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[QUOTE="Crusty, post: 1122569, member: 2265"]
Not sure what to conclude after watching this game.

Boston College was not very impressive on either side of the ball.
BC transfer QB Tyler Murphy was 10/28 for 134 yards (4.8 ypc) with 1 TD and 2 Int - a QBR of 44.5. He carried 16 times fr 92 yards with a 51 yard long. On 15 carries he averaged 2.7 yards The rest of the team carried 18 times for 5 yards matching Murphy's total but only averaged 2.8 ypc.

BC won't win many conference games with that type of offensive effort.

On defense they seemed game enough but gave up 303 yards rushing (James Conner has 214 of them on 36 carries, a 5.9 average). This against a team that ran the ball on 78% of their plays.

I was not at all impressed with BC at this stage.

Pitt was more interesting. 
They ran the ball down the Eagles throats and played old fashioned football, controlling the clock winning the TO battle and committing only 6 penalties for 55 yards. Tyler Boyd was impressive, especially in the red zone - 2 of his 5 catches were for TDs.

Chad Voytik was 10 for 20 for 111 yards (5.6 ypa) with 2 TD.s and 1 pick - a QBR of 66.3.

It is hard to measure the Pitt D as BC was anemic on offense.

But for our disappointing performance against Nova, I think we would b e feeling pretty good about both these games even though both are end of season road games. Neither team has a particularly frightening passing game and run D is usually our strength.
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