	1.000
4	BYU	3	0	1.000
5	Baylor	3	1	.750
6	Oklahoma State	3	1	.750
7	UCF	3	1	.750
8	Arizona State	2	1	.667
9	Arizona	3	1	.750
10	Houston	3	1	.750
11	Kansas State	3	1	.750
12	West Virginia	3	1	.750
13	Colorado	2	2	.500
14	Iowa State	2	2	.500
15	TCU	2	2	.500
16	Kansas	1	2	.333

	Mid-American	W	L	PCT
1	UMass	4	0	1.000
2	Kent State	2	2	.500
3	Eastern Michigan	2	3	.400
4	Toledo	3	1	.750
5	Buffalo	2	2	.500
6	Central Michigan	2	2	.500
7	Miami (OH)	2	2	.500
8	Ohio	2	2	.500
9	Western Michigan	2	2	.500
10	Akron	1	3	.250
11	Bowling Green	0	4	.000
12	Ball State	1	3	.250
13	Sacramento State	1	4	.200

	Atlantic Coast	W	L	PCT
1	Miami	4	0	1.000
2	Clemson	3	1	.750
3	Duke	4	0	1.000
4	Pittsburgh	4	0	1.000
5	Virginia Tech	4	0	1.000
6	Virginia	3	1	.750
7	Wake Forest	3	1	.750
8	Louisville	2	2	.500
9	SMU	3	1	.750
10	California	2	2	.500
11	Stanford	2	2	.500
12	North Carolina	2	1	.667
13	Boston College	2	2	.500
14	Florida State	2	2	.500
15	NC State	2	2	.500
16	Georgia Tech	1	3	.250
17	Syracuse	1	2	.333

	Independent	W	L	PCT
1	Notre Dame	4	0	1.000
2	UConn	2	2	.500

	American Athletic	W	L	PCT
1	South Florida	4	0	1.000
2	Florida Atlantic	3	1	.750
3	UAB	2	2	.500
4	Army	2	1	.667
5	Memphis	3	1	.750
6	Tulsa	3	1	.750
7	UTSA	3	1	.750
8	East Carolina	2	2	.500
9	North Texas	2	2	.500
10	Tulane	2	2	.500
11	Rice	1	3	.250
12	Charlotte	0	4	.000
13	Temple	1	3	.250
14	Navy	1	2	.333

	Conference USA	W	L	PCT
1	Jacksonville State	3	2	.600
2	Liberty	3	1	.750
3	Delaware	2	2	.500
4	Florida International	2	2	.500
5	Kennesaw State	1	3	.250
6	Missouri State	1	3	.250
7	New Mexico State	1	3	.250
8	Sam Houston	1	3	.250
9	Western Kentucky	1	3	.250
10	Middle Tennessee	2	2	.500

	Sun Belt	W	L	PCT
1	James Madison	4	0	1.000
2	Louisiana	3	1	.750
3	Appalachian State	3	1	.750
4	South Alabama	2	2	.500
5	Georgia State	3	1	.750
6	Marshall	3	1	.750
7	Arkansas State	2	2	.500
8	Troy	2	2	.500
9	Georgia Southern	1	3	.250
10	Louisiana Tech	1	2	.333
11	Southern Miss	1	3	.250
12	Coastal Carolina	1	3	.250
13	Old Dominion	1	3	.250
14	Louisiana-Monroe	0	4	.000

	Mountain West	W	L	PCT
1	North Dakota State	4	0	1.000
2	UNLV	2	2	.500
3	Wyoming	2	2	.500
4	Air Force	2	1	.667
5	New Mexico	3	1	.750
6	San Jose State	2	2	.500
7	UTEP	1	3	.250
8	Northern Illinois	0	4	.000
9	Nevada	1	3	.250
10	Hawai'i	1	3	.250