2018 College Kickoff Out of Bounds Percentage Leaders

The share of kickoffs that crossed a sideline before anyone touched them. It is a penalty and gives the receiving team good field position.

Lowest comes first. Most specialists are at or near zero. In 2018, Joseph Bulovas (0.0%) topped college football kickoff specialists in kickoff out of bounds percentage, ahead of Austin Seibert (0.0%) and B.T. Potter (0.0%). 128 kickoff specialists qualify (minimum 30 kickoffs). The median qualified kickoff specialist had 0.0%.

College rule: a kickoff touchback, or a fair catch inside the 25, starts the receiving team at its 25, so a touchback is a good result for the kicking team. Kickoff Points Added accounts for the rule, so it is the fair way to compare kickoff specialists across leagues and seasons.

Final 2018 regular-season numbers, updated October 23, 2026.

Rk	Player	Team	OOB %	Kickoffs	Avg dist	TB%	Returns	Points
1	Joseph Bulovas	Alabama	0.0%	108	61.9	63%	38	+6.1
2	Austin Seibert	Oklahoma	0.0%	104	64.8	86%	15	−2.0
3	B.T. Potter	Clemson	0.0%	100	64.1	69%	31	+20.9
4	Dominik Eberle	Utah State	0.0%	100	63.1	62%	38	+10.2
5	Riley Patterson	Memphis	0.0%	97	62.0	61%	36	+5.2
6	Blake Haubeil	Ohio State	0.0%	96	61.8	57%	33	+12.3
7	Caden Novikoff	Houston	0.0%	93	61.3	33%	62	+2.2
8	Matthew Wright	UCF	0.0%	92	60.9	35%	58	−3.5
9	Rodrigo Blankenship	Georgia	0.0%	91	64.2	86%	13	+1.7
10	Jameson Vest	Toledo	0.0%	88	62.8	57%	38	+3.0
11	Michael Farkas	Ohio	0.0%	86	59.0	24%	65	+6.1
12	Tucker McCann	Missouri	0.0%	86	62.0	59%	35	−0.3
13	Jake Moody	Michigan	0.0%	85	61.3	59%	31	−18.4
14	Adam Mitcheson	Buffalo	0.0%	84	59.5	58%	35	−4.6
15	Asa Fuller	Fresno State	0.0%	82	60.7	27%	60	+3.6
16	Jake McClure	Oklahoma State	0.0%	81	63.2	62%	29	+3.0
17	Luke Logan	Ole Miss	0.0%	80	61.1	41%	46	−14.2
18	Jack Crane	Washington State	0.0%	78	61.4	47%	41	−6.1
19	Michael Rubino	App State	0.0%	78	61.9	59%	32	−12.0
20	Kyle Bambard	NC State	0.0%	77	61.2	35%	49	+6.8
21	Matt Gay	Utah	0.0%	77	63.8	71%	22	+6.7
22	Cameron Dicker	Texas	0.0%	76	63.2	62%	29	+4.2
23	Ethan Mooney	North Texas	0.0%	76	59.1	41%	45	+4.4
24	Zach Emerson	Oregon	0.0%	74	61.8	31%	51	+1.8
25	Lucas Havrisik	Arizona	0.0%	73	63.7	82%	13	+0.5
26	Rafael Checa	Penn State	0.0%	73	61.6	53%	31	+4.6
27	Ramiz Ahmed	Nevada	0.0%	73	64.1	60%	29	+6.2
28	Ryan Jones	Cincinnati	0.0%	73	60.6	41%	42	−4.6
29	Brandon Ruiz	Arizona State	0.0%	72	63.2	61%	28	+3.2
30	Evan McPherson	Florida	0.0%	72	63.9	53%	34	+10.6
31	Miguel Recinos	Iowa	0.0%	72	61.8	54%	33	−16.5
32	Nick Vogel	UAB	0.0%	72	64.5	88%	9	+3.1
