After displaying a lot promise in a two-point loss to No. 3 Florida State, Boston College acquired rolled 56-28 by Louisville in an ACC match on Saturday at L&N Financial Credit Union Stadium.
The Cardinals scored a landing on their opening seven possessions to enhance to 4-0 and 2-0 within the ACC. Louisville compiled 374 yards of complete offense within the first half and had seven explosive performs of 27 yards or extra. BC fell to 1-3 and 0-2 and can host Virginia subsequent Saturday at Alumni Stadium.
“The lack of execution and loss of one-on-ones and we were uncharacteristic on defense, I’ve never seen us play like that since we’ve been here,” stated BC coach Jeff Hafley.
“I did not see that coming, we had a great week, upbeat, and I thought we had a very good plan and we just came out flat and didn’t execute. This won’t happen next week, I am very confident in that.”
Louisville senior switch quarterback Jack Plummer shredded the BC secondary by finishing 18-of-28 passes for 388 yards and 5 touchdowns. UL tailback Jahar Jorden rushed for 134 yards with two touchdowns and completed with 249 all-purpose yards and three scores. BC twin menace quarterback Thomas Castellanos accomplished 17-of-33 passes for 265 yards and three touchdowns.
“I thought he (Castellanos) did some good things but there are things we have to clean up,” stated Hafley. “He gave us a chance to score points.”
BC crossed midfield on its opening drive solely to show the ball over on downs on the Louisville 41. Hafley’s gamble on fourth and two paid off for the Cardinals when Jordan scored on a 33-yard run to make it 7-0 with 9:47 to play.
The Cardinals put BC in a 14-0 gap with an 11-play, 62-yard scoring drive with 3:21 to play within the first. Big play was a 32-yard cross from Plummer to Kevin Coleman on third right down to the BC 16. Plummer capped the journey with a 1-yard toss to tight finish Nate Kurisky.
Louisville entered blowout territory on their third possession following one other BC three-and-out. On the primary play of the second quarter, Plummer accomplished a 45-yard landing cross on a go route by Ahmari Huggins-Bruce to make it 21-0.
The recreation transitioned from tragedy to comedy on Louisville’s fourth possession when Plummer scored on a 9-yard run to make it 28-0 at 8:43 of the second.
BC confirmed its first signal of life when Castellanos turned a designed draw right into a 39-yard landing run with 5:39 to play within the half. The euphoria was short-lived when Jordan pounded in from the 2-yard line to make it 35-7.
BC scored on an eight-play, 75-yard drive to chop the result in 35-14 with 33 seconds to play. On fourth and 9, Castellanos scrambled away from strain and threw a 30-yard landing cross to Ryan O’Keefe. Plummer faked taking a knee and closed the half with a 42-yard landing cross Jamari Thrash to make it 42-14 with eight seconds on the board.
“The kneel play we had guys there and our guys stood straight up and we needed to make a tackle, get off blocks and finish,” stated Hafley. “We’re in a coverage where we should have had a safety deep and that safety wasn’t where he was supposed to be.”
Louisville scored on the opening play of the third, a 75-yard display cross from Plummer to Jordan to make 49-14 simply 14 seconds into the half. BC made it 49-21 on a 21-yard strike from Castellanos to Lewis Bond at 12:53. Louisville made its first punt at 10:52 of the third and it was downed on the BC three.
