Northwestern Wildcats

Team

	GP	PTS	YDS	PLY	AVG	RUSH YDS	RUSH ATT	RUSH AVG	PASS YDS	PASS ATT	PASS AVG	1DWN	RUSH 1DWN	PASS 1DWN	PEN 1DWN	PEN	PEN YDS
Team	13	337	5,253	1,034	5.1	1,528	503	3.0	3,725	531	7.0	303	94	180	180	73	584
Team Rank		67th	34th	4th	94th	89th	34th	111th	12th	7th	70th	12th	77th	7th	7th	54th	30th
Opponent	13	318	4,556		5.4	1,672	440	3.8	2,884	402	7.2	235	96	130	130	73	715
Opponent Rank		60th	56th		60th	41st	41st	48th	77th	72nd	69th	50th	48th	74th	74th	77th	43rd
Net		+19	+697	+1,034	-0.3	-144	+63	-0.8	+841	+129	-0.2	+68	-2	+50	+50	0	-131
Net Rank		62nd	33rd	3rd	88th	75th	26th	95th	14th	9th	75th	12th	69th	10th	10th	61st	17th

Player Stats

Passing	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%
Mike Kafka M. Kafka	13	319	492	64.8	37.8	3,430	7.0	263.8	16	12	129.3	3.3	2.4
Dan Persa D. Persa	10	20	34	58.8	3.4	224	6.6	22.4	2	2	121.8	5.9	5.9
Zeke Markshausen Z. Markshausen	13	1	1	100.0	0.1	38	38.0	2.9	1	0	749.2	100.0	0.0
Andrew Brewer A. Brewer	12	1	1	100.0	0.1	24	24.0	2.0	1	0	631.6	100.0	0.0
Stefan Demos S. Demos	13	1	1	100.0	0.1	9	9.0	0.7	0	0	175.6	0.0	0.0

Rushing	GP	ATT	ATT/G	YDS	YPC	YDS/G	TD	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
Mike Kafka M. Kafka	13	150	11.5	295	2.0	22.7	8	151	319
Arby Fields A. Fields	13	82	6.3	302	3.7	23.2	5	99	381
Scott Concannon S. Concannon	9	67	7.4	244	3.6	27.1	2	71	287
Jacob Schmidt J. Schmidt	11	64	5.8	217	3.4	19.7	1	78	364
Stephen Simmons S. Simmons	9	59	6.6	233	3.9	25.9	2	65	270
Dan Persa D. Persa	10	49	4.9	167	3.4	16.7	0
Jeravin Matthews J. Matthews	9	9	1.0	61	6.8	6.8	0
Mark Woodsum M. Woodsum	5	6	1.2	17	2.8	3.4	0	8	32
Zeke Markshausen Z. Markshausen	13	4	0.3	9	2.3	0.7	0	95	867
Joe Mauro J. Mauro	1	2	2.0	6	3.0	6.0	0

Receiving	GP	REC	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
Zeke Markshausen Z. Markshausen	13	91	7.0	858	9.4	66.0	3	95	867
Andrew Brewer A. Brewer	12	57	4.8	925	16.2	77.1	9
Drake Dunsmore D. Dunsmore	13	47	3.6	523	11.1	40.2	3
Sidney Stewart S. Stewart	10	42	4.2	470	11.2	47.0	2
Demetrius Fields D. Fields	11	24	2.2	225	9.4	20.5	1
Jeremy Ebert J. Ebert	11	21	1.9	226	10.8	20.5	0
Arby Fields A. Fields	13	17	1.3	79	4.6	6.1	0	99	381
Jacob Schmidt J. Schmidt	11	14	1.3	147	10.5	13.4	0	78	364
Charles Brown C. Brown	7	8	1.1	65	8.1	9.3	0
Stephen Simmons S. Simmons	9	6	0.7	37	6.2	4.1	0	65	270
Scott Concannon S. Concannon	9	4	0.4	43	10.8	4.8	0	71	287
Brendan Mitchell B. Mitchell	2	4	2.0	38	9.5	19.0	1
Josh Rooks J. Rooks	3	3	1.0	34	11.3	11.3	0
Mark Woodsum M. Woodsum	5	2	0.4	15	7.5	3.0	0	8	32
Mike Kafka M. Kafka	13	1	0.1	24	24.0	1.8	1	151	319
Kevin Frymire K. Frymire	2	1	0.5	16	16.0	8.0	0

