2015 College Net Average in Wind Leaders

Net average counting only punts in outdoor games with a wind of 10 miles per hour or more. A headwind shortens a punt and a crosswind pushes it toward the sideline, so these are the hardest punts to place.

Wind is the game's reported speed, not the exact conditions on each kick. Only punters with enough windy-game punts are ranked. In 2015, Tom Hackett (45.8) led college football punters in net average in wind, ahead of Ethan Wood (45.0) and Drew Riggleman (44.7). 102 punters qualify (minimum 10 punts in wind (10+ mph)). The median qualified punter had 38.5.

Final 2015 regular-season numbers, updated October 23, 2026.

Rk	Player	Team	Net (wind)	Punts	Avg	Net	In 20	In 20 %	TB %	FC %	Points
1	Tom Hackett	Utah	45.8	55	47.8	43.6	25	46%	15%	35%	+20.1
2	Ethan Wood	Wyoming	45.0	67	41.8	40.1	24	37%	5%	11%	+8.4
3	Drew Riggleman	Arizona	44.7	49	44.8	41.1	21	43%	12%	6%	+9.0
4	Nick O'Toole	West Virginia	43.7	65	45.7	40.8	28	43%	22%	27%	+17.6
5	Austin Seibert	Oklahoma	43.5	51	42.4	41.6	22	44%	4%	54%	+10.0
6	Lumi Kaba	Texas State	43.4	65	44.3	40.9	18	30%	7%	21%	+8.1
7	Cason Beatty	Florida State	42.8	55	44.5	40.0	22	41%	6%	34%	+3.9
8	Worth Gregory	East Carolina	42.6	60	43.0	40.1	34	56%	10%	22%	+17.6
9	Jonny Linehan	BYU	42.4	58	43.0	38.4	17	29%	5%	28%	−1.4
10	Nick Porebski	Oregon State	42.2	72	41.1	38.5	29	40%	1%	44%	−4.5
11	Hayden Hunt	Colorado State	42.0	50	46.3	42.5	26	51%	2%	33%	+13.2
12	Dalton Schomp	Florida Atlantic	41.9	45	48.0	43.8	19	43%	5%	24%	+11.4
13	Cameron Johnston	Ohio State	41.8	55	44.1	40.8	22	40%	13%	36%	+11.6
14	Colin Downing	Iowa State	41.8	53	40.9	38.6	21	39%	2%	38%	−3.1
15	Alexander Kinal	Wake Forest	41.5	75	43.8	41.2	34	45%	4%	34%	+14.6
16	Caleb Houston	UCF	41.0	65	44.2	40.2	30	46%	5%	47%	+4.6
17	Joseph Davidson	Bowling Green	40.9	49	45.6	39.4	14	30%	6%	19%	−3.8
18	Michael Barden	Texas Tech	40.7	16	44.8	40.6	4	27%	7%	27%	+2.6
19	Alex Starzyk	Temple	40.7	58	42.2	37.7	20	34%	12%	28%	+4.9
20	Tyler Williams	Marshall	40.6	68	44.3	40.0	32	47%	13%	22%	+14.3
21	Rigoberto Sanchez	Hawai'i	40.5	74	45.1	42.0	33	52%	2%	26%	+15.3
22	Anthony Melchiori	Kent State	40.5	93	41.4	38.1	24	30%	7%	30%	+3.9
23	Nicholas Conte	Virginia	40.4	52	44.7	38.7	19	36%	10%	21%	+2.5
24	Ryan Winslow	Pittsburgh	40.3	61	41.2	37.8	22	36%	11%	39%	+4.0
25	Austin Barnes	Eastern Michigan	40.3	45	43.6	40.6	16	36%	2%	19%	+2.1
26	Bentlee Critcher	App State	40.1	47	44.1	39.0	15	32%	13%	22%	+1.1
