List of NCAA major college football yearly total offense leaders

The list of college football yearly total offense leaders identifies the major college leaders for each season from 1937 to the present.

It includes yearly leaders in two statistical categories: (1) total offense yards, and (2) total offense yards per game.

Starting in 1970, the NCAA began making that determination based on total offense yards per game.

[1] Key † = Winner of that year's Heisman Trophy Bold = Figure established an NCAA major college record Before 1937 the NCAA did not compile official statistics.

This chart reflects unofficial total offense statistics compiled by historians mostly from newspaper accounts.