Fun College Stats

You can find some scintillating football stuff at NFL.com. Some of the most fun stuff can be found on their CFB 24/7. Yep, NFL.com keeps an eye on college football. In this past offseason they ran a series of countdown lists titled 14 for'14. They had a bunch of terrific lists from best rivalries to smallest players. Great stuff. Currently, CFB 24/7 writer Bryan Fischer included some pretty incredible stats in his "Inside the Pocket" column. Here are those stats:

Stat of the Week
The Big Ten fell to 1-10 against Power Five opponents and is just 14-13 against FBS non-conference competition. Conference teams have seven more losses against FBS teams than the next closest Power Five league.

Stats to chew on
Oregon's Marcus Mariota passed Billy Volek as the NCAA's career leader in interception percentage with just 10 picks in 793 attempts.

Former Michigan State quarterbacks went 3-0 on NFL Sunday with Brian Hoyer, Kirk Cousins, and Drew Stanton all earning victories.

Washington State posted just the sixth game of 600-plus yards passing by an FBS team in the past 10 years. Mike Leach has been the coach of four of the six teams to accomplish the feat.

Auburn will be just the second ranked non-conference opponent Bill Snyder has played at home in 23 years at Kansas State (USC in 2002 was the other).

Cincinnati quarterback Gunner Kiel set an American Athletic Conference single-game record with six touchdown passes in his collegiate debut against Toledo.

Nebraska's victory on Saturday ended Fresno State's 13-game win streak at Bulldog Stadium, ending the nation's longest home winning streak. It was the third straight week in which the nation's longest home winning steak was broken (South Carolina and Stanford prior to Fresno State). Northern Illinois and Baylor now hold the active streak at 12, but neither play at home in week 4.

Bowling Green ran 113 plays against Indiana, the most this season and only two shy of BYU's 115 against Houston last season.

Washington's Danny Shelton leads the nation with six sacks. Not far behind him is fellow Huskies defensive lineman Hau'oli Kikaha, who's tied for third with five.

Stanford has allowed fewer than 30 points in 26 straight games and is working on an 11-game streak of allowing fewer than 20.

Texas Tech lost to a non-conference opponent (Arkansas) at home for the first time since 2002.

J.T. Barrett's six touchdown passes against Kent State tied Kenny Guiton's Ohio State record and his 312 yards were officially the most since Troy Smith in 2006.

USC dropped 48 spots in the NCAA rushing defense rankings after playing Boston College. Tyler Murphy had the second must rushing yards (191) by an ACC quarterback in league history.

Fun stats!

While it shouldn't have been a surprise, I was surprised by the Mike Leach and 600-yard passers stat.