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Boston College Football Schedule 2023: Analysis, Breakdown, 3 Things To Know

Boston College football schedule 2023: Who do the Eagles miss on the ACC schedule and what are 3 things to know?


Boston College Football Schedule 2023: 3 Things To Know

Sept 2 Northern Illinois

Sept 9 Holy Cross

Sept 16 Florida State

Sept 23 at Louisville

Sept 30 Virginia

Oct 7 at Army

Oct 14 OPEN DATE

Oct 21 at Georgia Tech

Oct 28 UConn

Nov 3 at Syracuse

Nov 11 Virginia Tech

Nov 16 at Pitt

Nov 24 Miami

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Boston College Football Schedule What To Know: Who do the Eagles miss from the ACC slate?

The Eagles miss Clemson. Start with that, and everything else is fine.

Every ACC team misses five other teams, and now playing NC State and North Carolina is a massive plus, too. It might seem like not playing Duke is a bad break, but that’s a potentially loaded team returning, and not playing Wake Forest is a good thing.

There’s no complaining about the teams off the schedule, and to make things even better …

Boston College Football Schedule What Really Matters

There aren’t two road games two weeks in a row. Army and Georgia Tech are back-to-back, but they’re spread out by a week off.

Overall, the road games are spread out over the season after starting out with three home games to open things up, and there’s no dealing with three road games in four weeks like several other ACC teams do.

Best of all …

Boston College Football Schedule What To Know: What does it all really mean?

There are seven games against teams that didn’t go bowling last season, and UConn, Louisville, and Syracuse are more than manageable games against teams that got the extra date.

Basically, there’s no using the schedule as an excuse if this is another bad season.

There should be at least three wins built in if the Eagles are just okay – Northern Illinois, Holy Cross, and UConn – and at Army, at Georgia Tech, and Virginia need to account for at least two wins.

Get to six wins with this slate, Boston College.

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