FanYard Football Predictions 

With just over four minutes left in the Boston College at Virginia Tech game, I managed to remember it was on, as I had been stuck watching the World Series Game 2. The Eagles were down 10-0 and the Hokeis were on the field, but being held in Boston territory. Instead of going for a long field goal, the Hokies did a pooch punt, downing the ball at the eight-yard line.

Then it started. Eagles QB Matt Ryan drove the team 92 yards for a score. Then the Eagles attempted an onside kick. The ball did not travel the requisite ten yards, but it was touched by a Hokie and an Eagle fell on the ball near Boston College’s 40-yards line. Again, Ryan drove the team down the field and into field goal range. They had one touchdown called back for offensive holding, and it looked like they would have to settle for a field goal to send the game to overtime.

Then, with 11 seconds left on the clock, Ryan, who had been flushed out of the pocket and was running around on many occasions, hiked the ball with both feet leaving the ground from the 18-yard line into the endzone for the go-ahead score.

On those last two drives, Ryan more than doubled his passing yardage for the evening and evened up his TD to INT ratio with the two scoring tosses, encouraging the talking heads to, of course, discuss how the last few minutes had renewed his Heisman possibilities when, just moments before, they had all but declared him out of the running.

The final score: BC 14 - VT 10, making for an accurate Yardstick on this game, too.

Man, to be a sports fan in the Boston area right now. It just doesn’t seem fair. Oh yeah, the Red Sox are leading in Game Two by a score of 2-1 going into the 8th inning.