Rutgers Scarlet Knights

Team

	GP	PTS	YDS	PLY	AVG	RUSH YDS	RUSH ATT	RUSH AVG	PASS YDS	PASS ATT	PASS AVG
Team	11	217	3,424	776	4.4	1,244	429	2.9	2,180	347	6.3
Team Rank		72nd	80th	55th	86th	91st	78th	98th	45th	31st	77th
Opponent	11	217	3,527		4.8	1,674	464	3.6	1,853	265	7.0
Opponent Rank		38th	27th		41st	42nd	45th	43rd	27th	20th	57th
Net		0	-103	+776	-0.4	-430	-35	-0.7	+327	+82	-0.7
Net Rank		55th	61st	55th	72nd	74th	67th	76th	38th	14th	72nd

Player Stats

Passing	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%
Tom Tarver T. Tarver	11	164	307	53.4	27.9	1,969	6.4	179.0	10	14	108.9	3.3	4.6
Derek McCord D. McCord	5	18	39	46.2	7.8	190	4.9	38.0	0	1	81.9	0.0	2.6
James Guarantano J. Guarantano	11	1	1	100.0	0.1	21	21.0	1.9	1	0	606.4	100.0	0.0

Rushing	GP	ATT	ATT/G	YDS	YPC	YDS/G	TD	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
Antoine Moore A. Moore	11	145	13.2	627	4.3	57.0	4	156	676
Craig Mitter C. Mitter	10	107	10.7	495	4.6	49.5	2	109	508
Bill Bailey B. Bailey	9	60	6.7	219	3.7	24.3	6	64	256
Tom Tarver T. Tarver	11	55	5.0	-194	-3.5	-17.6	2
Tekay Dorsey T. Dorsey	11	33	3.0	60	1.8	5.5	1	47	170
Derek McCord D. McCord	5	10	2.0	-14	-1.4	-2.8	0
Bruce Presley B. Presley	2	5	2.5	10	2.0	5.0	0	6	12
Chris Roberts C. Roberts	2	5	2.5	4	0.8	2.0	0
Chris Brantley C. Brantley	11	4	0.4	19	4.8	1.7	0	34	419
Craig Behnke C. Behnke	3	3	1.0	12	4.0	4.0	0
James Guarantano J. Guarantano	11	1	0.1	5	5.0	0.5	0	63	745
Gary Melton G. Melton	11	1	0.1	1	1.0	0.1	0	28	434

Receiving	GP	REC	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
James Guarantano J. Guarantano	11	62	5.6	740	11.9	67.3	2	63	745
Chris Brantley C. Brantley	11	30	2.7	400	13.3	36.4	2	34	419
Gary Melton G. Melton	11	27	2.5	433	16.0	39.4	3	28	434
Chris Stoll C. Stoll	7	14	2.0	144	10.3	20.6	0
Tekay Dorsey T. Dorsey	11	14	1.3	110	7.9	10.0	1	47	170
Antoine Moore A. Moore	11	11	1.0	49	4.5	4.5	2	156	676
Dave Diederich D. Diederich	5	8	1.6	124	15.5	24.8	0
Lance Evina L. Evina	5	6	1.2	68	11.3	13.6	0
Bill Bailey B. Bailey	9	4	0.4	37	9.3	4.1	0	64	256
Tim Pernetti T. Pernetti	3	2	0.7	28	14.0	9.3	1
Craig Mitter C. Mitter	10	2	0.2	13	6.5	1.3	0	109	508
Bill Chesna B. Chesna	1	1	1.0	23	23.0	23.0	0
Kevin Burns K. Burns	1	1	1.0	9	9.0	9.0	0
Bruce Presley B. Presley	2	1	0.5	2	2.0	1.0	0	6	12

Defense	GP	INT	YDS	AVG	TD
Marshall Roberts M. Roberts	11	3	27	9	1
Ron Allen R. Allen	7	3	0	0	0
Malik Jackson M. Jackson	11	2	28	14	1
Jay Bellamy J. Bellamy	11	2	25	12.5	0
Todd Lane T. Lane	11	1	5	5	0

Scoring	GP	RUSH	REC	TOT	FGM	XPM	PTS
Tom Tarver T. Tarver	11	2		12			72
Bill Bailey B. Bailey	9	6	0	6			36
Antoine Moore A. Moore	11	4	2	6			36
John Benestad J. Benestad	9				6	13	31
Gary Melton G. Melton	11	0	3	4			24
James Guarantano J. Guarantano	11	0	2	3			18
Chris Brantley C. Brantley	11	0	2	2			12
Tekay Dorsey T. Dorsey	11	1	1	2			12
Craig Mitter C. Mitter	10	2	0	2			12
Tom O'Reilly T. O'Reilly	6				0	9	9
Malik Jackson M. Jackson	11			1			6
Tim Pernetti T. Pernetti	3		1	1			6
Marshall Roberts M. Roberts	11			1			6
Jeff Hansen J. Hansen	1					1	1

Returns	GP	KR	KR YDS	KR AVG	KR TD	PR	PR YDS	PR AVG	PR TD
Marshall Roberts M. Roberts	11					34	454	13.4	0
Gary Melton G. Melton	11	17	435	25.6	1
Ron Allen R. Allen	7	7	145	20.7	0
Chris Brantley C. Brantley	11	5	74	14.8	0
Bill Bailey B. Bailey	9	4	108	27.0	0
Bruce Presley B. Presley	2	1	51	51.0	0
Craig Behnke C. Behnke	3					1	8	8.0	0

Kicking	GP	FGM	FGA	FG%	XPM	XPA	XP%	PTS
John Benestad J. Benestad	9	6	12	50.0	13	15	86.7	31
Tom O'Reilly T. O'Reilly	6	0	2	0.0	9	9	100.0	9
Jeff Hansen J. Hansen	1				1	2	50.0

	Punting	GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	David Dunne D. Dunne	9	58	2,244	38.7
	David Lipetz D. Lipetz	3	10	365	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

7.5

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