All of a sudden, this looks like a game featuring the last place team from each division in the ACC.   That’s expected from Duke, but Boston College is used to going to bowl games every year, not struggling to win a couple conference games. 

It doesn’t seem that long ago since Jeff Jagodzinski led Boston College as high as number two in the nation with star players like BJ Raji, Matt Ryan, and Mark Herzlich.    Boston College won by dominating the line of scrimmage and having solid skill players.   The one star skill player on coach Frank Spaziani’s current roster is running back Montel Harris, and he has been injured for the first couple games – he did not show up on the BC two-deep for the Duke game, though Andre Williams has been a solid fill-in, with 34 carries and 173 yards.   Chase Rettig has really regressed in his sophomore year, as reflected by his 34-of-67 completion rate, good for just 421 yards with 0 TDs and 3 interceptions in two games. 

Boston College ’s bright spot is on defense, where linebacker Luke Kuechly will almost certainly lead the ACC in tackles. He’s already the nation’s leading tackler after two weeks with 35 after leading the nation by a wide margin last season, but unfortunately, he doesn’t have much talent around him, save for Kevin Pierre-Louis, who has been a pleasant surprise at linebacker.   With that said, the strong linebacking corps can’t bail out the awful BC defensive line and secondary, which were absolutely dominated by Central Florida this past weekend.   Weaknesses that were exposed by Northwestern, which beat BC in Chestnut Hill in week one, were shown to be absolute deficiencies by UCF.   The Knights’ offensive line blew the Eagles’ front four off the ball all game long, running straight up the gut within the context of a complete mismatch.   Fortunately for the Eagles, Duke’s offensive line isn’t even close to the level of UCF’s, so the BC defensive front might have a little more luck containing the Duke rushing game. However, it still bears mentioning that Duke’s passing attack, led by quarterback Sean Renfree, should be able to pick apart the BC secondary to a certain extent.