The Boston College Eagles

The Boston College Eagles

Better Than You Expect

Mention the Boston College Eagles and one thing comes to mind. The 1984 game against the Miami Hurricanes. The Eagles needed a touchdown to win the game. A few seconds left on the clock. Flutie takes the snap, scrambles around, and tosses a very long pass into the end zone. Some guy caught the ball. A player from BC hauled in the pass that would be labeled “Hail Mary”. Gerard Phelan caught the game winning touchdown pass. The BC Eagles stun the Miami Hurricanes 47 – 45. Yes, mention college football in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts and this is what you will hear about. Wait, there is more to Boston College than that.

What is the easiest way to reach a bowl game at the end of the season? Schedule some cupcake team from the division 1AA level of course. It is a victory nearly 100% of the time. Besides the games against division 1AA team Maine in 2006 and Massachusetts in 2004, the last time the Eagles played a division 1AA opponent was before the 1990’s. There are very few teams that can lay claim to that. The last bowl game loss the Eagles encountered was in 1999. From 2000 until the present, Boston College has beaten bowl teams from the PAC 10, ACC (when BC was a Big East member), and the SEC along with a list of victories over mid-major teams.

Don’t forget about the BC Eagles being Big East co-conference champs in 2004. They were in the race for the ACC crown in 2005 and 2006. They have 52 wins in the last 6 seasons. If that last stat doesn’t seem that impressive, please check it out. There are only 13 BCS teams that have accomplished this, and BC is one of them. Do you think Cal and Florida State have completed this task? How about Nebraska, Wisconsin, Iowa, West Virginia, and Oregon? No. None of those teams make the list. We are talking about earning a little over 8.5 wins a season.

Look up the phrase "underrated BCS team" and the Boston College Eagles will be right beside the definition.