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BOA Team Profile

Northwestern

Big Ten · Current BOA team profile

BOA Rank
#34
Power Rating
1645.7
Ranking score 1632.1
Offense
69.2
#37 nationally · 74th percentile
Defense
83.5
#15 nationally · 90th percentile
Schedule Strength
83.9
#23 nationally · 84th percentile
Recent Form
70.4
National Component Profile

How Northwestern compares with the FBS

138-team active BOA publication
Offensive Strength
69.2
#37 nationally74th percentile
Defensive Strength
83.5
#15 nationally90th percentile
Schedule Strength
83.9
#23 nationally84th percentile

Component ratings use a 0–100 national-strength scale. Higher offense and defense mean stronger units; higher schedule strength means a more difficult schedule.

Advanced Team Intelligence

Advanced game data is still syncing.

BOA publishes this section only from completed-game CFBD advanced data. PPA, success rate, explosiveness, havoc, rushing efficiency, field position, and scoring-opportunity metrics will appear automatically as completed games are ingested.

CFBD Passing Intelligence

Passing production + efficiency

PPA, success, explosiveness, aDOT, air yards, YAC and location availability.

full
Offense PPA
0.657
24 attempts
Success Rate
50.0%
12 successful
aDOT
11.3
100% air-yard coverage
Explosiveness
1.852
100% location coverage
PPA Allowed
0.196
Opponent passing production
Success Allowed
41.7%
Opponent success rate
aDOT Allowed
11.5
100% coverage
Expl. Allowed
1.438
Opponent explosiveness
Passing PPA by game
W100.20.40.60.8
Field View

Northwestern passing map

Deep ↑
Behind LOS ↓
Deep
Left
0att
Comp —
YPA —
PPA 0.000
Success 0%
aDOT —
YAC —
Middle
1att
Comp 100%
YPA 71.0
PPA 3.967
Success 100%
aDOT 36.0
YAC 35
Right
2att
Comp 50%
YPA 11.0
PPA 0.369
Success 50%
aDOT 28.0
YAC 1
Short
Short
Left
6att
Comp 67%
YPA 7.7
PPA 0.832
Success 50%
aDOT 8.0
YAC 11
Middle
5att
Comp 60%
YPA 12.2
PPA 0.527
Success 60%
aDOT 12.4
YAC 28
Right
10att
Comp 50%
YPA 7.3
PPA 0.344
Success 40%
aDOT 6.9
YAC 58
Line of Scrimmage
Behind LOS
Left
Play-level
charting only
Middle
Play-level
charting only
Right
Play-level
charting only
Backfield / screen area
Unclassified: 0 attempts · — comp · 0.000 PPA/play

Behind LOS includes only passes with negative charted air yards. Missing play-level charting is shown as unavailable, never as zero.

Movement Intelligence

Rank + Rating History

Published BOA position and rating by week.

National board →
Week 0
#36
1624.1
Week 0
#36
1624.1
-0.0 rating
No rank change
Week 1
#36
1624.1
+0.0 rating
No rank change
Week 1
#18
1624.1
0.0 rating
▲ 18 spots

Rating History

Each bar shows that week's rating relative to this team's highest published rating.

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Week 51645.7
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2026 Model Schedule

Week 3
vs Colorado#61 BOA
Final 41–7
Week 4
at Indiana#7 BOA
Final 29–23
Week 5
vs Penn State#21 BOA
Week 6
vs Ball State#135 BOA
No active forecast
Week 7
at Michigan State#64 BOA
No active forecast
Week 8
vs Rutgers#90 BOA
No active forecast
Week 9
at Oregon#9 BOA
No active forecast
BOA rating context

BOA team profiles use the current published ratings and forecasts. They update automatically as new game results are processed.

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