2013 College Punts Downed Percentage Leaders

The share of punts a member of the kicking team stopped or touched before they could roll into the end zone. It is a control and coverage stat as much as a leg stat.

Downed punts are rare, so one or two change the percentage. In 2013, Scott Harding (65.6%) led college football punters in punts downed percentage, ahead of Sam Irwin-Hill (59.3%) and Ethan Wood (53.8%). 121 punters qualify (minimum 30 punts). The median qualified punter had 31.6%.

Final 2013 regular-season numbers, updated October 23, 2026.

Rk	Player	Team	Downed %	Punts	Avg	Net	In 20	In 20 %	TB %	FC %	Points
1	Scott Harding	Hawai'i	65.6%	56	40.2	40.2	22	39%	0%	25%	+6.7
2	Sam Irwin-Hill	Arkansas	59.3%	46	44.3	43.9	22	48%	2%	26%	+5.4
3	Ethan Wood	Wyoming	53.8%	69	42.0	39.3	25	37%	12%	8%	−1.8
4	Mike Bowlin	Washington State	53.3%	50	39.1	38.8	17	35%	0%	40%	−14.6
5	Justin DuVernois	Illinois	51.7%	51	41.1	40.8	15	31%	2%	17%	−2.1
6	Tyler Grassman	Buffalo	51.2%	68	40.1	39.2	28	41%	4%	28%	−0.4
7	Logan McPherson	Louisiana Tech	50.0%	63	38.0	38.0	21	33%	0%	25%	−6.1
8	Connor Kornbrath	Iowa	50.0%	58	39.9	39.4	27	47%	3%	38%	+1.3
9	Richie Hogan	Central Michigan	50.0%	51	43.9	42.4	20	39%	8%	23%	+7.8
10	Will Scott	Troy	48.8%	56	44.5	43.1	22	39%	7%	32%	+11.1
11	Matt Wile	Michigan	48.4%	56	40.6	39.9	16	29%	4%	35%	−9.9
12	Sean Poole	Georgia Tech	48.0%	39	42.8	41.3	13	33%	8%	32%	−0.8
13	Darragh O'Neill	Colorado	47.8%	66	40.5	39.1	28	42%	6%	33%	−1.2
14	Hendrix Brakefield	Western Kentucky	47.4%	31	39.4	39.4	15	48%	0%	53%	−3.5
15	Christian Brinser	Missouri	46.5%	61	41.0	39.4	23	38%	8%	35%	+2.5
16	Mike Sadler	Michigan State	45.3%	70	42.3	40.3	31	45%	10%	34%	+4.2
17	Trevor Pardula	Kansas	44.9%	84	43.7	42.0	29	35%	8%	22%	+6.3
18	Sam Foltz	Nebraska	42.0%	64	41.9	40.0	17	27%	9%	26%	−1.4
19	Jake Medlock	Florida International	41.7%	37	42.5	41.1	11	31%	6%	8%	+2.1
20	Alex Garoutte	Arizona State	40.9%	33	38.4	37.7	14	42%	3%	36%	−1.3
21	Tommy Hibbard	North Carolina	40.5%	61	42.9	40.9	22	36%	10%	21%	+9.4
22	Cody Webster	Purdue	40.0%	70	43.5	42.9	25	37%	1%	36%	+9.6
23	Drew Meyer	Wisconsin	40.0%	53	38.6	37.5	19	36%	6%	38%	−8.1
24	Pablo Beltran	Navy	40.0%	38	42.0	39.4	13	34%	13%	28%	−0.6
25	Vince Penza	Toledo	39.4%	44	40.8	40.0	22	51%	5%	33%	−1.1
26	Justin Manton	UL Monroe	38.5%	80	45.8	42.6	27	34%	14%	29%	+16.5
27	Harrison Waid	San José State	38.5%	48	43.4	40.9	12	25%	13%	19%	−9.2
28	Jed Barnett	Oklahoma	38.1%	59	41.6	40.0	25	42%	8%	45%	+1.9
29	Caleb Houston	UCF	38.1%	37	42.4	40.2	13	38%	15%	24%	+5.7
30	Chris Ayers	Florida International	37.8%	50	35.4	35.1	7	14%	2%	51%	−19.3
31	Brian Schmiedebusch	Bowling Green	37.5%	44	39.8	37.6	19	43%	11%	22%	+2.0
32	Cody Mandell	Alabama	37.5%	35	47.5	42.8	15	42%	17%	29%	+12.8
33	Nathan Renfro	Maryland	37.2%	68	40.9	38.1	24	35%	13%	37%	−2.4
34	Richie Leone	Houston	37.0%	63	43.1	42.3	35	56%	5%	57%	+18.0
