College Football Stat Leaders

2018 Pac-12 College Football Havoc Rate Leaders

Share of defensive plays that created havoc.

Seasons Covered

2004-2025

Current Leader

Utah (0.202)

Best Season

Utah 2019 (0.233)

Scope

Pac-12 • 2018

Browse Metrics

Crawl sibling stat pages without leaving the shared leaderboard template.

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 2018 leaderboard, the visible range runs 0.202 to 0.158, with Utah setting the pace.

Pac-12 Context

Pac-12 teams have claimed 100% of the yearly titles in this filtered dataset, and Oregon State is the latest winner at 0.172.

Spread At The Top

The gap from No. 1 Utah to No. 5 USC is 0.044, which shows how tightly packed the top of this leaderboard is.

Recent Trend And Baseline

The yearly winning mark improved from 0.146 in 2024 to 0.172 in 2025, a swing of 0.026. Utah's current mark of 0.202 sits above the all-time average leader benchmark of 0.126 held by Utah.

Leaderboard

Top 12 rows for the current route scope.

1UtahPac-12 Conference20180.202
2StanfordPac-12 Conference20180.167
3Washington StatePac-12 Conference20180.165
4Arizona StatePac-12 Conference20180.163
5USCPac-12 Conference20180.158
6ColoradoPac-12 Conference20180.156
7ArizonaPac-12 Conference20180.154
8CaliforniaPac-12 Conference20180.153
9OregonPac-12 Conference20180.152
10WashingtonPac-12 Conference20180.141
11UCLAPac-12 Conference20180.134
12Oregon StatePac-12 Conference20180.115

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
1Utah2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 20110.1262019 (0.233)
2USC2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 20110.1072019 (0.193)
3Colorado2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 20110.1042020 (0.217)
4Stanford2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 20110.0942019 (0.183)
5Washington State2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20040.0812017 (0.177)
6Arizona State2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20040.0792019 (0.214)
7Oregon State2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20040.0792023 (0.189)
8Oregon2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20040.0762019 (0.219)
9UCLA2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20040.0722023 (0.207)
10Washington2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20040.0712017 (0.187)
11California2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20040.0712019 (0.204)
12Arizona2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 20040.0712023 (0.180)

Frequently Asked Questions

Who leads the Pac-12 havoc rate leaderboard in 2018?

Utah ranks first at 0.202 in 2018.

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

Utah owns the strongest all-time average at 0.126 across 13 tracked seasons in this conference scope.

How does the Pac-12 race compare with the recent trend?

Oregon 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.