NCAAF Game Recap - North Carolina State at Boston College
Sat Oct 19, 2019 12:00 PM EDT

Tenn
13
Bama
35
F
LSU
36
MissSt
13
F
Clem
45
Lou
10
F
OSU
52
NW
3
F
WVU
14
Okla
52
F
Wisc
23
Ill
24
F
Mich
21
PSU
28
F
Fla
38
SCar
27
F
KY
0
UGA
21
F
Aub
51
Ark
10
F
Oreg
35
Wash
31
F
AzSt
3
Utah
21
F
Boise
25
BYU
28
F
Kans
48
Tex
50
F
Bayl
45
OkSt
27
F
Temp
21
SMU
45
F
MIN
42
Rut
7
F
Tuls
13
Cin
24
F
MIZ
14
Vand
21
F
Purd
20
Iowa
26
F
ULMon
7
App
52
F
SoAl
13
Troy
37
F
ULLaf
37
ArkSt
20
F
UCLA
34
Stan
16
F
Marsh
36
FlAtl
31
F
Pitt
27
Syr
20
F
UNLV
27
Fres
56
F
Kent
38
Ohio
45
F
Hou
24
UConn
17
F
IASt
34
TxTch
24
F
GATec
28
MiaFL
21
F OT
NCSt
24
BC
45
F
C Mi
38
BGSU
20
F
Toled
14
Ball
52
F
NIU
24
MiaOH
27
F
OreSt
21
Cal
17
F
TCU
17
K St
24
F
Nich
0
SamHu
17
F
CoCar
27
GaSo
30
F(2OT)
NM
10
Wyo
23
F
Buff
21
Akr
0
F
JMU
38
W&M
10
F
SoFL
3
Navy
35
F
SMiss
30
LT
45
F
UNC
41
VaTec
43
F(5OT)
Duke
14
UVA
48
F
Ind
34
MD
28
F
SEMO
24
JacSt
21
F
UNCC
14
W Ky
30
F
OD
14
UAB
38
F
MidTN
30
NorTx
33
F
Rice
27
UTSA
31
F
Maine
44
Lib
59
F
WestMI
27
E Mi
34
F
Tul
17
Mem
47
F
ECU
28
UCF
41
F
Colo
10
WaSt
41
F
SDSU
27
SJSU
17
F
Army
21
GASt
28
F
UTEP
17
FLInt
32
F
TxAM
24
Miss
17
F
FlaSt
20
Wake
22
F
Ariz
14
USC
41
F
NEV
10
UtSt
36
F
AF
56
Hawaii
26
F

Oct 19, 2019, 12:00 PM EDT

Final

1

2

3

4

T

North Carolina State (4-3)

0

3

7

14

24

Boston College (4-3)

7

17

7

14

45

Dillon's 3 TD runs and Bailey's pair carry BC past NC State
Sat Oct 19, 2019 4:49 PM

BOSTON (AP) Boston College easily showed why it's the best rushing team in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

AJ Dillon ran for 223 yards and three touchdowns, David Bailey had two long TD runs with 181 yards and the Eagles pounded the league's top rushing defense in a 45-24 victory over North Carolina State on Saturday.

Dillon had scores of 2, 3 and 8 yards in his fifth straight 100-yard game as BC (4-3, 2-2 ACC) ran for 429 yards on 60 attempts. The 6-foot, 245-pound Dillon is 75 yards away from passing Andre Williams' (2010-13) mark of 3,739 yards for most in school history.

"I just kept hearing about the No. 1 rush defense in the ACC," Dillon said. "When you're a competitor you want to go up against the best. They're the best rush defense, so we wanted to go with our best. I had a feeling today was going to be a great day, just the look in everybody's eyes, but I wasn't expecting what we did today."

Dennis Grosel completed 6 of 15 passes for 103 yards in his first collegiate start for BC after Anthony Brown was lost for the season with a leg injury two weeks ago.

"It's the greatest and worst practices in America," BC linebacker Max Richardson said of facing Dillon and Bailey, who's listed at 6-1, 240. "AJ and David are big guys, strong guys, they run hard."

Backup QB Devin Leary was 15 of 33 for 259 yards and three TDs for the Wolfpack (4-3, 1-2).

"I don't know where to start," N.C. State coach Dave Doeren said. "We didn't tackle well, we didn't set edges, we didn't play well enough, we didn't have good enough technique. They did a better job than we did, is the bottom line. They pushed us around at times. Their running backs ran through contact."

Leading 7-3, the Eagles scored on three consecutive possessions to take a 24-3 lead into halftime. They led 31-3 after Dillon's first TD run.

Turning to the run against a defense which had allowed just 66.7 yards per game entering the day, BC ran 10 straight times for 63 yards before Aaron Boumerhi's 27-yard field goal made it 10-3 midway into the second quarter.

"When we started just running the ball like that, we weren't going to come off of that," BC coach Steve Addazio said. "I've been around a fair amount of time and that was an unbelievable performance by those guys and we just had to keep feeding them the rock."

Bailey then went to work, breaking his pair of long touchdown runs to make it 24-3.

