Ball State Cardinals

Team

	GP	PTS	YDS	PLY	AVG	RUSH YDS	RUSH ATT	RUSH AVG	PASS YDS	PASS ATT	PASS AVG
Team	11	377	4,532	806	5.6	2,872	609	4.7	1,660	197	8.4
Team Rank		8th	17th	45th	9th	20th	46th	16th	52nd	78th	13th
Opponent	11	169	3,513		4.6	2,176	545	4.0	1,337	218	6.1
Opponent Rank		99th	68th		72nd	81st	59th	94th	58th	73rd	39th
Net		+208	+1,019	+806	+1.0	+696	+64	+0.7	+323	-21	+2.3
Net Rank		12th	31st	45th	31st	41st	48th	42nd	37th	87th	16th

Player Stats

Passing	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%
Dave Wilson D. Wilson	11	115	177	65.0	16.1	1,589	9.0	144.5	17	7	164.2	9.6	4.0
Mark O'Connell M. O'Connell	11	5	16	31.3	1.5	44	2.8	4.0	0	0	54.4	0.0	0.0
Doug Denny D. Denny	11	2	4	50.0	0.4	27	6.8	2.5	0	0	106.7	0.0	0.0

Rushing	GP	ATT	ATT/G	YDS	YPC	YDS/G	TD	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
George Jenkins G. Jenkins	11	208	18.9	1,070	5.1	97.3	8
Dave Wilson D. Wilson	11	110	10.0	302	2.7	27.5	9
Gary Acklin G. Acklin	11	90	8.2	521	5.8	47.4	8
Archie Currin A. Currin	11	52	4.7	236	4.5	21.5	0
Roy Thomas R. Thomas	11	38	3.5	206	5.4	18.7	0
Mark O'Connell M. O'Connell	11	25	2.3	76	3.0	6.9	1
Mike Andress M. Andress	11	24	2.2	124	5.2	11.3	1	57	516
Tim Petty T. Petty	11	21	1.9	89	4.2	8.1	2
Terry Bates T. Bates	11	17	1.5	72	4.2	6.5	0
Rick Morrison R. Morrison	11	8	0.7	101	12.6	9.2	2	67	1,009
Chris Clupper C. Clupper	11	5	0.5	28	5.6	2.5	0
Lenny Werner L. Werner	11	5	0.5	22	4.4	2.0	0
Tim Clary T. Clary	11	2	0.2	41	20.5	3.7	1	5	75
Tom Blume T. Blume	11	1	0.1	12	12.0	1.1	0
Jim Neddeff J. Neddeff	11	1	0.1	-7	-7.0	-0.6	0

Receiving	GP	REC	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
Rick Morrison R. Morrison	11	59	5.4	908	15.4	82.5	8	67	1,009
Mike Andress M. Andress	11	33	3.0	392	11.9	35.6	6	57	516
Tom Broderick T. Broderick	11	13	1.2	179	13.8	16.3	1
Keith Burgess K. Burgess	11	8	0.7	88	11.0	8.0	2
Ray Hinton R. Hinton	11	6	0.5	59	9.8	5.4	0
Tim Clary T. Clary	11	3	0.3	34	11.3	3.1	0	5	75

Defense	GP	INT
Bill Stahl B. Stahl	11	6
Jon Hoke J. Hoke	11	2
Rush Brown R. Brown	11	1
Maurice Harvey M. Harvey	11	1
Dave Molnar D. Molnar	11	1
Al Rzepka A. Rzepka	11	1

Scoring	GP	RUSH	REC	TOT	FGM	XPM	PTS
Dave Wilson D. Wilson	11	9		26			156
Rick Morrison R. Morrison	11	2	8	10			60
Jim Neddeff J. Neddeff	11	0		0	4	40	52
Gary Acklin G. Acklin	11	8		8			48
George Jenkins G. Jenkins	11	8		8			48
Mike Andress M. Andress	11	1	6	7			42
Frank Severa F. Severa	11				4	5	17
Keith Burgess K. Burgess	11		2	2			12
Mark O'Connell M. O'Connell	11	1		1	2	0	12
Tim Petty T. Petty	11	2		2			12
Tom Broderick T. Broderick	11		1	1			6
Tim Clary T. Clary	11	1	0	1			6

Returns	GP	KR	KR YDS	KR AVG	KR TD	PR	PR YDS	PR AVG	PR TD
George Jenkins G. Jenkins	11	19	335	17.6	0
Rick Morrison R. Morrison	11					14	108	7.7	0
Mike Andress M. Andress	11	3	29	9.7	0	6	16	2.7	0
Bill Stahl B. Stahl	11					5	62	12.4	0
Gary Acklin G. Acklin	11	2	17	8.5	0
Jeff Fansher J. Fansher	11	1	25	25.0	0
Tim Petty T. Petty	11	1	19	19.0	0
Roy Thomas R. Thomas	11	1	5	5.0	0

Kicking	GP	FGM	FGA	FG%	XPM	XPA	XP%	PTS
Jim Neddeff J. Neddeff	11	4	6	66.7	40	41	97.6	52
Frank Severa F. Severa	11	4	5	80.0	5	6	83.3	17
Mark O'Connell M. O'Connell	11	2	4	50.0	0	1	0.0	6
Mike Hoopengardner M. Hoopengardner	11	0	1	0.0

Punting	GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG
Mark O'Connell M. O'Connell	11	39	1,570	40.3
Tad Mallery T. Mallery	11	5	169	33.8
Rick Morrison R. Morrison	11	2	73	36.5

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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

7.0

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