College Football Leaderboards · 2025

The best units in the country by opponent-adjusted, garbage-time-clean advanced metrics — the same numbers behind every team page, ranked across all of FBS.

Early season. 136 of 138 FBS teams have played enough for these numbers to exist, so this ranks the teams that have — not the country.

Defense · success rate allowed

1	Texas Tech	Big 12	30.1%
2	James Madison	Sun Belt	31.4%
3	Oklahoma	SEC	32.1%
4	Toledo	Mid-American	33.3%
5	Texas A&M	SEC	34.1%
6	Ohio State	Big Ten	34.4%
7	Missouri	SEC	34.6%
8	Wake Forest	ACC	35.1%
9	Indiana	Big Ten	35.1%
10	San Diego State	Pac-12	35.1%
11	Pittsburgh	ACC	35.1%
12	Oregon	Big Ten	36.4%
13	Notre Dame	FBS Independents	36.4%
14	Boise State	Pac-12	36.5%
15	Miami	ACC	36.6%
16	Louisville	ACC	36.7%
17	Western Michigan	Mid-American	36.9%
18	Clemson	ACC	37.0%
19	Western Kentucky	Conference USA	37.1%
20	Virginia	ACC	37.4%
21	South Florida	American Athletic	37.8%
22	Louisiana Tech	Sun Belt	37.9%
23	Alabama	SEC	37.9%
24	Wyoming	Mountain West	38.0%
25	Oregon State	Pac-12	38.3%
26	Auburn	SEC	38.3%
27	East Carolina	American Athletic	38.3%
28	Utah	Big 12	38.4%
29	Iowa	Big Ten	38.5%
30	LSU	SEC	38.8%

Opponent-adjusted, garbage-time excluded. Top 30 shown. Tap a team for its full profile. Source: CollegeFootballData.