Boston College staged a serious upset victory whereas vast receiver Zay Flowers received the day.
Eagles’ redshirt freshman quarterback Emmett Morehead accomplished a two-yard landing toss to freshman vast receiver Joe Griffin with 14 seconds remaining to safe a 21-20 victory over No. 17 North Carolina State on Saturday at Carter-Finley Stadium.
Griffin drew a go interference name contained in the NC State 5 to arrange the game-winning catch.
Morehead accomplished 29-of-48 passes for 330 yards and three touchdowns with two picks in his second profession begin. Morehead has handed for 330 yards in consecutive video games.
“I think you saw the future last week and you saw it again,” stated BC coach Jeff Hafley. “Joe was coping with an damage and we didn’t understand how a lot he was going to play.
“He drew the PI and on that last play and the amount of time those two have worked on that play together it was almost like second nature.”
BC beat a ranked crew for the primary time since 2014 to enhance to 3-7 and 2-5 within the ACC. BC will face its fourth ranked opponent in six video games when the Eagles face No. 20 Notre Dame on Saturday in South Bend. NC State (7-3, 3-3) fumbled its alternative to set a faculty document with its seventeenth straight dwelling win.
“No one thought we could win but the one group that did was our team,” stated Hafley. “They deserve it and I’m actually happy with them and it was enjoyable to be part of.
“That is one of the best teams in the country at their place and they are a veteran team. It is certainly more rewarding knowing you came in with everything stacked up against you and still got it done.”
The dramatic ending stole a number of the thunder from Flowers’ historic effort. Flowers caught seven passes for 130 yards and two touchdowns.
Flowers grew to become BC’s all-time leaders in receiving yards with 2,900 yards, passing the document of two,800 set by Alex Amidon. Flowers has 189 profession catches, two shy of tying Amidon’s reception document. With two landing catches, Flowers has 27, one behind Kelvin Martin’s document.
“Congrats to Zay and it is so much bigger than football,” stated Hafley. “He deserves to have the record and he deserves all the success he has coming to him.”
For the third week in a row, the BC protection gave up a landing on the opponent’s opening drive. The Wolfpack went 88 yards on 5 performs that featured three explosives. NC State scored on a 27-yard strike over the center to tight finish Trent Pennix, who broke a sort out on the eight earlier than crossing the objective line.
The Wolfpack went primarily to the run on their second possession with the identical consequence. Tailback Michael Allen bought the Pack going with runs of 16 and 36 yards. Morris capped the journey with a 10-yard landing run to make it 14-0 with 5:42 to play within the first.
BC gained traction on its third possession and went 75 yards on eight performs to make it 14-7 with 2:30 to play. The drive was prolonged on a 28-yard hookup from Morehead to Jaelen Gill on fourth and third from the NC State 45. BC scored on a 17-yard toss to Flowers.
BC’s protection regrouped and bought off the sector on three straight NC State possessions. Eagles linebacker Vinny DePalma stuffed Morris on a fourth and objective from the one with 6:21 to play within the half. NC State went up 17-7 on a 30-yard subject objective by Chris Dunn with 1:36 to play.
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