#16 Penn State Nittany Lions

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	446	5,508	877	6.3	2,972	526	5.7	2,536	351	7.2	277	146	114	114	64	546
Team Rank		16th	12th	68th	8th	11th	42nd	1st	69th	80th	47th	24th	17th	66th	66th	14th	15th
Opponent	13	227	4,291		4.6	1,492	479	3.1	2,799	454	6.2	251	104	135	135	66	568
Opponent Rank		12th	32nd		20th	20th	41st	21st	71st	101st	29th	71st	52nd	93rd	93rd	105th	103rd
Net		+219	+1,217	+877	+1.7	+1,480	+47	+2.5	-263	-103	+1.1	+26	+42	-21	-21	-2	-22
Net Rank		12th	14th	68th	5th	9th	43rd	2nd	70th	96th	29th	37th	19th	83rd	83rd	55th	54th

Player Stats

Passing	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%
Zack Mills Z. Mills	13	188	333	56.5	25.6	2,417	7.3	185.9	17	10	128.3	5.1	3.0
Michael Robinson M. Robinson	13	10	17	58.8	1.3	119	7.0	9.2	0	1	105.9	0.0	5.9
Chris Ganter C. Ganter	4	0	1	0.0	0.3	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
Larry Johnson L. Johnson	13	271	20.8	2,087	7.7	160.5	20	312	2,436
Zack Mills Z. Mills	13	87	6.7	201	2.3	15.5	3
Michael Robinson M. Robinson	13	50	3.8	263	5.3	20.2	6	59	307
Mike Gasparato M. Gasparato	8	32	4.0	158	4.9	19.8	1	34	220
Sean McHugh S. McHugh	10	20	2.0	46	2.3	4.6	3	28	99
Paul Jefferson P. Jefferson	11	16	1.5	65	4.1	5.9	1	24	128
Tim Shaw T. Shaw	5	14	2.8	59	4.2	11.8	0	15	78
Ricky Upton R. Upton	5	8	1.6	37	4.6	7.4	1
Pete Gilmore P. Gilmore	3	7	2.3	27	3.9	9.0	0
Gerald Smith G. Smith	9	4	0.4	31	7.8	3.4	0	15	160
Aric Heffelfinger A. Heffelfinger	2	2	1.0	-1	-0.5	-0.5	0
Chris Ganter C. Ganter	4	1	0.3	30	30.0	7.5	1
Ernie Terrell E. Terrell	3	1	0.3	9	9.0	3.0	0	2	39
Adam Senk A. Senk	2	1	0.5	4	4.0	2.0	0
Reginald Walker R. Walker	2	1	0.5	1	1.0	0.5	0

Receiving	GP	REC	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
Bryant Johnson B. Johnson	13	48	3.7	917	19.1	70.5	4
Larry Johnson L. Johnson	13	41	3.2	349	8.5	26.8	3	312	2,436
Tony Johnson T. Johnson	12	34	2.8	549	16.1	45.8	3
Casey Williams C. Williams	10	24	2.4	256	10.7	25.6	2
Gerald Smith G. Smith	9	11	1.2	129	11.7	14.3	0	15	160
Michael Robinson M. Robinson	13	9	0.7	44	4.9	3.4	0	59	307
Paul Jefferson P. Jefferson	11	8	0.7	63	7.9	5.7	1	24	128
Sean McHugh S. McHugh	10	8	0.8	53	6.6	5.3	0	28	99
Mike Lukac M. Lukac	7	7	1.0	39	5.6	5.6	4
Mike Gasparato M. Gasparato	8	2	0.3	62	31.0	7.8	0	34	220
Matt Kranchick M. Kranchick	9	2	0.2	15	7.5	1.7	0
Ernie Terrell E. Terrell	3	1	0.3	30	30.0	10.0	0	2	39
Tim Shaw T. Shaw	5	1	0.2	19	19.0	3.8	0	15	78
Kinta Palmer K. Palmer	2	1	0.5	8	8.0	4.0	0
Andrew Richardson A. Richardson	2	1	0.5	3	3.0	1.5	0

Defense	GP	INT	YDS	AVG	TD
Bryan Scott B. Scott	4	4	47	11.8	0
Shawn Mayer S. Mayer	5	4	7	1.8	0
Rich Gardner R. Gardner	3	2	77	38.5	2
Anwar Phillips A. Phillips	4	2	52	26	0
Paul Cronin P. Cronin	3	2	34	17	1
Deryck Toles D. Toles	2	1	9	9	0
Lavon Chisley L. Chisley	2	1	8	8	0
Gino Capone G. Capone	2	1	2	2	0
Chris Harrell C. Harrell	2	1	0	0	0
Calvin Lowry C. Lowry	2	1	0	0	0
Derek Wake D. Wake	2	1	0	0	0

Scoring	GP	RUSH	REC	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	PTS
Larry Johnson L. Johnson	13	20	3	23			1	140
Robbie Gould R. Gould	13			0	17	42	0	93
Michael Robinson M. Robinson	13	6	0	6			0	36
Bryant Johnson B. Johnson	13		4	5			0	30
Mike Lukac M. Lukac	7		4	4			0	24
Zack Mills Z. Mills	13	3		3			2	22
Tony Johnson T. Johnson	12		3	3			0	18
Sean McHugh S. McHugh	10	3	0	3			0	18
Rich Gardner R. Gardner	3			2			0	12
Paul Jefferson P. Jefferson	11	1	1	2			0	12
Casey Williams C. Williams	10		2	2			0	12
Chris Ganter C. Ganter	4	1		1			1	8
Paul Cronin P. Cronin	3			1			0	6
Mike Gasparato M. Gasparato	8	1	0	1			0	6
Ricky Upton R. Upton	5	1		1			0	6
David Kimball D. Kimball	4			0		3	0	3

Returns	GP	KR	KR YDS	KR AVG	KR TD	PR	PR YDS	PR AVG	PR TD
Bryant Johnson B. Johnson	13					41	528	12.9	1
Larry Johnson L. Johnson	13	11	219	19.9	0
Gerald Smith G. Smith	9	5	66	13.2	0	3	10	3.3	0
Tony Johnson T. Johnson	12	7	168	24.0	0
T.C. Cosby	2	1	16	16.0	0
Paul Jefferson P. Jefferson	11	1	11	11.0	0
Scott Paxson S. Paxson	2	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
	Robbie Gould R. Gould	13	17	22	77.3						42	45	93.3	93
	David Kimball D. Kimball	4									3	4	75.0

	Punting	GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	David Royer D. Royer	13	50	2,053	41.1
	Robbie Gould R. Gould	13	2	84	42.0

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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