Defense	GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	INT	YDS	AVG	TD
Quentin Davie Q. Davie	13	50	40	90	11	5.0	1	7	7	0
Brad Phillips B. Phillips	13	51	35	86	5		1	23	23	0
Nate Williams N. Williams	12	44	42	86	7		2	0	0	0
Jordan Mabin J. Mabin	13	57	18	75	0		2	15	7.5	0
Brian Peters B. Peters	13	36	31	67	3		3	8	2.7	0
Brendan Smith B. Smith	8	26	13	39	1
Vince Browne V. Browne	13	24	15	39	8	5.0
Sherrick McManis S. McManis	9	27	10	37	2		5	0	0	0
David Arnold D. Arnold	8	26	8	34	4
Corbin Bryant C. Bryant	12			30	6
Ben Johnson B. Johnson	7	18	10	28	4		1	70	70	1
Marshall Thomas M. Thomas	12	16	10	26	4
Corey Wootton C. Wootton	10	16	5	21	6
Jared Carpenter J. Carpenter	11			17	0
Adam Hahn A. Hahn	10			17	3
Quentin Williams Q. Williams	9			14	0		1	0	0	0
Demetrius Dugar D. Dugar	7			11	0
Jacob Schmidt J. Schmidt	11	5	5	10	0
Kevin Watt K. Watt	6	5	5	10	2
David Nwabuisi D. Nwabuisi	4	8	1	9	1
Jeravin Matthews J. Matthews	9			9	0
Ricky Weina R. Weina	2	6	1	7	0
Charles Brown C. Brown	7	5	2	7	0
Roderick Goodlow R. Goodlow	5			7	0
Justan Vaughn J. Vaughn	4			7	0		1	0	0	0
Niko Mafuli N. Mafuli	5			6	2
Bryce McNaul B. McNaul	5			6	0
Stefan Demos S. Demos	13	3	1	4	0
Evan Luxenburg E. Luxenburg	1	2	2	4	0	0.5
Hunter Bates H. Bates	6			4	0
Stephen Simmons S. Simmons	9	3	0	3	0
Mark Woodsum M. Woodsum	5	3	0	3	0
Stone Pinckney S. Pinckney	2	1	2	3	0
Jack Dinardo J. Dinardo	3			3	0
Zeke Markshausen Z. Markshausen	13			3	0
Kyle Petty K. Petty	3			2	0
Brian Arnfelt B. Arnfelt	1	0	1	1	0
Mike Bolden M. Bolden	1	0	1	1	0
James Kurzawski J. Kurzawski	1	0	1	1	0
Arby Fields A. Fields	13			1	0
Steve Flaherty S. Flaherty	3			1	0
Mike Kafka M. Kafka	13			1	0
Al Netter A. Netter	2			1	0
Dan Persa D. Persa	10			1	0

Scoring	GP	RUSH	REC	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	PTS
Stefan Demos S. Demos	13			0	18	34	0	88
Andrew Brewer A. Brewer	12		9	9			1	56
Mike Kafka M. Kafka	13	8	1	9			1	56
Arby Fields A. Fields	13	5	0	5			0	30
Drake Dunsmore D. Dunsmore	13		3	3			0	18
Zeke Markshausen Z. Markshausen	13	0	3	3			0	18
Scott Concannon S. Concannon	9	2	0	2			0	12
Stephen Simmons S. Simmons	9	2	0	2			0	12
Sidney Stewart S. Stewart	10		2	2			0	12
Demetrius Fields D. Fields	11		1	1			0	6
Ben Johnson B. Johnson	7			1			0	6
Brendan Mitchell B. Mitchell	2		1	1			0	6
Jacob Schmidt J. Schmidt	11	1	0	1			0	6
Marshall Thomas M. Thomas	12			1			0	6
Steve Flaherty S. Flaherty	3			0		1	0	1

