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Bosa Sacks Per Opponents' Pass Attempts

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11/17/14 at 4:17p in the OSU Football Forum
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Joey Bosa currently ranks fifth in the nation in total sacks with 11.5 sacks. Because some players have played more games than others, the NCAA normalizes the rankings by listing the players by sacks per game.

Here are the top 20 current leaders in terms of sacks/game:

Rk Player School games sacks sacks/game
1 Nate Orchard Utah 10 16.5 1.65
2 Hau'Oli Kikana Washington 11 16.5 1.5
3 Scooby Wright Arizona 10 13 1.3
- Shane Ray Missouri 10 13 1.3
5 Joey Bosa Ohio St 10 11.5 1.15
6 Myles Garrett Texas A&M 10 11 1.1
7 Christian Ringo La-Lafayette 10 10.5 1.05
8 Emmanuel Ogbah Oklahoma St 10 10 1.0
9 Pete Robertson Texas Tech 10 9 0.9
- Derek Barnett Tennessee 10 9 0.9
- Hunter Dimick Utah 10 9 0.9
12 Terrell Hartsfield Cincinnati 9 8 0.89
13 Andre Monroe Maryland 10 8.5 0.85
14 Vic Beasley Clemson 10 8 0.8
- Marcus Hardison Arizona St 10 8 0.8
- Curt Maggitt Tennessee 10 8 0.8
- Henry Coley Virginia 10 8 0.8
- Michael Odiari Texas St 10 8 0.8
- Drew Ott Iowa 10 8 0.8
- Preston Smith Miss St 10 8 0.8

I thought it might be interesting, though, to see where Bosa ranks if we normalize by sacks per opponents' pass attempts, rather than sacks per game. After all, the top three guys on the above list - Orchard, Kikana, and Wright - play in the Pac 12, which is known as a passing league and hence might give its pass rushers more opportunities to rush the passer. 

As it turns out, Bosa's numbers do look even better when we take the above top 20 guys and "re-normalize" them by sacks per opponents' 100 pass attempts:

Rk player school sacks opp pa sacks/ 100 a
1 Orchard Utah 16.5 362 4.56
2 Kikana Washington 16.5 417 3.96
3 Ray Missouri 13.0 348 3.74
4 Bosa Ohio St 11.5 318 3.62
5 Wright Arizona 13.0 380 3.42
6 Barnett Tennessee 9.0 291 3.09
7  Garrett Texas A&M 11.0 365 3.01
8 Robertson Texas Tech 9.0 306 2.94
9  Ringo La-Laf 10.5 358 2.93
10 Beasley Clemson 8.0 277 2.89
11 Ott Iowa 8.0 288 2.78
12 Maggitt Tennessee 9.0 306 2.75
13 Ogbah Okla St 10.0 367 2.72
14 Odiari Texas St 8.0 312 2.56
15 Dimick Utah 9.0 362 2.49
16 Hartsfield Cincinnati 8.0 322 2.48
17 Hardison Arizona St 8.0 323 2.48
18 Coley Virginia 8.0 326 2.45
19 Monroe Maryland 8.5 364 2.34
20 Smith Miss St 8.0 427 1.87

Notes (caveats):

1. I didn't know how many of the above plays each player actually participated in (e.g., if he was injured, and/or if he is part of a heavy DL rotation system), which could have skewed the above list.

2. Also, the "re-normalized" list might leave out a few guys that should be listed on the true top 20 list for sacks per Opp PA, because I simply re-normalized the top 20 guys on the sacks per game list (maybe some other player that has 7.0 sacks so far has played on a defense that's faced a relatively low number of pass attempts). 

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