Boston College’s 49-27 win at Georgia Tech looked like the kind of complete performance teams keep chasing all season and rarely find. The Eagles controlled the game in all three phases, and by Monday morning, the payoff showed up in the form of player of the week recognition for three different BC players.
The honors reflected how the Eagles put the whole operation together in Bobby Dodd Stadium. Offense, defense and the groundwork on the line all showed up in the same game, and Boston College backed up the momentum it built the previous week against Pittsburgh with another step forward.
For offensive tackle Veguer Jean-Jumeau, the result matched the work that went into it.
"It was really gratifying," said offensive tackle Veguer Jean-Jumeau. "We work all week to get these results.
We weren't motivated by what could come out of it. We were motivated to go out there and just attack the day.
We came into the game wanting to run the ball as much as we could, to get vertical displacement at the line of scrimmage, and we did that."
Jean-Jumeau helped set the tone on the left side of the line, where BC leaned on heavy personnel groupings and tight synchronization to push Georgia Tech around early and then keep pushing as the game wore on. The Eagles invited the Yellow Jackets to crowd the box, then opened lanes once the first wave was moved back.
That paved the way for a huge day on the ground from Bo MacCormack III and Mason McKenzie. MacCormack ran for 155 yards and three touchdowns, while McKenzie added 170 yards as Boston College piled up 7.8 yards per carry on 47 rushing attempts.
Head coach Bill O'Brien said the offense is built to lean into what its players do best.
"We try to do what we believe the players are really good at doing, against the defense that we're going to play [that week]," explained head coach Bill O'Brien during Tuesday's media availability. "Every week is different.
It's definitely a game plan-oriented offense, but it has a lot to do with Mason [McKenzie]. He does a lot of things well, so over the course of the year, he's really improved, and that's the key.
You have to keep going that way, and you have to keep that upward trend because that's going to be important for us."
MacCormack’s outing was enough to earn him weekly honors, and the numbers were stacked in his favor. His total topped BC’s combined production from the previous three games, and he also ran for more yards than the entire offense managed against Rutgers. Together, MacCormack and McKenzie helped Boston College post its highest yardage output since the Eagles torched Syracuse for 496 yards in 2019.
The record book comparisons kept piling up from there. BC reached 200 yards on the ground for the first time since a 2024 win over North Carolina, crossed 300 yards for the first time since the win over Syracuse from two weeks prior to that game, and went over 350 yards for the first time since that same Syracuse game. The Eagles also averaged their most yards since going past 6.7 yards per carry in last year’s loss to Georgia Tech, and their best yards-per-carry mark in a win since the 2023 victory over Syracuse.
O'Brien said MacCormack’s value goes well beyond the box score.
"Bo [MacCormack] is a very consistent guy," said O'Brien. "We have a lot of guys like that, that are consistently tough, great teammates, downhill runners, really good out of the backfield.
He's become a better pass protector. He's done a lot of things well, but if you hear him during the game or practice, when he talks, people listen to him, so he has that great leadership quality."
The defense got its own spotlight through Charlie Comella, whose 47-yard pick-six helped seal the tone of the afternoon. Georgia Tech was held to 101 rushing yards, which pushed the Yellow Jackets into tougher passing situations and allowed BC’s secondary to work with the advantage it wanted.
Comella’s interception was the kind of play that fits the way the game unfolded. After reading the route, he broke underneath it, came away with the deflected pass and took it 47 yards to the end zone for his fourth interception of the season.
"It's a mindset," said Comella. "When the ball's in the air, you're taught as a defender that the ball is as much yours as it is theirs."
By the time the second half settled in, Boston College had already turned the game into a showcase for the kind of balance O'Brien has been trying to build since training camp began. The offense hammered away, the defense squeezed the other side, and the Eagles won field position and time of possession along the way.
"The team that was in the second half, to me, is our football team," said O'Brien. "We played good complementary football.
We have to kick the ball better. That's one thing we have to improve…but I see it in practice.
We'll fix it this week and clean a lot of things up."
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