Mike Love: DE · South Florida · #98.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Mike Love
Turns pressure into sacks — pressures become finishes. Played for two head coaches in two seasons at South Florida. One game to point at: 4 tackles against UCF — Week 13, 2017.
Play style
Turns pressure into sacks — when he gets there, he finishes.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
28 tackles. 3 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 11 TFL.
Counts only, never a rate — splash-event sample sizes this small (interceptions, pass breakups, TFL) are noise as a rate and signal only as a tally.
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | South Florida | 28 | 18 | 11.0 | 5.5 | 3 |
| 2016 | South Florida | 27 | 20 | 7.0 | 3.0 | 2 |
| Career | 55 | 38 | 18.0 | 8.5 | 5 |
There is no official box score for these seasons, so this sack count comes from the play-by-play.
Each sack is credited to the player named on the play, and a sack shared by two players counts as half for each. We checked the same method against the official box scores for 2016 to 2019: it lands within half a sack for about 9 in 10 players. Tackles and passes defended are not shown for these seasons because the same check does not hold for them. Source: SportsDataverse play data.
Game log · Week-by-week
2017 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 42-22@ San José State | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 1 | W 31-17vs Stony Brook | 4 | 2 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 43-7vs Temple | 2 | 2 | 2.0 | 2.0 | — | 1 | 2 sacks |
| Wk 5 | W 61-31@ East Carolina | 2 | 1 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 33-3vs Cincinnati | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 34-28@ Tulane | 3 | 3 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 24-28vs Houston | 3 | 1 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 10 | W 37-20@ UConn | 4 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 27-20vs Tulsa | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 13 | L 42-49@ No. 13 UCF | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | W 38-34vs Texas Tech | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 28 | 18 | 11.0 | 5.5 | — | 3 |
Week 4 · 2017
W 43-7
vs Temple
2 sacks · 2 tackles for loss · 2 tackles
Dominant 36-point win at home against Temple.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Sack rate
20%6 sacksTFL rate
39%11 TFLHurry rate
11%3 hurriesPressure-to-sack conversion
65%6 of 8 pressures28 tackles · 11 for loss · 5.5 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 2.4 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.6 |
| Road5g | 3.0 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 2.0 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 3.2 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Charlie Strong
Pass share
36.9%
366 pass / 626 run
Plays / game
82.7
12 games
Team sack rate
4.6%
389 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2017
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS defensive linemen who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at South Florida, 8 sacks — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2017
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Willie Taggart → Charlie Strong. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
