Will BC Lose to Clemson by 4 Touchdowns or 5? The Great Debate

percDM early in the week, i thought we had about a 5% chance of pulling an upset in the world's friendliest rivalry due to a combination of harris, kuechly, and clemson being clemson. but, after the news about harris, i'd put our chances at 1%.

timstwrtthat's high

 percDM it could be high

but i'm sticking to integerstimstwrt i just can't devise a scenario where we win...the unlucky team with less talent and worse coaches never wins.

percDMoh yeah, we aren't going to win

 timstwrt is the clemson stadium off-campus?

  maybe if their bus crashed?

 percDM i believe it is on campus

timstwrt i guess a flu outbreak could happen

  or allergies....indian summer's a motherfucker for allergies

  but i'd imagine this is just normal fall for the south

  nope, no scenario available

at least we've got our third string running back going

 percDM is williams definitely not playing?

 timstwrtdoubtful

  which in football parlance means no

percDMand harris

  he's not going

 timstwrtdefinitely not

  who could have seen him coming back for two games and then getting hurt coming?

  that was me

  i saw it coming

  said so here

percDMyou are making me regret setting you up for that one

 timstwrt i also said i'd be very angry

  two for two on predictions that day

 percDM what was the other prediction?

 me: stay with me, champ

  montel getting hurt, me getting angry

percDMlet's get the actual language

 me: "i'm going to be so angry when montel plays two games this season and then gets hurt again"

  pretty definitive

 percDM alright, that is a 2 for 2

 timstwrtoh!

i've come up with a scenario

  well, not for winning, but for me being happy by the end of the game

frank spaziani follows in the footsteps of his hero, woody hayes (almost certainly not spaz's hero, what with all his penn state ties), and punches a clemson player

  thus ending his coaching career

  just like his hero

percDMand bc wins out and becomes bowl eligible

  we'll still suck for the rest of the year

  and he should be gone the day after the season is done

  your scenario does nothing for me

timstwrt no, you're right...a 51-3 loss where our coach doesn't punch out the opposing team's kicker sounds way more entertaining

 percDMwhat's your best case scenario for the game in the world of things that could happen?

 timstwrt i'm thinking, because i'm trying to figure out my answer

best case scenario, semi-realistic edition: finch finds holes, BC controls the ball, clemson turns it over 3-4 times, freese hits a couple big field goals and we win 19-17

 percDMoh, that's more than i was thinking

  i was going to say that it was competitive at the half

but i think you're right that any scenario that has us winning has to keep them under 20 points

timstwrt a more vivid, certainly grislier question: what's the worst-case scenario?

percDMif we can't move the ball at all

  we don't have the defense to make it look respectable

i could see a 48-3, or even 48-0 result

  things look bleak

 timstwrtwhat about our special relationship?

clemson wouldn't do that to us....they love mark herzlich too much

 percDM ha, true. really, that worst case scenario doesn't even consider them trying to run up the score

what do you think will happen?

 timstwrta quick tangent on that

because it may seem that this is fun

which...it's brutal. i love college football season, i love my school

  and this is just the fucking worst, to have to go through this every week

  and this will be one of those weeks, because we're going to lose 41-6

 percDM leave it to me to be the optimist yet again

clemson 38, boston college 10

 timstwrtwhat's the halftime score?

 percDM21-7

 timstwrt if i gave you BC +17 in the first half, would you take a $10 bet?

percDMi mean, i just said 21-7, so i guess i

  i'd have to

 timstwrt i think that would be foolish

  but i will not root against my team

 percDM i do expect clemson to come out flat

i just don't think we have the coaching or talent to make them pay for it

 timstwrti'm going to try for a bright side

who's this week's kasim edebali? who will have a surprisingly good game in this bloodbath?

 percDM i'd go with amidon

 timstwrtspooky

as would i

  but now i'll go with...chase rettig

  just kidding

  i'll take pantale

percDM is he still on the team?

 timstwrt you'll know saturday afternoon, when he has five catches for 80 yards, mostly in the second half when clemson's playing their backups

percDMi can't wait

  this season is soul crushing

  and its not just the play on the field

  its gene and spaz and everything around this football program right now

timstwrt and that, my friends, is where this post ends, not with a bang but a crushed soul