Northwestern Wildcats

Team

	GP	PTS	YDS	PLY	AVG	RUSH YDS	RUSH ATT	RUSH AVG	PASS YDS	PASS ATT	PASS AVG
Team	12	214	3,546	807	4.4	1,119	440	2.5	2,427	367	6.6
Team Rank		94th	86th	37th	99th	103rd	60th	108th	47th	34th	75th
Opponent	12	337	4,430		5.2	1,950	508	3.8	2,480	338	7.3
Opponent Rank		89th	84th		60th	78th	98th	62nd	77th	68th	67th
Net		-123	-884	+807	-0.8	-831	-68	-1.3	-53	+29	-0.7
Net Rank		95th	93rd	37th	86th	96th	92nd	97th	64th	46th	75th

Player Stats

Passing	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%
Gavin Hoffman G. Hoffman	12	176	323	54.5	26.9	2,199	6.8	183.3	13	14	116.3	4.0	4.3
Nick Kreinbrink N. Kreinbrink	8	14	28	50.0	3.5	189	6.8	23.6	1	1	111.3	3.6	3.6
Mark Broxterman M. Broxterman	7	4	12	33.3	1.7	27	2.3	3.9	0	2	18.9	0.0	16.7
J.J. Standring	12	1	3	33.3	0.3	12	4.0	1.0	0	1	0.3	0.0	33.3
D'Wayne Bates D. Bates	12	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
Damien Anderson D. Anderson	12	164	13.7	537	3.3	44.8	4	174	616
Brian Marshall B. Marshall	12	98	8.2	296	3.0	24.7	0	107	351
Gavin Hoffman G. Hoffman	12	68	5.7	-155	-2.3	-12.9	2
Sean Bennett S. Bennett	12	32	2.7	160	5.0	13.3	1	49	388
Sam Simmons S. Simmons	12	31	2.6	124	4.0	10.3	1	36	256
Tyrone Gooch T. Gooch	9	21	2.3	106	5.0	11.8	0	23	103
Nick Kreinbrink N. Kreinbrink	8	10	1.3	-20	-2.0	-2.5	0
D'Wayne Bates D. Bates	12	7	0.6	-18	-2.6	-1.5	0	90	1,227
Levelle Brown L. Brown	12	4	0.3	55	13.8	4.6	0	8	80
Mark Broxterman M. Broxterman	7	2	0.3	11	5.5	1.6	1
J.J. Standring	12	1	0.1	24	24.0	2.0	0
John Burden J. Burden	11	1	0.1	4	4.0	0.4	0	18	158

Receiving	GP	REC	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
D'Wayne Bates D. Bates	12	83	6.9	1,245	15.0	103.8	9	90	1,227
Jay Tant J. Tant	12	30	2.5	327	10.9	27.3	2
Sean Bennett S. Bennett	12	17	1.4	228	13.4	19.0	0	49	388
John Burden J. Burden	11	17	1.5	154	9.1	14.0	2	18	158
Damien Anderson D. Anderson	12	10	0.8	79	7.9	6.6	0	174	616
Brian Marshall B. Marshall	12	9	0.8	55	6.1	4.6	0	107	351
Aaron Burrell A. Burrell	12	7	0.6	79	11.3	6.6	0
Sam Simmons S. Simmons	12	5	0.4	132	26.4	11.0	1	36	256
Joel Stuart J. Stuart	12	4	0.3	49	12.3	4.1	0
Levelle Brown L. Brown	12	4	0.3	25	6.3	2.1	0	8	80
Phil Miller P. Miller	5	3	0.6	31	10.3	6.2	0
Tyrone Gooch T. Gooch	9	2	0.2	-3	-1.5	-0.3	0	23	103
Josh Barnes J. Barnes	12	1	0.1	12	12.0	1.0	0
Wynn Silberman W. Silberman	3	1	0.3	12	12.0	4.0	0
Wayne Lucier W. Lucier	6	1	0.2	4	4.0	0.7	0
Rob Johnson R. Johnson	11	1	0.1	-2	-2.0	-0.2	0

