College Football Stat Leaders

2025 Big Ten College Football Havoc Rate Leaders

Share of defensive plays that created havoc.

Seasons Covered

2004-2025

Current Leader

Indiana (0.232)

Best Season

Ohio State 2019 (0.275)

Scope

Big Ten • 2025

Browse Metrics

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Total Yards Per GamePassing Yards Per GameRushing Yards Per GamePoints Per GameOffensive PPADefensive PPATurnover MarginHavoc Rate

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 0.232 to 0.167, with Indiana setting the pace.

Big Ten Context

Big Ten teams have claimed 100% of the yearly titles in this filtered dataset, and Indiana is the latest winner at 0.232.

Spread At The Top

The gap from No. 1 Indiana to No. 5 Michigan is 0.065, which shows how tightly packed the top of this leaderboard is.

Recent Trend And Baseline

The yearly winning mark improved from 0.220 in 2024 to 0.232 in 2025, a swing of 0.012. Indiana's current mark of 0.232 sits above the all-time average leader benchmark of 0.187 held by Oregon.

Leaderboard

Top 18 rows for the current route scope.

1IndianaBig Ten Conference20250.232
2OregonBig Ten Conference20250.182
3MinnesotaBig Ten Conference20250.176
4IowaBig Ten Conference20250.169
5MichiganBig Ten Conference20250.167
6Ohio StateBig Ten Conference20250.163
7Penn StateBig Ten Conference20250.159
8USCBig Ten Conference20250.159
9IllinoisBig Ten Conference20250.153
10PurdueBig Ten Conference20250.152
11NorthwesternBig Ten Conference20250.150
12WashingtonBig Ten Conference20250.146
13NebraskaBig Ten Conference20250.144
14MarylandBig Ten Conference20250.141
15Michigan StateBig Ten Conference20250.135
16WisconsinBig Ten Conference20250.129
17RutgersBig Ten Conference20250.124
18UCLABig Ten Conference20250.120

Trend Chart

Yearly winning values for the current filter scope.

Yearly Winners

SeasonTeamConferenceValue
2025IndianaBig Ten Conference0.232
2024IndianaBig Ten Conference0.220
2023Penn StateBig Ten Conference0.225
2022Penn StateBig Ten Conference0.236
2021WisconsinBig Ten Conference0.212
2020NorthwesternBig Ten Conference0.195
2019Ohio StateBig Ten Conference0.275
2018Michigan StateBig Ten Conference0.203
2017MichiganBig Ten Conference0.243
2016MichiganBig Ten Conference0.243
2015IowaBig Ten Conference0.019
2014Ohio StateBig Ten Conference0.024
2013NorthwesternBig Ten Conference0.022
2012Michigan StateBig Ten Conference0.017
2011Michigan StateBig Ten Conference0.020
2010Ohio StateBig Ten Conference0.024
2009Ohio StateBig Ten Conference0.029
2008IowaBig Ten Conference0.027
2007IndianaBig Ten Conference0.019
2006Ohio StateBig Ten Conference0.027
2005NorthwesternBig Ten Conference0.022
2004MichiganBig Ten Conference0.021

Historical Leaderboard

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

RankTeamSeasonsAverageBest Season
1Oregon2025, 20240.1872024 (0.193)
2UCLA2025, 20240.1512024 (0.181)
3USC2025, 20240.1502025 (0.159)
4Washington2025, 20240.1432025 (0.146)
5Rutgers2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 20140.1312022 (0.177)
6Maryland2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 20140.1272019 (0.190)
7Nebraska2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 20110.1202019 (0.255)
8Ohio State2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20040.1002019 (0.275)
9Penn State2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20040.0972022 (0.236)
10Michigan2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20040.0922016 (0.243)
11Wisconsin2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20040.0922019 (0.275)
12Indiana2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20040.0882025 (0.232)
13Iowa2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20040.0872019 (0.192)
14Michigan State2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20040.0842019 (0.252)
15Northwestern2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20040.0832019 (0.205)
16Minnesota2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20040.0822019 (0.217)
17Illinois2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20040.0792022 (0.220)
18Purdue2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20040.0772019 (0.193)

Frequently Asked Questions

Who leads the Big Ten havoc rate leaderboard in 2025?

Indiana ranks first at 0.232 in 2025.

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

Oregon owns the strongest all-time average at 0.187 across 2 tracked seasons in this conference scope.

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

Indiana 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.