Returns	GP	KR	KR YDS	KR AVG	KR TD	PR	PR YDS	PR AVG	PR TD
Stephen Simmons S. Simmons	9	26	657	25.3	0
Jeravin Matthews J. Matthews	9	21	357	17.0	0
Andrew Brewer A. Brewer	12	7	135	19.3	0	7	33	4.7	0
Brendan Smith B. Smith	8	1	14	14.0	0	9	59	6.6	0
Hunter Bates H. Bates	6					3	11	3.7	0
Ricky Weina R. Weina	2					1	23	23.0	0
Jacob Schmidt J. Schmidt	11	1	12	12.0	0
Scott Concannon S. Concannon	9	1	0	0.0	0

	Kicking	GP	FGM	FGA	FG%	FG 1-19	FG 20-29	FG 30-39	FG 40-49	FG 50+	XPM	XPA	XP%	PTS
	Stefan Demos S. Demos	13	18	25	72.0						34	36	94.4	88
	Steve Flaherty S. Flaherty	3									1	1	100.0

	Punting	GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Stefan Demos S. Demos	13	63	2,203	35.0

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CFB 2026 Leaders

Pass Yards Leaders

1,850

Atkinson

1,744

Maiava

1,613

Jennings

Rush Yards Leaders

685

Riley

652

Cook

644

Sheppard

Rec Yards Leaders

823

Smith

741

Legree

628

Duff

Pass TD Leaders

17

Taylor

16

Atkinson

15

Mensah

Rush TD Leaders

11

Baugh

11

Hawkins

9

Daniels

Rec TD Leaders

9

Legree

9

Smith

8

Dixon

QB Rating Leaders

212.2

Mensah

203.7

Hoover

202.0

Stockton

Sack Leaders

8.0

Umanmielen

7.5

Simmons

7.0

Esqillion

CFB 2026 Rankings

PPG Rankings

51.4

49.6

47.5

46.2

44.8

Opp PPG Rankings

9.8

10.3

10.6

10.8

11.0

Total Yards Rankings

554.8

548.3

547.8

541.2

531.6

524.6

Rush Yards Rankings

334.3

297.3

294.0

281.5

277.8

263.6

Pass Yards Rankings

377.4

357.0

346.5

346.0

340.0

334.4

Sack Leaders

22.0

21.0

19.0

18.0

17.0

CFB 2026 Standings

	Southeastern	W	L	PCT
1	Alabama	5	0	1.000
2	Georgia	5	0	1.000
3	Texas	4	0	1.000
4	Florida	4	1	.800
5	Kentucky	4	1	.800
6	Mississippi State	4	1	.800
7	Ole Miss	3	1	.750
8	LSU	4	1	.800
9	Missouri	4	1	.800
10	Tennessee	4	1	.800
11	Auburn	3	2	.600
12	Texas A&M	3	2	.600
13	Oklahoma	2	2	.500
14	Vanderbilt	3	2	.600
15	Arkansas	2	3	.400
16	South Carolina	2	3	.400

	Pac-12	W	L	PCT
1	Boise State	4	1	.800
2	Fresno State	4	1	.800
3	Oregon State	3	2	.600
4	San Diego State	2	3	.400
5	Colorado State	2	3	.400
6	Texas State	2	3	.400
7	Utah State	1	4	.200
8	Washington State	1	4	.200

	Mid-American	W	L	PCT
1	Eastern Michigan	3	3	.500
2	Toledo	4	1	.800
3	Central Michigan	3	2	.600
4	Ohio	3	2	.600
5	Western Michigan	3	2	.600
6	Bowling Green	1	4	.200
7	UMass	4	1	.800
8	Kent State	2	3	.400
9	Buffalo	2	3	.400
10	Miami (OH)	2	3	.400
11	Akron	1	4	.200
12	Ball State	1	4	.200
13	Sacramento State	1	4	.200

