There are a couple of things you can count on around the Boston College football program at this time of year.
One is that the Eagles are going bowling, which they will do for an 11th straight season. The other is that being an outsider in the ACC, with a reputation of their fans not traveling well for bowl games, BC doesn't get to go to the bowl spot it deserves.
Loopholes in the bowl selection system allow the Eagles to fall, and it appears they may wind up out at the Emerald Bowl in San Francisco, away from the spots that find other ACC teams more attractive.
But that doesn't seem to matter to a football team that has already won seven games, two or three (or more?) than many expected it to win, and has a chance at a third 10-win season in the last four (under three different coaches).
The road won't be easy. The Eagles host 7-3 North Carolina this Saturday and then finish with a road game, a good one at 2-8 Maryland.
By the way, the Eagles are still alive in a quest for a third straight trip to the ACC title game, barely. They have to win their last two and Clemson has to lose to North Carolina State for BC to win the Atlantic Division. Clemson has the tie-breaker because of its win over BC.
"They have very, very good players," Spaziani said of North Carolina. "They have a very good scheme. It's a professional scheme, and they play it, and they're well-coached … It's certainly going to be challenge. We've got our work cut out for us, on both sides of the ball."
But the Eagles are also 6-0 at home. And they have also won seven straight November games, dating back to 2007, a sign of BC's toughness.
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