The Boston College Eagles had a nice year in Steve Addazio’s first year as they went 7-6 on the year and made it to a bowl game. They were thrashed 42-19 by Arizona in that game and the prospects of another bowl game look a bit out of reach as this is clearly a Rebuilding year for them. Schedule & Prediction below.
The Eagles put up 27.7 ppg last year, but it’s hard to see them coming all that close this year with just 3 starters back. The biggest loss will be that of RB Andre Williams, who ran for 2177 yards last year. It is expected that not just one player will handle the RB duties, but more of a committee. They also lose QB Rettig and their top 4 pass catchers from last year, including 1000 yard receiver Alex Amidon. QB Tyler Murphy (Transfer- Florida) will take over the QB duties, but still who will he get the ball to with the skill positions being so thin. 78 career starts return to the OL with the whole interior back, so this looks to be the strength of this offense. The defense looks to be a bit better than last year’s group that allowed 28.9 ppg, as they have 6 starters back. The DL is the strength of this unit, but the LB corps is a bit weak, which is unusual as this team always has great LB play. The Secondary returns 3 of 4 starters, but there is very little depth in this group thus it is rated as one of the worst in the ACC. Special Teams loses Nate Freese, who was kicker and punter and that leaves a big void in this unit.
Boston College went to a bowl game last year, but I feel that it will be much harder to do so this year. They lost way too much at the skill positions to come close to last year’s numbers, while the defense will again be weak. They have home games vs Pittsburgh, Clemson and Louisville, plus road games vs NC State Va Tech and Florida State and a non-conference game vs USC. The Eagles will not fly this year. KEY TREND: Visitor in the NC State series is 0-9 ATS the last 9 meetings
2014 Boston College Eagles Football Schedule
Sat, Aug 30th, 2014 at Massachusetts
Fri, Sep 5th, 2014 Pittsburgh
Sat, Sep 13th, 2014 USC
Sat, Sep 20th, 2014 Maine
Sat, Sep 27th, 2014 Colorado State
Sat, Oct 11th, 2014 at NC State
Sat, Oct 18th, 2014 Clemson
Sat, Oct 25th, 2014 at Wake Forest
Sat, Nov 1st, 2014 at Virginia Tech
Sat, Nov 8th, 2014 Louisville TBA
Sat, Nov 22nd, 2014 at Florida State
Sat, Nov 29th, 2014 Syracuse
Info gathered From Phil Steele's CFB Preview and Athlon Sports
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