33	Shawn Davis	Georgia Tech	0.0%	71	60.7	24%	53	−8.0
34	Tyler Bass	Georgia Southern	0.0%	71	63.9	68%	23	+1.8
35	Will Mobley	Temple	0.0%	71	56.6	18%	57	−5.3
36	Braden Mann	Texas A&M	0.0%	70	64.5	70%	20	+13.1
37	Spencer Evans	Purdue	0.0%	70	62.0	59%	29	−6.4
38	Avery Atkins	LSU	0.0%	69	64.0	93%	5	+5.1
39	Jake Bailey	Stanford	0.0%	69	64.3	83%	12	+8.4
40	Peyton Henry	Washington	0.0%	69	60.1	30%	47	−5.4
41	Alex Kessman	Pittsburgh	0.0%	68	62.6	59%	28	−4.3
42	Evan Staley	West Virginia	0.0%	68	60.5	38%	42	−2.5
43	Brian Delaney	Virginia	0.0%	67	63.3	66%	23	+2.0
44	Bubba Baxa	Miami	0.0%	67	61.6	61%	26	+0.2
45	Jordan Stout	Virginia Tech	0.0%	67	64.8	90%	7	+6.9
46	Kyle Pfau	Louisiana	0.0%	67	57.8	25%	50	−13.3
47	Bratcher Underwood	Troy	0.0%	66	63.1	53%	28	+1.0
48	Emmit Carpenter	Minnesota	0.0%	66	61.0	50%	33	−2.4
49	Landon Salyers	Army	0.0%	65	59.1	17%	54	−0.5
50	Jared Smolar	Indiana	0.0%	64	57.7	36%	40	−15.2
51	Joseph Petrino	Maryland	0.0%	64	56.5	17%	52	−18.3
52	Justin Rohrwasser	Marshall	0.0%	64	61.4	41%	38	+1.2
53	Matt Bonadies	Middle Tennessee	0.0%	64	55.1	19%	51	−3.6
54	Brad Davis	Old Dominion	0.0%	63	59.3	41%	37	+3.0
55	Chase McLaughlin	Illinois	0.0%	63	62.6	67%	21	+10.1
56	Davis Price	Colorado	0.0%	63	63.1	52%	30	+10.1
57	Ryley Guay	Vanderbilt	0.0%	63	64.1	71%	18	+4.3
58	Joel Velazquez	Boise State	0.0%	62	63.6	63%	23	+6.7
59	John Baron II	San Diego State	0.0%	62	62.8	71%	18	−0.3
60	Sam Sloman	Miami (OH)	0.0%	62	64.2	66%	21	+6.5
61	Zach Hintze	Wisconsin	0.0%	62	64.0	82%	11	+3.6
62	Kevin Robledo	SMU	0.0%	61	53.6	18%	50	−11.7
63	Alex Stadthaus	USC	0.0%	60	64.7	63%	21	−0.6
64	Anders Carlson	Auburn	0.0%	60	64.4	82%	11	+6.3
65	Danny Longman	Boston College	0.0%	60	61.4	22%	46	+0.4
66	Grant McKinniss	Kentucky	0.0%	60	61.7	55%	27	+6.6
67	Jacob Meeks	UL Monroe	0.0%	60	61.5	45%	33	+8.6
68	Bailey Hale	Louisiana Tech	0.0%	59	57.6	17%	48	−13.6
69	Chris Francis	Iowa State	0.0%	59	59.3	31%	39	+3.2
70	Cole Bunce	TCU	0.0%	59	59.4	32%	39	−2.2
71	Connor Limpert	Arkansas	0.0%	59	60.2	36%	38	+8.6
72	JJ Molson	UCLA	0.0%	59	64.1	64%	21	−2.9
73	Caleb Pratt	East Carolina	0.0%	58	64.8	76%	14	+7.5
74	Jesse Kelly	Eastern Michigan	0.0%	58	59.4	31%	40	−1.2
75	John Parker Romo	Tulsa	0.0%	58	61.7	48%	30	−0.5
76	Cole Hahn	Michigan State	0.0%	56	60.4	46%	30	−1.1
77	Darren Ford	Wake Forest	0.0%	56	63.0	50%	28	+1.8
78	Drew Galitz	Baylor	0.0%	56	62.6	59%	23	+5.5
79	Freeman Jones	North Carolina	0.0%	56	64.2	57%	24	+10.5
80	Jake Koehnke	Air Force	0.0%	56	61.0	41%	33	+11.1
81	Austin Laszewski	Florida Atlantic	0.0%	55	56.9	7%	51	+3.8
82	Nate Needham	Bowling Green	0.0%	55	56.4	16%	46	−5.1
