{"id":308908,"date":"2026-10-17T21:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T21:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308908\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T21:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T21:00:10","slug":"boston-college-hangs-on-to-beat-pittsburgh-for-first-acc-win-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308908\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston College hangs on to beat Pittsburgh for first ACC win of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">The Boston College football team started slowly Saturday, responded convincingly, then held on late to outlast Pittsburgh, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/sports\/college-football\/boxscore\/?gameid=274\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/sports\/college-football\/boxscore\/?gameid=274\">27-21<\/a>, at Alumni Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">The Eagles (3-3, 1-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) snapped a two-game losing streak, while the Panthers (5-2, 2-2) have dropped two straight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">The game began in disastrous fashion for BC, as Pitt freshman quarterback Corey Dailey hit Cataurus Hicks in stride on the opening play for a 75-yard touchdown. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">Kanye Thompson then blocked a Boston College punt, which resulted in a safety to make it 9-0 in the Panthers\u2019 favor less than two minutes into the action. Antonio Chadha added a 28-yard field goal to push it to 12-0 with 7:58 left in the first quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">The Eagles responded with a 1-yard TD rush from Bo MacCormack III before the quarter was out. A Mason McKenzie interception gave Pitt momentum, but a pick by KP Price paved the way for an 11-yard TD reception from Javarius Green with 51 seconds left in the half that gave BC a 14-12 lead at the half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">After shaking off the sluggish start, BC extended the margin to 9 points on a 69-yard McKenzie-to-Landon Wright connection 46 seconds into the second half. Two Chadha field goals for the Panthers made it 21-18 Eagles through three quarters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">A 53-yard pass from McKenzie to Wright set up a 1-yard score from Evan Dickens to give BC a 27-18 edge with 13:02 to go. Chadha tacked on his fourth field goal, a 38-yarder, at the 8:08 mark. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">McKenzie threw a second interception with 2:12 left to give the Panthers life, but Charlie Comella intercepted Dailey with 1:34 remaining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagline | font_primary inline_block  margin_top_32\">Trevor Hass can be reached at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2026\/10\/17\/sports\/boston-college-football-pitt-game-score\/mailto:trevor.hass@globe.com\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:inherit;letter-spacing:.5px\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">trevor.hass@globe.com<\/a>. Follow him on X <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/TrevorHass\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:inherit;letter-spacing:.5px\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@TrevorHass<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston College football team started slowly Saturday, responded convincingly, then held on late to outlast Pittsburgh, 27-21,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-308908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}