ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST: No. 2 Ranked BC Falls to Florida State

The Florida State fight song blared from the band Saturday, but it may as well have played Freddie Mercury's famous ballad as yet another No. 2 lost and another team fell from the ranks of the unbeaten on a wet, windy night in Boston.

Da-Da-Da...another one bites the dust!

Florida State QB Drew Weatherford had a career day, completing 29 passes for 354 yards and two scores. Weatherford outplayed his Heisman counterpart, Boston College QB Matt Ryan, as the Seminoles upset the Eagles 27-17.
The air had the feeling of an upset early on.

Florida State had a second quarter touchdown to put numbers on the board first and an early field goal in the second half to go up 10-0.

But never count out the Eagles, who trailed by the same score against Virginia Tech.

They ended up winning that game where the Eagles had two minutes and eleven seconds to comeback. This time Ryan and Boston College had a whole quarter.

Ryan soon found Brandon Robinson for a 30 yard score to cut the lead to 3. After Gary Cismesia and Steve Aponavicius both hit triples for their respective clubs, Weatherford found De'Cody Fagg for a score. Ryan threw another TD to cut the score to 20-17 and the BC defense buckeled down, forcing a punt with 3 minutes left to set up the potential winning score.
Sound familar?

This time, though, Matt Ryan became the goat as a pick six by Geno Hayes ended the Eagles’ rally.

And another one bit the dust, or, in this case, the mud. While 400+ yards and two scores would be impressive any other day, Ryan's stat that was most important was his three interceptions, especially that last one. And while this was the Seminoles’ biggest win by far this season, the loss drops the Eagles quite a few spots in the BCS standings and behind other quality one-loss teams such as LSU, Oklahoma and West Virginia to name a few, a loss this late for the Eagles means that they'll need a little bit more help to make it back into the national title picture .

They’ll need it fast.

—C. Nierman