35	Mattias Ciabatti	South Florida	36.6%	73	40.2	38.3	21	30%	9%	37%	−9.0
36	Michael Palardy	Tennessee	36.6%	63	44.5	42.5	35	56%	10%	24%	+16.0
37	Cason Beatty	Florida State	36.0%	36	40.8	39.7	14	39%	6%	40%	−5.8
38	Travis Coons	Washington	35.9%	56	40.7	40.5	21	38%	2%	49%	+6.1
39	Tyler Williams	Marshall	35.5%	49	42.5	40.9	11	22%	8%	29%	+3.5
40	Kyle Schmidt	Ball State	35.5%	42	40.9	39.9	16	38%	5%	23%	−2.1
41	Peter Mortell	Minnesota	35.3%	56	42.9	40.8	18	32%	11%	35%	−1.5
42	Drew Riggleman	Arizona	35.1%	54	40.4	38.9	20	37%	7%	27%	+0.1
43	Cole Wagner	UConn	34.9%	71	39.8	39.0	21	30%	4%	49%	−10.1
44	Cole Leininger	California	34.7%	69	42.9	41.7	18	26%	3%	51%	+1.0
45	Kirby Van Der Kamp	Iowa State	34.4%	84	41.6	39.7	32	38%	10%	28%	+7.1
46	Tyler Hull	South Carolina	34.4%	43	38.0	37.6	11	26%	2%	41%	−8.2
47	Grant Venham	Ohio	34.2%	50	37.8	36.0	15	30%	8%	34%	−11.8
48	Nick O'Toole	West Virginia	34.1%	73	44.1	42.7	26	36%	7%	49%	+10.9
49	Tom Hornsey	Memphis	34.1%	62	45.2	43.3	30	48%	7%	30%	+13.3
50	Colter Johnson	Massachusetts	34.0%	69	37.3	36.1	17	25%	6%	38%	−21.3
51	Steven Clark	Auburn	33.3%	50	42.5	40.9	20	40%	8%	51%	+8.2
52	Alejandro Maldonado	Oregon	33.3%	38	40.1	39.1	11	28%	0%	57%	−5.1
53	Ryan Johnson	Louisville	33.3%	39	41.2	38.6	13	33%	13%	44%	+3.1
54	Paul Jones	Arkansas State	33.3%	38	38.3	35.7	16	42%	13%	37%	−2.8
55	Alec Vozenilek	Virginia	32.8%	85	41.2	39.6	21	25%	8%	44%	−6.5
56	Kris Albarado	USC	32.8%	75	37.1	36.0	31	41%	5%	43%	−9.5
57	Paul Layton	Temple	32.4%	61	42.8	41.8	26	43%	5%	38%	+10.1
58	Will Johnson	Texas State	32.3%	41	44.0	41.5	20	50%	13%	45%	+7.3
59	Ryan Erxleben	Texas Tech	31.8%	47	44.2	41.7	13	27%	13%	27%	−0.9
60	Austin Rehkow	Idaho	31.6%	75	47.8	46.0	31	45%	9%	32%	+29.6
61	Mike Ruggles	UTEP	31.6%	56	40.0	38.8	16	29%	5%	42%	−4.1
62	Tom Hackett	Utah	30.9%	76	43.4	41.8	29	38%	8%	31%	+16.2
63	Blake Macek	North Texas	30.8%	60	40.8	38.8	24	40%	10%	38%	+1.9
64	J. Schroeder	Western Michigan	30.6%	77	39.7	38.1	23	30%	8%	41%	−6.6
65	Cameron Johnston	Ohio State	30.6%	44	43.5	42.8	28	65%	5%	58%	+14.4
66	Zac Murphy	Miami (OH)	30.3%	79	46.6	43.1	20	26%	13%	21%	+2.3
67	Alexander Kinal	Wake Forest	30.2%	86	39.7	38.3	29	34%	7%	49%	−10.3
68	Chase Tenpenny	Nevada	29.7%	59	44.5	41.3	24	41%	12%	35%	+3.9
69	Anthony Melchiori	Kent State	29.2%	35	44.5	42.8	17	49%	9%	54%	+9.1
70	Daniel Cadona	Louisiana	28.9%	46	41.8	39.2	15	33%	13%	34%	+1.9
71	Brandon Williams	Northwestern	28.9%	58	36.0	34.3	17	29%	9%	49%	−14.1
72	Scott Arellano	BYU	28.2%	74	41.6	38.5	26	41%	15%	23%	+3.0
73	Nate Freese	Boston College	27.9%	70	42.0	39.4	27	39%	13%	47%	+2.7
74	Wil Baumann	NC State	27.9%	67	42.1	40.1	22	33%	10%	33%	−0.7
75	Cayle Chapman-Brown	New Mexico State	27.8%	71	43.6	42.0	25	35%	6%	50%	+3.0
76	Kaleb Smith	Oklahoma State	27.8%	72	39.4	37.4	26	36%	10%	48%	−4.8
77	Mark Krause	Kansas State	27.8%	47	41.3	39.6	18	38%	9%	50%	+1.9
