Overview 🔥:Boston College vs. Florida State Seminoles | Full Game Overview | Search News

on Monday night the Boston College Eagles football team traveled down to Tallahassee to face off against the number 10 Florida State seols to open up their 2024 season FSU had already played a game in Ireland the weekend prior a loss to Georgia Tech while BC was debuting their new coaching staff on her head coach Bill O'Brien it was a shocker right from the start as Boston College jumped out to an early lead that they would never relinquish punishing the Seminoles at the line of scrimmage all night and claiming a 28-13 victory down south the first half started about as well as anybody could have imagined the Bill O'Brien LED Eagles in their first 15minute quarter controlled the ball for 14 minutes and 9 seconds they dominated in the trenches and punished the FSU defense especially on Third and short situations Thomas cosano Kai robish show and Tran Ward took whatever the FSU defense would give them and methodically marched down the field for two touchdowns before Florida State even knew what had hit them meanwhile the FSU offense looked discombobulated and couldn't complete even some basic plays as the second quarter progressed though FSU started to pull some things together Thomas ctios and the Eagles offense finally started getting some push back at the line of scrimmage unable to advance very far down the field in the second quarter the FSU special teams were very solid giving themselves great field position to set up a score Donovan eaka came up with a big sack to stifle that drive though resulting in just an FSU field goal to cut the lead down to 14-3 and a big couple of Chunk plays helped FSU get down to the goal line once again on their following drive but they couldn't complete a couple of basic throwing catch plays forcing them to kick another field goal before halftime to make it a 14-6 Boston College lead seols quarterback DJ weang missed a wide open receiver in the end zone and seriously hurt fsu's chances on some badly thrown balls alongside some equally bad drops by his receivers but just when FSU was starting to make things more manageable they shot themselves directly in the foot the second half started with a baffling decision from the seols to go for it on fourth down in their own territory followed by an even more baffling int Throne by dju into a triple coverage Boston College returned the pick to near the goal line and punched it in for the score taking a 21 to six lead almost immediately to start the second half it was a devastating turn of evance for Florida State who seemed way too desperate to get something going on their opening drive after a few drives that went nowhere for either team FSU finally managed to get going thanks to a trick play DG was able to hit a receiver way downfield on a ball reversal and then hit another deep pass down the sideline for a quick touchdown to cut BCS lead to 21-13 with Amari Jackson sitting out with a cramp Midway through the drive the eagle secondary started getting very exposed but the BC offense wasn't about to just go away the Eagles went right back to their ground and pound Style and smashed fsu's defensive line into submission ciano's Ward and robish show once again combined for a deadly Smashmouth rushing attack driving all the way down the field for an eventual Kai robish show punch in TD to expand their lead to 28 to13 Florida State facing a double digigit deficit as the fourth quarter began had to get things into gear dju started completing more long passes down the sideline and took Siri advantage of a cramping BC secondary but an intentional grounding penalty an unforced error by dju forced FSU into a bad situation and stalled out there drive near Midfield failing to convert on Fourth and 16 after a quick BC drive that went nowhere FSU once again tried to Rally but is sacked by Neto oala on the very first play of the drive immediately made things more difficult followed by a George Rook St at the line of scrimmage the BC defensive line looked incredible compared to their lackluster performance last season and forced a quick FSU Punt and crunch time when BC's offense stalled out again and FSU got another shot at the aing Eagles secondary they failed once again capping off their drive with a terrible unsportsmanlike penalty when an offensive lineman shoved Netto aquala to the ground after the play Thomas cosos led the Eagles to a first down on the next drive as FSU used up all of their timeouts and that was all she wrote Boston College ran the clock down to a convincing 28-13 win over a ranked team