Defense	GP	INT	YDS	AVG
Mike Nelson M. Nelson	12	3	0	0
Gerald Conoway G. Conoway	12	2	33	16.5
Harold Blackmon H. Blackmon	12	2	10	5
Conrad Emmerich C. Emmerich	12	2	0	0
Rashad Morton R. Morton	12	1	32	32
Billy Silva B. Silva	11	1	11	11
Napoleon Harris N. Harris	12	1	8	8
Darryl Hodge D. Hodge	12	1	4	4
Barry Gardner B. Gardner	12	1	3	3
Josh Barnes J. Barnes	12	1	0	0

Scoring	GP	RUSH	REC	TOT	FGM	XPM	PTS
Gavin Hoffman G. Hoffman	12	2		15			90
Brian Gowins B. Gowins	12				17	21	72
D'Wayne Bates D. Bates	12	0	9	9			54
Damien Anderson D. Anderson	12	4	0	4			24
John Burden J. Burden	11	0	2	2			12
Sam Simmons S. Simmons	12	1	1	2			12
Jay Tant J. Tant	12		2	2			12
Sean Bennett S. Bennett	12	1	0	1			6
Mark Broxterman M. Broxterman	7	1		1			6
Nick Kreinbrink N. Kreinbrink	8	0		1			6
Tim Long T. Long	12					2	2

Returns	GP	KR	KR YDS	KR AVG	KR TD	PR	PR YDS	PR AVG	PR TD
Sam Simmons S. Simmons	12	22	607	27.6	0	1	8	8.0	0
Josh Barnes J. Barnes	12					22	189	8.6	0
D'Wayne Bates D. Bates	12					15	109	7.3	0
Sean Bennett S. Bennett	12	11	220	20.0	0
Tyrone Gooch T. Gooch	9	5	70	14.0	0
Teddy Johnson T. Johnson	12	4	79	19.8	0
Matt Fordenwalt M. Fordenwalt	12	2	30	15.0	0
Rashad Morton R. Morton	12	1	10	10.0	0
Gerald Conoway G. Conoway	12					1	0	0.0	0
Marvin Brown M. Brown	5					1	-1	-1.0	0

	Kicking	GP	FGM	FGA	FG%	FG 1-19	FG 20-29	FG 30-39	FG 40-49	FG 50+	XPM	XPA	XP%	PTS
	Brian Gowins B. Gowins	12	17	24	70.8						21	21	100.0	72
	Tim Long T. Long	12									2	2	100.0

Punting	GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG
J.J. Standring	12	78	3,240	41.5
Eron Kosmowski E. Kosmowski	12	4	183	45.8
Gavin Hoffman G. Hoffman	12	1	54	54.0
Brian Gowins B. Gowins	12	1	13	13.0

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CFB 2026 Leaders

Pass Yards Leaders

1,519

Jackson

1,499

Maiava

1,453

Jennings

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

524.6

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	North Texas	3	2	.600
4	UAB	2	2	.500
5	Army	2	1	.667
6	Memphis	3	1	.750
7	UTSA	3	1	.750
8	East Carolina	2	2	.500
9	Tulane	2	2	.500
10	Rice	1	3	.250
11	Charlotte	0	4	.000
12	Tulsa	3	2	.600
13	Temple	1	3	.250
14	Navy	1	2	.333

	Conference USA	W	L	PCT
1	Jacksonville State	3	2	.600
2	New Mexico State	2	3	.400
3	Liberty	3	1	.750
4	Delaware	2	2	.500
5	Florida International	2	2	.500
6	Kennesaw State	1	3	.250
7	Missouri State	1	3	.250
8	Sam Houston	1	3	.250
9	Western Kentucky	1	4	.200
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