2020 College Inside the 20 Percentage Leaders

The share of a punter's punts that end inside the opponent's 20-yard line. It removes volume from the comparison.

Field position matters: punters who punt from midfield have more chances than those punting from their own end. In 2020, James Smith (64.5%) led college football punters in inside the 20 percentage, ahead of Charles Ouverson (59.4%) and Ben Kiernan (56.7%). 73 punters qualify (minimum 30 punts). The median qualified punter had 35.9%.

Final 2020 regular-season numbers, updated October 23, 2026.

Rk	Player	Team	In 20 %	Punts	Avg	Net	In 20	TB %	FC %	Points
1	James Smith	Cincinnati	64.5%	32	43.8	40.7	20	3%	48%	+8.7
2	Charles Ouverson	Coastal Carolina	59.4%	33	40.2	37.2	19	3%	32%	−0.4
3	Ben Kiernan	North Carolina	56.7%	30	43.7	39.9	17	0%	28%	+4.0
4	Lucas Dean	UTSA	53.2%	55	46.3	40.3	25	4%	16%	+4.4
5	Jake Camarda	Georgia	51.6%	31	47.9	44.6	16	16%	47%	+11.8
6	Tom Hutton	Oklahoma State	50.9%	54	40.5	39.2	27	6%	62%	+5.3
7	Tory Taylor	Iowa	50.0%	40	44.1	42.9	20	3%	35%	+10.4
8	Zach Von Rosenberg	LSU	49.2%	59	43.9	42.0	29	3%	39%	+10.6
9	Stephen Kotsanlee	Utah State	48.6%	37	40.7	40.4	18	0%	36%	+2.3
10	Matthew Hayball	Florida Atlantic	48.6%	40	44.5	39.8	17	3%	35%	−1.9
11	Laine Wilkins	Houston	48.4%	31	41.2	40.0	15	6%	31%	+0.2
12	Adam Korsak	Rutgers	47.9%	48	42.9	42.6	23	0%	43%	+10.6
13	Jordy Sandy	TCU	47.4%	57	41.0	38.9	27	5%	63%	+6.1
14	Luke Elzinga	Central Michigan	46.9%	33	43.2	40.8	15	6%	28%	+6.5
15	Will Spiers	Clemson	45.2%	42	43.5	38.7	19	7%	27%	0.0
16	Nik Constantinou	Texas A&M	45.2%	31	40.3	39.2	14	6%	55%	+6.0
17	Adam Barry	Temple	45.0%	40	44.0	40.0	18	5%	23%	−4.5
18	Paxton Brooks	Tennessee	44.9%	49	43.6	41.8	22	8%	38%	+12.0
19	Pressley Harvin III	Georgia Tech	44.4%	45	48.0	44.8	20	7%	45%	+15.8
20	Kirk Christodoulou	Pittsburgh	43.4%	53	44.5	43.1	23	2%	55%	+14.3
21	Zach Harding	Army	43.2%	37	42.8	40.3	16	5%	21%	+5.7
22	Tyler Sumpter	West Virginia	42.4%	33	40.3	39.0	14	6%	52%	−0.6
23	Harrison Smith	Vanderbilt	42.2%	46	41.0	37.4	19	2%	34%	−6.0
24	Rhys Byrns	Louisiana	41.2%	34	43.9	40.1	14	6%	24%	+3.1
25	Porter Wilson	Duke	40.0%	53	42.9	41.1	20	4%	24%	+5.5
26	Ryan Bujcevski	Texas	39.0%	39	43.3	37.1	16	0%	23%	−8.1
27	Ivan Mora	Wake Forest	38.9%	36	40.9	38.1	14	11%	31%	+0.4
28	Seamus O'Kelly	Texas State	38.6%	57	40.9	38.8	22	2%	28%	+1.3
29	Blake Hayes	Illinois	38.1%	42	43.8	40.6	16	2%	29%	+2.2
30	John Haggerty	Western Kentucky	37.7%	53	46.0	41.7	20	8%	18%	+1.7
31	Derek Adams	Northwestern	37.5%	40	41.5	38.9	15	10%	49%	+0.5
32	Matt Ference	Northern Illinois	37.5%	30	43.0	40.1	12	3%	31%	−3.0
