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So Much for the Ryan Heisman

Posted Nov 04, 2007 12:42AM By Charles Rich (RSS feed)

Filed Under: Boston College Football, Florida State Football, ACC, Heisman

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QB Matt Ryan becomes the latest star QB to be summarily dismissed for the Heisman after a bad performance and a loss -- joining Tim Tebow, Brian Brohm, Andre' Woodson and a host of other QBs this season. In Matt Ryan's case, this was coming for a while. His final minutes heroics last week salvaged what had been a less than impressive performance for the first 55 minutes. This time the knee jerk reaction almost seems justified as BC lost 27-17.

Facing a Florida State team forced to start Drew Weatherford after Xavier Lee was suspended, the Golden Eagles were lousy. Boston College was at home and the weather was lousy. Florida State never trailed in this game. They never really pulled away, but Boston College was just off the entire game.

Ryan piled up 400+ passing yards and even 30 yards rushing, but he also threw 3 interceptions and completed less than 50% of his throws. Most importantly to damage his Heisman candidacy, the Golden Eagles lost on a national, prime-time night game that many people saw. The final interception was returned 38 yards for a touchdown to ice the game in the final minutes.

The big problem for BC was that on a wet night, the lack of a running game really caught up with them. BC's backs only produced 36 yards on 11 attempts.

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