Steve Addazio
Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 2-3
2011New Mexico BowlW 37-15
Boston College
2013AdvoCare V100 BowlL 19-42
2014Pinstripe BowlL 30-31
2016Quick Lane BowlW 36-30
2017Pinstripe BowlL 20-27
Fans
No fan talk about him on our list yet. His record is on Career.
Stats
Big games
Pick a job to see its years on their own.
The big-game ledger
How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.
2-0 against his rivals at Temple.
Signature games
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
The big-game ledger
How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.
Winless in 7 tries against Dabo Swinney.
Signature games
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
The big-game ledger
How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.
1-1 against his rivals at Colorado State.
Signature games
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
The big-game ledger
How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.
3-1 against his rivals. Winless in 7 tries against Dabo Swinney.
Signature games
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
ATS is his record against the spread: did his team beat the closing betting line, winning by more than it or losing by less? Lines start in 2013; a dash means fewer than 6 of those games had one. One-score games carry no spread record: a big favorite that wins a close game has almost always failed to cover, so that number would say nothing about the coach.
How he plays
Run/pass mix, by field position
Ran more than the situation called for under Lynch and Budmayr.
1,178 run and pass snaps at Colorado State, 2020–2021, his own games, one row per offensive coordinator. Each cell is how much more often he passed than the rest of FBS did in the same situation (field zone, down, distance, score, quarter, same season), in percentage points.
Pass rate, stint by stint
Where each stint’s offense sat between run-first and pass-first, and how far it moved from one season to the next, against the FBS-wide average of 41% pass. The band is that stint’s real season-to-season range, not a fixed-width box.
Season-to-season pass-rate range for all 449 FBS coaching stints with at least three covered seasons, 2004–2025.
Building the roster
Six numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
His recruiting, really
His one ranked Colorado State class of his own finished #88 nationally.
Boston College
Colorado StateAcross every program: 3 ranked classes of his own, averaging #74 nationally.
His class — he had the full signing cycleTransition — he was hired mid-cycle
Rank is each signing class’s national recruiting rank (#1 is best). Only a class he had a full signing cycle to build counts as his; inherited and mid-transition classes still show here, faded, but stay out of the average.
Followed him here
Temple→Boston College2013Boston College→Colorado State2020Players who transferred from his old program to his new one through the portal in the same year he made the move. Name-matching across data sources misses some, so every count is a floor, not an exact number.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
of his 2021 roster arrived on his watch — 53 of 103 players. The other 50 are holdovers from before he was hired.
Of his own players on this roster, 10% came through the transfer portal; the rest are non-portal arrivals (high-school signees, JUCO transfers, walk-ons).
Everyone he has brought in, 2020–2021Counting players who have since left: 10% of the 21 arrivals we can classify came through the portal.
This tenure spans the 2021 transfer-portal tracking floor: seasons before 2021 structurally cannot be classified portal-vs-not (they land in 'unknown' below), so the portal-share figure understates how many pre-2021 arrivals might have been transfers under the pre-portal-tracking transfer rules.
“His own” means the player arrived while he was head coach; “inherited” means a predecessor brought him in.
Size up front
Size up front
Offensive linemen on his Boston College rosters have averaged within a few pounds of the FBS average (2013–2019). In the three seasons before he arrived, Boston College’s line averaged within a few pounds of the FBS average.
Average listed weight of every offensive lineman on each season’s roster, holdovers included, against every FBS roster that season (2010 on; a program needs 3+ seasons under him to appear). Weights are the ones programs publish, and programs list differently. This describes size only — not scheme, and not quality.
Where he recruits
is his biggest recruiting state: 12 of 43 signees (28%) across his 2020–2021 tenure, drawn from 16 states in all. Next: FL (6).
30% of his signees come from CO and its 6 border states (NM 1).
- median hometown distance
- 839 mi
- within 100 mi
- 27%
- within 500 mi
- 34%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 43%
The map counts signed recruits across his tenure; the distance figures cover his current roster, transfers and walk-ons included. Two different groups, kept separate on purpose.