33	Xavier Subotsch	App State	37.5%	32	42.3	41.4	12	3%	35%	+4.1
34	Grant McKinniss	Missouri	36.8%	39	43.1	40.3	14	8%	43%	+4.7
35	Trenton Gill	NC State	36.7%	49	44.8	39.8	18	12%	31%	+7.4
36	Grant Carlson	Boston College	35.9%	43	42.4	39.4	14	8%	22%	−0.7
37	Lachlan Wilson	Tulsa	35.9%	39	43.1	36.5	14	8%	33%	−4.0
38	Max Duffy	Kentucky	35.1%	37	45.8	42.4	13	3%	34%	+11.4
39	Kyle Ulbrich	Middle Tennessee	34.9%	43	43.8	40.0	15	12%	26%	+3.7
40	Tommy Heatherly	Florida International	34.4%	32	44.4	42.3	11	9%	34%	+5.2
41	Nolan Cooney	Syracuse	34.2%	74	44.8	41.5	25	4%	26%	+12.0
42	Reid Bauer	Arkansas	34.2%	39	43.5	38.0	13	8%	24%	−2.3
43	Kyle Greenwell	UAB	34.1%	41	42.5	40.3	15	2%	41%	+4.3
44	Lou Hedley	Miami	34.1%	46	47.3	45.4	15	2%	55%	+17.4
45	Joe Rivera	Iowa State	33.3%	42	40.8	35.1	14	10%	29%	−10.6
46	Tyson Dyer	New Mexico	32.4%	34	40.4	38.5	11	0%	40%	−3.2
47	Ryan Wright	Tulane	31.9%	49	45.0	41.2	15	6%	11%	+8.0
48	Anthony Beck II	Georgia Southern	31.8%	44	42.0	37.9	14	9%	47%	+1.2
49	Adam Williams	Memphis	31.7%	41	42.6	40.0	13	7%	36%	+2.6
50	Austin McNamara	Texas Tech	31.7%	41	46.3	40.0	13	10%	41%	+5.9
51	Jay Bramblett	Notre Dame	30.8%	39	42.2	41.2	12	3%	36%	+5.2
52	Jordan Stout	Penn State	30.3%	33	41.5	38.8	10	3%	39%	−0.5
53	Ryan Hanson	Arkansas State	30.0%	41	40.6	38.7	12	3%	29%	−3.9
54	Oscar Bradburn	Virginia Tech	29.7%	37	43.0	39.8	11	16%	39%	+5.8
55	Reeves Mundschau	Oklahoma	29.7%	36	38.9	36.4	11	3%	43%	−8.4
56	Issac Power	Baylor	29.1%	54	40.6	36.6	16	7%	41%	−7.3
57	Kai Kroeger	South Carolina	28.9%	39	43.3	38.1	11	5%	36%	−2.8
58	Nash Griffin	Virginia	28.6%	42	42.4	39.7	12	10%	31%	+1.3
59	Alex Mastromanno	Florida State	28.6%	35	43.5	40.5	10	3%	46%	−0.4
60	Bernardo Rodriguez	North Texas	28.1%	32	43.8	39.7	9	13%	10%	+4.1
61	Bryce Baringer	Michigan State	27.8%	37	43.6	36.4	10	8%	31%	−6.3
62	Griffin Fleming	Southern Miss	27.8%	36	39.5	39.1	10	0%	65%	−3.0
63	Haydon Whitehead	Indiana	27.8%	36	42.4	40.4	10	8%	61%	+5.4
64	Adam Stack	Hawai'i	27.0%	37	43.8	38.1	10	0%	33%	−4.8
65	Andrew Osteen	UCF	26.5%	35	44.3	41.5	9	6%	38%	+3.7
66	Trent Schneider	South Florida	25.8%	32	41.3	34.0	8	6%	11%	−11.7
67	Jack Brooks	South Alabama	25.0%	43	41.7	37.8	11	5%	48%	−4.6
68	Jacob Barnes	Louisiana Tech	22.7%	44	37.2	35.3	10	5%	26%	−8.5
69	Michael Hayes II	Georgia State	20.8%	47	40.4	38.1	10	2%	18%	−4.2
70	Daniel Davies	Navy	20.5%	44	37.1	34.7	9	5%	36%	−19.6
71	Nickolas Null	Wyoming	20.0%	29	38.7	36.1	6	3%	26%	−8.1
72	Daniel Sparks	UL Monroe	18.8%	30	44.6	36.0	6	7%	26%	−11.8
73	Reis Vernon	Kansas	18.4%	38	37.8	31.6	7	3%	29%	−23.4

All 2020 College punter rankings

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