Bye Week Breakdown: Boston College Offense

Mercifully for Boston College football, it’s a bye week (and with the way things are going, we’re probably getting three points from Vegas, anyway). Not only is it a bye week, though, it is also the exact mid-way point of the Eagles’ season. They have played six games and have six to go (and let’s be honest, there won’t be a seventh, if you know what I mean and I think you do so let’s move on), therefore this is as good a time as any to issue progress reports on this team. Today, we will begin with the offense.

The problems with Boston College’s offense, dating back to 2009, are extremely well-documented and well-known. The abridged version of the story is that they can’t score points to save their lives.

This report is broken down into five sections; continue on subsequent pages.

Raw data and rankings

• Scoring offense: 19.5 ppg (105th FBS; 12th ACC)
{• Scoring offense against FBS teams: 14.4 ppg}

• Total offense: 317.83 ypg (102nd FBS; 12th ACC)
{• Passing offense: 199.66 ypg (91st FBS; 11th ACC)}
{• Rushing offense: 118.17 ypg (93rd FBS; 8th ACC)}

• Passer efficiency: 110.02 (105th FBS; 12th ACC)

• Red zone offense: 79% (T-77th FBS; 8th ACC)

• 3rd down conversions: 37.93% (85th FBS; 11th ACC)

• Turnover margin: -1 (T-71st FBS; 8th ACC)

• Sacks allowed: 14 or 2.33 per game (T-82nd FBS; T-10th ACC)

• 21-straight FBS games below 30 points
• 20 games since 2009 at 20 or fewer points
• No 20+ point games against FBS teams in 2011 to date