% of Tackles Returning
Today’s blog continues my in-depth look at my New and Improved Experience Chart. For 7 years I had listed an experience chart, which broke down the number of seniors, juniors, sophomores and freshmen each team had in the two deep and rated the teams experience level with a formula I devised. In 2009, I made the experience chart FIVE TIMES better.
Today I will look at the % of tackles returning. I took all of the tackles made by the team a year ago and then took all of the returning tackles from ’11 for the percentage.
% of Tackles Returning
| % TKL | ||
| Rank | Team | Return |
|
1
|
South Alabama | 96.05% |
|
2
|
UTSA | 89.00% |
|
3
|
Georgia | 88.47% |
|
4
|
FIU | 88.17% |
|
5
|
Bowling Green | 87.94% |
|
6
|
Michigan St | 86.85% |
|
7
|
Florida | 86.34% |
|
8
|
Tulane | 85.97% |
|
9
|
Maryland | 84.78% |
|
10
|
UCLA | 84.57% |
|
11
|
Colorado St | 82.97% |
|
12
|
Ohio St | 81.95% |
|
13
|
Kent St | 81.86% |
|
14
|
Auburn | 81.81% |
|
15
|
Baylor | 81.24% |
|
16
|
Rutgers | 80.27% |
|
17
|
Texas St | 79.51% |
|
18
|
Oklahoma St | 78.70% |
|
19
|
Oregon St | 77.57% |
|
20
|
Georgia Tech | 77.51% |
|
21
|
Michigan | 77.35% |
|
22
|
USF | 77.27% |
|
23
|
East Carolina | 76.92% |
|
24
|
UCF | 76.79% |
|
25
|
Texas Tech | 76.57% |
|
26
|
Virginia Tech | 76.46% |
|
27
|
Connecticut | 75.95% |
|
28
|
Tennessee | 75.77% |
|
29
|
Florida St | 75.62% |
|
30
|
FAU | 74.94% |
|
31
|
UMass | 74.85% |
|
32
|
Army | 74.76% |
|
33
|
Ohio | 74.38% |
|
34
|
Wisconsin | 74.33% |
|
35
|
Duke | 74.18% |
|
36
|
Mississippi | 74.02% |
|
37
|
Central Michigan | 73.19% |
|
38
|
Oregon | 72.76% |
|
39
|
USC | 71.82% |
|
40
|
Northern Illinois | 71.75% |
|
41
|
SMU | 71.75% |
|
42
|
Clemson | 71.71% |
|
43
|
Navy | 71.60% |
|
44
|
WKU | 71.43% |
|
45
|
Louisville | 70.76% |
|
46
|
Buffalo | 70.71% |
|
47
|
Memphis | 70.36% |
|
48
|
Washington | 70.27% |
|
49
|
Boston College | 69.45% |
|
50
|
Fresno St | 68.85% |
|
51
|
Wake Forest | 68.76% |
|
52
|
Houston | 68.42% |
|
53
|
Syracuse | 68.41% |
|
54
|
Illinois | 68.25% |
|
55
|
Oklahoma | 68.05% |
|
56
|
Washington St | 68.04% |
|
57
|
Missouri | 67.77% |
|
58
|
Stanford | 67.67% |
|
59
|
Purdue | 66.70% |
|
60
|
BYU | 66.36% |
|
61
|
Eastern Michigan | 66.04% |
|
62
|
NC State | 65.33% |
|
63
|
Iowa St | 65.15% |
|
64
|
Notre Dame | 64.81% |
|
65
|
Indiana | 64.79% |
|
66
|
Wyoming | 64.20% |
|
67
|
LSU | 62.78% |
|
68
|
Vanderbilt | 62.77% |
|
69
|
Colorado | 62.31% |
|
70
|
Nebraska | 62.11% |
|
71
|
Tulsa | 61.48% |
|
72
|
Texas A&M | 61.25% |
|
73
|
UTEP | 61.14% |
|
74
|
San Jose St | 60.87% |
|
75
|
Kansas | 60.62% |
|
76
|
Miss St | 60.40% |
|
77
|
Western Michigan | 60.29% |
|
78
|
Ball St | 60.23% |
|
79
|
West Virginia | 60.22% |
|
80
|
Rice | 59.98% |
|
81
|
Utah St | 59.96% |
|
82
|
South Carolina | 59.31% |
|
83
|
Kansas St | 58.76% |
|
84
|
Utah | 58.25% |
|
85
|
Troy | 58.22% |
|
86
|
Cincinnati | 57.65% |
|
87
|
Texas | 57.62% |
|
88
|
Middle Tennessee | 57.45% |
|
89
|
Akron | 57.22% |
|
90
|
Arkansas | 56.40% |
|
91
|
Virginia | 56.04% |
|
92
|
North Carolina | 55.80% |
|
93
|
New Mexico | 55.56% |
|
94
|
Miami, Oh | 55.53% |
|
95
|
San Diego St | 55.25% |
|
96
|
Iowa | 55.18% |
|
97
|
UNLV | 54.56% |
|
98
|
Louisiana Tech | 53.75% |
|
99
|
TCU | 53.66% |
|
100
|
Minnesota | 53.48% |
|
101
|
Arizona | 52.65% |
|
102
|
Nevada | 52.60% |
|
103
|
Idaho | 52.35% |
|
104
|
Penn St | 52.07% |
|
105
|
Southern Miss | 50.91% |
|
106
|
Miami, Fl | 50.76% |
|
107
|
Alabama | 50.56% |
|
108
|
UAB | 49.67% |
|
109
|
Northwestern | 49.41% |
|
110
|
Air Force | 48.16% |
|
111
|
Pittsburgh | 47.67% |
|
112
|
Arizona St | 47.57% |
|
113
|
Toledo | 47.11% |
|
114
|
ULM | 47.01% |
|
115
|
North Texas | 46.41% |
|
116
|
California | 45.84% |
|
117
|
Hawaii | 45.55% |
|
118
|
Temple | 44.16% |
|
119
|
Arkansas St | 44.15% |
|
120
|
Marshall | 43.25% |
|
121
|
Louisiana | 42.90% |
|
122
|
Kentucky | 42.08% |
|
123
|
New Mexico St | 41.05% |
|
124
|
Boise St | 39.92% |
Not surprising, recent start-up programs South Alabama and UTSA topped the list as both teams enter FBS play this year with several starters back. Georgia comes in at #3 with 9 returning starters on D including 12 of their top 13 tacklers back from a year ago! At the bottom of the list is Boise St who returns just 2 starters on D this year and lost 9 of their top 10 tacklers!
