Matt McDonald: QB · Bowling Green · #3.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Matt McDonald
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Played for two head coaches across four seasons and two programs. MAC Offensive Player of the Week in 2022 made it two straight seasons on the honors list. One game to point at: 395 passing yards and 4 passing TD against Toledo — Week 12, 2022.
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
62.3% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 24.1% conversion-per-dropback — 57.6% of completions land short of the sticks.
Where completions land is fact — whether incompletions were aimed deep is intent, not recorded here, so this card counts completions only. checkdown by design
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
3 of the team's 15 inside-the-5 carries (20.0%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Bowling Green | 232 | 380 | 61.1% | 2,669 | 7.0 | 22 | 9 | 134.4 | 32 |
| 2021 | Bowling Green | 236 | 393 | 60.1% | 2,555 | 6.5 | 12 | 7 | 121.2 | 14 |
| 2020 | Bowling Green | 54 | 123 | 43.9% | 712 | 5.8 | 1 | 6 | 85.5 | 30 |
| 2018 | Boston College | 6 | 7 | 85.7% | 111 | 15.9 | 2 | 0 | 313.2 | -- |
| Career | 528 | 903 | 58.5% | 6,047 | 6.7 | 37 | 22 | 123.4 | 24 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Bowling Green | 71 | −9 | −0.1 | 1 | 31 |
| 2021 | Bowling Green | 80 | 13 | 0.2 | 4 | 49 |
| 2020 | Bowling Green | 27 | 39 | 1.4 | 1 | 24 |
| 2018 | Boston College | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | 0 | 3 |
| Career | 179 | 46 | 0.3 | 6 | 49 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2022 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 17-45@ UCLA | 17/34 | 125 | 1 | 0 | 3.7 | 22.3 | |
| Wk 2 | L 57-59vs Eastern Kentucky | 23/40 | 283 | 5 | 0 | 7.1 | 72.8 | 5 TD passes |
| Wk 3 | W 34-31vs Marshall | 27/45 | 282 | 4 | 0 | 6.3 | 80.7 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | W 31-28@ Akron | 18/29 | 247 | 3 | 1 | 8.5 | 55.6 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 6 | L 7-38vs Buffalo | 21/42 | 281 | 1 | 1 | 6.7 | 12.6 | |
| Wk 7 | W 17-13vs Miami (OH) | 16/29 | 149 | 0 | 1 | 5.1 | 33.0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 34-18@ Central Michigan | 18/21 | 253 | 2 | 0 | 12.0 | 43.8 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 10 | W 13-9vs Western Michigan | 23/31 | 161 | 0 | 0 | 5.2 | 26.0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 6-40vs Kent State | 31/40 | 246 | 1 | 1 | 6.2 | 16.9 | |
| Wk 12 | W 42-35@ Toledo | 20/36 | 395 | 4 | 1 | 11.0 | 74.8 | Season-high 395 yds |
| Wk 13 | L 14-38@ Ohio | 16/29 | 217 | 1 | 3 | 7.5 | 12.3 | 3 INTs — rough day |
 Bowl | L 19-24vs New Mexico State | 2/4 | 30 | 0 | 1 | 7.5 | — | |
| Total | 232/380 | 2669 | 22 | 9 | 7.0 | — |
Week 2 · 2022
L 57-59
The plays that mattered most
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 342 passing plays (209 completions) against the box score's 380 attempts (232 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.18112 of 206 QBsSack rate
7.1%143 of 206 QBsSacked on 7.1% of dropbacks (143 of 206) and Adjusted ANY/A trails the field (112 of 206).
Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.
Short
0–9 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 61.1% completion on 380 attempts · 36 deep completions averaging 30.9 yds.
Splits · Per-game
2022 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 234 | 1.8 | 6.1 | 0.5 |
| Road5g | 247 | 2.2 | 8.5 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 200 | 2.0 | 6.4 | 0.6 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 254 | 1.6 | 8.4 | 1.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Scot Loeffler
Pass share
52.2%
440 pass / 403 run
Plays / game
64.8
13 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2022
380 pass attempts, 71 carries and 1 catch in 12 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Three-star recruit. Now #81 at the position.
How it ended
Four seasons, at Boston College and Bowling Green, 6,047 passing yards — the college career is complete.
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
Coaching lineage · 2017–2022
2 coachesPlayed for 2 head coaches at 2 schools: Steve Addazio and Scot Loeffler.