83	Andrew Mikkelsen	BYU	0.0%	54	61.9	37%	34	+8.3
84	Bryce Crawford	San José State	0.0%	54	58.7	33%	36	−6.7
85	Colt McFadden	Kent State	0.0%	54	55.2	26%	40	−16.9
86	Dylan Brown	New Mexico State	0.0%	54	61.6	57%	23	0.0
87	Jonathan Doerer	Notre Dame	0.0%	54	62.9	54%	21	+3.7
88	Alex Rinella	Western Kentucky	0.0%	53	60.9	25%	40	−2.1
89	Caleb Lightbourn	Nebraska	0.0%	53	62.0	53%	25	−7.0
90	Cooper Garcia	Massachusetts	0.0%	53	59.2	23%	41	−5.6
91	Cooper Rothe	Wyoming	0.0%	53	62.4	51%	26	+10.7
92	Evan Pantels	UNLV	0.0%	52	60.4	48%	27	+1.3
93	Paxton Brooks	Tennessee	0.0%	52	63.7	48%	27	+1.5
94	Ryan Rimmler	Ball State	0.0%	52	59.9	21%	41	+1.7
95	Sean Young	Florida International	0.0%	52	64.9	81%	10	+7.2
96	Aaron Peart	Liberty	0.0%	51	59.2	41%	30	−8.7
97	Chris Landgrebe	California	0.0%	51	63.3	57%	22	+5.8
98	Jack Fox	Rice	0.0%	51	63.8	67%	17	+9.8
99	James Sherman	Texas State	0.0%	51	61.2	35%	32	+3.6
100	Jerry Fitschen	Akron	0.0%	51	62.9	59%	21	−1.8
101	Logan Tyler	Florida State	0.0%	51	63.0	69%	14	−4.4
102	Danny Sutton	New Mexico	0.0%	49	62.9	69%	15	+10.0
103	Jordan Choukair	Oregon State	0.0%	49	63.0	55%	22	+2.5
104	Liam Jones	Kansas	0.0%	49	60.3	43%	27	+3.2
105	Jonathan Cruz	Charlotte	0.0%	48	62.9	56%	21	+0.4
106	Corliss Waitman	South Alabama	0.0%	47	54.3	13%	41	−20.8
107	Zachary Block	Tulane	0.0%	47	62.9	62%	18	+2.0
108	Andrew Gantz	Northern Illinois	0.0%	45	61.9	40%	27	−2.0
109	Gavin Baechle	UTEP	0.0%	45	63.4	67%	15	+1.3
110	Ryan Meskell	Hawai'i	0.0%	45	57.6	13%	39	−13.6
111	Massimo Biscardi	Coastal Carolina	0.0%	44	59.0	20%	35	−2.7
112	Blanton Creque	Louisville	0.0%	43	60.4	30%	30	+0.4
113	Jake Stone	South Florida	0.0%	43	55.6	28%	30	−6.4
114	Briggs Bourgeois	Southern Miss	0.0%	40	62.0	60%	16	−0.2
115	Sawyer Williams	Arkansas State	0.0%	40	58.8	23%	26	+2.5
116	Will Tommie	South Carolina	0.0%	40	64.2	83%	7	+6.5
117	Bennett Moehring	Navy	0.0%	38	59.4	16%	31	−3.6
118	Jack Driggers	Duke	0.0%	36	62.7	50%	18	+5.7
119	Nick McLellan	Kansas State	0.0%	36	61.3	25%	27	+3.3
120	Justin Davidovicz	Rutgers	0.0%	35	61.0	37%	22	+2.6
121	Wyatt Bryan	Colorado State	0.0%	35	58.1	31%	24	+0.7
122	Cameron Braaten	Western Michigan	0.0%	33	58.2	6%	31	−0.7
123	Kaden Keon	Central Michigan	0.0%	33	58.4	39%	20	−3.1
124	Michael Tarbutt	UConn	0.0%	33	58.9	33%	21	−11.7
125	Damon Foncham	Arkansas State	0.0%	31	56.6	10%	28	+4.6
126	Sterling Hofrichter	Syracuse	1.1%	93	64.1	61%	34	+21.1
127	Clayton Hatfield	Texas Tech	1.2%	86	61.9	57%	36	+6.5
128	Scott Goodman	Mississippi State	1.6%	63	62.9	49%	31	+0.2

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