Boston College Beats Rutgers 28-21 Despite Two Picks
Take away one play and Rutgers wins this game. Dawson Pough's 78-yard touchdown catch from Mason McKenzie with 7:06 left, plus the two-point conversion that came with it, was worth 8 points. Subtract them and it is Boston College 20, Rutgers 21. Instead the Eagles won 28-21 and Rutgers is 0-2.
Boston College led from start to finish. Evan Dickens ran in from 19 yards at 10:42 of the first, and McKenzie scored from 10 yards a little over five minutes later to make it 14-0. Luca Lombardo kicked a 30-yard field goal, and then Rutgers got on the board when AJ Surace threw a 4-yard touchdown to Antwan Raymond with 1:55 left in the first half. Lombardo answered with a 46-yarder as the half ended and it was 20-7. KJ Duff made it 20-14 with a 4-yard catch at 2:37 of the third, and then came Pough's 78-yarder, which made it 28-14.
Rutgers did not go quietly. Surace hit Duff for a 60-yard touchdown at 6:18, and that is where the score ended, 28-21. The Scarlet Knights were never tied or ahead, and they paid for it with turnovers. Surace threw four interceptions to Boston College's two, and the Eagles lost a fumble on top of that, but the yardage was 411 to Rutgers' 384, so it was never a blowout.
Boston College moves to 1-1. For fantasy, Duff was the top scorer in the game, 33.7 points on eight catches for 137 yards and two touchdowns. McKenzie ran and threw his way to 31.5 and Surace, interceptions and all, got 25.6.