27	Matt Haack	Arizona State	40.0	67	43.3	40.3	33	49%	0%	19%	+7.2
28	Johnny Townsend	Florida	39.9	79	44.9	42.7	34	43%	5%	33%	+23.6
29	Mattias Ciabatti	South Florida	39.8	57	43.2	38.9	20	36%	7%	19%	+5.7
30	Michael Carrizosa	San José State	39.8	43	47.7	41.9	20	47%	14%	19%	+13.3
31	Anthony Torres	New Mexico State	39.6	66	40.6	35.7	23	35%	5%	5%	−15.2
32	Sam Geraci	Cincinnati	39.5	38	45.9	39.8	14	36%	13%	20%	+3.0
33	Alex Howell	Boston College	39.4	92	41.7	39.8	33	36%	7%	21%	+14.1
34	J. Schroeder	Western Michigan	39.4	39	42.1	39.4	11	33%	9%	22%	+4.4
35	Stone Wilson	Florida International	39.4	42	40.5	38.3	9	25%	6%	40%	+0.7
36	Christian Koch	Miami (OH)	39.3	82	38.4	36.2	19	23%	2%	32%	−19.7
37	Justin Vogel	Miami	39.3	60	43.0	37.2	21	36%	10%	32%	−4.7
38	Matthew Wyman	Kansas	39.1	53	41.5	37.6	13	24%	2%	8%	−8.1
39	Luke Ferguson	Arkansas State	39.1	67	42.9	40.4	33	49%	9%	29%	+12.5
40	Zack Rogers	New Mexico	39.1	64	41.6	39.8	21	33%	3%	30%	+8.4
41	Jamie Keehn	LSU	39.1	54	40.9	36.5	17	33%	10%	31%	−7.7
42	Trevor Daniel	Tennessee	39.0	55	45.4	40.5	24	44%	13%	27%	+15.1
43	Sam Foltz	Nebraska	39.0	53	44.4	38.6	15	28%	9%	15%	−3.6
44	Eric Keena	North Texas	39.0	60	44.2	41.6	20	34%	5%	38%	+4.5
45	Logan Laurent	Massachusetts	38.9	63	42.2	38.1	16	26%	8%	28%	+2.0
46	Logan Yunker	UNLV	38.9	67	42.5	38.1	19	29%	11%	38%	−4.3
47	Wil Lutz	Georgia State	38.9	57	43.9	38.6	21	36%	7%	15%	+3.9
48	Drew Kaser	Texas A&M	38.8	53	48.0	41.3	21	40%	15%	21%	+16.1
49	Joe Schopper	Purdue	38.6	58	40.2	38.3	19	33%	3%	32%	−4.4
50	Corey Fatony	Missouri	38.6	81	42.9	40.0	27	33%	4%	33%	+10.0
51	Tyler Newsome	Notre Dame	38.6	49	44.0	38.7	22	45%	14%	14%	+3.7
52	Blake O'Neill	Michigan	38.5	53	41.3	37.4	25	49%	8%	26%	+4.6
53	Ryan Kay	Troy	38.5	61	41.9	37.0	23	38%	11%	24%	−3.3
54	Drew Galitz	Baylor	38.4	40	40.7	40.0	13	33%	0%	38%	+4.9
55	Zach Paul	Akron	38.4	71	41.2	37.3	24	35%	12%	19%	+2.9
56	Alex Robinson	Stanford	38.4	35	42.9	40.2	16	47%	6%	26%	+4.4
57	Alex Boy	Nevada	38.2	63	42.3	38.2	18	29%	6%	37%	+2.5
58	JK Scott	Alabama	38.2	57	44.2	38.4	21	38%	15%	24%	+4.0
59	Gerald Shouse	Louisiana Tech	38.2	48	40.7	38.1	28	57%	4%	33%	+4.6
60	Peter Mortell	Minnesota	38.1	70	43.3	39.2	29	41%	3%	22%	+7.4
61	Erich Toth	Indiana	38.0	58	41.7	36.7	19	32%	9%	21%	−4.9
62	Nick Walsh	Kansas State	38.0	63	41.5	37.0	16	25%	13%	37%	−3.8
63	Tanner Blain	San Diego State	37.8	73	40.6	37.0	29	40%	11%	28%	+5.5
64	Kris Albarado	USC	37.7	59	41.3	36.9	16	27%	5%	44%	−5.8
65	Austin Rehkow	Idaho	37.6	49	45.7	39.6	15	31%	7%	26%	+2.5
