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Tyler Murphy Might Be the Best QB in the ACC This Season
SU vs Boston College: Our Picks (PS Staff)
BRENT AXE
Boston College 24, Syracuse 10
Can the Orange rally to finish with one last win for the 2014 season? I just don't see an encouraging sign to think they can. BC rides Tyler Murphy to a grind-it-out win over the Orange and a long offseason begins for Scott Shafer and the Orange.
STEPHEN BAILEY
Boston College 24, Syracuse 10
It's hard to imagine the Syracuse offense being significantly more successful than it has been, and it appears the injury bug has finally caught up to the Orange defense. Boston College QB Tyler Murphy has the ability to stretch and shred SU. It shouldn't take more than a couple touchdowns to put this one out of reach, but its likely the Eagles put up more than that.
CHRIS CARLSON
Boston College 31, Syracuse 10
An injured, depleted and dejected Syracuse team faces an opponent with a solid offensive line and a rugged style of play.
The Orange’s offense can’t move the ball, or pick up enough first downs, to rest its defense, which is overwhelmed by an opponent with far more to play for.
Last week it was Pittsburgh. This week it’s Boston College.
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Syracuse Looking To End Season on High Note Against Boston College (bostonherald.com; AP)
This was not the season Scott Shafer envisioned after leading Syracuse to a bowl game victory last year as a rookie head coach.
And no one could have foreseen all the injuries that derailed a promising start and sent the Orange (3-8, 1-6 Atlantic Coast Conference) plummeting in the ACC. The team's injury list reached a dozen players the past few weeks, many of them key performers.
"We've been through a rash of injuries that I've never been around in my 24 years of coaching," Shafer said this week as the Orange prepared for the season finale Saturday. "Just looking at the depth chart, seeing who we're playing, who we're moving around, it's been difficult that way.
"We're starting a quarterback that was third or fourth (on the preseason depth chart). Middle linebacker, third or fourth guys. Wide receiver, the whole (offensive) line, really. Just one of those crazy years."
After a 2-0 start, Syracuse has lost four straight games and eight of nine to squander a chance to play in a bowl game for the fourth time in five years. The season ends Saturday at Boston College (6-5, 3-4 ACC), which will be headed to the postseason no matter what happens.
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SU Football vs Boston College Football Cartoon (PS; Borkowski)
Syracuse hits the road one last time as they take on old rival Boston College. The Orange hopes to end the season on a high note against the Eagles.
Go Orange!
Michael Borkowski
mborkowskiart@gmail.com
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