	American Athletic	W	L	PCT
1	Florida Atlantic	4	1	.800
2	Memphis	4	1	.800
3	UTSA	4	1	.800
4	North Texas	3	2	.600
5	UAB	3	2	.600
6	South Florida	4	1	.800
7	Army	2	2	.500
8	Temple	2	3	.400
9	East Carolina	2	2	.500
10	Tulane	2	2	.500
11	Tulsa	3	2	.600
12	Rice	1	4	.200
13	Charlotte	0	5	.000
14	Navy	1	3	.250

	Big 10	W	L	PCT
1	Indiana	5	0	1.000
2	Nebraska	5	0	1.000
3	UCLA	4	0	1.000
4	Minnesota	4	1	.800
5	Ohio State	4	1	.800
6	Wisconsin	4	1	.800
7	Oregon	3	1	.750
8	USC	5	1	.833
9	Iowa	4	1	.800
10	Northwestern	3	1	.750
11	Purdue	2	3	.400
12	Michigan	3	2	.600
13	Penn State	3	2	.600
14	Washington	3	2	.600
15	Illinois	2	3	.400
16	Maryland	2	3	.400
17	Michigan State	2	3	.400
18	Rutgers	1	4	.200

	Conference USA	W	L	PCT
1	Liberty	4	1	.800
2	Jacksonville State	3	2	.600
3	New Mexico State	2	3	.400
4	Florida International	2	2	.500
5	Kennesaw State	1	3	.250
6	Missouri State	1	3	.250
7	Sam Houston	1	3	.250
8	Delaware	2	3	.400
9	Middle Tennessee	2	3	.400
10	Western Kentucky	1	4	.200

	Atlantic Coast	W	L	PCT
1	Miami	5	0	1.000
2	Pittsburgh	5	0	1.000
3	Duke	4	0	1.000
4	SMU	4	1	.800
5	Wake Forest	4	1	.800
6	Clemson	3	2	.600
7	Florida State	3	2	.600
8	Virginia	3	2	.600
9	Virginia Tech	4	1	.800
10	NC State	3	2	.600
11	California	2	3	.400
12	Louisville	2	3	.400
13	Stanford	2	3	.400
14	North Carolina	2	2	.500
15	Georgia Tech	1	3	.250
16	Syracuse	2	2	.500
17	Boston College	2	3	.400

	Independent	W	L	PCT
1	Notre Dame	5	0	1.000
2	UConn	2	3	.400

	Big 12	W	L	PCT
1	Texas Tech	5	0	1.000
2	BYU	4	0	1.000
3	Baylor	4	1	.800
4	Utah	4	0	1.000
5	Oklahoma State	3	1	.750
6	Arizona	4	1	.800
7	Houston	4	1	.800
8	Cincinnati	4	1	.800
9	Iowa State	3	2	.600
10	UCF	3	2	.600
11	Arizona State	2	2	.500
12	Kansas State	3	1	.750
13	Kansas	2	2	.500
14	West Virginia	3	2	.600
15	Colorado	2	3	.400
16	TCU	2	3	.400

	Sun Belt	W	L	PCT
1	James Madison	5	0	1.000
2	Louisiana	4	1	.800
3	Appalachian State	3	1	.750
4	South Alabama	3	2	.600
5	Arkansas State	2	3	.400
6	Georgia State	4	1	.800
7	Marshall	3	2	.600
8	Troy	2	2	.500
9	Georgia Southern	2	3	.400
10	Louisiana Tech	2	2	.500
11	Southern Miss	1	3	.250
12	Coastal Carolina	1	4	.200
13	Old Dominion	1	4	.200
14	Louisiana-Monroe	0	5	.000

	Mountain West	W	L	PCT
1	North Dakota State	5	0	1.000
2	New Mexico	4	1	.800
3	UNLV	3	2	.600
4	Air Force	3	1	.750
5	Wyoming	2	3	.400
6	San Jose State	3	2	.600
7	Northern Illinois	0	4	.000
8	Nevada	1	3	.250
9	UTEP	1	4	.200
10	Hawai'i	1	4	.200