66	Will Monday	Duke	37.6	60	43.6	38.6	29	48%	22%	25%	+9.3
67	Hunter Niswander	Northwestern	37.6	78	38.3	37.5	23	29%	3%	37%	−2.6
68	Jacob Ambrose	Northern Illinois	37.5	65	37.8	37.7	21	35%	5%	37%	−2.6
69	Taylor Symmank	Texas Tech	37.5	25	44.7	37.3	10	40%	12%	16%	+2.8
70	Jake Hartbarger	Michigan State	37.3	48	42.1	37.4	22	49%	16%	24%	+1.8
71	Arthur Hart	Charlotte	37.3	75	38.6	36.8	22	29%	4%	47%	−12.4
72	A.J. Hughes	Virginia Tech	37.2	66	43.0	39.7	22	33%	14%	27%	+6.1
73	Sean Wale	Boise State	37.0	51	42.2	38.3	24	46%	10%	41%	+7.1
74	Drew Meyer	Wisconsin	37.0	63	39.7	36.0	23	37%	13%	24%	−4.4
75	Chris Qualls	UL Monroe	36.9	87	36.7	34.1	23	27%	4%	42%	−25.0
76	Alan Luna	UTEP	36.9	65	44.4	37.6	16	27%	17%	8%	−1.5
77	Ron Coluzzi	Central Michigan	36.9	59	39.2	37.5	18	33%	5%	37%	−4.6
78	Dillon Kidd	Iowa	36.6	53	40.4	37.0	24	44%	8%	37%	+4.4
79	Korey Durkee	Washington	36.4	45	43.0	38.6	17	38%	16%	31%	+3.4
80	Tyler Grassman	Buffalo	36.3	65	41.0	35.7	18	31%	9%	27%	−6.4
81	Aaron Dalton	Utah State	36.2	66	41.0	37.7	26	39%	5%	34%	−3.4
82	Mitch Bonnstetter	Ohio	35.9	62	38.8	36.9	26	42%	6%	36%	−2.7
83	Ian Wheeler	Oregon	35.7	44	40.1	34.2	13	28%	5%	33%	−13.8
84	Ryan Rickel	Florida Atlantic	35.6	10	35.2	35.5	9	82%	9%	44%	+1.6
85	Kyle Schmidt	Ball State	35.6	58	39.7	37.7	23	40%	0%	25%	−4.3
86	Tommy Openshaw	Vanderbilt	35.5	79	40.9	34.9	30	38%	4%	36%	−10.7
87	Logan Piper	Houston	35.5	57	40.2	38.7	24	43%	5%	32%	+7.5
88	Ryan Frain	Illinois	35.4	70	40.2	33.4	12	17%	13%	20%	−22.1
89	Ryan Rodwell	Georgia Tech	35.4	46	39.0	37.3	17	38%	0%	25%	+1.7
90	Joey Roth	Rutgers	35.3	58	40.0	34.8	11	19%	10%	36%	−18.6
91	Garrett Swanson	Fresno State	35.2	67	42.2	37.3	21	31%	4%	40%	−7.6
92	Daniel Pasquariello	Penn State	35.2	52	40.3	36.2	14	27%	6%	16%	−0.7
93	Ethan Perry	TCU	34.9	61	39.2	37.4	27	44%	7%	31%	+1.9
94	Logan Cooke	Mississippi State	34.9	40	42.5	37.3	15	38%	15%	49%	0.0
95	Collin Barber	Georgia	34.6	39	40.3	34.4	13	33%	15%	21%	−3.8
96	Joshua Appleby	Louisville	34.4	63	40.2	38.2	28	44%	5%	51%	+1.0
97	Landon Foster	Kentucky	34.3	61	40.3	35.9	18	30%	3%	25%	−16.6
98	Trevor Owens	Middle Tennessee	33.3	31	36.2	30.9	5	16%	6%	20%	−20.8
99	Will Gleeson	Ole Miss	33.2	41	40.5	38.0	14	35%	3%	35%	−1.6
100	Matt Bonadies	Middle Tennessee	33.2	26	40.6	36.2	8	31%	8%	8%	−10.2
101	Justin Wain	UConn	32.5	70	37.9	35.2	21	30%	7%	49%	−7.2
102	Zach Charme	Washington State	27.1	41	40.0	32.8	11	27%	10%	20%	−16.4

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