{"id":309152,"date":"2026-10-18T06:20:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T06:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/309152\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T06:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T06:20:22","slug":"eagles-defeat-pittsburgh-on-homecoming-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/309152\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles Defeat Pittsburgh on Homecoming Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. \u2013 The Boston College football team defeated Pittsburgh, 27-21, on Saturday afternoon for their first ACC win of the season and third of the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Eagles improve to 3-3 and 1-2 in the ACC, while Pitt falls to 5-2 and 2-2 in the league.<\/p>\n

Mason McKenzie<\/a> threw for a career-high 295 yards and two touchdowns. Landon Wright<\/a> had a career day with 122 yards receiving on two catches of over 50 yards each. Javarius Green<\/a> had five catches for the second straight game with his first career touchdown in the second quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Carter Davis<\/a> (11 tackles) and KP Price<\/a> (10 tackles) each had double-digit tackles while Price recorded his career-high third interception of the year. Charlie Comella<\/a> had his second interception of the season, and Marcelous Townsend<\/a> recovered his first career fumble.<\/p>\n

Pitt opened the scoring on the first play from scrimmage as Corey Dailey connected with Cataurus Hicks on a 75-yard touchdown pass.<\/p>\n

After the Panthers added a safety and a field goal to make it a 12-0 game, the Eagles responded with their first touchdown of the afternoon to cut it to 12-7. Boston College put together a 14-play, 75-yard scoring drive capped by a one-yard rushing score by Bo MacCormack III<\/a>. On the drive, BC had four plays of 10+ yards, including three completions from McKenzie and a 17-yard rush by MacCormack.<\/p>\n

The Eagles claimed a commanding 14-12 lead late in the second quarter, after KP Price<\/a> put BC in great field position with an interception that started the drive at BC’s 46-yard line. The Eagles marched down the field in under two minutes as McKenzie found Green in the endzone for Green’s first-career touchdown reception.<\/p>\n

Boston College wasted little time scoring in the second half, going 75 yards in just two plays thanks to McKenzie’s 69-yard touchdown pass to Wright – the longest of the redshirt sophomore”s career.<\/p>\n

Pitt made back-to-back field goals to bring the score within 21-18.<\/p>\n

On the next drive, the Eagles went 75 yards in five plays, highlighted by a 53-yard completion from McKenzie to Wright that ended with an Evan Dickens<\/a> rushing touchdown to make it 27-18.<\/p>\n

On the ensuing drive, the Panthers responded with their fourth field goal of the game to cut it to 27-21 with just over eight minutes to go.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Comella sealed the game with just under two minutes to go when he intercepted Dailey, leading to BC running out the final 1:34 of the contest.<\/p>\n

The Eagles travel to Georgia Tech next Saturday for an ACC matchup at Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field. Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m. on ACC Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. \u2013 The Boston College football team defeated Pittsburgh, 27-21, on Saturday afternoon for their first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-309152","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\/309152","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=309152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}