The NFL pipeline
The NFL pipeline
players drafted into the NFL off his teams here. None were his own recruits yet: all 1 roster-verified picks arrived under Mike Bobo.
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | R2.23 | Trey McBride | Tight End |  Arizona Cardinals | recruited under Mike Bobo |
A pick counts toward his tenure when the player’s final college season was one he coached, a checkable rule rather than a claim about who developed the player. A blank note means the player is on a verified roster and arrived on his watch. “Estimated” means no roster record, so the final season is assumed to be the year before the draft.
News
No outlet on our list has written about him by name yet. His record is on Career.
Career
Coaching career
The arc of his career is on Now.
Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
Followed Mike Bobo (2015–2019) · succeeded by Jay Norvell (2022–2025).
| Season | 2020 | 2021 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||
| Record | 1-3 | 3-9 | |
| Postseason | — | — | |
| Coordinators | |||
| OC | Joey Lynch | Jon Budmayr | |
| DC | Chuck Heater | Chuck Heater | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||
| Offense | 11 | 35 | |
| Defense | 83 | 42 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||
| 1st-down pass% | 34.0 | 42.0 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 30.0 | 40.0 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 33.3 | 32.7 | |
Underperforms his recruiting talent on offense and outperforms his recruiting talent on defense.
Brings in bigger-than-position-typical players than most.
Recruits older, more experienced transfers than most.
1 player-season honored (All-America / national award): Trey McBride (2021)
15th-best Boston College tenure of 18 by the numbers.
Followed Frank Spaziani (2009–2012) · succeeded by Jeff Hafley (2020–2023).
| Season | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||||||
| Record | 7-6 | 7-6 | 3-9 | 7-6 | 7-6 | 7-5 | 6-6 | |
| Postseason | L bowl | L bowl | — | W bowl | L bowl | — | — | |
| Coordinators | ||||||||
| OC | — | Ryan Day | Todd Fitch | Scot Loeffler | Scot Loeffler | Scot Loeffler | Mike Bajakian | |
| DC | — | Don Brown | Don Brown | Jim Reid | Jim Reid | Jim Reid / Anthony Campanile | Bill Sheridan | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||||||
| Offense | 48 | 65 | 6 | 1 | 33 | 10 | 52 | |
| Defense | 13 | 60 | 100 | 92 | 90 | 80 | 17 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||||||
| 1st-down pass% | 21.9 | 20.6 | 24.4 | 30.8 | 23.9 | 28.7 | 24.8 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 21.7 | 14.7 | 20.0 | 27.5 | 25.4 | 28.4 | 23.7 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 17.2 | 35.6 | 22.2 | 33.3 | 31.5 | 53.8 | 47.2 | |
Underperforms his recruiting talent on offense and outperforms his recruiting talent on defense.
19 NFL Draft picks: Andre Williams (2014), Kevin Pierre-Louis (2014), Nate Freese (2014), Kaleb Ramsey (2014), Ian Silberman (2015), Andy Gallik (2015), Brian Mihalik (2015), Justin Simmons (2016) + 11 more
Followed Al Golden (2006–2010) · succeeded by Matt Rhule (2013–2016).
| Season | 2011 | 2012 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||
| Record | 9-4 | 4-7 | |
| Postseason | W bowl | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||
| Offense | 65 | 33 | |
| Defense | 60 | 4 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||
| 1st-down pass% | 15.2 | 21.9 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 13.0 | 28.1 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 18.5 | 22.2 | |
3 NFL Draft picks: Bernard Pierce (2012), Evan Rodriguez (2012), Tahir Whitehead (2012)
Was he good?
A mixed record — ahead of expectations by some measures here, behind by others. The honest read is that it depends which lens you use.
-3.0 pts at Boston College · #887 of 1290 · middle halfModel fit as of 2026-09-04.