I’m afraid this is exactly how I pictured this game going. We just don’t have the talent to put any team away easily. Refs made 3 questionable pass interference calls, missed a clothesline call, missed a holding call on a big BC run, and took back a roughing the passer call. Together, if these had gone differently Tech might have won. But that is not an excuse. Rather it is an illustration of the point that good teams don’t need ref calls or lucky breaks to beat teams they are supposed to beat.
Some in my family asked if BC is that good. I explained that, for the most part, they give the same effort in every game. If they beat Army by two or three points, or lose to FSU by a couple, they are the same average to below average team playing hard for four quarters. The kind of team that we struggle against and which I wish we were more like.
Our talent deficit really gives us no margin for error as I’ve said countless times before.