There's no way around it after Saturday.
If I were a betting man, I'd take BC with the points.
Isn't Traore from Boston? He should be ready for this one.
BC's leading rusher is their QB, so we need to watch him but please God don't use the BYU game plan
This team is focused like a laser beam.
The two weaknesses of 1993's team were depth and the ability of the linebackers when it came to pass coverage.
The pass coverage linebacker in 1992 was Brian "Rat" Ratigan (now Dr. Brian Ratigan, MD, and our team's orthopedic surgeon), who was light years ahead of almost any other linebacker when it came to pass coverage. He shut down their superstar TE Pete Mitchell, leaving Dubose and Peterson free to roam and attack.
If anything, he had an excellent game against BYU that year, even if it didn't show up in the stats.
In 1993, Pete Bercich was manning the position, and while he was a very good run stopper, he wasn't a good match for Mitchell. That, plus the nickel back, Shawn Wooden, was injured during the celebration of the FSU win, and was unavailable.
It's hard to pin the result of the game on one guy, but if Wooden were available, he would have covered Mitchell very nicely.
Fast forward to today. We have more depth on defense, and BC doesn't have a superstar like Pete Mitchell.
Bercich dropped that interception and we committed a dumb penalty on the kickoff after we took the lead.
OCD or nerdy on these things and I think we beat Florida State by the same score we beat Miami. Boston College then came in rated number 7 or something like that and played the game of their life in 1993 and we lost on what looked like a missed field goal that faded back and went through the uprights. I know O'Brien is a good coach like Coughlin was so there are a lot of parallels. However, Marcus is fabulous at getting our team ready and we will prevail. I will only be comfortable when we are up 3 scores.
They are hungry and won’t have the emotional and physical let down as the guys who played significant minutes.
Not saying an entire unit, but mix in Bettis in the second series with the other starters, etc