On the first, he broke two attempted tackles near the line of scrimmage before heading up the middle for a 54-yard score. On the second, a 48-yarder, he went around the right end, escaped cornerback Malik Dunlap's grasp a few yards from the line of scrimmage before breaking away from safety Jarius Morehead at the 10-yard line and going into the endzone.

"You can't arm tackle either one of them," Morehead said. "It wasn't a surprise. They both run hard. That's what BC's known for."

The Eagles had taken a 7-0 lead when corner Jason Maitre picked off Bailey Hockman at the N.C. State's 8-yard line and went in for a TD.

OVERBLOWN NUMBERS

N.C. State entered allowing just 2.3 yards per carry, but both Dillon (116) and Bailey (113) were over 100 in the first half and the Eagles averaged 7.2 yards per carry for the game.

REVOLVING QUARTERBACKS

Hockman, who replaced Matthew McKay and started three weeks ago, was benched after missing a receiver on a 4th-and-goal from BC's 2. Hockman finished 4 of 10 for 27 yards with the Pick-6.

THE TAKEAWAY

N.C. State: The Wolfpack head into their bye week with more problems. They already needed to figure out the QB situation before it spirals them into a rough season. Now, defensively, big holes led to bigger problems there, too.

Boston College: A rushing game like Saturday can go a long way, but the roughest part of the schedule starts next week at Clemson. After that, the Eagles are at Syracuse before hosting Florida State. They close with games at Notre Dame and Pittsburgh.

UP NEXT

N.C. State: Bye next week. At Wake Forest on Nov. 2.

Boston College: At No. 3 Clemson next Saturday.

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Passing

NCSt Att Cmp % TD-Pa Yds-Pa LgPa Int Rat
D. Leary 33 15 45.5 3 259 55 0 103.0
B. Hockman 10 4 40.0 0 27 22 1 8.3
BC Att Cmp % TD-Pa Yds-Pa LgPa Int Rat
D. Grosel 15 6 40.0 0 103 51 0 64.0

Rushing

NCSt Att Yds-Ru Avg LgRu TDRu
J. Houston 7 34 4.9 29 0
Z. Knight 10 27 2.7 15 0
BC Att Yds-Ru Avg LgRu TDRu
A. Dillon 34 223 6.6 28 3
D. Bailey 16 181 11.3 54 2

Receiving

NCSt Rec Yds-Rc Avg LgRc TD-Rc
D. Carter 6 140 23.3 55 0
C. Angeline 3 55 18.3 24 1
BC Rec Yds-Rc Avg LgRc TD-Rc
H. Long 3 84 28.0 51 0
Z. Flowers 2 14 7.0 9 0

Fumbles

NCSt F FL
D. Leary 1 0

Returning

NCSt KR Avg KRTD LgKR PR Avg TD LgPR
T. Thomas 0 0 0 1 18.0 0 18
BC KR Avg KRTD LgKR PR Avg TD LgPR
T. Levy 2 22.0 0 23 2 10.5 0 16
K. White 1 0.0 0 0 1 8.0 0 8

Punting

NCSt Punt Yds Avg LgPu
T. Gill 6 273 45.5 62
BC Punt Yds Avg LgPu
G. Carlson 4 144 36.0 40

Takeaways

BC Int Yds InTD
J. Maitre 1 8 1

Team Stats Comparison

NCSt BC
Points For 24 45
Total Yards 366 532
Rushing Yards 56 429
Passing Yards 310 103
Passing Completions / Attempts 20/44 6/15
Turnovers 1 0
Interceptions Thrown 1 0
Fumbles - Lost 1/0 0/0
First Downs 15 23
Penalties - Yards 2/20 8/59
Time Of Possession 40:40 20:20
Third Down Conversions/Attempts 4/17 9/15
Fourth Down Conversions/Attempts 3/5 0/0
Punts - Average Yards 6/46 4/36

Scoring Summary

1st Quarter NCSt BC
BC 09:24 TD Jason Maitre 8 yd interception return (Aaron Boumerhi kick) 0 7
2nd Quarter NCSt BC
NCSt 03:09 FG Christopher Dunn 31 yd FG 3 7
BC 07:37 FG Aaron Boumerhi 27 yd FG 3 10
BC 09:53 TD David Bailey 54 yd run (Aaron Boumerhi kick) 3 17
BC 12:09 TD David Bailey 48 yd run (Aaron Boumerhi kick) 3 24
3rd Quarter NCSt BC
BC 08:58 TD AJ Dillon 2 yd run (Aaron Boumerhi kick) 3 31
NCSt 11:25 TD Thayer Thomas 6 yd pass from Devin Leary (Christopher Dunn kick) 10 31
4th Quarter NCSt BC
BC 00:28 TD AJ Dillon 3 yd run (Aaron Boumerhi kick) 10 38
NCSt 06:11 TD Thayer Thomas 6 yd pass from Devin Leary (Christopher Dunn kick) 17 38
BC 09:32 TD AJ Dillon 8 yd run (Aaron Boumerhi kick) 17 45
NCSt 12:56 TD Cary Angeline 15 yd pass from Devin Leary (Christopher Dunn kick) 24 45

Game Information

Stadium: Alumni Stadium, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Attendance: 30,275
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