Northwestern Wildcats

Team

	GP	PTS	YDS	PLY	AVG	RUSH YDS	RUSH ATT	RUSH AVG	PASS YDS	PASS ATT	PASS AVG
Team	11	101	2,848	772	3.7	636	362	1.8	2,212	410	5.4
Team Rank		112th	102nd	72nd	104th	104th	102nd	104th	39th	11th	101st
Opponent	11	398	5,077		6.0	2,557	534	4.8	2,520	315	8.0
Opponent Rank		111th	101st		100th	95th	84th	99th	94th	64th	96th
Net		-297	-2,229	+772	-2.3	-1,921	-172	-3.0	-308	+95	-2.6
Net Rank		111th	104th	72nd	103rd	104th	98th	104th	66th	15th	104th

Player Stats

	Passing	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY
	Sandy Schwab S. Schwab	9	188	334	56.3	37.1	1,838	5.5	204.2	6	19	97.1	1.8	5.7
	Steve Burton S. Burton	6	39	76	51.3	12.7	374	4.9	62.3	2	5	88.2	2.6	6.6

Rushing	GP	ATT	ATT/G	YDS	YPC	YDS/G	TD	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
Ricky Edwards R. Edwards	11	183	16.6	561	3.1	51.0	2	266	1,131
Sandy Schwab S. Schwab	9	75	8.3	-75	-1.0	-8.3	1
Steve Burton S. Burton	6	30	5.0	-86	-2.9	-14.3	0
Casey Cummings C. Cummings	9	26	2.9	54	2.1	6.0	0	45	149
Claudell Robertson C. Robertson	11	24	2.2	73	3.0	6.6	0	31	105
Mark Ignatowicz M. Ignatowicz	10	9	0.9	41	4.6	4.1	0	23	154
Marc Hujik M. Hujik	9	7	0.8	9	1.3	1.0	0	21	111
Ron Burton Jr. R. Burton Jr.	3	5	1.7	26	5.2	8.7	0	7	37
Tony Coates T. Coates	11	1	0.1	14	14.0	1.3	0	25	368
Curtis Duncan C. Duncan	6	1	0.2	14	14.0	2.3	0	2	67
Kent Weeks K. Weeks	6	1	0.2	5	5.0	0.8	0	3	20

Receiving	GP	REC	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
Ricky Edwards R. Edwards	11	83	7.5	570	6.9	51.8	0	266	1,131
Jon Harvey J. Harvey	11	39	3.5	549	14.1	49.9	4
Tony Coates T. Coates	11	24	2.2	354	14.8	32.2	1	25	368
Casey Cummings C. Cummings	9	19	2.1	95	5.0	10.6	2	45	149
Mark Ignatowicz M. Ignatowicz	10	14	1.4	113	8.1	11.3	0	23	154
Marc Hujik M. Hujik	9	14	1.6	102	7.3	11.3	0	21	111
Todd Jenkins T. Jenkins	11	11	1.0	169	15.4	15.4	0
Eric Anderson E. Anderson	8	7	0.9	95	13.6	11.9	1
Claudell Robertson C. Robertson	11	7	0.6	32	4.6	2.9	0	31	105
Steve Kaiser S. Kaiser	11	4	0.4	54	13.5	4.9	0
Kent Weeks K. Weeks	6	2	0.3	15	7.5	2.5	0	3	20
Ron Burton Jr. R. Burton Jr.	3	2	0.7	11	5.5	3.7	0	7	37
Curtis Duncan C. Duncan	6	1	0.2	53	53.0	8.8	0	2	67

Defense	GP	INT	YDS	AVG
Charles Plant C. Plant	7	3	78	26
Jim Bobbitt J. Bobbitt	11	1	21	21
Ted Karras T. Karras	7	1	10	10
Kenny Watkins K. Watkins	9	1	5	5
Undra Lofton U. Lofton	8	1	0	0
Orville Nevels O. Nevels	11	1	0	0
Scott Sanderson S. Sanderson	10	1	0	0

Scoring	GP	RUSH	REC	TOT	FGM	XPM	PTS
Sandy Schwab S. Schwab	9	1		7			42
John Duvic J. Duvic	11				5	12	27
Jon Harvey J. Harvey	11		4	4			24
Ricky Edwards R. Edwards	11	2	0	3			18
Steve Burton S. Burton	6	0		2			12
Casey Cummings C. Cummings	9	0	2	2			12
Eric Anderson E. Anderson	8		1	1			6
Tony Coates T. Coates	11	0	1	1			6

Returns	GP	KR	KR YDS	KR AVG	KR TD	PR	PR YDS	PR AVG	PR TD
Ricky Edwards R. Edwards	11	24	523	21.8	1
Eric Anderson E. Anderson	8	5	57	11.4	0	12	61	5.1	0
Tony Coates T. Coates	11	6	81	13.5	0
Steve Tasker S. Tasker	2					5	92	18.4	0
Curtis Duncan C. Duncan	6	4	99	24.8	0
Kent Weeks K. Weeks	6	2	26	13.0	0
Steve Kaiser S. Kaiser	11	1	20	20.0	0
Mike Guendling M. Guendling	11					1	11	11.0	0
Gregg Damminga G. Damminga	11	1	8	8.0	0
Rudy Germany R. Germany	11					1	3	3.0	0

	Kicking	GP	FGM	FGA	FG%	FG 1-19	FG 20-29	FG 30-39	FG 40-49	FG 50+	XPM	XPA	XP%	PTS
	John Duvic J. Duvic	11	5	11	45.5						12	12	100.0	27

	Punting	GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	John Kidd J. Kidd	11	67	2,808	41.9

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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

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