Boston College’s rushing yards with Mekhi Dodd and without Mekhi Dodd
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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Boston College was 20.4 yards over with Mekhi Dodd and 17.1 yards under without Mekhi Dodd over its last 25 games, 6 games against 12. The plain averages are 172.1 and 108.8, a difference of 63.4. All 5 night games were without Mekhi Dodd.
Mekhi Dodd, running back: 94 rushing yards, 22 carries and 3 receptions in 6 of those 25 games, 9% of Boston College’s rushing yards in those games.
rushing yards a game over expected
with Mekhi Dodd
+20.4
without Mekhi Dodd
−17.1
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A +37.5 difference in rushing yards over expected with Mekhi Dodd vs without Mekhi Dodd is about what you’d expect.
plain
172.1
108.8
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A +63.4 difference in rushing yards with Mekhi Dodd vs without Mekhi Dodd is about what you’d expect.
The games
with Mekhi Doddwithout Mekhi Dodd
| Side | Date | Game | Result | rushing yards | Expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 2024 | vs Syracuse | W | 321 | 143.2 | |
| Nov 16, 2024 | @ SMU | L | 180 | 121.8 | |
| Nov 23, 2024 | vs North Carolina | W | 230 | 177.6 | |
| Nov 30, 2024 | vs Pittsburgh | W | 134 | 144.5 | |
| Dec 28, 2024 | vs Nebraska (neutral) | L | 47 | 136.1 | |
| Aug 30, 2025 | vs Fordham | W | 98 | — | |
| Sep 6, 2025 | @ Michigan State | L | 67 | 117.9 | |
| Sep 13, 2025 | @ Stanford | L | 56 | 103.7 | |
| Sep 27, 2025 | vs California | L | 178 | 144.3 | |
| Oct 4, 2025 | @Pittsburgh | L | 30 | 68.8 | |
| Oct 11, 2025 | vs Clemson | L | 85 | 96.7 | |
| Oct 18, 2025 | vs UConn | L | 191 | 180.7 | |
| Oct 25, 2025 | @ Louisville | L | 116 | 89.3 | |
| Nov 1, 2025 | vs Notre Dame | L | 12 | 85.8 | |
| Nov 8, 2025 | vsSMU | L | 106 | 111.2 | |
| Nov 15, 2025 | vs Georgia Tech | L | 175 | 138.0 | |
| Nov 29, 2025 | @Syracuse | W | 139 | 143.3 | |
| Sep 5, 2026 | @ Cincinnati | L | 165 | 145.1 | |
| Sep 11, 2026 | vs Rutgers | W | 159 | 225.7 | |
| Sep 19, 2026 | vs Maine | W | 190 | — | |
| Sep 26, 2026 | vs Virginia Tech | L | 151 | 152.4 | |
| Oct 3, 2026 | @SMU | L | 114 | 160.6 | |
| Oct 17, 2026 | vsPittsburgh | W | 108 | 127.2 | |
| Oct 24, 2026 | @Georgia Tech | W | 401 | 164.3 | |
| Oct 31, 2026 | @ Duke | L | 78 | 159.2 |
Method
- Expected is an offense and a defense a team, fit over every game of its season between two teams in the table with the game being read left out, plus 5.9 in 2025, plus 8.1 in 2026 for the home team (the edge the fit finds once strength is in), nothing at a neutral site.
- Each expected number is then fit to the season’s games: a game bears out about 77% in 2025, 60% in 2026 of the difference the model predicts.
- The shuffle keeps the season’s shape: the games are cut in two where one date leaves the least variance, each game is read against its stretch, and the sides are shuffled only inside each stretch.
- Fordham, Maine have no other game in the table, so those games have no expected number and sit out the second figure.
- Who played is read from the schools’ box scores’ participation lists, which name every player who entered the game.
- 5 games in 2024 are neither with Mekhi Dodd nor without Mekhi Dodd: Mekhi Dodd had no game for the team that season, and sit out.