College Football Stat Leaders

2025 Big 12 College Football Havoc Rate Leaders

Share of defensive plays that created havoc.

Seasons Covered

2004-2025

Current Leader

Texas Tech (0.233)

Best Season

Baylor 2019 (0.256)

Scope

Big 12 • 2025

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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 2025 leaderboard, the visible range runs 0.233 to 0.177, with Texas Tech setting the pace.

Big 12 Context

Big 12 teams have claimed 100% of the yearly titles in this filtered dataset, and Texas Tech is the latest winner at 0.233.

Spread At The Top

The gap from No. 1 Texas Tech to No. 5 West Virginia is 0.056, which shows how tightly packed the top of this leaderboard is.

Recent Trend And Baseline

The yearly winning mark improved from 0.201 in 2024 to 0.233 in 2025, a swing of 0.032. Texas Tech's current mark of 0.233 sits above the all-time average leader benchmark of 0.184 held by Utah.

Leaderboard

Top 16 rows for the current route scope.

1Texas TechBig 12 Conference20250.233
2ArizonaBig 12 Conference20250.202
3Arizona StateBig 12 Conference20250.188
4KansasBig 12 Conference20250.177
5West VirginiaBig 12 Conference20250.177
6UtahBig 12 Conference20250.169
7Iowa StateBig 12 Conference20250.167
8Kansas StateBig 12 Conference20250.167
9UCFBig 12 Conference20250.164
10HoustonBig 12 Conference20250.162
11BYUBig 12 Conference20250.158
12ColoradoBig 12 Conference20250.151
13Oklahoma StateBig 12 Conference20250.149
14TCUBig 12 Conference20250.149
15BaylorBig 12 Conference20250.123
16CincinnatiBig 12 Conference20250.122

Trend Chart

Yearly winning values for the current filter scope.

Historical Leaderboard

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

RankTeamSeasonsAverageBest Season
1Utah2025, 20240.1842024 (0.199)
2Arizona State2025, 20240.1752025 (0.188)
3Arizona2025, 20240.1732025 (0.202)
4BYU2025, 2024, 20230.1602024 (0.178)
5Cincinnati2025, 2024, 20230.1572023 (0.186)
6Houston2025, 2024, 20230.1552024 (0.175)
7UCF2025, 2024, 20230.1492025 (0.164)
8West Virginia2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 20120.1272018 (0.205)
9TCU2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 20120.1232019 (0.218)
10Oklahoma State2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20040.0882019 (0.214)
11Iowa State2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20040.0872019 (0.207)
12Baylor2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20040.0852019 (0.256)
13Kansas State2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20040.0842019 (0.182)
14Oklahoma2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20040.0812019 (0.238)
15Texas Tech2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20040.0792025 (0.233)
16Texas2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20040.0792020 (0.190)
17Kansas2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20040.0792016 (0.180)
18Colorado2025, 2024, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20040.0512024 (0.201)
19Nebraska2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20040.0162009 (0.021)
20Missouri2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20040.0162010 (0.021)
21Texas A&M2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20040.0132005 (0.017)

Frequently Asked Questions

Who leads the Big 12 havoc rate leaderboard in 2025?

Texas Tech ranks first at 0.233 in 2025.

Which Big 12 program has the best long-term havoc rate profile?

Utah owns the strongest all-time average at 0.184 across 2 tracked seasons in this conference scope.

How does the Big 12 race compare with the recent trend?

Texas Tech 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.