College Football Stat Leaders
Share of defensive plays that created havoc.
Seasons Covered
2004-2025
Current Leader
San Diego State (0.264)
Best Season
San Diego State 2019 (0.264)
Scope
Mountain West
Crawl sibling stat pages without leaving the shared leaderboard template.
Route-specific context pulled from the current leaderboard, winner trend, and historical baseline.
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 Mountain West leaderboard, the visible range runs 0.264 to 0.208, with San Diego State setting the pace.
Mountain West teams have claimed 100% of the yearly titles in this filtered dataset, and Fresno State is the latest winner at 0.174.
The gap from No. 1 San Diego State to No. 5 Air Force is 0.055, which shows how tightly packed the top of this leaderboard is.
The yearly winning mark slipped from 0.204 in 2024 to 0.174 in 2025, a swing of 0.030. San Diego State's current mark of 0.264 sits above the all-time average leader benchmark of 0.125 held by Utah State.
Top 25 rows for the current route scope.
Yearly winning values for the current filter scope.
| Season | Team | Conference | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Fresno State | Mountain West | 0.174 |
| 2024 | UNLV | Mountain West Conference | 0.204 |
| 2023 | Utah State | Mountain West Conference | 0.173 |
| 2022 | San José State | Mountain West | 0.186 |
| 2021 | Utah State | Mountain West Conference | 0.198 |
| 2020 | San Diego State | Mountain West Conference | 0.212 |
| 2019 | San Diego State | Mountain West Conference | 0.264 |
| 2018 | Nevada | Mountain West Conference | 0.175 |
| 2017 | Wyoming | Mountain West Conference | 0.175 |
| 2016 | San Diego State | Mountain West Conference | 0.196 |
| 2015 | San Diego State | Mountain West Conference | 0.027 |
| 2014 | Boise State | Mountain West Conference | 0.023 |
| 2013 | Utah State | Mountain West Conference | 0.017 |
| 2012 | Fresno State | Mountain West | 0.024 |
| 2011 | Boise State | Mountain West Conference | 0.019 |
| 2010 | BYU | Mountain West Conference | 0.019 |
| 2009 | Air Force | Mountain West Conference | 0.025 |
| 2008 | Utah | Mountain West Conference | 0.023 |
| 2007 | San José State | Mountain West | 0.034 |
| 2006 | San José State | Mountain West | 0.062 |
| 2005 | San José State | Mountain West | 0.052 |
| 2004 | Air Force | Mountain West Conference | 0.072 |
Average across seasons for each team in the current filter scope.
| Rank | Team | Seasons | Average | Best Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Utah State | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 | 0.125 | 2021 (0.198) |
| 2 | Boise State | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011 | 0.121 | 2019 (0.205) |
| 3 | Nevada | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 | 0.114 | 2019 (0.183) |
| 4 | Hawai'i | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 | 0.112 | 2020 (0.173) |
| 5 | San Diego State | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 | 0.092 | 2019 (0.264) |
| 6 | Fresno State | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 | 0.085 | 2019 (0.211) |
| 7 | San José State | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 | 0.085 | 2022 (0.186) |
| 8 | Colorado State | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 | 0.082 | 2019 (0.202) |
| 9 | Wyoming | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 | 0.081 | 2019 (0.214) |
| 10 | Air Force | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 | 0.079 | 2019 (0.208) |
| 11 | New Mexico | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 | 0.078 | 2025 (0.172) |
| 12 | UNLV | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 | 0.074 | 2024 (0.204) |
| 13 | BYU | 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 | 0.021 | 2004 (0.042) |
| 14 | TCU | 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 | 0.020 | 2005 (0.030) |
| 15 | Utah | 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 | 0.019 | 2008 (0.023) |
San Diego State ranks first at 0.264.
Utah State owns the strongest all-time average at 0.125 across 13 tracked seasons in this conference scope.
Fresno State 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.