78	Garrett Swanson	Fresno State	27.8%	45	42.8	41.9	17	38%	4%	56%	+6.5
79	Kristian Stern	UTSA	27.6%	50	40.4	39.0	13	25%	4%	52%	−6.9
80	Austin Barnes	Eastern Michigan	27.3%	50	39.7	37.1	13	31%	14%	45%	−7.8
81	Trent Tignor	East Carolina	27.3%	42	42.7	39.9	10	26%	16%	27%	−2.4
82	Tyler Sarrazin	Southern Miss	26.9%	44	39.4	38.5	8	18%	5%	38%	−11.7
83	Will Monday	Duke	26.7%	69	42.7	40.9	25	36%	9%	18%	+9.4
84	Bradley Pinion	Clemson	26.3%	53	39.5	39.4	26	49%	0%	71%	+0.3
85	Landon Foster	Kentucky	26.2%	68	41.3	39.5	16	24%	9%	36%	−6.5
86	Zach Paul	Akron	26.1%	65	42.9	40.5	17	26%	12%	41%	−4.4
87	Scott Garber	South Alabama	25.8%	51	40.7	39.5	18	35%	6%	45%	−1.9
88	James Farrimond	Rice	25.7%	64	42.4	40.0	16	25%	13%	34%	−0.4
89	Josh Davis	Middle Tennessee	25.7%	62	41.9	39.9	27	44%	10%	26%	−1.8
90	Alex Tardieu	Army	25.7%	51	37.3	36.6	11	22%	4%	46%	−13.4
91	A.J. Hughes	Virginia Tech	25.6%	69	44.5	42.2	26	38%	12%	31%	+9.6
92	Dalton Parks	Tulsa	25.6%	66	39.5	39.4	18	29%	0%	36%	−20.8
93	Hunter Mullins	UAB	25.0%	51	43.1	40.0	20	39%	16%	32%	+10.9
94	Ethan Perry	TCU	24.6%	80	40.3	39.3	32	40%	5%	49%	+4.5
95	Matt Yoklic	Pittsburgh	24.4%	66	43.1	39.8	21	31%	14%	41%	−1.0
96	Alex Butterworth	Penn State	24.4%	51	39.2	37.6	19	37%	8%	66%	−3.6
97	Ben Rhyne	Stanford	23.8%	47	42.1	41.7	19	40%	2%	62%	+3.6
98	Erich Toth	Indiana	23.7%	52	40.6	39.4	19	37%	6%	45%	+0.7
99	Nick Marsh	Rutgers	22.9%	62	40.3	37.4	23	37%	15%	40%	−4.5
100	Spencer Roth	Baylor	22.9%	45	46.1	43.4	14	31%	13%	49%	+12.6
101	Jaron Bentrude	Utah State	22.8%	70	39.5	38.1	31	44%	7%	63%	+2.4
102	Keith Kostol	Oregon State	22.2%	49	40.6	38.0	21	42%	10%	50%	−5.2
103	Ben Skaer	New Mexico	22.2%	47	45.8	44.1	19	40%	9%	37%	+10.2
104	Mike Loftus	SMU	22.2%	32	40.2	36.9	5	15%	13%	11%	−16.7
105	Peter Picerelli	Tulane	21.6%	73	40.8	38.4	24	34%	7%	41%	−1.4
106	Tyler Campbell	Ole Miss	21.4%	46	44.7	40.5	15	33%	20%	29%	−1.4
107	David Baska	Air Force	20.5%	48	39.5	37.4	14	28%	6%	62%	−7.3
108	Hayden Hunt	Colorado State	20.0%	64	42.0	41.0	20	32%	5%	31%	−4.7
109	Joel Alesi	San Diego State	18.9%	52	39.5	38.7	17	33%	4%	51%	−5.0
110	Sean Covington	UCLA	18.2%	48	41.8	40.5	18	38%	6%	73%	+6.1
111	Jamie Keehn	LSU	18.2%	33	39.3	38.1	12	36%	6%	36%	−0.7
112	Logan Yunker	UNLV	17.1%	59	42.1	39.8	18	31%	12%	26%	−6.7
113	Taylor Hudson	Vanderbilt	16.7%	48	42.9	41.8	15	31%	4%	17%	−3.4
114	Kyle Brindza	Notre Dame	16.0%	42	41.3	39.7	7	17%	7%	52%	−2.2
115	Riley Dixon	Syracuse	15.9%	71	42.1	41.0	26	37%	6%	64%	−4.9
116	Pat O'Donnell	Miami	15.6%	47	47.3	43.9	17	36%	17%	34%	+12.4
117	Sean Kelly	Florida Atlantic	14.3%	72	42.7	41.3	27	39%	7%	50%	+11.1
118	Tyler Wedel	Northern Illinois	12.9%	46	40.8	39.5	15	32%	2%	74%	−4.9
119	Anthony Fera	Texas	11.1%	68	40.6	39.3	28	42%	4%	67%	+3.8
120	Matt Hubbard	Georgia State	10.3%	78	42.0	39.6	17	21%	11%	38%	−3.4
121	Drew Kaser	Texas A&M	10.3%	44	47.4	44.2	18	41%	16%	52%	+10.1

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