College Football Stat Leaders

2020 American College Football Havoc Rate Leaders

Share of defensive plays that created havoc.

Seasons Covered

2012-2025

Current Leader

Cincinnati (0.197)

Best Season

UCF 2019 (0.269)

Scope

American • 2020

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Total Yards Per Game Passing Yards Per Game Rushing Yards Per Game Points Per Game Offensive PPA Defensive PPA Turnover Margin Havoc Rate

Season Selector

All-Time 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012

Conference Selector

All Conferences ACC American Big 12 Big Ten Conference USA MAC Mountain West Pac-12 SEC Sun Belt

Summary

This havoc leaderboard behaves differently from Defensive PPA because it rewards play-to-play violence and disruption even when a defense is not perfect at finishing every drive with a low scoring value allowed.

Havoc Rate pages track American teams in 2020 using a shared leaderboard template with season winners, all-time context, and trend lines across 2023 through 2025.

Cincinnati sits atop the current leaderboard at 0.197, giving the page an immediate answer for fans comparing the top teams in this metric.

Florida Atlantic owns the strongest average across 3 seasons at 0.151, while East Carolina anchors the recent year-by-year trend view.

Cincinnati currently headlines this route, while East Carolina supplies the most recent yearly-winner checkpoint in 2025, giving the page both snapshot and trend context.

What The Numbers Say

Route-specific context pulled from the current leaderboard, winner trend, and historical baseline.

How Havoc Rate Reads

Havoc rate is about disruption rather than pure prevention, tracking how often a defense creates tackles for loss, forced fumbles, pass breakups, or other snaps that push an offense off schedule. On this 2020 leaderboard, the visible range runs 0.197 to 0.180, with Cincinnati setting the pace.

American Context

American teams have claimed 100% of the yearly titles in this filtered dataset, and East Carolina is the latest winner at 0.191.

Spread At The Top

The gap from No. 1 Cincinnati to No. 5 Houston is 0.017, which shows how tightly packed the top of this leaderboard is.

Recent Trend And Baseline

The yearly winning mark slipped from 0.229 in 2024 to 0.191 in 2025, a swing of 0.038. Cincinnati's current mark of 0.197 sits above the all-time average leader benchmark of 0.151 held by Florida Atlantic.

Leaderboard

Top 12 rows for the current route scope.


1	Cincinnati	American Athletic Conference	2020	0.197
2	Tulane	American Athletic Conference	2020	0.191
3	Tulsa	American Athletic Conference	2020	0.185
4	UTSA	American Athletic	2020	0.183
5	Houston	American Athletic Conference	2020	0.180
6	SMU	American Athletic Conference	2020	0.180
7	UCF	American Athletic Conference	2020	0.177
8	Temple	American Athletic Conference	2020	0.165
9	Memphis	American Athletic Conference	2020	0.161
10	East Carolina	American Athletic Conference	2020	0.149
11	Navy	American Athletic Conference	2020	0.135
12	South Florida	American Athletic Conference	2020	0.125

Trend Chart

Yearly winning values for the current filter scope.

Yearly Winners

Season	Team	Conference	Value
2025	East Carolina	American Athletic Conference	0.191
2024	UTSA	American Athletic	0.229
2023	UTSA	American Athletic	0.203
2022	Navy	American Athletic Conference	0.204
2021	Houston	American Athletic Conference	0.213
2020	Cincinnati	American Athletic Conference	0.197
2019	UCF	American Athletic Conference	0.269
2018	Tulane	American Athletic Conference	0.206
2017	UTSA	American Athletic	0.210
2016	UCF	American Athletic Conference	0.219
2015	Houston	American Athletic Conference	0.021
2014	UCF	American Athletic Conference	0.021
2013	Houston	American Athletic Conference	0.025
2012	UTSA	American Athletic	0.018

Historical Leaderboard

Average across seasons for each team in the current filter scope.

Rank	Team	Seasons	Average	Best Season
1	Florida Atlantic	2025, 2024, 2023	0.151	2024 (0.165)
2	Tulane	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014	0.149	2018 (0.206)
3	Rice	2025, 2024, 2023	0.147	2024 (0.169)
4	Navy	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015	0.145	2019 (0.243)
5	UTSA	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012	0.144	2024 (0.229)
6	UCF	2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013	0.141	2019 (0.269)
7	East Carolina	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014	0.138	2023 (0.197)
8	Houston	2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013	0.137	2021 (0.213)
9	UAB	2025, 2024, 2023	0.136	2023 (0.156)
10	Army	2025, 2024	0.135	2024 (0.144)
11	Memphis	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013	0.134	2024 (0.198)
12	Charlotte	2025, 2024, 2023	0.133	2023 (0.147)
13	South Florida	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013	0.132	2019 (0.244)
14	SMU	2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013	0.131	2019 (0.249)
15	Cincinnati	2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013	0.130	2019 (0.216)
16	Temple	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013	0.130	2016 (0.204)
17	Tulsa	2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014	0.129	2020 (0.185)
18	North Texas	2025, 2024, 2023	0.121	2025 (0.137)
19	UConn	2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013	0.080	2019 (0.150)
20	Louisville	2013	0.022	2013 (0.022)
21	Rutgers	2013	0.009	2013 (0.009)

Frequently Asked Questions

Who leads the American havoc rate leaderboard in 2020?

Cincinnati ranks first at 0.197 in 2020.

Which American program has the best long-term havoc rate profile?

Florida Atlantic owns the strongest all-time average at 0.151 across 3 tracked seasons in this conference scope.

How does the American race compare with the recent trend?

East Carolina is the most recent yearly winner in this conference scope, so the route combines the current leaderboard with a recent trend line instead of showing only one season snapshot.